LB04 Curator Announcement

The Lahore Biennale Foundation is excited to announce Nav Haq as the curator for the fourth edition of the Lahore Biennale (LB04).

Following the overwhelming success of the previous edition of the Lahore Biennale, Of Mountains and Seas, curated by John Tain, LB04 will present new commissions, large-scale installations, and discursive programming across a range of public, historical, and civic venues in the city.

Nav Haq noted, “The invitation to be curator of Lahore Biennale 04 is a special and humbling one for me. A long-established metropole for art and culture, Lahore is a city that has both deep historical resonance and contemporary vitality. Lahore Biennale has succeeded in creating a critical space that brings these particularities together for reflecting on Lahore’s place in the 21st century. I’ve had the privilege of engaging with the city’s unique energy over time through both familial and professional ties, and I’m looking forward to working with the Lahore Biennale team to build upon its extraordinary contribution to the cultural and intellectual life of Lahore.”

Haq’s practice is grounded in values of coexistence and progressive internationalism, developed in response to the conditions of an increasingly multipolar 21st century world, and in exploring how these values can be embodied by institutional and curatorial reflection. This approach closely aligns with the Lahore Biennale Foundation’s ethos of justice, inclusivity, and social transformation.

The forthcoming edition of the Lahore Biennale will focus on the vitality of society and culture across borders, emphasising the unique capacities of culture to generate new solidarities, alliances, and dialogues. In proposing a new progressive culture-oriented internationalism, LB04 will seek to utilise Lahore’s position as a crucial node of global society as a place from which it can articulate its own worldview and space of exchange across different paradigms.

Nav Haq is currently the Associate Director at M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium.