Nabuqi, born 1984, in Inner Mongolia, China.

Focusing on both the physical and psychological nature of objects and materials, Nabuqi’s 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, on the other hand, assemble readymade and industrial materials – from mirrors, lamps and artificial plants to train rails and a life-size model of a cow – and creates enveloping settings in and around which the spatial politics of the active, viewing subject is delineated.

Nabuqi graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, and currently lives and works in Beijing. 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.