Sharjah Biennial 16

Naqsh Collective is the joint endeavour of sisters and co-founders Nisreen and Nermeen Abu Dail.

Monica Narula is an artist and curator with the Raqs Media Collective which she co-founded in 1992.

Rosalind Nashashibi combines her singular observations with aspects of social documentary, theatrical staging and a cinematic overview to present uniquely crafted works in 16mm film and other media.

Moataz Nasr works with a range of artistic mediums including, painting, sculpture, photography and video to explore the complex cultural developments currently unfolding across the Islamic world

For artist and curator Nasir Nasrallah, making art is about experimenting with and synthesising materials, be they physical objects, ideas or theorems.

Eduardo Navarro is interested in social organisation and alternative intelligence and has worked with groups of people in spaces he creates to examine means of communication and thinking.

Ranging from digital print to collage, textile and photography, Filwa Nazer’s work centres around questions of emotional identity in relation to spatial and social contexts.

Ernesto Neto draws inspiration from the biomorphic and modernist abstraction of Alexander Calder and Constantin Brancusi.

In forming New Visions, artists Sliman Mansour, Vera Tamari, Nabil Anani and Tayseer Barakat sought to address a more avant-garde outlook on how art can serve the national struggle, without compromising each artist’s individual expressive style.

Gabi Ngcobo is an artist and curator.

Encompassing video, sculpture and installation, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s work explores strategies of political resistance.

Sofia Niazi is an artist based between London and the West Midlands.

In his work Carsten Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of art forms and genres for an integrated artistic approach.

Contemporary art is nothing but a business - we take it as a joke. - Nika Oblak & Primõz Novak