Tögöldör Yondonjamts
The Ver Gallery invites art lovers to immerse themselves in the poetic and magical world of the Mongolian artist at the exhibition 'The Princess Who Loves Wolves,' which will run until April 25. This information is provided by MiddleAsianNews.
The exhibition features works that prompt viewers to reflect on the boundary between the tamed and wild worlds.
These pieces serve as a figurative exploration of the interconnections between life, language, myths, and dreams, with animals becoming an important source of inspiration.
The exhibition includes works in various techniques—from artist books and paintings to sculptures, video installations, and sound works. Using a semi-fictional translation process based on ancient Mongolian script, animalistic art, binary code, and the English language, the artist merges human experience with invisible realms.
The central concept of the exhibition is the rethinking of the names Sara and Connor as "princesses" and "wolf lovers," which forms the main theme of the display. Significant works are also presented, such as "Falcon" (2011), exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum, and "Snake," which is his longest project, developed since 2015, and is part of the Kadist collection. The 49-year-old artist views the creation of works as a process of imaginative exploration, often integrating maps, field notes, narratives, and symbolic elements into his visual systems.
Tögöldör Yondonjamts explores language, myth, memory, and the invisible forces that shape the world, both human and non-human. Working in genres such as drawing, video installation, sculpture, and artist books, he creates complex visual systems based on careful research and observations of the environment and social context.
The nomadic culture of Central Asia is an important foundation for his creativity. Tögöldör investigates the relationship between the tamed and wild worlds, reflecting social transformations and economic development in Mongolia while remaining in a poetic and speculative context.
Time, distance, and interaction with remote or invisible spaces are constantly present in his works. Weaving facts with fantasy, Tögöldör creates visual systems that blur the boundaries between science and myth, reality and fiction. His interest in the animal world adds a new dimension to his work, where animals act not merely as objects of observation but as "agents" with their own languages and meanings. This allows for the examination of relationships between humans and animals as an ontological and ecological inquiry, opening new horizons for coexistence.
Tögöldör holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in New York, USA.
His works have been featured in international exhibitions, including the Ulaanbaatar Biennale, the Museum of Natural History of Mongolia (2025); Embodied Archive at the Singapore Art Museum (2024); 2Day in Mongolia at the Zanabazar Museum (2024); Heilung der Erde at the Düsseldorf Art Gallery (2024); and Open World at the Thailand Biennale in Chiang Rai (2023). Notable solo exhibitions include Itshehe around the Step Trench Excavation at the Mongolian National Art Gallery (2023); "Geography Separated from the Poem" at The Berkshire, Reese & Paul Galleries, Indianapolis (2021); and "Artificial Nest Capturing the King" at Arts Catalyst, London (2018). In 2026, he was selected to represent Mongolia at the 61st International Art Exhibition — Venice Biennale.
