Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara used his work to decry the violent suppression of his homeland and promote international solidarity worldwide.

Eduardo Navarro is interested in social organisation and alternative intelligence and has worked with groups of people in spaces he creates to examine means of communication and thinking.

Damián Ortega’s work reveals his long engagement with architecture, informal construction and systems of communication.

A modernist who apprenticed with Moustafa Farroukh and Omar Onsi, studied with Fernand Léger, copiously analysed Le Corbusier’s ‘Cité radieuse’ and worked at l’atelier d’art abstrait in the 1940s, Saloua Raouda Choucair developed a unique abstract practice that included sculpture, painting, industrial design and public art.

A pioneer of conceptual art and experimental practice in the Middle East, Hassan Sharif explored form, time, social action and mathematical systems throughout his career.

The work of Taro Shinoda often explores humans’ relationship to nature, science and engineering.

Reflecting his interest in sports and drawing, Gary Simmons’ work often refers to the intersection of pop culture, race and class.

Since 2004, Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi have been collaborating together as Pages.

Since 2005, Xu Tan’s ‘Keywords Project’ has explored linguistic activities, collective research, public space and knowledge production through a variety of working methods in his unique art practice.

Widely recognised as one of the most influential artists of his generation, Rirkrit Tiravanija’s practice combines traditional object making, public and private performances, teaching and other forms of public service and social action.

The practice of Adrián Villar Rojas is marked by large-scale, site-specific interventions that incorporate his fascinations with battling ecosystems, physical decay, unlikely rebirth and man’s interference in it all.

Danh Vo is an artist whose conceptual practice exists in both tangible and intangible forms. His work often explores personal narrative through a confluence 
of collective history.

Haegue Yang employs ready-made objects such as fans, clothing racks and building materials, to create works that depict a unique play on human experience through temporality and spatialisation.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s oil paintings focus on fictional figures that exist outside of specific times and places.