Saâdane Afif’s installations often combine ready-made objects with appropriated popular music.

Ravi Agarwal is an artist, curator, writer and environmental activist. He explores issues of urban space, ecology, capital and globalisation through photographs, text, video, performance and site-specific installations.

A classically trained pianist who later turned to jazz, Sophie Agnel approaches the piano from every sonic angle, considering keys, strings and board simultaneously.

Kasper Akhøj’s work is situated in the realm of conceptual storytelling, exploring objects, situations and residual histories of art, design, architecture and the institutions that present them.

John Akomfrah delves into themes of memory, identity, postcolonialism, temporality and the politics of aesthetics through his experimentations with the moving image.

Zeinab Alhashemi tells stories in her work, experimenting with new materials and techniques with each project.

A student of Syrian master calligrapher Badawi Al Dirany, Mouneer Alshaarani has worked as a calligrapher and book designer since 1968 and has developed several Arabic typefaces.

Jananne Al-Ani works in photography, film and video. Her early work focuses on Orientalist representations of the Middle East in Western visual culture.

Born in Turkey, Nevin Aladağ moved with her family to Germany in 1973. Her study of sculpture heightened her sense of the limits and boundaries of objects and the identity of forms.

Carsten Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of art forms and genres to create an integrated artistic approach.

Francis Alÿs explores issues ranging from political structures and transnational boundaries to questions of how the individual makes sense of social representations and cultural mythologies.

Carlos Amorales’s work spans performance, drawing, digital animation and installation. He has collaborated with graphic designers, communication specialists and musicians.

Andrés Denegri is an independent film, TV and video producer and audio-visual installation artist.

Steve Anker directed a highly visible and successful screening series of independent film and video at the Boston Film/Video Foundation.

Anri Sala grew up under the most repressive regime in Europe, the Stalinist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha.