Gantuya Badamgarav

Curator, Founding Director of Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Gantuya Badamgarav is a curator with a background in macro-economic policy. She founded 976 Art Gallery and the Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association, curating over 100 exhibitions both in Mongolia and abroad, including four editions of the Mongolia Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale (2015–2022). She has collaborated with documenta, Gwangju Biennale, and the Asia Pacific Triennial to promote Mongolian artists internationally.

In 2021, she established Red Corner – International Artist Residency, and in 2024, co-launched XAOS – International Festival of Experimental Music and Visual Art. Her work bridges traditional Mongolian culture and contemporary art, including A Temporality (2019), an experimental sound project supported by the Goethe International Co-Production Fund. She continues to develop interdisciplinary and transnational projects.

 

Dragonfly

Step into a poetic world where solitude stimulates transformation and self-realization. Inspired by Ulziitugs Luvsandorj’s evocative poetic flash fiction Marriage with Dragonfly, this multidisciplinary exhibition blends sound, vocal textures, and mystical surroundings to explore identity, spirit, and transformation.