ABOUT PROJECT
Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association is planning to open the first Mongolia Pavilion at Venice Biennale from May to November 2015. This will the first historical Mongolian show at the most prestigious international art biennale. The association is working to raise the fund to organize this event. The funds raised through this campaign will go directly to cover the artist’s and staff's travel expenses, international transportation costs, the pavilion space, other fees incurred in Venice and the production of publication that will ensure the Mongolia Pavilion gets the attention it deserves. Our goal is to raise 200,000 USD.
We truly believe that this campaign will unite many people all around the world for exposing unique Mongolian contemporary art to the worldwide audience, and prove that Mongolian art is worth of being shown.
ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ART IN MONGOLIA
Mongolia opened its doors to the world in 1990 after seven decades of socialist regime. After a decade of transitional economy, Mongolian contemporary artists search at personal and societal levels what it means to be a Mongol in a globalizing world. Many Mongolian artworks of the new generation suggest a different shift in the efforts of identity building in contemporary Mongolia – different and distinct, yet representative of transitional time in society in the holistic sense. As Mongols are “inextricably linked with environment”, this shift exposes a new type of power relations with the environment, and therefore the ways of constructing their own power for survival. (Text by Art Curator Ts.Uranchimeg)
