Born in the Mongolian steppes and based in Switzerland since 2007, Ulziibat Enkhtur is a multidisciplinary Mongolian artist, curator, and storyteller whose practice moves between contemporary dance, performance art, visual art, participatory installation, land art, and writing. Grounded in anthropology and civilization studies, her work explores the intimate relationship between nature, memory, ritual, and human consciousness through intuitive, contemplative, and site-responsive forms.

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In recent years, her practice has increasingly focused on international artistic exchange, socially engaged art, and performances created in remote natural landscapes. She is the founder of the Essence Performance Art Project, a nomadic collective of Mongolian and international artists developing site-specific works across Mongolia’s steppes, mountains, deserts, frozen lakes, and forests. Through improvisation, movement, storytelling, and ritual-based practices, the collective investigates the connection between body, land, and ancestral knowledge.

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Ulziibat is also co-founder of Neg-Uudel Mongolian Performance Art Group, an interdisciplinary trio combining Mongolian long song, movement, installation, and land art, as well as co-founder of OIR Art Hub, an independent platform supporting contemporary art, residency programs, and cross-cultural collaboration between local and international artists.

Through OIR Art Hub, she has initiated and curated numerous exhibitions, performances, and educational exchanges that expand the international visibility of contemporary Mongolian art.

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Most recently, she initiated and curates JAVAR International Art Residency, Mongolia’s first winter residency program, taking place in the Taiga region of Khuvsgul on a frozen lake in 2026. The residency brings together international and Mongolian artists to engage with extreme landscapes, ecological awareness, and experimental artistic practices rooted in slowness, endurance, and coexistence with nature.

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Her artistic philosophy is deeply informed by ancestral knowledge passed down from her nomadic grandmother in Mongolia’s Altai Mountains. This influence continues to shape a practice that honors the Earth as a creative, spiritual, and meditative force. Alongside her artistic work, she actively mentors emerging artists and artisans in exhibition development, portfolio building, and international collaboration.

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Ulziibat’s storytelling practice includes several Mongolian-language publications and the French-language children’s book Yaki and His Friends, which she co-authored. Her performances and collaborative works have been presented at festivals, cultural institutions, and independent art spaces across Mongolia, Switzerland, and internationally.

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Alongside her artistic practice, she founded Mongolian Handicrafts in Switzerland in 2010, a sustainable design initiative collaborating with Mongolian felt-making cooperatives and yak wool producers to preserve and promote nomadic craftsmanship through contemporary design and international exchange.