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Sharjah Biennale

(exhibition, -present)


Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial. 16 march - 16 may 2026

Curated by Suzanne Cotter, Curator, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project and Rasha Salti, Creative Director, ArteEast with Associate Curator Haig Aivazian.


Plot for a Biennial is the title for the 10th Sharjah Biennial, which opens on March 16, 2011. Curated by Suzanne Cotter and Rasha Salti and Associate Curator Haig Aivazian, the Biennial will present new and specially commissioned works by contemporary artists, filmmakers, writers and performers from across the region and internationally.The Sharjah Biennale is one of the most celebrated cultural events in the Arab world. Since its inception in 1993, it has formed a cultural bridge between artists, art institutions and organisations locally, regionally and internationally. Produced by the Department of Culture and Information in the Emirate of Sharjah, the Biennial now holds a key regional position in the production and presentation of art and in fostering experimentation.


Artists Sharjah Biennale:
Abbas, Hamra
Dujourie, Lili
Abdelke, Youssef
Duman Alberto
AbdulAziz, Ebtisam
Elkoussy, Hala
Abidin, Adel
Epaminonda, Haris
Aivazian Haig
Erkmen, Ayse
Al Ghaith Reem
Ernst Sophie
Al Malhi Jawad
Fallah Amir H
Al Saadi, Abdullah
Favaretto, Lara
Al-Ani, Hala
Gargash Lamya
Al-Hadid, Diana
Ghani, Mariam
Altindere, Halil
Gill, Simryn
Anders Guggisberg, Andres Lutz
Gowda, Sheela
Antar, Ziad
Grasso Laurent
Araujo, Juan Carlos
Hadjithomas, Joana
Ashford, Doug
Harsha, N.S.
Atoui Tarek
Joreige, Lamia
Badran Samira
Jubelin Narelle
Barrada, Yto
Kahraman Hayv
Barry, Judith
Khalili, Bouchra
Behbahani, Bahar
Linke Nadia Kaabi
Bittar Doris
Lopez, Maider
Boghiguian, Anna
MacPherson Robert
Chimera Melissa
Maestro Lani
Dittborn, Eugenio
Moshiri, Farhad
Donnelly, Trisha
O Grivo



Sharjah Biennale
<p>The 2011 Sharjah Biennial will feature work by artists, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, writers, editors, translators and publishers, working individually and collaboratively:<br>Jumana Emil Abboud<br /> Youssef Abdelké<br /> Ebtisam Abdulaziz<br /> Adel Abidin<br /> Atfal Ahdath<br /> Hala Al-Ani<br /> Abdullah Al Saadi<br /> Ziad Antar<br /> Doug Ashford<br /> Vartan Avakian<br /> Yto Barrada<br /> Judith Barry<br /> Shumon Basar, Eyal Weizman, Jane and Louise Wilson<br /> Bahar Behbahani<br /> Mustapha Benfodil<br /> Alexis Bhagat and Lize Mogel<br /> Anna Boghiguian<br /> Ammar Bouras<br /> Dan Brault<br /> CAMP (Shaina Anandand Ashok Sukumaran)<br /> Guillaume Cassar<br /> Marie-Hélène Cauvin<br /> Jem Cohen with Luc Sante<br /> Ziad Dalloul<br /> Raffie Davtian<br /> Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency<br /> Trisha Donnelly<br /> Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică<br /> Simone Fattal<br /> Mariam Ghani<br /> Ahmed Ghossein<br /> Hans Haacke<br /> Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige<br /> Ramin Haerizadeh<br /> Rokni Haerizadeh<br /> Gilbert Hage<br /> Khalid Hourani<br /> Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens<br /> Hatem Imam<br /> Alfredo Jaar<br /> Emily Jacir<br /> Amar Kanwar<br /> Aisha Khalid<br /> Bouchra Khalili<br /> Mark Lombardi<br /> Newsreel Archives of Soviet Television<br /> Josephine Meckseper<br /> Shohreh Mehran<br /> Julia Meltzer and David Thorne<br /> Almagul Menlibayeva<br /> Naeem Mohaiemen<br /> Bahman Mohassess<br /> Tom Molloy<br /> Houman Mortazavi<br /> Fateh Moudarres<br /> Jean-Luc Moulène<br /> Rosalind Nashashibi<br /> Melik Ohanian<br /> Imran Qureshi<br /> Walid Raad<br /> Khalil Rabah<br /> Walid Sadek<br /> Hrair Sarkissian<br /> Matt Saunders<br /> Samir Sayegh<br /> Kamran Shirdel<br /> Slavs and Tatars<br /> Rania Stephan<br /> Rayyane Tabet<br /> Jorge Tacla<br /> Jalal Toufic<br /> Apichatpong Weerasethakul<br /> Raed Yassin<br /> Elias Zayat<br /> Artur Żmijewski</p>



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