Nomin Zezegmaa (DE/MN) is a Berlin based multidisciplinary artist, designer, researcher and writer.
In her work, theory and practice deviate along a spectrum of elusive matter and non-matter by employing and exploring immaterial entities, digging into non-linear histories, embodied and experienced memory. The often sculptural and tactile works find fluid expression in an amorphous multiplicity of medium and material, where applied and unapplied arts meet on equal ground—with the urgency to blur and diffuse the rigid borders and boundaries between art, design, crafts and histories.
Thus the question of objecthood make transmutation, ambiguity and shape-shifting inherent signifiers in the mythopoeic story-telling of her practice through which she operates as a mediator and connector between realms of an ancient past, diasporic non-localities and Mongol cosmology—to imagine, fiction and speculate other potentialities, futures & world(beings).
• Recent exhibitions at Galerie Bart: Art Rotterdam 2023 • Transformations, Transmutations 2022
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Nomin Zezegmaa studied Fashion at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin between 2012 and 2014 and received her Bachelor’s Degree from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2020. Since 2018 Nomin has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions.
Her works have been on display at Het Hem in Zaandam, het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Rietveld Pavilion in Amsterdam and Prenzlauer Studio in Berlin. Nomin her work has also been on display various times in Mongolia such as; Red Ger Creative Space in Ulaanbaatar, The Endless Knot, group exhibition at Lkham Gallery and Spirit of Gobi: Consilience, group exhibition at Union of Mongolian Artists gallery, Ulaanbaatar. She has been nominated for the Autonomous Arts Award at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2020 and shortlisted for the Losito Art Prize in 2021.
She self-published several books and essays, amongst others ‘108’, in 2019 and ‘The Shamanic Gaze – An Investigation into Mongol Futurist Ways of Being’ in 2020.
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2021 •
15.12 Highsnobiety Here’s what these industry insiders think of Elesse Tailor’s upcycled collections by Ruhi Parmar Amin.
06.07 Fashion United Ellesse launches design programme for emerging designers by Daniëlle Wightman-Stone.
2020 •
30.08 Trendbeheer Graduation show 2020: Gerrit Rietveld Academie by Najiba Brakkee.
01.12 Km Magazine Lapis Lazuli—Nomin Zezegmaa over haar liefde voor lapis lazuli by Edith Rijnja.
2018 •
20.09 Yeoja Magazine #theWOCproject by Rae Tilly.
2015 •
24.11 i-D Magazine Nomin Zezegmaa by editor.