Mongolia | OiR Art Hub 2026
OiR Art Hub has launch an open call for EASTWARDS, a nomadic residency across Eastern Mongolia’s steppe (Khentii–Dornod–Buir Lake–Menen), inviting 10–15 artists to engage with art, ecology, and spatial awareness through a mobile, collective journey from 20 July to 1 August 2026.
The residency invites artists to slow down, observe, listen, and rethink artistic practice through movement, landscape, silence, and collective experience. The steppe becomes a studio, a research site, and a space of reflection.
Participants are encouraged to engage through observation, writing, sound, image-making, conversation, performance, research, and site-responsive practice. More than finished outcomes, the residency values openness, curiosity, sensitivity, and the desire to experience the journey deeply.
Residency themes:
- Nomadic culture & ecology
- Landscape and perception
- Movement, migration & orientation
- Silence, rhythm & spatial awareness
- Human and non-human coexistence
- Contemporary art within open environments
Eligibility
Artists, researchers, creatives, and anyone interested in art, ecology, landscape, and nomadic culture are welcome to apply.
The fee includes:
- Airport pick-up and drop-off
- Transportation throughout the residency journey
- Food and accommodation during the trip
- Organisation and residency coordination
- Visits to local art communities and artist studios
- City tours and exhibition visits in Ulaanbaatar
- Participation in the final group exhibition in Ulaanbaatar
Accommodation conditions will vary throughout the journey. Participants may stay in tents, nomadic yurts, guesthouses, or tourist camps, depending on location and travel conditions. The residency emphasises shared experience, mobility, and collective engagement over comfort or institutional formality.
A limited number of reduced-fee places may be considered for emerging artists or participants with financial need.
OiR Art Hub 2026 application guidelines
Deadline: 25 June 2026