We’re only just done with Sharjah Biennial 15 – and very good it was, too – but already Sharjah Art Foundation is announcing the curators for the Biennial’s next edition, which runs from February through June 2025. As is becoming [ … ]
Dubai Culture is launching the inaugural Dubai Calligraphy Biennale in October – it runs for the whole month – with exhibitions in more than venues around the city and over 200 artists both local and international highlighting the diversity of [ … ]
The Diriyah Biennale Foundation says it is “delighted” to announce the appointment of Ute Meta Bauer, as Artistic Director of the second edition of its Contemporary Art Biennale, scheduled for January 2024 – and well it might be. Ute Meta [ … ]
Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present opens next week with what looks like one of its richest ever programmes – including more than 300 artworks by (at our count) 159 artists and collectives from around the world, plus [ … ]
The inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale, scheduled for Jeddah from 23 January to 23 April 2023, claims to be “the world’s most significant showcase of contemporary and historic works of Islamic art from across the globe”, celebrating Islamic art and culture [ … ]
The 2022 Venice Biennale always looked like it was going to be a success – in terms of numbers, let alone the art – and so it proved: Covid restrictions and Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine couldn’t prevent a record [ … ]
More than 140 artists from over 70 countries have been listed for Sharjah Biennial 15 to realise the vision of the late Okwui Enwezor. It’s a genuinely impressive roster that include a number of major international figures active across a [ … ]
Sharjah Art Foundation has postponed the 15th edition of the Sharjah Biennial again. Already delayed from 2021, SB15 had been rescheduled for March 2022; it will now open in February 2023. Hoor Al Qasimi, director of both SAF and the [ … ]
Sharjah Art Foundation has cemented the emirate’s place in the contemporary art ecosystem primarily through two initiatives: the Sharjah Biennial (and the associated collection of works acquired after various SBs) and the annual March Meeting, its gathering of artists, curators [ … ]
Sharjah Art Foundation has reacted impressively to a truncated and somewhat depressed art scene today in 2020 with a spring 2021 programme loaded with back-to-normality-only-better interest. There are major solo shows exploring the work of an influential artist from the [ … ]
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