Mongolian artists to participate at 56th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia

Mongolia's leading comtemporary artists Enkhbold and Unen-Enkh are to participate at 56th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia.

The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy.

89 National Participations will be exhibiting in the historical Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city of Venice. The countries participating for the first time in the Exhibition are Grenada, Mauritius, Mongolia, Republic of Mozambique, and Republic of Seychelles.

Enkhbold’s early interest in art was influenced by his parents, who introduced him to simple working with wood, and he began carving as a young teenager in the countryside. Recalling his fascination with carving, Enkhbold cherishes his memories of joyous satisfaction as he transformed the wood with his hands. Those unforgettably pleasant experiences led him in 2001 from his rural home to the city to enroll in a private art college first, then soon after transfer to the Institute of Fine Art, the best established and only public school of art (established in 1945), and to seek a career that was inconceivable to his parents at the time.

Artist Enkhbold's works have been displayed in distinguished museums and galleries in Mongolia, Finland, Great Britain, Korea, China and Hong Kong, curated by outstanding curators such as Johnson Chang, the founder of Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong, and Annu Wilenius from Finland.

Unen Enkh was born and raised in Mongolia. As the artist recollects, the foundation of his thinking through art was established in his early childhood. Both his parents had a critical impact in his development as they nurtured his taste for imaginative ideas and encouraged courageous free thinking, unusual during socialism. Showing a serious interest in art and drawing, in 1974 he went to the only public, state-run Institute of Fine Art. Unen Enkh studied graphic art. As part of an exchange between socialist countries, in 1981 Unen Enkh went to Eastern Europe to attend art colleges, first in Prague and then in Budapest, where he graduated with two degrees, a bachelor’s and master’s in art. His success in graphic art was quite obvious as several works received awards in 1985 and 1987 at the Graphic Biennale in Miskolc, Hungary. Although he continued to work in graphic art, his interest in other media and experimentation began in Budapest in the mid 1980s. Now he is based in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

Below is the schedule of Mongolia Pavillion at the Venice Biennale.

For more information: mongolia-pavilion-venice-biennale.com