Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento to Co-Curate Sharjah Biennial 17 in 2027

On June 24, the Sharjah Art Foundation revealed that Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento will be the co-curators for the upcoming 17th Sharjah Biennial, which is set to kick off in January 2027. Harutyunyan, a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, specializes in post-Soviet art and Marxist aesthetics. She previously co-curated a 2014 show at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum Bureau and authored a 2017 book on Armenian avant-garde political aesthetics. Nascimento, an independent curator and architect from Luanda, is known for curating the Angola Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, where she received the Golden Lion. Harutyunyan will explore non-capitalist modernity's afterlives, while Nascimento will focus on art's potential to create alternative spaces. More details about artists and programming will follow.