Mongolia 360 °
The Land Art Biennale ( LAM 360 ° / Land Art Mongolia Engl.) Is a Land Art event in Mongolia . The Biennale was founded in 2006 with a symposium in Bor-Öndör in the Gobi and takes place every two years at different locations in Mongolia, whereby the differences in the vegetation and climatic conditions of the different landscapes become particularly clear.
Land Art Mongolia, which took place in August 2010, was dedicated to the topic of sustainability. Twenty international and five Mongolian artists were selected from around three hundred submissions from twenty-three countries to respond to the Gobi landscape with their plans. The curator of the first biennial (2010) is art critic RA Suri, who lives in Shanghai and Beijing ( People's Republic of China ).
In addition to the Land Art event in the Gobi, the Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery in Ulaanbaatar is presenting a documentation exhibition with photographs, installations and drawings of the works of art. A trilingual catalog (German / English / Mongolian) with artist statements and photographs documents Mongolia 360 °. An accompanying symposium parallel to the exhibition deals with the topics of public space versus free space , the development of multilateral art projects and the political conditions of sustainability - each organized by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung .
The Land Art Biennale is a multilateral project in terms of design, planning and financing. The peculiarity of this cultural event lies not only in the specific location in the Gobi desert as a kind of 'spatial' metaphor of the relative independence of the Land Art art form from economic aspects of the art market, but above all in the fact that topics can be addressed through this experimental art form that allows a unique observation from diverse perspectives on political discourses in the metropolises. Viewpoints from a wide variety of interest groups come together here. It was only through the integration of a broad layer of social groups that the symposium accompanying the 2010 Biennale was not only able to address a connection between art and politics, but also to stimulate a direct exchange of different perspectives and perspectives. This attempt at a crossover between politics and art was received with great interest in Mongolia and, in its cultural and political explosiveness, is linked to the most interesting art projects worldwide.
organizer
Since 2012 MNG 360 ° (MNG 360 ° БАЙГАЛИЙН УРЛАГ МОНГОЛ) has been a registered organization (NGO) in Mongolia based in Ulan Bator with the aim of promoting the development of Land Art. Supporting institutions include a. the Prince Claus Fund, the Foreign Office , the Goethe Institute , Soros Foundation , Artfacts.net, Berlin Senate, the German Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian Embassy in Berlin and private sponsors; artistic director Marc Schmitz .
history
The idea for an independent Land Art event in Mongolia was initiated by the artists Sereeteriin Dagwadordsch and Marc Schmitz in 2006. in August 2006 a Land Art Symposium was held in Bor Undur in the Gobi, at which the Mongolian artist Sh. Chimeddorj , Sereeteriin Dagwadordsch, D. Batzorig , Ch. Boldbaatar , Ch. Batzorig , Dolgor Ser-Od , Marc Schmitz, D. Burda and D. Dulgan took part. The results were exhibited in August 2006 in the gallery of the Union of Mongolian Artists under the title Land Art Mongolia / Transitory Operations . The first international Land Art Biennale took place 4 years later in August 2010.
After the successful inauguration of the Land Art Biennale 2010, the special features of this event were highlighted in numerous publications. A broad, Mongolian and international network of interested people and institutions from the field of art and politics encouraged the continuation and development of the Biennale. Art Asia Pacific (NY) named the Biennale the most important cultural event in Mongolia in 2010 in its annual almanac. Art Network Asia (Singapore) developed a research dossier on the Land Art event. In 2012 Mongolia 360 ° was presented at the World Biennial Forum in Gangju (Korea).
1st Land Art Biennial
The biennale took place from August 8, 2010 to October 25, 2010.
Participating artists were:
- Anibal Catalan, Mexico
- Asaki Kan, Japan / UK
- Batzorig Dugarsuen, Mongolia
- Beatrice Catanzaro, Italy
- Cheng Ran, China
- Khimmeddorj Shagdarjav , Mongolia
- Dolgor Ser-Od , Mongolia / Germany
- Sereeteriin Dagwadorsch , Mongolia
- Guido Canziani Jona, Italy / Germany
- Huang Rui, China
- Kim Young-ik, South Korea
- Lap Yip Wing, China
- Lea Rekow, USA
- Karin van der Molen, Netherlands
- Marc Schmitz , Germany
- Nicole Dextras, Canada
- Sabina Shikhlinskaya , Azerbaijan
- Michael Straub, Germany
- Su-Chen Hung, Taiwan / USA
- Shinji Turner Yamamoto , Japan / USA
- Tan Xun, China
- Tony Ng, Hong Kong (China) / Germany
- Michael Müller, Germany
2nd Land Art Biennial
The 2nd edition of the Land Art Biennale Mongolia 360 ° took place from August 6th to August 31st, 2012. Location: National Mongolian Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar and Ikh Gazarin Chuluu, Gobi (approx. 300 kilometers south of Ulaanbaatar). Curators: Fumio Nanjo (director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), Anja Brietzke (independent curator, Berlin). Topic: Art & Politics - Contemporary art as spatial politics against the background of the emerging urbanism in Mongolia.
The 2012 Biennale continues the Art & Politics discourse as the artistic theme of the 2012 Biennale, with a particular focus on the further development of the Biennale's international reputation. To this end, a group of international experts worked out possible key topics in the summer of 2011, which were discussed at a symposium accompanying the exhibition at the Academy of Sciences in Ulan Bator in August 2012.
Participating artists:
- Maro Avrabou (GRK)
- Luis Camnitzer (URY)
- Shagdarjav Chimeddorj (MNG)
- Thomas C. Chung (AUS)
- Bruce Conkle (USA)
- Blane De St. Croix (USA)
- Batzorig Dugarsuren (MNG)
- Eya Gangbat & Nomad Wave art group (MNG)
- Sungpil Han (KOR)
- Marne Lucas (USA)
- Anna Macleod (IRL)
- Michael Müller (GER)
- Kingsley Ng (HKG)
- Irene Pätzug (GER)
- Marc Schmitz (GER)
- Max Hoppe Schneider (USA)
- Dolgor Ser-Od (MNG)
- Jessica Segall (USA)
- Dagvadorj Sereeter (MNG)
- Hye Kyung Son (KOR)
- Maik Teriete (GER)
- Natsuko Uchino (JPN)
- Marcus Vinícius (BRA / ARG)
- Haiyuan Wang (PRC)
- Dimitri Xenakis (GRC)
- Paola Yacoub (LBN)
- Tuguldur YondonYamts (MNG)
