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 [ … ]
You’ve seen how much concrete gets used in the UAE: the place wouldn’t exist without it. In fact, the modern world couldn’t exist without concrete for buildings and infrastructure. And despite technological advances, concrete – or, more specifically, cement – [ … ]
The noted critic, writer and curator Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) has been named as curator of the next Sharjah Biennial, opening in March 2021. The theme will be ‘Thinking Historically in the Present’. Okwui Enwezor sadly passed away from cancer in [ … ]
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