Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

The Biennials in Pakistan

This presentation by Sadia Kamran, titled ‘Biennials in Pakistan’, investigates the history of contemporary art exhibition making across the country. The talk presents research published in an essay of the same title that was commissioned for the March Meeting Papers. Selected through the March Meeting 2021 open call, the essays included in the March Meeting Papers expand on curator Okwui Enwezor’s influential thinking about the Biennial as a platform to engage with history, politics and society. Taken together, these essays reveal the extent to which the biennial model, such as the Sharjah Biennial, has contributed to the realisation of new narratives and experiences of modern and contemporary art.

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Pasha Kamran, Sadia

Sadia Pasha Kamran’s work examines the contemporary art of Pakistan within its socio-political as well as historical context.