Greetings From Venice
Celebrating Nomin Bold at the 2026 Venice Biennale
Entanglements: Connectivities Across Borders
Chief Curator: Dr. Orna Tsultem | May 9 - November 22, Venice, Italy
The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is now underway, and we are honored to share images from the Mongolian National Pavilion featuring work by gallery artist Nomin Bold.
The exhibition, Entanglements: Connectivities Across Borders, brings together the work of four contemporary Mongolian artists, Nomin Bold, Gerelkhuu Ganbold, Tuguldur Yondonjamts, and Dorjderem Davaa, whose artistic practices explore the enduring legacies of cultural exchange and connectivity across Eurasia. Positioned against an increasingly fragmented global landscape, the exhibition reflects on historical pluralism, ecological interdependence, and the resilience of nomadic worldviews.
Transporter. 2026, Textile, mixed technique installation, glass beads. 170 x 260 x 150 cm.
Transporter. 2026, Textile, mixed technique installation, glass beads. Detail
Inspired by Buddhist teachings of the cyclicality of life and death, Nomin has worked on the theme of Transporter since 2020. Nomin approaches death not as the end, but as another state of existence. Skeleton guardians, borrowed from the Vajrayana Buddhist protective deity Citipati, line the vessel, which acts as a vehicle between life and death, presence and absence, and the visible and invisible worlds.
Incorporating forms reminiscent of Venetian gondolas, along with glass beads sourced from Italy, and combining them with the textile art native to Mongolian nomads creates a dialogue between Mongolian traditions and Venice itself. Much like pigments, textiles, and ornamental patterns once signaled transregional circulation along historical trade routes, Nomin's contemporary materials mark present-day networks of movement and influence. Nomin's practice mirrors the very processes it reflects upon: transmission, adaptation, and transformation across time and space.
Curated by Uranchimeg Tsultem and Thomas Eller, the Pavilion invites viewers to consider how art serves as a vessel for dialogue across geographic, cultural, and temporal borders. In doing so, Entanglements positions contemporary Mongolian art within broader global and decolonial conversations, foregrounding shared histories and creative exchange.
This year’s Biennale unfolds amid a particularly charged political atmosphere, as discussions and protests surrounding participation, representation, labor, and institutional responsibility have become increasingly visible across Venice. Highlighting the ways contemporary art continues to intersect with global and political realities. Economic, cultural, and emotional repercussions of war, displacement, and political instability are no longer isolated within a country’s borders. Expanded global networks, transportation, and social media have created an increasingly entangled world in which conflict, outrage, solidarity, and political movements rapidly extend and evolve beyond their points of origin, shaping not only international relations and economies but also the atmosphere in which global cultural events like the Biennale take place.
Event Horizon, 2022. Fabric, Mixed Media. 230 cm x 200 cm.
Nomin Bold (b. 1982, Mongolia) is a multidisciplinary artist, trained and specialized in Mongolian traditional painting, Mongol Zurag. Bold studied visual arts at the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture in Ulaanbaatar. Her work is inspired by questions about the nature of tradition and how it can be subverted, transfixed, and transformed by modernity. Bold’s oeuvre brings an unexpected combination of heterogeneous visual elements full of detailed references and symbols. Utilizing Buddhist imagery and historical symbolism amid contemporary commodification to explore generational tension and tradition in a global era.
The Gallery has represented Nomin Bold since 2020, presenting her first solo US exhibition in 2021 and, most recently, a two-person exhibition, Chasing the Wolf, with Bataarzorig Batjargal.
Bold’s work has been exhibited internationally at the Documenta 14 in Germany; the Bangkok Art Biennale; the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Brazil; the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at QAGOMA in Australia; the International Art Biennial in Turkey, and the Shenzhen–Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale in China.
The Vital Spirit, 2023. Mixed Media, 47.5 x 62.5 x 5 cm