Yu Bogong
b. 1970, ChinaYu Bogong (b.1970, Inner Mongolia, China) works in Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Fuzhou, and Shaoguan Danxia Mountain. In the middle 1990s, he was one of the artists in the Avant-garde art movement in Yuanmingyuan artist village in Beijing. Yu Bogong’s artistic practices involve multiple forms, such as sculpture, installation, and drawing. In recent years, he focuses on projects of social engagement. Mobile Academy, Mobile Camp, Discovery-Library, are the three projects initiated from nature as the maternal perspective, focusing on a series of on-site educational practice.
Major solo exhibitions include: Fruit Cell, Magician Space, Beijing (2019); Aoluguya, Magician Space, Beijing (2013); Landing, Store & Space, Guangzhou (2013); _At This Present Momen_t, White Space Beijing, Beijing (2011); Cross the Riverbed, Magician Space, Beijing (2009); Heart Moves Before Body, Magician Space, Beijing (2008).
Selected group exhibitions and programs: The New Masses, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing (2018); Social Theatre: Participation and Sharing – the 5th Chongqing Biennale for Young Artists, Sichuan Fine Art Institute Art Museum, Chongqing (2017); Encounters – Art Sanya 2013, Sanya (2013); Das Ich Im Anderen, Mercator Foundation, Essen, DE (2011); Asian Landmark: Toyota Art Project, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2010). Selected programs: Mobile Academy, Xilamuren Grassland/Beijing (2018/2019); Mobile Arrow, Xilamuren Grassland/Danxia Mountain/Fuzhou/ (2017/2018); Mobile Camp, Urban- passing Spiritual Nomad, Fuzhou/Beijing/ Inner Mongolia (2017); YUBOGONG VODKA Art Project (2014/2016).
Text courtesy Magician Space.
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