2026
Up to 236 Khadag, 108 bells
350 x 300 cm
On the way to the pool, a soft ringing can be heard. The sound is produced by long blue Khadags fitted with bells. These silk scarves are regarded in Central Asian and Tibetan Buddhist cultures as signs of respect, prayer, and connectedness. In Mongolian culture, blue Khadags symbolize the sky. They are ritually attached in nature — to trees, rocks, and springs — and in doing so often place a considerable burden on them. For her installation Vertical Communication II: Whispers Arise, Nomin Zezegmaa uses an already existing structure created the previous year as part of Haseeb Ahmed’s sculpture When the Wind Comes, the Walls Go (2025). Zezegmaa invites visitors to add Khadags and thereby leave behind a wish, a prayer, or a blessing.
About the artists
Nomin Zezegmaa (she/her), born in 1992, lives and works in Ulaanbaatar (MNG). Whether in sculpture, painting, drawing, calligraphy, land art, performance, or film, Zezegmaa engages with questions of materiality, spirituality, and cultural memory. Most recently, she exhibited, among other places, at Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, NL), Rietberg Museum (Zurich, CH), and Bukhara Biennial (Bukhara, UZB). In 2025, she received the art prize of the RAK Art Foundation, and in 2026 the Sovereign Art Foundation Vogue Women’s Hong Kong Prize.
Nomin Zezegmaa refers to Samira Hodaei’s installation An empty tablecloth (2022). Both works are connected by the use of ritual materials in relation to questions of community, memory, and the relationship between humans and the environment.
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TROPEZ
at Sommerbad Humboldthain
Wiesenstraße 1, 13357 Berlin
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Monday – Sunday
10.00 am – 6.00 pm
