Visuals

Tarek Atoui performs La Suite at the Serpentine Gallery, London

For his Park Night, and opening event for Serpentine Gallery’s three-day Memory Marathon, Tarek Atoui performed the Sharjah Art Foundation commission La Suite, a five-hour work inspired by classical Arab music, presented by the Serpentine Gallery and made possible by the generous support of Badr Jafar.

October 2012

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Sharjah Biennial 11 Panel Discussion at MoMA

Sharjah Art Foundation President and Director Hoor Al Qasimi joins a panel that includes Sharjah Biennial 11 curator Yuko Hasegawa and Biennial participants, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto and Belgian architectural practice OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Moderated by MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey, the panel explored the concepts behind the Biennial and the new site specific projects proposed by the artist and architects.

January 2013

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Modernity and the Making of Identity in Sudan: Remembering the Sixties and Seventies

Panelists left to right Fathi Mohammed Osman, Alaeldin Elgizouli, Taj Elsir Hassan (Moderator), Salah Hassan Abdalla and Rashid Diab discuss the work of self-taught Sudanese painter Juha during the conference Modernity and the Making of Identity in Sudan: Remembering the Sixties and Seventies co-organised by SAF and the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University.

April 2015

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SAF hosts CIMAM on the start of their UAE Tour

SAF welcomed 53 members of CIMAM, the prestigious group of international museum and art professionals at the start of a two-day tour of the UAE.

November 2014

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The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni Indian Premiere and Discussion

Reena Mohan in conversation with Rania Stephan and Hoor Al Qasimi, following the Indian Premiere of Stephan's film The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni. This event was a collaboration between Khoj International Artists' Association and Sharjah Art Foundation.

August 2013

Photo by Tenzin Lekmon for Khoj International Artists' Association

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Introduction

Sharjah Art Foundation works with a range of local, regional and international partners on projects that take place both in Sharjah and in locations around the world.

Strong relationships with international institutions and art professionals help support our local programmes, while fostering greater knowledge and understanding of the regional arts and cultural context.

Our international work includes building and strengthening our relationships with institutions, organisations, artists and art professionals around the world.

Recent projects include exhibition co-productions or hosting, co-production and international presentations of artist commissions, educational and research initiatives and library exchanges with institutions around the world.

  • Partners and Programmes
    Overview

    We work closely with international cultural organisations such as Australia Council for the Arts, British Council, Danish Agency for Culture, Goethe Institut, Institut Francais, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Japan Foundation, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), Mondrian Fond and Wiener Festwochen on projects both within the UAE and abroad.

    In keeping with our mission to promote better understanding about art and cultural developments in the Middle East, SAF has hosted and supported talks and panels at institutions including New Museum, New York, USA; Tate, London, UK; Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan; Minshing Museum, Shanghai, China; Sherman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Tomio Ohtake Museum, Sao Paolo, Brazil; Asia Society, New Delhi.

    We also support research through initiatives such as the Sudan Conference in Sharjah as well as through hosting of educational and cultural visits to the UAE by organisations such as CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art), the IBA (International Biennial Association) and the ICF (International Curators Forum).

  • Institutional Collaborations
    Institutional Collaborations

    Below is a list of selected Institutional Collaborations and links to further details on each project.

      MoMA PS1, New York – co-produced Lara Favaretto: Just Knocked out in 2012, and in 2014 presented the exhibition Where are the Arabs? organised by Sharjah 
Art Foundation.

        Hayward Gallery, London – SAF presented the Haywards Gallery's major touring exhibition Light Show in September 2015.


        Artangel, London – Nowhere Less Now by Lindsay Seers, commissioned and produced by Artangel with the Sharjah Art Foundation and MONA, Tasmania, Australia.


        Serpentine Galleries, London – co-presented La Suite by Tarek Atoui in 2012 and Al Araba Al Madfuna II, 2013 by Wael Shawky.


        MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia – co-organised the exhibition I Look To You And I See Nothing in 2014.


        Performa, New York – co-presented the new commission Visiting Tarab by Tarek Atoui in November 2011.


      Institute of Comparative Modernities, Cornell University – co-organised the conference Modernity and the Making of Identity in Sudan: Remembering the Sixties and Seventies, April 2015.


        Victoria and Albert Museum, London – co-presented The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (Ikhtifa’aat Soad Hosni el-Thalaathat) (2011) and a conversation with artist Rania Stephan during Friday Late at the V&A.


        Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi – collaborated on the Indian premier of The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (Ikhtifa’aat Soad Hosni el-Thalaathat) (2011) and a panel discussion with artist Rania Stephan, Reena Mohan and Hoor Al Qasimi, August 2013.


  • Supporting Artists
    Supporting Artists

    SAF offers support directly to artists for international presentations through regular programmes such as the Production Programme Grants. Work by two 2011 Production Programme grantees Bani Abidi and Camp were first presented at Documenta 13, and Sharjah Art Foundation supported John Akomfrah's new film Vertigo Sea at the 56 Venice Biennale.

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La Suite, 2011

For his Park Night, and opening event for Serpentine Gallery’s three-day Memory Marathon, Tarek Atoui performed the Sharjah Art Foundation commission La Suite, a five-hour work inspired by classical Arab music, presented by the Serpentine Gallery.

Musicians participating in La Suite included, Uriel Barthelemi, John Butcher, Mira Calix, Susie Ibarra, Hassan Khan, Kazuyuki Kishino, Lukas Ligeti, Robert Lowe, Ikue Mori, Sara Parkins, Zeena Parkins, Ghassan Sahhab and Osama Shalabi.