Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Vali, Murtaza

Vali, Murtaza

Curator 

Murtaza Vali is a critic, curator and art historian. His ongoing research interests include materialist art histories, ex-centric minimalisms, ghosts and other figures of liminal subjectivities and repressed histories.

van Hove, Eric

van Hove, Eric

Artist

Eric van Hove's approach seeks to oppose Eurocentric perspectives that prevail in the Western contemporary art world with a more spiritual and decentralised approach.

Varenne, Olivier

Varenne, Olivier

Curator

Olivier Varenne is a Senior Curator with the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, Australlia.

Vergés, Françoise

Vergés, Françoise

Art Professional

Françoise Vergès' work is trans-disciplinary looking at the fabrication of consent and dissent using decolonial psychoanalysis, visual, sonic and literary elements, and feminist, postcolonial, anticolonial and radical theories.

Siebren Versteeg creates interactive installations by processing digital information, generating codes, manipulating algorithms and allowing the computer to create artworks.

Vesić, Jelena

Vesić, Jelena

Art Professional

Jelena Vesić is an independent curator, writer, editor and lecturer.

Victorino, Sophia

Victorino, Sophia

Artist, Writer

Sofia Victorino is the Daskalopoulos Director of Education and Public Programmes at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Vidigal, Ana

Vidigal, Ana

Artist

Viewed as one of Portugal's leading feminist artists, Vidigal is best known for her large-scale collage works that use layers of simple textures and materials to invoke new responses to experiences of the 'everyday'.

Vidokle, Anton

Vidokle, Anton

Artist

Anton Vidokle’s research, publication, film and education projects, often in collaboration with Pelin Tan, explore speculative narratives of the future, present and past.

Vilasini, Vivek

Vilasini, Vivek

Speaker

A multimedia artist trained as a Radio Officer at All India Marine College, Kerala and then went on to study political science (1987) from the university of Kerala.

Villar Rojas, Adrián

Villar Rojas, Adrián

Artist

The practice of Adrián Villar Rojas is marked by large-scale, site-specific interventions that incorporate his fascinations with battling ecosystems, physical decay, unlikely rebirth and man’s interference in it all.

Villaseñor Black, Charlene

Villaseñor Black, Charlene

Art Professional, Speaker

Charlene Villaseñor Black’s research focuses on the art of the Ibero-American world.

Fabian Villegas is a spoken word artist, writer, journalist and researcher in South epistemologies, decolonial thought and racial studies.

Villena Araya, Sofía

Villena Araya, Sofía

Curator

Sofía Villena Araya is an independent researcher and curator based in Costa Rica.

Vo, Danh

Vo, Danh

Artist

Danh Vo is an artist whose conceptual practice exists in both tangible and intangible forms. His work often explores personal narrative through a confluence 
of collective history.

Voigt, Jorinde

Voigt, Jorinde

Artist

Encompassing installation as well as drawing, painting and text, Jorinde Voigt’s work is shaped by everyday acts, interaction with her environment and a steady stream of reading.

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