Mariam Elnozahy appointed Chief Curator of the 2nd Ulaanbaatar Biennale
The Ulaanbaatar Biennale in Mongolia announced the appointment of Mariam Elnozahy as chief curator of its second edition.
Titled, “Love Songs for Mountains,” the Biennale will take place 4-30 June, 2027, in sites across Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Mariam Elnozahy is a curator, researcher, and writer. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of Konsthall C in Stockholm, where her program “Sacred Spaces” invites artists to address questions of religion and society.
Previously, she worked at the Townhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art in Cairo and Ma3azef Magazine. She has also curated exhibitions in London, Copenhagen, Oslo, Uppsala, Amsterdam, and Jeddah and ran workshops in Tunis and Tangiers.
Her programs often address histories of globalization, development, and resource extraction. She also works to support artists at various stages of conceptualization and artistic
production. Her writing has been published in CURA Magazine, Frieze Magazine, The TLS, Markaz Review, Hyperallergic, and MadaMasr. She was in residency at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL from 2022-2023 conducting research in the archive of Royal Dutch Shell.
She holds a masters degree from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“I'm honored and excited to be appointed curator for the next Ulaanbaatar Biennale. I'm inspired
by the contemporary artists working in Ulaanbaatar across mediums - painting, sound, installation, and more - and look forward to learning from them and others working in this context. I'm eager to bring these practices into dialogue with artists from different regions as
well.”
The title “Love Songs for Mountains” is credited to Artwork, Noorani Metal Sound, 2026, by artist Zahra Malkani, one of the featured artists in the Biennale’s next edition.
Main Image: Mariam Elnozahy, Chief Curator of the 2nd Ulaanbaatar Biennale
Photo Credit: Louise Helmfrid