Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

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Saturday 11.03.2023

Friday 10.03.2023

Resetting Birds’ Memories (2021)

Resetting Birds’ Memories (2021)

Performance

Kiluanji Kia Henda, accompanied by Kimberley Agyarko, Sahar Ali and Mohammed Rawashdeh

Music by: Satch Hoyt


Sharjah Performing Arts Academy

March Meeting 2023: Megacity: Urbanisation, Challenges and Opportunities

March Meeting 2023: Megacity: Urbanisation, Challenges and Opportunities

Panel

Nadi Abusaada (Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich); Nancy Lin (Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University); Pamela Nguyen Corey (Associate Professor of Art History, Fulbright University Vietnam); and AbdouMaliq Simone (Senior Professorial Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield)
Moderator: Kamran Ali (Professor of Anthropology, University of
Texas at Austin)


Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

March Meeting 2023: Global Art Cartographies and New Art Histories

March Meeting 2023: Global Art Cartographies and New Art Histories

Panel

Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Associate Professor of African American and Black Diasporic Art, Princeton University and Senior Research Fellow, Art Gallery of Western Australia); Eddie Chambers (Professor of Art History and African Diaspora Art, The David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Art History, University of Texas at Austin); Mithu Sen (artist); and Nina Tonga (Curator of Contemporary Art, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand)
Moderator: Salwa Mikdadi (Professor of Practice of Art History, NYU Abu Dhabi and Director and Principle Investigator, al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art)


Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

Thursday 9.03.2023

Still We Rise (2022)

Still We Rise (2022)

Sharjah Biennial 15 Film Programme


Mirage City Cinema
Al Mureijah Square

March Meeting 2023: States of Exception and States of Emergency: Art and Visual Culture since the 1970s

March Meeting 2023: States of Exception and States of Emergency: Art and Visual Culture since the 1970s

Panel

Patrick Flores (Professor of Art Studies, University of the Philippines); Anthony Gardner (Professor of Contemporary Art History, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford); Atreyee Gupta (Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art; Modern and Contemporary South and Southeast Asian Art, Berkeley); and Anissa Rahadiningtyas (Assistant Curator, National Gallery of Singapore)
Moderator: Iftikhar Dadi (John H. Burris Professor in History of Art, Cornell University)


Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

March Meeting 2023: Revisiting the Global 1960s

March Meeting 2023: Revisiting the Global 1960s

Panel

Mahvish Ahmad (Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics, London School of Economics); Zeina Maasri (Senior Lecturer, History of Art, University of Bristol); Jelena Vesić (Independent curator, writer, editor and lecturer); and Zoé Whitley (Director and Curator, Chisenhale Gallery)
Moderator: Christopher J. Lee (Professor of African History, The Africa Institute)


Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

Wednesday 8.03.2023

IBA Stage: Sharjah Biennial 15

IBA Stage: Sharjah Biennial 15

Talk

Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation); Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair Professor of Fine Arts, Art AS | Vanderbilt University); and Octavio Zaya (Art critic and curator)
Moderator: Christian Oxenius (Writer and curator)


Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area

Yet Still Moving (2023)

Yet Still Moving (2023)

Performance

Naiza Khan, accompanied by Asma Mundrawala, Nabeel Al Mazem and Haider Rahman on flute


Bait Obaid Al Shamsi
Arts Square

Tuesday 7.03.2023

My Land My Memory (2023)

My Land My Memory (2023)

Performance

Marwah AlMugait


Calligraphy Square
Heritage Area, Heart of Sharjah

Sunday 5.03.2023

Saturday 4.03.2023

Ouvertures (2020)

Ouvertures (2020)

Sharjah Biennial 15 Film Programme


Mirage City Cinema
Al Mureijah Square

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