Bekhbaatar Enkhtur

Bekhbaatar Enkhtur (b. 1994, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) lives and works in Turin, Italy. His practice focuses on sculpture and site-specific installation, working with malleable materials such as clay and beeswax alongside aluminum engravings. Drawing on mythologies and traditions from Mongolia and the broader regions of Central and East Asia, he references ancient Central Asian sculptural methods to create zoomorphic figures that balance strength and fragility. Crafted from materials prone to deterioration, his sculptures maintain a delicate tension toward the ephemeral, foregrounding gesture and process. By testing matter and its limits, Enkhtur addresses themes of transience, transformation, and rebirth, challenging conventional notions of permanence. His work highlights the interconnectedness between human and abstract living forms, evoking ancestral memory and emphasizing shared vulnerability to temporal processes of change within a space of coexistence. His work has been presented at the Bukhara Biennial (2025), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2025), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, 2024), and PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, 2024), among others. He is the recipient of the illy Present Future Prize (2023) and the Special Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize (2023/2024).