Artists at this venue:
Hoda Afshar, Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, Coco Fusco, Theaster Gates, Malek Gnaoui and Ala Eddine Slim, Maharani Mancanagara, Meleanna Meyer, New Red Order, Farah Al Qasimi, Umar Rashid, Wendy Red Star, Smita Sharma
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Artists at this venue:
Hoda Afshar, Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, Coco Fusco, Theaster Gates, Malek Gnaoui and Ala Eddine Slim, Maharani Mancanagara, Meleanna Meyer, New Red Order, Farah Al Qasimi, Umar Rashid, Wendy Red Star, Smita Sharma
For this edition of the Biennial, the old courthouse, now the Khorfakkan Art Centre, hosts a suite of artworks and projects in spaces that have not previously been accessible to the public. The Art Centre—a section of which operates as one of six Foundation facilities across the emirate—is also the site of specially designed Learning Rooms for Biennial visitors.
Khorfakkan lies along the Gulf of Oman between Kalba and Dibba Al Hisn. The town is Sharjah’s largest exclave and one of the UAE’s natural harbours. Khorfakkan has a rich, multilayered history as a node of maritime and military significance. Before it was incorporated into Al Qasimi territory in the 1850s, Portuguese, Persian and Omani colonial regimes vied for control of this strategic port town. By the late 1970s, many of the traditional homes at its historical centre had fallen derelict as the town developed into a container port. The beautiful coastal scenery has never stopped attracting visitors, however, and in recent years, Sharjah has undertaken several large-scale hospitality projects to develop tourism in the area.
(Texts from the SB15 Guidebook)
Sharjah Biennial 15, 2023
Thinking Historically in the Present
7 February - 11 June 2023
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi,
based on the concept of Okwui Enwezor who was invited to curate SB15 before his untimely passing in 2019
List of artists
Over 150 participants from more than 70 countries
SB15 Working Group, Enwezor’s longtime collaborators:
Tarek Abou El Fetouh, Ute Meta Bauer, Salah M. Hassan, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Octavio Zaya
SB15 Advisory Committee:
Sir David Adjaye OBE, Christine Tohmé
