Sharjah Biennial 16

Cooperativa Cráter Invertido is a space of articulations between artistic practices and collective processes, established to create common imaginaries.


Douglas Coupland is a writer and artist best known for his observations on modern-day North American culture.

Christopher Cozier’s work as an artist, writer and curator aims to explore and affect conventional readings of the Caribbean, revealing alternative narratives and interpretations.

Abraham Cruzvillegas is an artist and founder of La Galería de Comercio, a non-profit initiative that presents public art projects on the streets.

Ximena Cuevas is obsessed with the micro movements of daily life, with the border between truth and fiction, with the ’impossibility’ of reality.

Art historian and artist Iftikhar Dadi is the John H. Burris Professor in the Department of History of Art and Director of the South Asia Program, and board member of the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University.

Ziad Dalloul graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus in 1977. He then studied at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where he has been living ever since.

Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research is a multifaceted project devoted to educational, cultural and agricultural exchanges and production in Bethlehem and beyond.

Raffie Davtian studied Sculpture at the State Academy of Arts in Yerevan.

Often collaborating with others across borders and communities, Shezad Dawood employs film, painting, neon, sculpture and virtual reality to deconstruct systems of image, language, site and narrative.

Ayman Yossri Daydban’s painting, photography and printmaking explore issues of identity and alienation, often through combinations of cinematic images and text.

Jonathas de Andrade’s work often explores how collective codes of conduct and organisation impinge on and shape other modes of being.

Through their work as co-directors of DAAR, architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti combine conceptual speculations and architectural interventions to subvert, reuse, profane and recycle the existing infrastructure of colonial occupation.

Thomas Demand makes mural-scale photographs, but instead of finding his subject matter in real life, he uses paper and cardboard to reconstruct scenes from images reproduced in various media sources, and then photographs them.

Simon Denny’s work explores the cultures and values behind contemporary technologies.