Rich in historical references as well as traditional and modern motifs from both Eastern and Western art, Khadim Ali’s drawings and paintings tell stories about the loss of his own cultural heritage in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.

Working within the realm of sound, Tarek Atoui is an artist and composer who explores new methods of collaboration and production.

CAMP is a collaborative studio founded in Mumbai in 2007 by Ashok Sukumaran and Shaina Anand.

Abraham Cruzvillegas is an artist and founder of La Galería de Comercio, a non-profit initiative that presents public art projects on the streets.

Through his practice, multimedia artist and filmmaker Ahmad Ghossein examines the connection between individual human experiences and shared historical and political realities.

Over the past few years, Iman Issa’s work has explored the contemporary relevance of objects, ideas and modes of communication that seemingly belong to another time.

Hassan Khan is an artist, musician and writer.

Working with video, photography 
and installation, Cinthia Marcelle choreographs interventions that often transform mundane or redundant gestures into poetic displays of exchange.

Julie Mehretu is best known for her large-scale paintings that layer geographical schema, maps and architectural representations of the city –the compressed and densely populated urban environments of the twenty-first century as well as cities with histories of erasure.

Gabi Ngcobo is an artist and curator.

In photographs, installations, videos and performances, Wael Shawky mines traditions of entertainment and performance through multilayered historical reconstructions that force viewers to navigate the territory of truth, myth, stereotype and cliché.

Wu Tsang’s artistic practice explores states of connectedness and in-betweenness; often this fluidity manifests as collaboration or the merging of disciplines such as performance, moving image, sculpture and installation.

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.

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.