Exhibit displays the ‘Delights of the World’

The Culture and Art Development Foundation and Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association launched the “Delights of the World” exhibition on Tuesday, under the auspices of the Minister for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Ts.Oyungerel .
The exhibition is being held at 976 Art Gallery.

According to the organizers, the exhibition aims to support women artists and advertise their creations on the international and domestic market.

The exhibition displays around 70 artworks by 43 Mongolian female artists, including Mongolian State Honored Artist S.Sarantsatsralt, Mongolian State Merit Worker Ya.Oyunchimeg, D.Bulgantuya, D.Uurintuya, S,Tugs-Oyun, M.Bayarmagnai, and B.Andin-Erdene.

In her speech at the opening ceremony, the Minister for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Ts.Oyungerel , thanked the artists for their creations, saying that the artworks express artists “inner and outer spaces” and remarking that the exhibition will be long remembered.

At the ceremony, Minister Ts.Oyungerel awarded two artists, D.Badam and S.Tugs-Oyun, with the title of Leading Cultural Worker, a government prize awarded by the Ministry for Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Minister Ts.Oyungerel then announced the ‘Most Favored’ paintings in the exhibition: ‘My Hope,’ ‘Capricious,’ and ‘Dirty’, by Ya.Bulgan.

Artist Ya.Bulgan is the founder of the ANIMA Art Design School. She was born in Ulaanbaatar in 1966 and possibly inherited her talents in art from her grandfather, U.Yadamsuren, the Laureate of the State Prize and one of the most prominent artists of Mongolia. She was trained at the College of Art in Ulaanbaatar then went to the Soviet Union to study at the Leningrad State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture, graduating in 1992. In 1993 Bulgan became an art teacher at the Soyol School of Fine Arts and later taught at the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture. Since 2002 she has been the Director of the ANIMA Art Design School.

Ya. Bulgan has exhibited her artworks at the Exhibition Hall of the Union of Mongolian Artists since 1985. She has also participated in other group exhibitions held at the Nomadic Galley, ANIMA Art Design School. She has held six solo exhibitions: Retrospectaire-1 in 1995,Retrospectaire-2 in 1996, Retrospectaire-3 in 1998, Who am I in 1999, Anima-Mundi in 2000, and Wolf Children in 2008, all held in Ulaanbaatar.

She often depicts street children in her artworks. Her ANIMA Art Design School provides scholarships for children with disabilities and also those who lack financial resources.

The ‘Most Favored’ paintings, as judged by the visitors, were ‘Under the Auspicious Sky’ by D.Bulgantuya, ‘July’ by S.Sarantsatsralt, and ‘Who is Who’ by D.Uuriintuya.

Born in 1975, D.Bulgantuya is a professor of painting at the Department of Fine Arts of the Mongolian State University of Education, where she completed her master’s degree in Arts in 1999. Earlier, she studied at the School of Fine Arts at the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture, graduating in 1997. Since 2000 she has been member of Union of Mongolian Artists and in 2011 she became a Board Member. Her solo and group exhibitions began in 2002, with her works exhibited in local galleries such as Zanabazar Fine Arts Museum, the Exhibition Hall of the Union of Mongolian Artists, and the Khan Bank Gallery, and also internationally, with 10 exhibitions abroad in Asia, Europe and America. Her international exhibitions include, Mongolian Highlights 2004, in Vilnius, Lithuania; Mongolian Color 2004, in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland; Exhibitions of Mongolian Artists, in Beijing in 2005; Now Hero solo exhibition in Kofu, Japan; Le Vent Mongol in Saint Aivent, France; Great Mongolia, in San Francisco, USA, in 2006; and Migration, in San Francisco in 2008.

Born in 1962, Laureate of State Prize artist S.Sarantsatsralt is the one of the most well-known, leading, and influential contemporary artists of Mongolia. She has been an artist for the Monumental Decoration Factory for the past decade. She graduated from the College of Fine Arts in 1982 and completed a bachelor’s degree in painting at the School of Fine Arts, Mongolian University, in 1987.

Since 1991, her artworks have been displayed at more than 60 exhibitions, over 20 of which were solo exhibitions held in galleries such as the National Modern Art Gallery in Ulaanbaatar; the Gallery of the Art Academy in China; the UNESCO Center Hall in Paris, France; the Municipal Gallery in Saarbrucken, Germany; the Exhibition Hall of the Union of Mongolian Artists in Ulaanbaatar; the Green Horse Gallery in Ulaanbaatar; and the Kunsthalle in Zurich, Switzerland. She has participated in group exhibitions in Asia, Europe, America, and Australia, including the International Sculptors Triennial in Hungary in 1990; the International Sculpture event in Australia in 1995; the Expo-99 in 1998; the 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial in Japan in 1999; and the 2nd International Beijing Biennale in 2005. Besides her State Prize in 2005, S.Sarantsatsralt has been awarded the Union of Mongolian Artists prize twice. Her works are in the collections of notable organizations and individuals from over 100 countries.

A participant of three notable international Art Biennale, artist Uurintuya was born in 1979. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the School of Fine Arts at the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture in 2002 and with a master’s degree from the Mongolian State University of Education in 2006.

Uurintuya’s artworks have been displayed extensively both at home and abroad, in 25 exhibitions. She has participated in numerous joint exhibitions organized at the Exhibition Hall of the Union of Mongolian Artists. Internationally, she has exhibited her artworks through exhibitions such as Modern Mongolia in Japan in 2001; Art Expo USA, 2006; the Beijing Biennale 2008; Modern Mongolia at the Han Art Gallery in Hong Kong in 2010; Between Heaven and Earth, at the Contemporary Art Centre of Asia in London in 2011; Arsenal 2012, Kiev Biennial, Ukraine; Women in Between – Asian Women Artists 1984-2012,Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan; Shanghai 9th Biennial 2012; and Women in Between – Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, held at Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan, in 2013.

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