44 | MAY/JUN 2017 | ISSUE 103
Top to bottom, left to right: Artists Keiki Yamada;
Masayoshi Nojo; Hiroshi Mori in front of their
works at Art Fair Tokyo; Yayoi Kusama during
the opening of her exhibition “My Eternal Soul”
at the National Art Center, Tokyo.Top to bottom: Abraaj Group Art
Prize winner, Rana Begum, standing
in front of her commissioned work
No. 695 Abraaj (2016) at Art Dubai;
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak al-
Nahyan (center), head of the United
Arab Emirates Ministry of Culture,
Youth and Social Development.To k y o
Art Dubai
Top to bottom, left to right: Artists Merve Ertufan,
Mochu, and independent curator and SB13 interlocutor
Zeynep Öz; writer Rayya Badran, journalist Lina
Attalah and artist and filmmaker Barış Doğrusöz; artist
Timo Nasseri, Andreas Schleicher-Lange, director at
Sprüth Magers in Berlin, Nada Raza, research curator
at London’s Tate Modern, associate curator Yasmil
Raymond of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Clara
M. Kim, Tate Modern’s Daskalopoulos senior curator
of international art, and researcher and writer Kristine
Khouri; founding editor of e-flux journal, Brian Kuan-
Wood, with independent curator and SB13 interlocutor
Lara Khaldi; artist Noor Abuarefeh with her
novel commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation.Sharjah Biennial 13