Group Exhibition
2025
Installation view
2025 Wisconsin Triennial
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Photos by Mariah Moneda
Solo Exhibition
2024
As I Fall Asleep to My Great Aunt’s Fable of a Herder Boy
October 25, 2024 - February 09, 2025
Woodland Pattern
Milwaukee, WI
What is a memory?
What is a gesture?
What is a tale?
What is remembering?
What is drawing?
What is a line?
What is a stick?
What is a pause?
What is an ear?
What is a faraway drift?
What is forgetting?
What is comfort?
What is discomfort?
What is never forgetting?
These are a few thoughts and questions cemented in the artist Nomka Enkhee’s mind, whether asleep or awake or neither. Divulging secrets and memories in this exhibition, she reveals tales, gossip, dreams, and stagnancy revolving memory. Drawing from her childhood in Mongolia, she seeks redemption and freedom, an obsessive recounting of oral history racing through her mind, especially at night. Through drawing and painting, she excavates memory into artifacts on paper, becoming literal translations.
Closing her eyes, she sees the bluest sky and the vastest mountains, listening closely, she can hear the stories again.
Solo Exhibition
2024Listen, there is a horse in my backyard.
July 26, 2024 - August, 23, 2024
Usable Space
Milwaukee, WI
PublicationAsleep
Published by Pharmacy Books
1. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V
2. counting fast
3. give me trouble
4. tick, tick, tick
5. endless ticks
6. running, running, running
7. cleaning, cleaning, cleaning,
scrubbing you away
8. the weight is so heavy my bones are so tired
howling past mountains
9. the dot is moving on the page, can you see
10. lift me
11. tick, tick, tick
all I see is the bulb on the ceiling
i can not look away
i can not remember
12. Emee is selling pine nuts
hulled through my teeth and in my mouth
13. arm extended circles
water does not spill
14. W, X, Y, Z
Asleep is a recollection, collection, collection, and collections of drawings scrounging through memories and manifesting as ticks, an exercise in control.
Sculpture
Installation view
People (Series), 2024
concrete, aluminum, found objects
Dimensions variable
Sculpture
Conversation Chairs, 2023
plywood, lacquer, polyurethane coat
47x18x15 in
Group Exhibition
2022
Installation view
Rites and Repetitions
Task
Milwaukee, WI
Group Exhibition
2021
Installation view
Wir leben auf einem Stern
Kunsthalle Mainz
Mainz, Germany
Solo Exhibition
2019
Installation view
Bingo Bingo!!
Bungalow Kunsthochschule Mainz
Mainz, Germany
performance duration
(1 hour 3 min)