Since 2015, the Red Hero platform has considered itself the representative of artistic life in Mongolia. The project, which manifests a kind of tension between the desire to preserve traditional Mongolian culture and arts while opening up internationally, reflects changes on a national scale in economic, social and political life.
“Red Hero” is the literal translation of the Mongolian capital’s name, Ulaanbaatar (Ulan Bator), renamed in 1924 after the national hero and communist leader Damdin Sükhbaatar, who put an end to theocratic rule in favor of a people-led government. His journey to Soviet Russia in 1920 became one of the leitmotifs in contemporary Mongolian art…
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