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The Sharjah Art Foundation Production Programme is pleased to announce the 2010 Open Call for Submissions. This funding cycle will offer three artists grants of up to $100,000 for the realisation of individual projects.

The Sharjah Art Foundation announces the appointment of Suzanne Cotter and Rasha Salti as joint curators of the 10th edition of the Sharjah Biennial.

The Sharjah Art Foundation, in collaboration with the Sharjah Art Museum and the Directorate of Arts, Department of Culture and Information, Government of Sharjah, will be hosting a major retrospective of works by Palestinian-Kuwaiti artist Tarek Al-Ghoussein.

Sharjah Art Foundation announces 3rd Edition of the March Meeting.

HH Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, Director of the Sharjah Biennial, announced the launch of the Sharjah Art Foundation in a special reception held during the opening week of Venice Bienniale 09.

19 March – 16 May 2009
Sharjah, UAE

Today H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi inaugurates the 9th edition of the Sharjah Biennial.

The March Meeting, Sharjah Biennial 2009
Discussions, Presentations and Workshops
March 16 – 18

19 March – 16 May 2009
Sharjah, UAE

Sharjah’s Department of Culture and Information will host the 9th Sharjah Biennial from March 19 until May 16 2009. Under the Patronage of H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, ruler of Sharjah and under the auspices of Biennial Director, HH Sheika Hoor al Qasimi, overseen by renowned Curators Isabel Carlos and Tarek Abou El Fetouh and led by Artistic Director Jack Persekian, the 9th edition of the Sharjah Biennial will transcend central themes and pre-cast frameworks, exhibiting instead a wide range of works selected by open invitation.

Sharjah Biennial launches the production programme as a vehicle for the realisation of artists’ projects.

The Sharjah Biennial 8 (SB8), inaugurates on April 4th, 2007 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Director: Hoor Al Qasimi Artistic Director: Jack Persekian Curators: Mohammed Kazem, Eva Scharrer, Jonathan Watkins

Sharjah Biennial 8 presentation at Arco, Madrid
15th February 2007

6 April – 6 June, 2005
Sharjah Art Museum and Expo Centre Sharjah

The Sharjah Biennial 7 addresses the rapid developments marking the region, but also raises the question of intersecting artistic traditions, and of partaking in “Globalised” art events. The Biennial is hosting over 70 artists and inviting biennial glitterati, local citizens and the vast expatriate community to consider the now vaporous landscapes of our professional, cultural and sociopolitical habitats.

8 April – 8May 2003
Sharjah Art Museum and Expo Centre Sharjah

Curators Hoor Al-Qasimi and Peter Lewis have selected works that articulate the multiple yet general discourses between aesthetics and politics in terms of both a diversification and coinciding of representations and insurgencies.

8 April – 8 May 2003
Sharjah Art Museum and Expo Centre Sharjah

Sharjah International Biennial 6 will represent 117 artists from 25 countries, as a questioning of the relations that constitute the global sphere of cultural agency.