Sharjah Biennial 16

Soon after its founding, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen won several international competitions, including those for a new administrative capital city in South Korea and for a border crossing between Mexico and the United States.

Derek Ogbourne has developed a practice that makes visible the strengths and frailties of being human through his overlapping and sometimes contradictory ways of seeing the world.

Ohanian’s artworks can be understood as physical and conceptual territories that focus on the concept of time.

Wendelien van Oldenborgh develops works with a cinematic format that is used as a methodology for production and the basic language for various forms of presentation.

Jazael Olguín Zapata seeks the crossroads between genres and media—portraits that insinuate landscapes, still lifes that are comix, the search in the fertile space between figuration and abstraction and the interstices between drawing and painting.

Percussionist Morten J. Olsen is best known for his work with the Norwegian heavy-metal musique concrète duo MoHa! and with the experimental chamber-rock band Ultralyd

Noma Omran established a historical precedent when she became the first woman in the world hosted at the Zen ritual at the Daitoku-Ji Temple in Japan.

Seigen Ono is a composer, recording engineer and architectural acoustics designer.

OOMK (One of My Kind) is a collaborative publishing practice led by Rose Nordin, Sofia Niazi and Heiba Lamara.

Gabriel Orozco explores the creative associations between overlooked objects in today’s world, deliberately blurring the boundaries separating artwork and everyday environment.

Damián Ortega’s work reveals his long engagement with architecture, informal construction and systems of communication.

Oscar Muñoz pioneered the use of ephemeral mediums—human breath, water, dust and fire—to showcase the precarious reality of human life. In doing so, he created unique imagery and historiography.

Sociopolitical themes such as identity politics, the abuse of power and historical amnesia have long been key concerns in the conceptual works of Ahmad Fuad Osman.

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