Mona El Mousfy is an architect focusing on cultural spaces and dwellings.

Contemporary artist Shilpa Gupta has engaged with art in its participatory, interactive and public dimensions for over two decades.

Ayesha Hameed explores the heritage of Black diasporas through the figure of the Atlantic Ocean. Her Afrofuturist approach combines performance, sound essays, videos and lectures.

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim is a conceptual artist whose main interests are working with natural materials and creating land art.

Ryan Inouye is associate curator of Sharjah Biennial 12.

Eungie Joo is curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2017–present) and was curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2015).

Butheina Kazim is the co-founder of Cinema Akil, an independent cinema platform in Dubai.

Documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto highlights the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination.

Maha Maamoun is an artist who works primarily with the mediums of text, photography and video.

Antonio Vega Macotela works in a multidisciplinary, site-specific and research-based art practice.

Informed by his education and work as a medical doctor as well as the social, religious and historical contexts of Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Mater’s practice explores the narratives of Islamic culture in an era of globalisation, consumerism and flux.

Almagul Menlibayeva is a contemporary artist and photographer who works simultaneously in painting, graphic art, performances, installations and videos.

Sally Mizrachi is Executive Director and General Coordinator of lugar a dudas, a contemporary art center in Cali, Colombia that focuses on the intersections and borders between visual arts, cultural practices and the search for inclusive and expansive dialogue.

Naeem Mohaiemen combines essays, films, drawings and installations to research socialist utopias, incomplete decolonisations, language wars and shifting borders.