Overview

Sharjah Art Foundation today announced an initial selection of participating artists for the next Sharjah Biennial, opening in March 2019. Featuring established and emerging international artists from around the globe, the 14th edition of the Sharjah Biennial (SB14), Leaving the Echo Chamber, explores the possibilities and purpose of producing art when history is increasingly fictionalised, when ideas of ‘society’ are invariably displaced, when borders and beliefs are under constant renegotiation and our material culture is under the constant threat of human destruction and climate degradation.

SB14 will feature exhibitions by curators Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and Claire Tancons, bringing together a range of experiences and works—including major commissions, large-scale public installations, performances and films to explore how contemporary life, enabled by rapid technological change, has created a seemingly inescapable ‘echo chamber’ of information, complex personal networks and shifting narratives that are physical, spiritual and virtual.

Participating Artists

An initial selection of participating artists in each of the three exhibitions follows below with the complete line-up to be announced in the coming months:

Journey Beyond The Arrow, curated by Zoe Butt, will include works by:

Khadim Ali
Meiro Koizumi
Nalini Malani
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Ho Tzu Nyen
Ahmad Fuad Osman
Lisa Reihana
Kidlat Tahimik

Making New Time, curated by Omar Kholeif, will include works by:

Huguette Caland
Lubaina Himid
Barbara Kasten
Marwan
Otobong Nkanga
Jon Rafman
Akram Zaatari

Look for Me All Around You, curated by Claire Tancons, will include works by:

Caline Aoun
Aline Baiana
Nikolaus Gansterer
Eisa Jocson
Isabel Lewis
Ulrik López
Carlos Martiel
Wu Tsang

For more information about Sharjah Biennial 14 please click here.

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