Ayşe İdil İdil, Betül Aksu, Deniz Kırkalı, Dilek Winchester, Emre Hüner, Fatma Belkıs, Okyanus Çağrı Çamcı, Merve Elveren,Onur Gökmen, Sevil Tunaboylu, Zeynep Öz

Sharjah Biennial 16

SAHA supports the projects of Ayşe İdil İdil, Betül Aksu, Dilek Winchester, Emre Hüner, Fatma Belkıs, Okyanus Çağrı Çamcı, Onur Gökmen, Sevil Tunaboylu and curator Zeynep Öz at Sharjah Biennial 16 between February 6 and June 15, 2025. Furthermore, SAHA provides honorarium for Deniz Kırkalı and Merve Elveren, the editors of YAZ, the biennial's special publication.

Curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala and Zeynep Öz, Sharjah Biennial 16 features works by more than 190 participants, including over 200 new commissions, which will be presented across the Emirate of Sharjah. 

The Sharjah Biennial 16 titled, to carry, is a multivocal and open-ended proposition. The ever-expanding list of what to carry, and how to carry it, is an invitation to encounter the different formations and positions of the five curators as well as the constellation of resonances they have gathered. The Biennial theme, to carry, entails understanding our precarity within spaces that are not our own while staying responsive to these sites through the cultures that we hold. It also signifies a bridge between multiple temporalities of embodied pasts and imagined futures, encompassing intergenerational stories and various modes of inheritance.

About Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Art Foundation is an advocate, catalyst and producer of contemporary art within the Emirate of Sharjah and the surrounding region, in dialogue with the international arts community. The Foundation advances an experimental and wide-ranging programmatic model that supports the production and presentation of contemporary art, preserves and celebrates the distinct culture of the region and encourages a shared understanding of the transformational role of art.