{"id":862327,"date":"2026-08-20T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862327\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:00:11","slug":"mariam-elnozahy-to-curate-2nd-ulaanbaatar-biennale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862327\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariam Elnozahy to curate 2nd Ulaanbaatar Biennale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Mariam-Portrait-_-Louise-Helmfrid-1230x1845.jpg\"   alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"Figure__Image-fcctl-2 sKXqu\"\/>Mariam Elnozahy. Photo: Louise Helmfrid<\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography__Paragraph-takw91-2 cxinL\">Mariam Elnozahy has been named the chief curator of the second edition of the Ulaanbaatar Biennale, slated to run 3\u201330 June, 2027<\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography__Paragraph-takw91-2 cxinL\">Elnozahy is a curator, researcher and writer whose interests span histories of globalisation, development and resource extraction. Since 2023 she has been artistic director of Konsthall C in Stockholm. Prior to this she served different roles at the Townhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art in Cairo and Ma3azef Magazine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography__Paragraph-takw91-2 cxinL\">The title of the upcoming biennial Love Songs for Mountains takes inspiration from a multidisciplinary research project by one of the edition\u2019s participating artists Zahra Malkani, whose Noorani Metal Sound (2026) traces oral traditions of devotion and environmental resistance in Pakistan. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artreview.com\/author\/artreview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ArtReview<\/a><a class=\"article__ArticleFooterCategory-sc-7i165q-15 ikkLrq\" href=\"https:\/\/artreview.com\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>August 20, 2026artreview.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mariam Elnozahy. Photo: Louise Helmfrid Mariam Elnozahy has been named the chief curator of the second edition of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-862327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}