General Information
Red Corner is a collaborative program between Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association and Art Space 976+, initiated with the aim to bring art closer to the residents of the Ger districts of Ulaanbaatar city. As part of this initiative the Red Corner International Artist Residency was established in 2021, with the support of the Goethe Institute, Germany. Started with the creative community development projects, the residency has expanded its focus, offering two additional programs, designed for artists and other art practitioners around the world. See below information on all 3 residency opportunities.
Residency in Ger District of Ulaanbaatar city
For those who want to spend longer time in Ulaanbaatar city, the program offers residency situated in the courtyard of Magic Land II, Community Center, in the Uliastai Ger District area of Bayanzurkh district (11 km from the city center), which is an unusual sub-urban neighborhood of Ulaanbaatar city, surrounded by residential houses and gers of recent rural migrants. Ger (often called yurt) is a round-shaped traditional Mongolian housing with a cone-like roof, covered by felt under canvas, which is used for thousands of years as a dwelling by nomads in the steppes of the country. The residency encourages artists to be engaged with the creative community activities, artistic events, and workshops in collaboration with local artists and the Community Center. Since 2022, the residency accommodated artists from Japan, USA, Australia, France, China, Czeck Republic, and Mongolia. The residency offers an opportunity for artists to experience a neo-nomadic, minimal lifestyle by living and working together in a traditional nomadic dwelling called “Ger”.
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A Journey through Time and Space” a nomadic residency program
The residency has launched “A Journey through Time and Space” a unique two-week nomadic residency program for art practitioners around the world, offering an opportunity to explore the contemporaneity and the ancient living tradition coexisting today in Mongolia. The program offers participants specific areas for research, including the contemporary art scene in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar and an extraordinary nomadic lifestyle and wilderness in the countryside of Mongolia.
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Nomad Spirit International Program
In 2024, in partnership with EUNIC member organizations, the Red Corner launched the Nomad Spirit International Program. The first edition of this fully funded program was implemented outside of Ulaanbaatar city, in Deren Soum of Dundgobi province, a small village in Gobi area, involving 8 artists from Finland, Austria, Germany, France and Mongolia. The 2025 edition is upcoming and open call will be announced soon.
See details of the PAST PROGRAM.