Warsaw Institute for Modern and Contemporary Asian Art Foundation

09/04/2026

Following Lebanon’s declaration of a day of mourning, we express our solidarity and demand that all parties act in accordance with international law.

We are saddened by yesterday’s deaths of innocent people.

wimcaa team

03/04/2026

Easter brings a message of hope and renewal 🌿

May its joyful spirit bless you with happiness and peace🕊️

Happy Easter to you and your loved ones🥚

WIMCAA Team & GAAB Community

28/03/2026

Before the main event this year, we begin presenting some of the national pavilions worth seeing in Venice

Qatar is opening a new, permanent national pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale in Venice, designed by architect Lina Ghotmeh

The pavilion marks the first new location in the historic Giardini complex in over 30 years and showcases Qatar’s commitment to cultural dialogue and architecture.

Located in the Giardini della Biennale, specifically in the Spazio Esedra, near the Book Pavilion designed by James Stirling, the pavilion was designed by Paris-based, Lebanese-born architect known for her passion for humanist architecture.

The pavilion will serve as a permanent space for temporary exhibitions that highlight Qatar’s artistic and architectural contributions to the international arena.

It will explore themes of hospitality, resilience, and collective dreams rooted in the MENASA (Middle East, North Africa, South Asia) region.

This initiative is in line with the cooperation protocol between and the Municipality of Venice.

Untitled (a gathering of remarkable people)

Rirkrit Tiravanija
Sophia Al Maria
Tarek Atoui
Alia Farid
Fadi Kattan .f.kattan

Commissioner: Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Curators: Tom Eccles, Ruba Katrib

28/03/2026

22/03/2026

Before the main event this year, we begin presenting some of the national pavilions worth seeing in Venice.

Syrian artist Sara Shamma .shamma.artist (b. 1975, Damascus), Syria will represent Syria at the 61st Venice Biennale (May 9–November 22, 2026) with a solo exhibition titled „The Tower Tomb of Palmyra,” curated by Yuko Hasegawa.

graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Damascus in 1998 and has received numerous international awards, including Fourth Prize at the BP Portrait Award (London, 2004), and First Prize at the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize (Australia, 2008), among others.

Yuko Hasegawa is a curator and art critic. She is Research Professor at the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, and Professor Emerita at Tokyo University of the Arts.

Located at the Università Iuav di Venezia’s Cotonificio campus, The Tower Tomb of Palmyra is an immersive installation inspired by the ancient destroyed, yet historically significant, funerary towers of Palmyra. The immersive installation explores memory, loss, and resilience using painting, light, sound, and scent.

This pavilion marks a significant return for Syria to the Venice Biennale, with a shift to a single-artist format to showcase a message of hope and cultural heritage protection

Commissioner is Waseem Abd Alhameed Director of Fine Arts at the Syrian Ministry of Culture
Venue: Università IUAV Venezia (University Institute of Architecture of Venice), Cotonificio, Dorsoduro 2196 

20/03/2026

Eid Mubarak 🌙🕊️

Artwork by .mansour
Woman with a Pigeon, 2013

20/03/2026

Nouruz Pirooz 🪻🍎

We extend our warmest wishes on the occasion of the ancient Zoroastrian spring festival, known as

May the energy of the new year give strength and faith to the nations that face foreign aggressors.

Artwork by Farrukh Negmatzade
Nouruz
80 cm x 100 cm
2025

A painter and graphic artist born in 1959 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute.

is a member of the Union of Artists of

18/03/2026

Before the main event this year, we begin presenting some of the national pavilions worth seeing in Venice.

Artist Nilbar Güreş will represent Türkiye at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2026), curated by Başak Doğa Temür . Nilbar Güreş (b. 1977 Istanbul ), a versatile artist working in painting, photography, video, installation, and performance.

In the curatorial statement, Başak Doğa Temür introduces the exhibition with the following words:

“The exhibition unfolds through spatial relationships rather than a linear narrative. Works remain close to the ground, lean, hang, or hover. Instead of guiding the viewer from one work to the next, the exhibition invites them to slow down and become aware of their own bodily position in relation to the space and to others. Moving through the exhibition becomes a negotiation between distance and proximity, vulnerability and resistance.”

The exhibition will run from May 9 to November 22, 2026, at the Arsenale venue. Organizer and a coordinator is the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye.

The Türkiye Pavilion .venice exhibition is supported by co-sponsor Trendyol Art, Turkish Airlines and production support of SAHA Association
The Vehbi Koç Foundation is providing publishing support for the preparation of the exhibition catalogue.

17/03/2026

Before the main event this year, we begin presenting some of the national pavilions worth seeing in Venice.

We begin with a presentation of the Mongolian pavilion.

This year, curators Uranchimeg Tsultem and Thomas Eller present „Entanglements: Connectivities Across Borders,” featuring artists Nomin Bold .nomin Gerelkhuu Ganbold Tuguldur Yondonjamts and Dorjderem Davaa

„Set in Venice—a city historically linked to thirteenth-century figures such as Marco Polo and Pietro Veglione, both of whom forged key alliances with the Mongol Empire—the Pavilion draws a compelling arc between imperial-era networks and the present-day climate of geopolitical division. In doing so, it offers a counter-narrative grounded in shared histories and creative resilience. In alignment with the Biennale Arte 2026 theme, La Biennale di Venezia In Minor Keys, the exhibition invites audiences to consider art as a conduit for dialogue and connection across time and borders.”

Organizers:
Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism, and Youth of Mongolia
BlueSun Contemporary Art Center of Mongolia .cacm
The Biennale Foundation of Mongolia
Commissioner: Baigali Ochkhuu .ochkhuu

Exhibition: May 09 - November 22, 2026 / Venice, Italy

15/03/2026

We mourn the passing of Professor

This renowned Turkish historian, whose father belonged to the Crimean Tatar Mirza nobility and whose mother belonged to the Karachay-Cherkess dynasty, was born on May 21, 1947, in the Vorarlberg region, in the Bregenz refugee camp, Austria.
When he was two years old, Türkiye became his new homeland.
He died on March 13, 2026, in Zeytinburnu, Istanbul, Türkiye.

From 2005 to 2012, he served as director of the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul.
He was a long-time professor at Ankara University .uni and an honorary professor at the Gumilyov Eurasian National University

Thanks to him, history became part of the public domain and intercultural dialogue.

We express our condolences to his family and friends.

08/03/2026

Today,

On the we celebrate the strength, courage, resilience, and all the incredible, beautiful and powerful women everywhere! 🌍 🌏 🌎

That day, The Frequency School releasing the afrobeats version of “195”.
Our President is among those incredible women, and represent

Let us stand in solidarity with all women who suffer from war, hunger, violence and oppression.

Let’s make this world a better place together 💪

Happy International Women’s Day 🌷

25/02/2026

Today marks the 31st anniversary of ’s death.

Nejad Devrim was born on July 1st in Istanbul, Turkey, and died on February 26th in Nowy Sącz, Poland.

He lived in turbulent times.
Nejad witnessed firsthand the destruction of Warsaw, the capital of Europe, which, razed to the ground by the Germans after World War II, was still rising from the ashes.

When he first came to Poland with his first wife, , in 1959, the capital lay in ruins, and artistic life flourished like Paris.

He was a thinker, and humanist who remains undiscovered and unexamined.