SB15 reflects on Okwui Enwezor’s visionary work, which transformed contemporary art and has influenced institutions and biennials around the world.
Conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Biennial 15 (SB15), titled Thinking Historically in the Present, reflects on Enwezor’s visionary work, which transformed contemporary art and established an ambitious intellectual project that has influenced the evolution of institutions and biennials around the world, including the Sharjah Biennial. Bringing together more than 150 artists from over 70 countries, SB15 will take place in 16 venues across the emirate of Sharjah.
Find here some impressions of works displayed at Al Mureijah Square, Bait Al Serkal, Old Al Diwan Al Amiri and Al Hamriyah Studios.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Until we became fire and fire us, 2023. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Until we became fire and fire us, 2023. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Until we became fire and fire us, 2023. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
(left) Diedrick Brackens, Stealing dark from the sky, 2022. (right) Diedrick Brackens, The night is my shepherd, 2022. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Diedrick Brackens, The rhythm of consent, 2022. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Diedrick Brackens, The warmth of other suns, 2022. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Murmullo Familiar, 2021-2023. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Murmullo Familiar, 2021-2023. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
David Hammons , Exquisite Corpse: Ted Joans, 2019. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Manthia Diawara, Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom, 2023. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Shiraz Bayjoo, Politique des Races, Part 1, 2019. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Ted Joans, Long Distance Exquisite Corpse, 1976-2001. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Khadija Saye, from the series « In this space we breathe », 2017-18. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Khadija Saye, from the series « In this space we breathe », 2017-18. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Mary Sibande, A Reverse Retrogress: Scene 1 (Detail), 2013. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Mary Sibande, A Reverse Retrogress: Scene 1, 2013. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Patricia Kaersenhout, Of Palimpsests and Erasures, 2022. (Detail). Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Patricia Kaersenhout, Of Palimpsests and Erasures, 2022. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled: Excavation, 2022. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled: Excavation, 2022. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.
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![(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bildschirmfoto-2024-12-19-um-21.08.13-320x200.png)
![(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bildschirmfoto-2024-12-19-um-21.08.13-480x300.png)
