Person
Artist
Nabuqi
娜布其
Date of birth
1984
Place Of birth
Inner Mongolia, China
Biography
Born 1984 in Inner Mongolia, Nabuqi graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, and is currently living and working in Beijing. With her interest in materiality and interstitial spaces, Nabuqi is recognised as one of China's most interesting installation artists. Focusing on both the physical and psychological nature of objects and materials, her work deals with the relationship between the sculptural objects and the bodily and explores human perceptions in either confrontational or immersive spatial contexts. Her bronze or aluminium sculptures propose anew the independence of the hand-made, sculpted object, and emphasise its evolving relationship with the bodily in the age of the anthropological. Her installations assemble readymade and industrial materials from mirrors, lamps and artificial plants, to train rails, and a life-size model of a cow – creating enveloping settings in and around which the spatial politics of the active, viewing subject is delineated. Her recent exhibitions include 58th Venice Biennale (Venice, 2019); Cold Nights (UCCA Art Centre, 2017); Absent Paragraph (Museum Beelden aan Zee, 2017); Any Ball (Central Academy of Fine Arts, 2017), The 11th Shanghai Biennale (2016) and the 10th Gwangju Biennale (2016). She has been nominated for the 2016 Art Sanya Huayu Youth Award.
