John Tain, the head of research at Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, will curate the third Lahore Biennale.
Opening in February next year, Tain says the show will consider themes of ecology and sustainable futures, with the curator referencing recent floods and agricultural disasters in Pakistan as well as the country’s urban pollution and social inequality.
This will be the first edition since 2020, which had Emirate curator Hoor Al Qasimi at the helm and displayed before the COVID-19 pandemic.
From 2007–2017, Tain was a curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, and his previous curatorial projects include Crafting Communities, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong (2020), which considered the history of Womanifesto, a feminist biennial programme active in Thailand from 1997 to 2008; Out of Turn, (co-curated with Meenakshi Thirukode), Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India (2018); Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago (co-curated with Jasmine Alinder), DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2018); and In Focus: Ed Ruscha (co-curated with Virginia Heckert), J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2013).
The Asia Art Archive features 120,000 art-historical records from across the continent.
