Al Mureijah Square. Sharjah Biennial 2019 Tour

SB14 informative visual tour:
SAF Art Spaces, Al Mureijah Square

About this area, map

Gallery 6

Akram Zaatari

Bait Gholoum Ibrahim

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn

Bait Al Aboudi

Otobong Nkanga & Emeka Ogboh

Bait Hussein Makrani

Heather Phillipson

Bait Habib Al Yousef

Hrair Sarkissian

Gallery 5

Alfredo Jaar, Ann Veronica Janssens, Candice Breitz

Gallery 4

Kidlat Tahimik

Gallery 3

Lisa Reihana, Qiu Zhijie

Gallery 1

Caline Aoun, Laura Lima, Alia Farid, Wael Shawky, Christopher Cozier, Allora & Calzadilla, Peter Friedl

Gallery 1, rooftop

Alaa Edris

Gallery 2

Annie Dorsen, Eisa Jocson

Bait Khalid Ibrahim

Leo Asemota

Outside Bait Abdul R. Jasim

Aline Baiana

Bait Al Hurma

Wu Tsang

SAF Art Spaces, Al Mureijah Square

This sector of the historic city of Sharjah in the Al Mureijah neighborhood is being reconstructed following the original urban structure. Several old buildings are already restored or were rebuilt on the wall remains. In other cases, only the external walls are reconstructed until now. Also these spaces are used as venues for the Sharjah Biennial.

The main complex are the five new exhibition buildings, inaugurated in March 2013 for SB 11.

The new buildings provide a range of interiors to experience art along with a variety of exterior spaces including courtyards, alleyways, open squares and an inter-connected roofscape. With approximately 20,000 square feet of interior space, the new buildings dialogue with both the existing physicality of the urban fragment as well as its history and past use in order to reactivate the area and invigorate the reception of contemporary art, which is befitting within the culturally rich, multi-layered urban context.