'The idea of this exhibition — and book — comes from the consideration that the geographical area of these countries is, in fact, a historically unique territory, its destiny indissolubly linked to its historical and cultural situation: around these places there took place, and still takes place, what since the 19th century has been known as "The Great Game" for supremacy in the Middle East and Central Asia. A tangle of political, economic, religious, and social situations also finds an expression and interpretation in the art produced in these places, and it is this that the exhibition proposed for the Venice Biennale hopes to show through the work of some fifty artists working in the region and who are particularly aware of social-political questions.
Curated by Marco Meneguzzo and by Maxdak Faiznia, the exhibition demonstrates the centrality of this question and how it is perceived and reestablished by an international public through the language of contemporary art.' —back of the book.
Onsite
Lida ABDUL, 
Bani ABIDI, 
Adel ABIDIN, 
Farhad AHRARNIA, 
Nazgol ANSARINIA, 
Reza ARAMESH, 
Mahmoud BAKHSHI-MOAKHAR, 
Wafaa BILAL, 
Mehdi FARHADIAN, 
Monir Shahroudy FARMANFARMAIAN, 
Furat al Jamil, 
Shadi GHADIRIAN, 
Shilpa GUPTA, 
Ghasem HAJIZADEH, 
Pouran JINCHI, 
Amar KANWAR, 
Riyas KOMU, 
Farideh LASHAI, 
Mehrdad MOHEBALI, 
Ahmad MORSHEDLOO, 
Huma MULJI, 
Omolbanin Shamsia Hassani, 
Jamal PENJWENY, 
Imran QURESHI, 
Sara RAHBAR, 
Rashid RANA, 
T.V. SANTHOSH, 
Vahid SHARIFIAN, 
Walid SITI, 
Mitra TABRIZIAN, 
Parviz TANAVOLI, 
Newsha TAVAKOLIAN, 
Sadegh TIRAFKAN, 
Hema UPADHYAY, 
English
perennial exhibition,  Iran,  India,  Afghanistan,  Iraq,  Central Asia
2015
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catalogue
The Great Game - Marco MENEGUZZO
The Great Game: The New Great Game - Mazdak FAIZNIA
The Great Game: Art, Artists and Culture from the Heart of the World

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