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\n\tThe Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the title, curatorial framework, and artist list for the 17th Sharjah Biennial, set to run from January 21, through June 13, 2027.<\/p>\n
\n\tTitled \u201c<\/em>What remains, sits restive,\u201d the exhibition will bring together 109 artists across sites in the emirate, including Sharjah City, Al Dhaid, Khorfakkan, and the Kalba Ice Factory.<\/p>\n \n\tThe edition is co-curated by Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento, who have structured the project around themes of unrealized social projects and the capacity of the past to animate the present. According to a statement from the foundation, the curators will present related but distinct perspectives.<\/p>\n \n\tHarutyunyan, a professor of contemporary art and theory at the Berlin University of the Arts and a founding editor of ARTMargins<\/em>, will engage 55 participants in a conversation on \u201cthe various afterlives of socialist modernity,\u201d particularly as they intersect with anti-colonial struggles and modernization, while the 54 artists selected by Nascimento\u2014an architect based in Luanda and former associate curator of the Lubumbashi Biennial\u2014will explore infrastructure as an intersection of memory, moment, and place.<\/p>\n \n\tThis approach, the foundation said, aims to illustrate how \u201chistories resurface and endure, not as pure recurrence but as residues and transformed processes that actively inform the present.\u201d The assembled artists form a mix of historical and contemporary practices and hail from across Eastern Europe, Southwest Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Notable confirmed participants include Hassan Khan, Ibrahim Mahama, Oscar Murillo, Kapwani Kiwanga, Iman Issa, and Grada Kilomba.<\/p>\n \n\tThe full artist list follows, organized by curator.<\/p>\n Angela Harutyunyan<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tAlban Muja; Alexandra Sukhareva; Amanda Beech; Anri Sala; Arash Azadi; Arman Grigoryan; Armen Ter-Mkrtchyan; Armenak Grigoryan; Cristiana de Marchi; Cynthia Zaven; Daniele Genadry; David Schutter; Hamlet Hovsepyan; Hande Sever; Hassan Khan; Hiwa K; Igor Savchenko; Iman Issa; Jasmina Cibic; Jessica Ekomane; Ji\u0159\u00ed \u017d\u00e1k; Josef Bolf; Josephine Pryde; Kapwani Kiwanga; Karen Ohanyan; Karine Matsakyan; Karlo Kacharava; Kasper Kovitz; Khaled Tanji; Kristina Benjocki; Lala Rukh; Lena Kocutar; Lousineh Navasartian; Marcos Grigoryan; Michael Martirosyan; Natasha Gasparian; Neda Saeedi; Octavian Esanu; Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht; Sebasti\u00e1n D\u00edaz Morales; Shady Elnoshokaty; Sherif El Azma; Stijn Verhoeff; Suat \u00d6\u011f\u00fct; Tekla Aslanishvili and Solveig Qu Suess; Teni Vardanyan; Thea Djordjadze; Thea Gvetadze; Tsolak Topchyan; Vehanush Topchyan; Ya\u015fam \u015ea\u015fmazer; Yass; and Zbyn\u011bk Balandr\u00e1n<\/p>\n Paula Nascimento<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tAgnes Essonti Luque; Ana Silva; \u00c2ngela Ferreira; Ant\u00f3nio Ole; Belinda Kazeem-Kami\u0144ski; Carlos Noronha Feio; C\u00e9sar Schofield Cardoso; Christian Salablanca D\u00edaz; Cipriano; Dana Whabira; Edson Chagas; Euridice Zaituna Kala; Francisco Vidal; Gabriel Chaile; Gabrielle Goliath; Georges Senga; Gosette Lubondo; Grada Kilomba; Helena Uambembe; Hong-Kai Wang; Ibrahim Mahama; Il\u00eddio Candja Candja; Januario Jano; Jean Katambayi Mukendi; Jos\u00e8fa Ntjam; Kamala Ibrahim Ishag; Kapela Paulo; Kiluanji Kia Henda and Sumayya Vally with Fl\u00e1vio Cardoso, Lilianne Kiame, Raul Jorge Gourgel and Yazan Khalili; Limbo Museum founded by Dominique Petit-Fr\u00e8re; Lungiswa Gqunta; Mpho Matsipa; Myles Igwe; Nolan Oswald Dennis; Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape; N\u00fa Barreto; Oscar Murillo; Pamela Cevallos; Rebeca Carapi\u00e1; Reinata Sadimba; Ren\u00e9 Tavares; Rui Magalh\u00e3es; Sandra Poulson; Senzeni Marasela; Sonia Gomes; Tuli Mekondjo; Victor Gama; Wendy Morris; Ziad Naitaddi; and Zina Saro-Wiwa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/sharjah-biennial-2027-artist-list-1234782699\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SB17-PR-Thumbnail.jpg?w=1024″] The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the title, curatorial framework, and artist list for the 17th Sharjah Biennial, set to run from January 21, through June 13, 2027. Titled \u201cWhat remains, sits restive,\u201d the exhibition will bring together 109 artists across sites in the emirate, including Sharjah City, Al Dhaid, Khorfakkan, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1906088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1906088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}