The Sharjah Biennial 16
Sharjah Biennale6 Feb - 15 Jun, 2025
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Sharjah Art Foundation | Sharjah Art Museum | Al Shuwaiheen Arts Area | SharjahThe Sharjah Biennial 16 title, to carry, is a multivocal and open-ended proposition. The ever-expanding list of what to carry, and how to carry it, is an invitation to encounter the different formations and positions of the five curators as well as the constellation of resonances they have gathered.
Curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala and Zeynep Öz, Sharjah Biennial 16 features works by more than 140 participants, including over 80 new commissions, which will be presented across the Emirate of Sharjah. The Biennial theme, to carry, entails understanding our precarity within spaces that are not our own while staying responsive to these sites through the cultures that we hold. It also signifies a bridge between multiple temporalities of embodied pasts and imagined futures, encompassing intergenerational stories and various modes of inheritance.
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- Opening program: 6–9 February 2025 Sharjah City, Al Hamriyah, Al Dhaid, Kalba, Al Madam and other locations across the Emirate of Sharjah
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Sharjah Biennial 16 initial artist list and curatorial framework
The curators have also revealed their curatorial frameworks, which dialogue with each other as well as with the Biennial’s 30-year history as a platform for artistic experimentation and critical discourse.
visit websiteSharjah Art Foundation announces the dates for March Meeting 2025
In conjunction with the Biennial, the Foundation is also delighted to announce details for the annual March Meeting and April Acts, both part of the wider programme of this special edition. The Biennial will also feature a programme of workshops, film screenings, performances and conversations.
visit websiteTipping point: The Sharjah Biennial 16 on our hopes, fears and anxieties
The opening week featured several performance activations, some harder to access than others because of the logistical intricacies of staging live work in finding spaces. The act of seeing can feel competitive and frenetic; you’re constantly jostling people to get to the front of the crowd, or standing on tiptoe to catch disconnected snatches of performance.
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