Lahore Biennale 2020 Reveals Full Artist List
By Kylie Yeung
The second edition of the Lahore Biennale, curated by the Sharjah Art Foundation director Hoor Al Qasimi, is titled “between the sun and the moon.” A press release dated January 6 revealed the full list of over 70 international participating artists who will present works that highlight the “cultural dialogues between South and West Asia and the social realities across the Global South.” The Biennale aims to examine humanity’s increasingly strained relationship with the environment, and the resulting social dissonances brought about by climate changes through exploring traditional notions of the self and cosmological underpinnings which allude to South Asia’s strong astronomical traditions.
Expanding on the inaugural edition in 2018 which included 50 artists, LB02 will also present more than 20 new commissions featuring Pakistani and international artists, including, among others, multi-disciplinary artist Alia Farid who will present a film examining effects of the partition of the Indian subcontinent, photographer and filmmaker Reem Falaknaz whose installation references cultural links between Pakistan and the UAE, and artist and curator Almagul Menlibayeva whose immersive installation will bring to life the works of 14th-century Timurid ruler and astronomer Sultan Ulugh Beg.
Lahore Biennale 2020 is scheduled to run from January 26 to February 29 across various heritage sites throughout Lahore. The full roster of participating artists is as follows:
Abdullah Al Saadi
Adrián Villar Rojas
Afrah Shafiq
Ajam Media Collective
Ali Kazim
Alia Farid
Almagul Menlibayeva
Amar Kanwar
Amina Menia
Amina Zoubir
Anwar Saeed
Ayesha Zulfiqar
Ayman Zedani
Bahar Behbahani
Barbara Walker
Basir Mahmood
Basma Al Sharif
Bernie Searle
Bouchra Khalili
Christoulous Panayiotou
Diana Al-Hadid
Eyob Kitaba
Farah Al Qasimi
Farideh Lashai
Farkhanda Ashraf Khilji
Gary Simmons
Hajra Waheed
Halil Altindere
Hanok Melkamzer
Haris Epaminonda
Haroon Mirza
Hassan Hajjaj
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan and Hajra Haider Karrar
Hoda Afshar
Hrair Sarkissian
Imran Ahmad
Jeanno Gaussi
John Akomfrah
Kader Attia
Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq
Khadim Ali
Lida Abdul
Madiha Aijaz
Mariam Ghani
Mark Salvatus
Marwa Arsanios
Moza Al Matrooshi
Mudasar Rashadi
Mohammad Ali Talpur
Munem Wasif
Muzzamil Ruheel
Naiza Khan
Nalini Malani
Nedko Solakov
The Otolith Group
Pak Khawateen Painting Club
Rabbya Naseer & Hurmat ul Ain
Rachid Koraïchi
Rahat Ali
Rasheed Araeen
Rayyane Tabet
Reem Falaknaz
Shezad Dawood
Simone Fattal
Slavs and Tatars
Taus Makhacheva
Tentative Collective
Vivan Sundaram
Wael Shawky
Waseem Akram
Yaminay Chaudhri
Younus Nomani
Yousuf Nomani
Zarina Bhimji
Zulfiqar Rind
Kylie Yeung is an editorial intern of ArtAsiaPacific.
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