{"id":47704,"date":"2023-09-16T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?p=47704"},"modified":"2023-09-16T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T11:46:50","slug":"next-sharjah-biennial-curators-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/next-sharjah-biennial-curators-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Sharjah Biennial curators announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re only just done with Sharjah Biennial 15 \u2013 and very good it was, too \u2013 but already Sharjah Art Foundation is announcing the curators for the Biennial\u2019s next edition, which runs from February through June 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is becoming increasingly common for binenials, there is not a single curator or even a collective in the frame. Instead a total of five curators will be working on Sharjah Biennial 16: Natasha Ginwala, Amal Khalaf, Zeynep \u00d6z, Alia Swastika and Megan Tamati-Quennell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reflecting what she termed \u201can expansive and decentralised approach\u201d, SAF President and Director Hoor Al Qasimi spoke of the five \u201cunique perspectives\u201d that will deliver SB16. \u201cEach of these leading curators has worked relentlessly to advance scholarship and practice in their local contexts as well as internationally. Sharjah Biennial 16 will offer the opportunity to witness their ideas in conversation, culminating in a truly polyphonic examination of contemporary art and cultural practice.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The five curators certainly represent \u201ca diverse and global range of perspectives across the spectrum of contemporary art\u201d, as SAF puts it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The five \u2013 all women \u2013 do genuinely represent some of the rising stars of the non-profit art world. Natasha Ginwala<\/strong> is Artistic Director of COLOMBOSCOPE and Associate Curator at Large at Gropius Bau, Berlin (COLOMBOSCOPE<\/a> is a contemporary arts festival in Colombo \u2013 next edition due 19-28 January \u2013 that has a reputation for delivering a genre-defying and context-responsive environment for cultural producers ). She\u2019s been part of curatorial teams for a number of biennials already, including documenta 14 (2017), the 2014 Berlin Biennale and the 2012 Taipei Biennial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amal Khalaf<\/strong> is an active artist who is also Director of Programmes at Cubitt, London, and Civic Curator at the Serpentine Galleries \u2013 and she knows the area, for she has exhibited at Sharjah Art Foundation and in 2016 she co-directed Art Dubai\u2019s Global Art Forum. The residencies, exhibitions and collaborative research projects she has developed operate particularly at the intersection of arts and social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zeynep \u00d6z<\/strong> is a curator and writer who was co-founder and director of the Spot Production Fund, Istanbul (2011\u20132017). In 2017 she curated the off-site Sharjah Biennial 13 project Bahar in Istanbul; other curatorial projects include one for Sharjah Art Foundation (2019) and Abou Farid\u2019s War for Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (2021) as well as the Turkish pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alia Swastika<\/strong> is the Director of the Biennale Jogja Foundation<\/a>, Yogyakarta, following ten years as Program Director for Ark Galerie (also in Yogyakarta). Her co-curating includes the 2012 Gwangju Biennale and she was roundtable curator for contemporary art exhibitions for the Europalia Arts Festival (2017). Her research on Indonesian women artists during Suharto\u2019s \u2018New Order\u2019 was published in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Megan Tamati-Quennell<\/strong> is a writer and curator of M\u0101ori descent who has a specialist focus in modern and contemporary M\u0101ori and Indigenous art. Her 33-year curatorial practice includes positions at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Govett Brewster Art Gallery; her expertise spans transnational contemporary First Nations art, and she has worked on many projects internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are apparently organising \u201cdistinct but interconnected\u201d projects \u2013 each is inviting a selection of artists across a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, “highlighting both leading and emerging talents in visual art, performance, music and publication”. That should cover it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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