LAHORE.- The Lahore Biennale Foundation announced the appointment of Nav Haq as Curator for the fourth edition of the Lahore Biennale (LB04), which is planned to open in Lahore, Pakistan, in Spring 2027. 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 is a curator and writer based in Antwerp. He is currently Associate Director at M HKA — Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp — where he leads the artistic programme, and is an editor at Afterall journal. Haq has previously held curatorial positions at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Gasworks, London, and has organised many major monographic exhibitions. Most recently, he was part of the curatorial team for the itinerant Kyiv Biennial 2025 exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art Warsaw and M HKA respectively.

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 concerns guiding the forthcoming edition of the Lahore Biennale 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 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 Lahori, Punjabi, Desi, and Eurasian paradigms.

Nav Haq, Curator LB04, said: “The invitation to be curator of Lahore Biennale 04 is a special and humbling one for me. The biennale has become a pillar of the artistic scene in Pakistan and South Asia, as well as an important reference globally. And deservedly so. 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.”

Nav Haq is a curator and writer based in Antwerp, Belgium. He is presently Associate Director at M HKA — Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, where he leads the artistic programme, and is an editor at Afterall journal. His practice focuses on questions of coexistence, as well as forms for progressive internationalism in the context of the 21st century multipolar world, and how to embed them within institutional and curatorial reflection. He previously held curatorial positions at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Gasworks, London, and has organised many significant monographic exhibitions with artists including Otobong Nkanga, Shilpa Gupta, Haegue Yang, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Joseph Beuys and Laure Prouvost, amongst many others. Haq was curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2017 and Contour Biennial 2007, Mechelen, Belgium, and most recently was part of the curator team for the itinerant Kyiv Biennial 2025 exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art Warsaw and M HKA. At M HKA he also co-curated the group exhibition Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics (2014), curated the interdisciplinary exhibitions Energy Flash – The Rave Movement (2016) and MONOCULTURE – A Recent History (2020), and most recently The Geopolitics of Infrastructure – Contemporary Perspectives (2025). In 2012, he was recipient of the Independent Vision Award for Curatorial Achievement, awarded by Independent Curators International, New York.