GERMANY AS GUEST IN MONGOLIA ART CAMP MONGOLIA & EXHIBITION ULAANBAATAR
From July 25 to August 11, artists from Germany and Mongolia will meet at Art Camp Mongolia in the steppe of Bulgan province. Without electricity, water or internet, they will live together in traditional yurts near a nomadic settlement between Ulaanbaatar and Kharakhorum. The intense shared experience of nature contrasts with the artists' usual form of movement as individual urban nomads. During their stay, they will visit historical, archaeological and sacred mountains in the Mongolian steppe.
The exhibition at the Zanabazar Museum in Ulaanbaatar marks the end of the two Art Camps and brings together the experiences gathered during the German-Mongolian summer of 2024. Experiences in the Bavarian cultural landscape and the Mongolian steppe contrast with modern jet-set nomadism and the effects of man-made climate change. The exhibition examines whether resilience can be found in the re- spective cultural attitudes and imprints of the different cultures, which can be activated for a changed ap- proach to resources.
The Zanabazar Museum houses a collection that ranges from shamanic-tengric artifacts from the Bronze Age to lamaistic ritual masks and thangkhas to modern Mongolian Zurag paintings. The eponym Öndör Geegen Zanabazar, 1635 - 1523, was the first spiritual leader of Gelupa Buddhism in Mongolia and the most important artist, architect, poet and scholar of his time.
