Sharjah Biennial 16

Khalil Rabah is best known for rewriting and inventing history. Emerging from his deep involvement and background in architecture, his works aim to provide an alternative vision that challenges public perceptions and expectations.

Contemporary artist Rachid Koraichi’s work is influenced by a fascination with signs: symbols, glyphs and ciphers drawn from a variety of languages and cultures.

Sara Rahbar employs multiple media, including photography, sculpture and installation, to create autobiographical works that stem from her personal experiences.

Mahbubur Rahman is a curator and visual artist.

Maryam Rahman is a multidisciplinary artist. Her practice encompasses video, installation, public art intervention, miniature painting and drawing. She has a particular affinity with drawing as a thinking tool, a direct mode of expression and a formal art discipline.

Younes Rahmoun draws inspiration for his work from interdisciplinary and complementary sources.

Mostafa Saifi Rahmouni was born in Morocco and studied at the Institut National des Beaux-Arts, Tétouan, Morocco.

The work of Arnulf Rainer has explored the conceptual and communicative capacity of painting.

Artist duo Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani explore the politics of infrastructure, development and securitisation in the rapidly transforming city of Karachi.

Omar Rajeh is a choreographer, dancer and artistic director of Maqamat Dance Theatre which he founded in 2002.

Through his exploration of history and current affairs, Michael Rakowitz creates public projects, installations and events.

Ayman Ramadan’s practice emerges from and responds to street culture and the practices of everyday life in the small village of Sharqiya where he grew up, and the chaotic megalopolis of Cairo where he moved to as a teenager.

Sara Ramo appropriates everyday elements and scenes, displacing them from their original context and rearranging them in videos, photographs, collages, sculptures and installations.