Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj | Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah

The thematic focus of SB13 is grounded in the four keywords water, crops, earth and culinary, which form the foundations of social interaction and exchange. Just as the thematic keywords are porous and feed into one another, SB13 places researchers and interlocutors in conversation with one another, and with Sharjah. Its multi-city, multi-part programmes are envisaged as infrastructures to channel knowledge transmission and information sharing between artists, curators, editors, researchers and the general public. This fluidity of knowledge irrigates new, enduring terrains of collaboration and references the threefold meaning of Tamawuj: a rising and falling in waves; a flowing, swelling, surging or fluctuation; and a wavy, undulating appearance, outline or form.

Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce the list of over 60 artists participating in Act I of the forthcoming Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj (SB13):

Noor Abuarafeh, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Abbas Akhavan, Tamara Al Samerraei, Allora & Calzadilla, Maria Thereza Alves, Kader Attia, Tonico Lemos Auad, Ismaï l Bahri, Sarnath Banerjee, Yto Barrada, Abdelkader Benchamma, Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Jonathas de Andrade, Mariana Castillo Deball, Roy Dib, Vikram Divecha, Barış Doğrusöz, Koo Donghee, İ nci Eviner, Em’kal Eyongakpa, Harun Farocki, Fehras Publishing Practices, Future Farmers, Daniele Genadry, Deniz Gul, Shadi Habib Allah, Taloi Havini, Takashi Ishida, İz Öztat and Fatma Belkıs Işık, Lamia Joreige, Christoph Keller, Samir Khaddaj, Mahmoud Khaled, Nesrine Khodr, Basim Magdy, Metahaven, Hind Mezaina, Mochu, Oscar Murillo, Joe Namy, Uriel Orlow, The Otolith Group, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Khalil Rabah, Raqs Media Collective, Stéphanie Saadé, Abdullah Al Saadi, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Ghassan Salhab, Roy Samaha, Massinissa Selmani, Setareh Shahbazi, Nida Sinnokrot, Walid Siti, Monika Sosnowska, Zhou Tao, Mario Garcí a Torres, Jorinde Voigt, James Webb, Rain Wu and Eric Chen, Paola Yacoub, Fathi Zamroud

Sharjah Biennial 13 is curated by Christine Tohme

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8 Nov ’25 – 30 Dec ’25

With love to Palestine | Mala, Lisbon

Exhibition with works in support of Palestine by artists in Portugal.

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24 Nov ’25 – 30 Nov ’25

Rencontres Internationales | Jeu de Paume, Paris

Screening of the film Forest Futures as part of the festival Rencontres Internationales – New cinema and contemporary art, at Jeu de Paume, Paris.

27 November, 2pm.

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16 Nov ’25

Majlis Talks: Reseeding Stories | Alserkal Art Week, Dubai

Al Serkal’s yearly Majlis Talks for Dubai Art Week is curated by artist and writer Uriel Orlow and curator Andrea Thal, offering a shared space for listening, remembering, mourning, and re-seeding through performance, text, and sound-based works from the wider region.

6 Dec ’25 – 31 Mar ’26

Materials and Makers: Goa Past and Present | Sunaparanta, Goa

Uriel Orlow is presenting a new commission in the group show Materials and Makers: Goa Past and Present, at Sunaparanta, in Goa. The exhibition is curated by Leandre D’Souza with Kelli Wood.

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1 Oct ’25 – 22 Nov ’25

We Have Already Lived Through Our Future—We Just Don’t Remember It | Dialogue Gallery, Lisboa

Uriel Orlow is presenting We Have Already Lived Through Our Future—We Just Don’t Remember It, a solo show at Dialogue Gallery, in Lisbon.

27 Sep ’25 – 2 Nov ’25

Busan Biennale: Sea Art Festival 2025 | Busan, Korea

Uriel Orlow will present his performance “Reveries of Collective Walkers (Busan)” as part of the Sea Art Festival 2025 in Busan.

Under the title Undercurrents: Waves Walking on the Water, the exhibition traces the subtle metabolic exchanges hidden between land and sea, seeking to reveal their invisible yet vital flows as part of our sensory and embodied experience. This edition of Sea Art Festival asks how the shifting metabolic rhythms of the sea intersect with our daily lives, and how these unseen processes might surface as shared awareness.

Group show with works by Anna Anderegg, Antje Majewski, Diana Lelnonek, Heike Kabisch, Hyeong‑seob Cho, Janine Antoni, Jeewi Lee & Phillip C. Reiner, Jin Lee, Marco Barotti, Marie Griesmar, Mathias Kessler and Ahmet Civelek, and many others.

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19 Jul ’25

Power of nature! | Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle

Performance “Reveries of Collective Walkers” by Uriel Orlow and Lecture by Sophie von Redecker as part of the exhibition “Planetary Farmers.”

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18 Jul ’25 – 17 Aug ’25

Begehungen Art Festival | Chemnitz, Germany

Under the title EVERYTHING IS INTERACTION, the art festival Begehungen aims to make the complexity of the issues of resource consumption, species loss and the climate crisis visible. The festival is intended to be an inspiring place for new, forward-looking discourse – a space for encounters, exchange and creative impulses. It is part of the official program of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025.

With works by Ana Alenso, Ursula Biemann & Paulo Tavares, Elza Gubanova, Diana Lelonek, Anna Weberberger and many others.

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26 Apr ’25 – 28 Sep ’25

Confluences | Fondation François Schneider, France

The Confluences exhibition brings together the collections of the Fondation François Schneider, FRAC Alsace, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne and 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine. Inspired by the concept of “confluences”, it explores the interactions between different works, like rivers that meet. Through different themes, the works engage in a dialogue of forms, compositions, narratives and colors. Visitors are invited to imagine themselves in moments of life inspired by water, whether admiring a sparkling sea, exploring urban beaches or observing the harmony between body and water.

Group exhibition curated by Sarah Guilain, with works by Claude Batho, Mégane Brauer, Pat Bruder, Cécile Carriere, Julie Chaffrot, Gigi Cifali, and many others.

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25 Apr ’25 – 1 Feb ’26

Oscillating Spaces | CCA, Montréal

Oscillating Spaces looks to the Rhône Glacier—undergoing fast melting and transformation processes—as a case study to reflect on environmental challenges in a constantly oscillating site. Juxtaposing glacier cartography, photography, film, ecclesiastical documents, tourist souvenirs, and architectural archives, the exhibition questions the role of architecture when confronted with a shifting climate, an unstable landscape, and a site that possesses a life of its own. The research also incorporates the work of contemporary art and architecture practices whose works document the Alpine landscape, responding to and raising awareness about the complex consequences of glacier recession for plant, animal, and human life.

Group exhibition curated by Anneke Abhelakh, with works by Aufdi Aufdermauer, Anneke Abhelakh, Filip Dujardin, Harvest Salon, Leo Fabrizio, and many others.

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