Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Kari Conte is a curator, writer and Director of Programmes and Exhibitions at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, a non-profit, residency-based contemporary art institution for artists and curators.

De La Cruz, Khavn

De La Cruz, Khavn

Filmmaker, Writer

Khavn De La Cruz is a multiawarded filmmaker, composer, and writer.

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR)

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR)

Architects, Artists, Writers

Through their work as co-directors of DAAR, architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti combine conceptual speculations and architectural interventions to subvert, reuse, profane and recycle the existing infrastructure of colonial occupation.

Diawara, Manthia

Diawara, Manthia

Writer, Filmmaker

Manthia Diawara is a writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist and art historian.

Adrienne Edwards is a curator, scholar and writer whose work concerns visual, performance and cross-boundary art as well as histories, concepts, modes and methods of blackness.

El Abdallah, Fadi

El Abdallah, Fadi

Writer, Speaker

Fadi El Abdullah is a poet, lawyer, communicator, writer and music critic with a wide range of performances and publications.

El Rashidi, Yasmine

El Rashidi, Yasmine

Writer

Writer Yasmine El Rashidi is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and a contributing editor of the Middle East arts journal Bidoun.

El Wardany, Haytham

El Wardany, Haytham

Writer

Haytham el-Wardany's third collection of short stories is currently in print with Merit Publishing House, Cairo.

Ertür, Başak

Ertür, Başak

Writer

Başak Ertür has worked as a translator, editor and interpreter. With Müge Gürsoy Sökmen she co-edited the volume Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said (Verso, 2008), and her published translations in Turkish include Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble.

Fallaux, Emile

Fallaux, Emile

Filmmaker, Curator, Writer

Emile Fallaux has worked as a television and documentary producer/director and as an advisor to writers, directors, producers and cultural institutions on policy issues.

Farocki, Harun

Farocki, Harun

Filmmaker

Harun Farocki is known for his films and installations that analyse the power of the image.

Feizabadi, Azin

Feizabadi, Azin

Artist, Filmmaker, Writer

Azin Feizabadi Nothing of I is contemporary, I am I & I, I am a combination of the Past and the Future

Hannah Feldman’s research work is focused on art and visual culture in late modern and contemporary contexts.

Fusco, Coco

Fusco, Coco

Artist, Writer

A transdisciplinary artist of enormous breadth, Coco Fusco confronts systems of thinking that establish accepted power structures and cultural histories with a focus on Latin America and Cuba.

Ghaghada, Bhoomika

Ghaghada, Bhoomika

Writer

Bhoomika Ghaghada is a writer and facilitator currently living and working in the UAE.

Ginwala, Natasha

Ginwala, Natasha

Curator, Writer

Natasha Ginwala is a curator, researcher and writer.

Next Previous