Mongolia
Entanglements: Connectivities Across Borders
Commissioner: Commissioner Sainbayar Surenkhuu, Senior Advisor to the Minister of Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth of Mongolia
Curators: Uranchimeg Tsultem, Thomas Eller
Exhibitors: Gerelkhuu Ganbold, Dorjderem Davaa, Nomin Bold, Tuguldur Yondonjamts
Venue: Squero Castello, Salizada Streta 368
Featuring multimedia works by four leading Mongolian contemporary artists – Nomin Bold, Gerelkhuu Ganbold, Tuguldur Yondonjamts and Dorjderem Davaa – the Mongolia Pavilion explores the historical and cultural entanglements across Eurasia, where the Mongols were important agents. Drawing on new scholarship in global art history, the pavilion reimagines Mongolia not as a fixed geography but as a dynamic space of exchange, inclusion, and transformation.
Set in Venice – home to 13th-century figures like Marco Polo and Pietro Veglione, who forged key alliances with the Mongols – the pavilion bridges imperial-era networks with today’s climate of division, offering a counter-narrative rooted in shared histories, cross-cultural thinking, and creative resilience.
The four artists, each a celebrated and a prominent voice in Mongolian contemporary art, explore shared themes and concepts, such as cyclicality of life and death, invisible realities, Eurasian mythologies, nomadic cosmologies with the focus on religious tolerance, material exchange, and the porous boundaries between humans, nonhumans and landscapes — values long embedded in Mongolian culture.
The pavilion contributes a vital voice to the Biennale’s theme highlighting Mongolian artists’ role in turbulent times for a connected world.