Sharjah Biennial 16

Tintin Wulia often bases her work on icons of the geopolitical border: the passport, the wall and the map.

Hu Xiangqian’s art is inspired by current events and his immediate surroundings.

Xu Zhen is an artist, a curator and the founder of MadeIn Company, a contemporary art creation corporation based in Shanghai.

Paola Yacoub documents the historical, political, aesthetic and emotional implications of the use of space through photographs, videos, sound recordings, maps, texts and installations.

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.

Jun Yang addresses the architectural, historical and political structures of public and private spaces through the personal narratives of people inhabiting these spaces.

Raed Yassin is a video, sound and visual artist and musician whose strongly conceptual work uses image, music and text to explore myriad themes.

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

Painting, drawing, engraving, graffiti, photography, video and installation intermesh to create a discourse which contains as much criticism and disruptive power as it does a sort of velvet violence or if you will, an aesthetic violence. Isabel Carlos

Tatsuya Yoshida began playing professionally in the early 1980s, and in 1985 he formed his hardcore punk/Zeuhl-influenced band, Ruins.

Yoshimi is an original member of the radical Japanese experimental music group Boredoms.

Bae Young-whan’s artistic practice includes sculpture, painting, drawing and photography, as well as public projects that extend beyond the boundaries of the art world.

The sculptures and installations of Mohamed Yousif are distillations of his engagement with and contemplation of the natural environment.

Bassem Yousri is a visual artist and independent filmmaker.