Sharjah Biennial 9: Provisions for the Future
and Past of the Coming Days

My work is opposed to views that transmute into overviews and prejudices by forgetting or neglecting the complexity and the unique character of a context, region and situation. It is an attempt to express the impossibility and the uselessness of defining a point of view. Nadia Kaabi Linke

Maider López initially brought her interventions to Sharjah as part of the experimental residency Lab Project in 2007. It was during this residency that she first transformed the public square in the Arts Area by introducing the gridlines of a football pitch.

Working with video, drawing, photography and text, the work of José Luis Martinat is often characterised by the appropriation and then deconstruction and manipulation of pre-existing material.

Robert MacPherson used the rich and colourful culture of his rural childhood to address the environmental, colloquial and distinctive aspects of Australian landscape and language.

Lani Maestro has used a range of media including installation, sound, video, books and text to create work that explores the often complex dualities of human experience and the physical power of the natural world.

The work of Firoz Mahmud is an investigation into social, political and belief systems and their interaction with human reality, both historically and in the present.

Waheeda Malullah is a multidisciplinary artist whose two-decade practice examines the socialised norms of Bahrani society and wider Arabian Gulf context through a playful, performative lens.

The work of Hiroyuki Masuyama pays homage to the great nineteenth century landscape artists, reflecting the interrelation between time, space and medium in a distinct and compelling way.

Iranian artist Gita Meh uses visual and written language as tools to form a space for human interaction and cultural integration, goals that originate from her own personal history and experience of migration and intercultural negotiation.

Italian artist Giuseppe Moscatello uses his experience of living in Sharjah as a source of inspiration for his work.

Rabih Mroué is an actor, director, playwright, visual artist and contributing editor for The Drama Review (TDR).

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

Mahmoud Refat is a sound artist and musician who began his career playing in local funk, acid jazz and post rock bands at different venues in Cairo.

Karin Sander’s practice draws attention to the complex relationships between artworks, institutions and audiences through the innovative use of installation, sculpture, photography, new technologies and other media.