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Un-Drum 2/ The Chinese Connection, 2009
Tarek Atoui
Biennial, Exhibitions
Un-drum 2/The Chinese Connection
Un-drum is a complex interaction between music composition, body movement, performance and computer...
Rochers Carrés, 2008
Kader Attia
Exhibitions
Artist's Statement
In Algiers, near the Bab el Oued neighborhood, there is a beach that young people nicknamed...
What Everybody Knows, 2006
Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri
Exhibitions, Collection
Artists' Statement
In the spring of 2006, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri travelled together through Palestine and...
Journey Back, 1977
Ali Jabri
Exhibitions
Journey Back, 1977
Ali Jabri’s drawings, sketchbooks and journals selected from the Ali Jabri Human Heritage...
Gran Royal Turismo, 2003
Yto Barrada
Exhibitions
Artist's Statement
Gran Royal Turismo is a table-sized automated model based on a road racing set....
Massaker, 2005
Monika Börgmann
Exhibitions
Artist's Statement
Between September 16th and 18th, 1982, for two nights and three days, the killers of Sabra and...
On red nails, palm trees and other icons, 2007-2009
Hala Elkoussy
Biennial, Exhibitions, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
On red nails, palm trees and other icons is a personal archive of images that came together over...
D II Series, 2009
Tarek Al Ghoussein
Exhibitions, Collection
Artist's Statement
My previous work ('Untitled' A and B series) has been concerned with barriers, land, longing and,...
Sharjah CityMap and Sharjah InfoCart, 2011
Alexis Bhagat and Lize Mogel
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Portal to a Black Hole, 2008
Diana Al Hadid
Exhibitions
Portal to a Black Hole
Portal to a Black Hole conflates the ‘heavenly' sounds of a pipe organ and a black hole in a...
Present Tense, 1996
Mona Hatoum
Exhibitions
Present Tense, 1996
In 1996 Mona Hatoum was invited to create a site-specific work for Gallery Anadiel in Jerusalem....
Where are the Arabs?, 2009
Samah Hijawi
Exhibitions
Artist's Statement
Where are the Arabs? is a project that investigates Arab identity and
the public’s...
Qalandia 2047, 2007
Wafa Hourani
Exhibitions
Qalandia 2047
Wafa Hourani imagines the Palestinian refugee camp and site of the oppressive Qalandia checkpoint...
Beirut Caoutchouc, 2004
Marwan Rechmaoui
Biennial, Exhibitions, Collection
Beirut Caoutchouc, 2004
First shown in Sharjah Biennial 7 and now part of the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, Beirut...
A Monument for the Living, 2000
Marwan Rechmaoui
Exhibitions, Collection
A Monument for the Living, 2000
A Monument for the Living is a human-scale replica of the notorious Burj al Murr, a derelict...
Execution Squares, 2008
Hrair Sarkissian
Biennial, Exhibitions, Collection
Artist's Statement
The series Execution Squares was photographed in three Syrian cities – Aleppo, Lattakia and...
Telematch Sadat, 2007
Wael Shawky
Exhibitions
Artist's Statement
Telematch Sadat re-stages the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat, during the...
God Grows on Trees, 2007-2008
Hamra Abbas
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
God Grows on Trees consists of 99 portraits of children studying in madrasahs across Pakistan whom...
The Mapping Journey Project, 2008-2011
Bouchra Khalili
Biennial, Commissions & Productions, Collection
In This is a Sign for Those Who Reflect, 2009
Hamra Abbas
Biennial
Artist's Statement
Men take off their shoes before entering into a large room to sit close to each other in a circle....
FUGERE (A Series of Olympiadic Moments), 2009
Haig Aivazian
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
FUGERE (A Series of Olympiadic Moments) is an exploration into the strangeness of the realm of...
Have a Pleasant Stay!, 2009
Samira Badran
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
One of the numerous places which has suffered a radical and dramatic transformation is between...
Root/Route Patterns of Sharjah: Path to the Persian Market, Geology Lesson, Geography Lesson, a Pearl Divers Tale, 2009
Doris Bittar
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
My project for the biennial is broad and in four parts, one of which is a long and narrow footpath...
Inheritance: Reclaiming Native Peoples and Places, 2009
Melissa Chimera & Adele Ne Jame
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
A project room based on the unrealised proposal Decoder, 2009
Alberto Duman
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
Decoder can be read as an inverted monument to the preferred mythology of a consumer-driven model...
The Book of Profanation, 2011
Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Airmail Paintings, 2002-2008
Eugenio Dittborn
Biennial
Airmail Paintings
The following is a text in progress, dating back to 1985 and now published in its eighth state; it...
The Majlis, 2008-2009
Lamya Gargash
Biennial, Commissions & Productions, Collection
Artist's Statement
The work I am showing is very close to my heart because it reflects my interpretation or rather our...
Drip Field, 2009
Sheela Gowda
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
On my first visit to Sharjah, I came with very little knowledge about the cultural and physical...
Noor (Light), 2009
Giuseppe Moscatello
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
I work on the concept of time mainly by dissecting and analyzing time in relation to movement and...
Dubai: What's Left of Her Land? 2008
Reem Al Ghaith
Biennial, Collection
Dubai: What's Left of Her Land?
Dubai is a city of superlatives that includes the largest, the highest, and the most expensive. ...
Spells On Our Youth, 2009
Diana Al Hadid
Biennial
Spells on Our Youth
Spells on Our Youth was a site-specific project made on location for the 9th Sharjah Biennial....
Here, 2009
Jawad Al Malhi
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
Having been born in Shufhat camp and having lived there for over 30 years I have witnessed its...
We Began By Measuring Distance, 2009
Basma Al Sharif
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Artist's Statement
The work began as hours of unrelated footage and a frustration with history, facts and the...
Portrait of the Sheikh, 2009
Halil Altindere
Biennial
Artist's Statement
I received an invitation from Sharjah Biennial 9 on November 2008 to create a site-specific project...
Beirut Bereft: The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict, 2009
Rasha Salti and Ziad Antar
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Smile, You're in Sharjah, 2009
Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
La Vigie (work in progress), 2010
Jean-Luc Moulène
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
In 2004, Jean-Luc Moulène notices a stalk of Paulownia growing through a crack in the...
Lebanese Rocket Society, 2011
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Biennial, Commissions & Productions, Collection
Man to Man, 2009
Agnes Janich
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Man to Man, 2009
In her disturbing project for the 2009 Sharjah Biennial, Man to Man (2009), Janich created a...
Domesticated Marionettes, 2008-2009
Hayv Kahraman
Biennial
Artist's Statement
This work is part of a series of large canvases titled Domesticated Marionettes where the...
In Shallah, 2005
Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen
Residency Programme, Biennial, Commissions & Productions
New Emirati Britannica: Third Edition, 2011
Lynn Love and Ann Sappenfield
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
The Lost Works of Caspar David Friedrich, 2009
Hiroyuki Masuyama
Biennial, Commissions & Productions, Collection
The Lost Works of Caspar David Friedrich
For the 9th Sharjah Biennial, Hiroyuki Masuyama recreated a series of lost paintings by...
African Independence and Palestine, Two Short Montages, 1961/1971
Newsreel Archives of Soviet Television
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Going South - From Ljubljana to Sharjah, 2009
Nika Oblak and Primož Novak
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Supply and Demand for Immortality, 2010-2011
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Tools that measure the intensity of passionate interests, 2010
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Face Scripting: What Did the Building See?, 2011
Shumon Basar, Eyal Weizman, Jane & Louise Wilson
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
I Always Buy My Lunch At the Mayfair Bar, 1983
Robert MacPherson
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
To Be Continued, 2009
Sharif Waked
Biennial, Commissions & Productions, Collection
To Be Continued, 2009
Videos of the 'living martyr' have become a staple in global media and a powerful visual presence...
Sunny Lane (Sonnenallee)
Karim Aïnouz
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Project Description
Sunny Lane (Sonnenallee) by Karim Aïnouz. Brazil/UAE, Super 8 to Digital, Colour, 12 minutes,...
Short Scenes from a Long Marriage (Lahathat Qasirah men Zawaj Taweel)
Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Project Description
Short Scenes from a Long Marriage (Lahathat Qasirah men Zawaj Taweel) by Rania Attieh and Daniel...
As They Say (Kif Ma Yi Qulu)
Hicham Ayouch
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Project Description
As They Say (Kif Ma Yi Qulu) by Hicham Ayouch. Morocco/UAE, 2011, Digital Video, Colour, 20...
Wanted (Al-Hareb)
Ali Essafi
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Project Description
Wanted (Al-Hareb) by Ali Essafi. Morocco/UAE, 2011, Digital Video, Colour, 20 minutes.
Written...
Richard III (An Arab Tragedy), 2007
Sulayman Al-Bassam Theater
Biennial
Richard III (An Arab Tragedy)
In this dramatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, the historic setting of late Medieval...
Minutes of a Meeting, 2009
Sulayman Al-Bassam
Biennial
Minutes of a Meeting - Performance - Rehearsed Reading (Work-in-Progress)
...
Traitors (Khawana)
Sean Gullette
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Project Description
Traitors (Khawana) by Sean Gullette. USA/Morocco/UAE, 2011, HD Video,
Colour, 31 minutes.
The Monumental vs. the Imaginary; The construction of the “locale” in the historic cemeteries of Cairo, 2009
May Al-Ibrashy
Biennial
Artist's Statement
This lecture looks at the cemeteries of Cairo in the late medieval period, a time when the Mamluk...
Javad
Bahman Kiarostami
Biennial, Commissions & Productions
Project Description
Javad by Bahman Kiarostami. Iran/UAE, 2011, Digital Video, Colour, 18 minutes.
Directed, shot...
Wharfage (Leaving Sharjah), CAMP, 2009
CAMP (Shaina Anand, Nida Ghouse, Hakim Lillyawalla and Ashok Sukumaran)
Biennial
A project on the creek in Sharjah, from where a large number of dhows leave for...
An informal conversation between Walid Raad and Adila Laidi-Hanieh, 2009
Walid Raad and Adila Laidi-Hanieh
Biennial
Sharjah National Theatre Archive launch, 2009
In collaboration with Sharjah National Theatre and Jumaa Al Majid Centre for Culture and Heritage.
Biennial
