Thomas Eller is co-curating the Mongolian pavilion. The exhibition, entitled "Entanglements: Connectivities Across Borders," features works by Dorjderem Davaa, Gerelkhuu Ganbold, Nomin Bold, and Tuguldur Yondonjamts.
Curator:
Uranchimeg Tsultem is a scholar of Mongolian art and currently Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair in International Studies and Associate Professor at Indiana University's Herron School of Art and Design.
She received her Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley (2009), she taught at Berkeley, and universities in Mongolia, South Korea and Iceland. She is the foremost Mongolian curator active internationally since 1993. Her recent monograph “A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia (Hawaii UP) received an Art Book award from Leiden, the Netherlands.
Uranchimeg Tsultem curated the first ever Mongolian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale (2015). Her career started with the exhibition “Eternal Sky: Reviving the Art of Mongol Zurag” at the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley (2009). “Modern Mongolia: From Steppe to Urban Dynamics.” Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong (2011); Ulaanbaatar City Pavilion, 9th Shanghai Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (2012); “Mongol Zurag: The Art of Everyday,” SAPAR Contemporary, New York (2019); “Mongol Zurag: The Art of Resistance,” Garibaldi Gallery in conjunction with the Venice Biennale (2024).
Co-Curator:
Thomas Eller is a curator and art manager. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the German magazine and later the executive manager Germany for artnet (2004 – 2008), artistic director of Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin (2008/9), president of RanDian art magazine (2014), founder of Gallery Weekend Beijing (2017), artistic director of the Taoxichuan China Arts & Sciences project in Jingdezhen, as well as associate researcher at Tsinghua University Beijing (2019-21). As a curator he has been working with artists from China, Central Asia and Mongolia: “The 8 of Paths – Art from Beijing” (2014), “Forming Communities, Berliner Wege, 道法柏林-而游于外。“, KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022), “Tengri, Zoroaster, Feminism and Other Nomadic Tales. The Art of Three Generations of Artists from Post-Soviet Central Asia” (2022), “Symphony of All the Changes” – the 7th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art (2022), “Mongolia – The Post-Nomadic Experice” (2024); “2day in Mongolia, The Fine Art Zanabazar Museum, Ulaanbaatar (2024)
