Sharjah Art Foundation Announces 60+ New Commissions For Sharjah Biennial

Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) today announced that the next Sharjah Biennial (SB14) will feature nearly 90 established and emerging artists from around the globe, over 60 new commissions, as well as many never-before-seen works.

Open to the public from 7 March to 10 June 2019, the 14th edition of SB14, Leaving the Echo Chamber, will explore 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, and when borders and beliefs are dictated by cultural, social and political systems.

Curators Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and Claire Tancons, who have collaboratively conceived the SB14 theme, will present three distinct exhibitions bringing together a range of experiences and works-including major commissions, large-scale public installations, performances and film-to create a series of provocations about how one might re-negotiate the shape, form, and function of the 'echo chamber' of contemporary life, towards a multiplying of the echoes within. Such vibration is representative of the vast forms of human production - its rituals, beliefs and customs. Butt, Kholeif, and Tancons will also spearhead three distinct programmatic approaches for SAF's March Meeting, an annual convening of local and International Artists, curators, scholars and other arts practitioners who explore topical issues in contemporary art through a programme of talks and performances. March Meeting 2019 will coincide with the opening of SB14.

Additional program details and the list of participating artists can be found at this link.