Toleen Touq has been announced as the curator for the 20th edition of the MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain, which will take place in 2027.
Entitled The Long Now, the upcoming edition proposes a biennale shaped by duration, approaching time not simply as a framework for the biennale but both as its medium and method. The 2027 edition of MOMENTA will feature works of approximately 20 artists from around the world, unfolding throughout the year. The biennale will examine how the present is structured and experienced, addressing the temporal logics, affects and cultural politics through which it is produced.
In place of presenting exhibitions as fixed moments, The Long Now will develop as an evolving field of encounters in which meaning gradually takes form. The curatorial concept draws on the idea that time is experienced qualitatively rather than through linear progression. Moving away from the model of the biennale as a punctual event, the exhibition platform will function as a durational field that gathers practices and audiences over time.
Touq’s curatorial practice has long explored collective learning, relational spaces and experimental forms of gathering. Working between Amman and Toronto. She is the co-founder of Spring Sessions (2014-), an experimental residency and collective study programme frequently based in Amman. Her recent projects include, Notations for Living, a series of listening sessions at Darat al Funun (2025) and Palestine All The Time, a 24-hour performance, film and music programme at Gallery TPW in Toronto. Touq’s writings have been featured in journals and platforms such as Ibraaz Publishing, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas Journal, Manifesta Journal and more.
