Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento appointed curators for Sharjah Biennial 17 opening in 2027
The Sharjah Art Foundation has named Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento as the curators for the upcoming Sharjah Biennial 17, set to launch in January 2027. Hoor Al Qasimi, who serves as the president and director of the Foundation, emphasized the distinct viewpoints they bring to foster critical dialogue. Harutyunyan, originally from Gyumri, Armenia, is a professor in Berlin at the Berlin University of the Arts and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, specializing in post-Soviet art and curatorial theory. Nascimento, hailing from Luanda, Angola, is an architect and curator known for her work on the Lubumbashi Biennale and the Angola Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which received the Golden Lion in 2013, focusing on art's capacity to envision new realities through biennials.
Key facts
- Sharjah Biennial 17 opens in January 2027
- Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento are the curators
- Hoor Al Qasimi announced the appointment
- Harutyunyan is a professor at Berlin University of the Arts
- Harutyunyan founded ARTMargins at MIT Press
- Nascimento curated the Angola Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2013
- Nascimento was associate curator for Lubumbashi Biennale 2019 and 2022
- Harutyunyan's research focuses on post-Soviet art and Marxist aesthetics
Entities
Artists
- Angela Harutyunyan
- Paula Nascimento
- Hoor Al Qasimi
- Sanle Yan
Institutions
- Sharjah Art Foundation
- Berlin University of the Arts
- University of Manchester
- American University in Cairo
- American University of Beirut
- The Ashot Johannissyan Research Institute in the Humanities
- Beirut Institute of Critical Analysis and Research
- ARTMargins
- MIT Press
- Lubumbashi Biennale
- Rencontres de Bamako – African Biennale of Photography
- Triennale di Milano
- Experimenta Design
- Angola Pavilion
- Venice Biennale
- Stedelijk Museum Bureau
- Manchester University Press
- Lubumbashi Biennial
- African Biennale of Photography
- Hangar Centre of Artistic Research
- Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
- ArtAsiaPacific
- Canvas
Locations
- Sharjah
- Gyumri
- Armenia
- Berlin
- Germany
- Manchester
- United Kingdom
- Cairo
- Egypt
- Beirut
- Lebanon
- Yeravan
- Luanda
- Angola
- Lubumbashi
- Bamako
- Milan
- Italy
- Venice
- Amsterdam
- Netherlands
- Congo
- Mali
- Lisbon
- Portugal