Tag: Sharjah Biennial
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Sharjah Biennial 15 to be curated by Okwui Enwezor

Sharjah Art Foundation has announced renowned critic and curator Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) as curator of the next Sharjah Biennial, opening in March 2021. Enwezor conceived the 15th edition of the Sharjah Biennial (SB15), entitled Thinking Historically in the Present, to reflect on the past fourteen editions and consider the future of the biennial model. In…
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Sharjah Biennial 14

Sharjah Biennial 14 (SB14), entitled Leaving the Echo Chamber, explores the possibilities and purpose of producing art when news is fed by a monopoly of sources, history is increasingly fictionalised, when ideas of ‘society’ are invariably displaced, when borders and beliefs are dictated by cultural, social and political systems. Curators Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and…