Waheeda Malullah is a multidisciplinary artist whose two-decade practice examines the socialised norms of Bahrani society and wider Arabian Gulf context through a playful, performative lens.

Almagul Menlibayeva is a contemporary artist and photographer who works simultaneously in painting, graphic art, performances, installations and videos.

Elia Nurvista is an interdisciplinary artist and founder of Bakudapan Food Study Group, which investigates the meaning of food in socio-political and cultural context on a local and global scale. The artist analyses these economic and dietary constructs in order to expose their prejudiced origins and contradict the ethical neutrality often associated with food preferences.

Chika Okeke-Agulu is an artist, critic and art historian who specialises in Indigenous, modern and contemporary African and African Diaspora art history and theory.

Siblings Selma and Sofiane Ouissi have been performing together since the beginning of their career.

Pak Khawateen Painting Club (Pure Pakistani Women’s Painting Club) investigates powerful megastructures that lead to problems at a transnational level.

Prajakta Potnis’ work dwells between the intimate world of the individual and the world outside, which are sometimes separated only by a wall.

Through his exploration of history and current affairs, Michael Rakowitz creates public projects, installations and events.

Known for her sociopolitical sculptural work, Doris Salcedo’s multidisciplinary practice centres around themes of memory, loss and violence as experienced by the exiled and traumatised. Often incorporating everyday items such as clothing and furniture, her works recreate the ineffable emptiness that a loved one’s disappearance creates.

Mithu Sen’s conceptual art practice is born of a desire to subvert hierarchical social codes pertaining to myths of the market, sexuality, language and marginalisation.

The artist believes that within the tension between traditional heritage and digital media, there is vast potential for the transmission of Indigenous voices and experiences.

Au Sow Yee is a multimedia artist whose work explores the authority of the film medium in the production of memory and power. Au’s practice responds to the influence of Cold War structures in the processes of history-making and envisioning in Malaysia as well as regionally in Southeast Asia.

Obaid Suroor works in a range of mediums, including traditional Emirati fabrics and found objects, to create paintings in dialogue with the natural environment and the architecture of the Emirates.