Gwangju Biennale's UCCN Pavilion Debuts UNESCO Creative Cities Consortium Exhibition

The 16th Gwangju Biennale hosts the UCCN Pavilion, titled Mondiacult Scape: Nothing of the Cities is lost, at the Gwangju Media Art Platform (G.MAP). Roughly ten UNESCO Creative Cities have formed a new pavilion consortium, and this presentation marks its inaugural exhibition. The pavilion draws on the Mondiacult 2022 UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies, where representatives from approximately 150 countries declared culture a global public good and called for forward-looking agendas and concrete goals to realize that aim. According to the announcement, the Mondiacult Declaration reframes culture as no longer simply an economic development tool or political instrument; instead it occupies its own domain as a goal worth protecting in itself and as an independent policy field. The declaration also addresses cultural rights, described in the source material as the basic. The pavilion's title, Mondiacult Scape: Nothing of the Cities is lost, frames the survey around urban heritage. The exhibition is presented within the 16th edition of the Gwangju Biennale.