• THE BIENNIAL

    LAM 360° (Land Art Mongolia | acronym LAM) is a biennial art festival located in Mongolia. LAM focuses on Land Art as a form of spatial visualization of the relations between nature, culture and social policies. It strongly promotes freedom of expression in joining people and institutions from all sectors of Mongolian society by meshing their respective backgrounds and perspectives through collaboration and networking actions of regional and global scope.
    By doing so, the organisation would like to incite an advanced discourse on cultural and social policy which will take up environmental and social sustainability with a strong emphasis on the most vulnerable sectors of society in Mongolia (such as: nomadic people | ethnic minorities | non-commercial cultural organizations and youth) in the broader perspective of cultural transformation in Central Asia.

    MNG 360° БАЙГАЛИЙН УРЛАГ МОНГОЛ is an Ulaanbaatar based independent, non-profit, contemporary art organization (NGO) with the purpose of raising awareness for issues as sustainability, nomadic culture, ecological decentralization and democracy by means of contemporary art as an impulse generator for civil society in Mongolia, with a main mission of promoting and realizing the Biennial Land Art Mongolia.

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  • BRIEF HISTORY OF LAM

    Since its first edition in 2010 Land Art Mongolia has taken place every two years in different regions of Mongolia, a fact that refers to the nomadic tradition of the country.

    This 1st Biennial, entitled walking museum was curated by R. A. Suri and took place in Baga Gazriin Chulu, in the Dundgobi. (a natural reserve near Mandalgovi about an 8 hour drive south of Ulaanbaatar). Two years later, in 2012, artists from 16 nations participated in the 2nd LAM Biennial in Ikh Gazriin Chuluu, under the title Art & Politics. Curators were Fumio Nanjo (Director Mori Art Museum Tokyo) and Berlin based independent curator Anna Brietzke. The 3rd Biennial, which took place in August 2014, focused on the theme Men & Animals, invited 24 artists from 14 different countries gathering in Orkhon Valley and was curated by Vera Tollmann, completed by an essay of Brian Holmes (lecturer & editor at documenta 2013). Under the title of "Catching the Axix – in between the sky and the earth”, the 4th Biennial took place in Daringanga, southeast Gobi, summer 2016. Entitled WHO ARE WE NOW the Biennial moved 2018 to Khnentii Aimag near Ondorhaan directed by London based curator Lewis Biggs

    Each Biennial venue was accompanied by a public symposium at the Academy of Science joining speakers from Mongolia and abroad, and by an exhibition at the National Mongolian Modern Art Gallery, both in Ulaanbaatar. LAM has published books and documentations on each edition of the Biennial. 2015 LAM hosted a presentation at Palazzo Zorzi (Palazzo di UNESCO at Venezia) during the opening of the 56th Venice Biennial. LAM art award holder Ganzug Sedbazar was invited to do a performance; the art prize was awarded for the first time 2014 for excellent work in Land Art. The performance was completed by a multimedia presentation realized with works from the Biennials and by an introduction to the project Мөрөн | The Mountain, by Marc Schmitz, founder of LAM.

    Since 2016, the activities of LAM have been expanded to include an international residency program and the Ulaanbaatar Public Art Week, which takes place in the years between the regular biennial (2017/2019 etc.). The Ulaanbaatar Public Art Week includes an international conference, public art interventions, exhibitions and various activities in the urban space of Ulaanbaatar.  UB ART WEEK booklet 2019

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