Yondonjamts lives and works in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and New York, USA.
EVENTS
New Subjectivities in Mongolian Futures [1]
Wednesday 5 September, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Arts Catalyst Centre, London, WC1H 8DR
£3, booking essential [1]
In-conversation: Tuguldur Yondonjamts & Denis Byrne [2]
Thursday 13 September, 12:30 - 2pm
UCL Dept. of Archaeology, London, WC1H 0PY
Free, booking essential [2]
Further events to be announced soon.
SUPPORT
The residency and exhibition is supported by Arts Council England and UCL Department of Anthropology's Tavan Tolgoi (Five Heads) project [4], which brings together the work of five anthropologists and five artists to respond to the dramatic rise and fall of Mongolia’s economy. Conversations and events will be co-organised between the two projects.
The programme is partly supported by UCL Institute of Archaeology (AHRC Heritage Priority Area).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tuguldur Yondonjamts (b. 1977) is a Mongolian artist who works with video, drawing and installation. His work is very much dependent on research and careful analysis of certain environments and materials, and it investigates physical and psychological space between tamed and untamed worlds. By using investigational logic, his videos and drawings are an outcome that comes from his travels, thinking about languages, distances and his continuous tries to communicate with the remote space. The nomadic culture of Central Asia is critical to interpreting Yondonjamts’s work. For him, these are symbolic endeavors, studying the issues affecting Mongolia’s society and economic development.
His solo exhibitions include Hibernating Tattoos Guarding the Sweat of the Sun, Richard Taittinger gallery, NYC, (2017); Between two giants, American Museum of Natural History, NYC, (2015); featured in exhibitions Tavan Tolgoi, Greengrassi gallery, London (2018); Is/Inland, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, (2018); Contemporary Art of Mongolia /6th edition, 976 Art Space, Ulaanbaatar (2018); Open Sessions #7, The Drawing Center, NYC (2016 and 2017), In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New, Sculpture Center, LIC (2016).
Links
[1] https://www.artscatalyst.org/new-subjectivities-mongolian-futures
[2] https://www.artscatalyst.org/conversation-tuguldur-yondonjamts-and-denis-byrne
[3] https://www.artscatalyst.org/workshop-infrastructure-fortune-extraction-and-resistance-led-mikhail-karikis-and-rebekah-plueckhahn
[4] https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/mongolian-economy/2017/09/04/toolkit-for-an-art-anthropology-exchange-tavan-tolgoi-part-1/