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Sharjah Biennial 17 Announces 2027 Dates, Curators and 109 Artists

The edition spotlights how past systems shape present culture across Sharjah’s urban and coastal sites.

Overview

  • Sharjah Art Foundation, which announced the seventeenth edition Monday, set the run for January 21 to June 13, 2027, under the title “What remains, sits restive.”
  • Two curators lead distinct sections that probe different questions: Angela Harutyunyan examines the afterlives of socialist modernity, while Paula Nascimento uses infrastructure as a method to study space, place and memory.
  • The program totals 109 participants, with artists named such as Anri Sala, Hassan Khan, Ibrahim Mahama, Oscar Murillo, Zina Saro‑Wiwa and Ângela Ferreira.
  • The exhibition unfolds across sites in the emirate that include Sharjah City, Al Dhaid, Khor Fakkan and Kalba.
  • Opening week runs January 21 to 24, 2027, with detailed exhibition schedules, commissions and public programming to be released before the launch.