Natasha Ginwala, Amal Khalaf, Zeynep Oz, Alia Swastika, and Megan Tamati-Quennell have been selected by the Sharjah Art Foundation to serve as the curatorial team for the 16th Sharjah Biennial, which is scheduled to take place from February through June of 2025. There has not been an announcement made on the roster of participants yet.
In addition as artistic director of, Colomboscope, Ginwala is an assistant curator at the Gropius Bau in Berlin. She has substantial experience working on curatorial teams, including the 8th Berlin Biennial in 2014 and the Contour Biennale 8 in 2017, both of which she will be using in her role as co-artistic director of the Gwangju Biennale in 2020.
Khalaf is the director of programmes at Cubitt and the project’s curator at Serpentine Galleries. Both of these positions are based in London. There, she has been in charge of seeing the beginning of various initiatives, such as the 2009 Edgware Road Project. GCC is a multidisciplinary artist collective headquartered in the Gulf states, including the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. She was instrumental in the collective’s founding in 2013.
Oz is an independent curator as well as the co-founder of SPOT Contemporary Art Projects in Istanbul, where he also serves as director. Her past curatorial initiatives include the off-site project “Bahar” for the 2017 Sharjah Biennial and the 3rd Aichi Triennale in 2016. Both of these exhibitions took place in 2016.
Swastika is a writer and curator who was born in Indonesia. Since 2015, she has served as the director of the Biennale Jogja Foundation. In the past, she has held the position of co-artistic director of the 9th Gwangju Biennale and founded the Yogyakarta-based SOAP (Study of Art Practises), a publication and research laboratory on contemporary art.
Tamati-Quennell is an expert in modern and contemporary Maori and Indigenous art. She has over 30 years of experience as a curator. At the moment, she has the position of associate Indigenous curator of contemporary art at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Additionally, she is the curator of modern and contemporary Maori and Indigenous art at the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand.
Since it first took place in 1993, the next Biennial will be the 16th time the event has been held. The Sharjah Art Foundation is an organization that promotes and produces contemporary art in the United Arab Emirates and the territories that surround the country.
Images (left to right): Natasha Ginwala (Photo: Victoria Tomaschko), Amal Khalaf (Photo: Christa Holka), Zeynep Öz (Photo: Öykü Çakar-Smith), Alia Swastika (Photo: Yudha Kusum) and Megan Tamati-Quennell (Photo: Ola Thorsen, US Embassy New Zealand)
image courtesy: Sharjah Art Foundation
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