What we perceive as real, the psychological nature of how we engage with objects and material, are running threads throughout the works of Nabuqi, Ranging from handmade sculptures to installations made from assembling readymades, there is a pull for the viewer to engage with detail and context, to be attuned to and reflect upon the spectrum between artificial and actual. As such, Nabuqi creates realms that prompt our understanding of the world around us and engage us in a play of spatial politics.

Nabuqi graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, and currently lives and works in Beijing. Nabuqi’s work has been widely exhibited in notable international exhibitions including: “NABUQI: ‘A Question is Also a Form of Sculpture’”, (M WOODS 798, Beijing, 2024); “Everything goes back to square one”, (West Bund Museum, Shanghai, 2022); “Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity”, (Asia Society Museum, New York, 2022); “Feeling the Stones: The First Diriyah Biennial” (2021); “Noire Lumière”, (HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, 2020); “Study of Things. Or A Brief Story about Fountain, Brick, Tin, Coin, Wax, Stone, Shell, Curtain and Body”, (Guangdong Times Museum, Guangdong, 2020); 58th Venice Biennale “May You Live In Interesting Times” (2019); “Cold Nights” (UCCA Art Centre, Beijing, 2017); “Absent Paragraph” (Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, 2017); and “Any Ball” (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 2017). She was nominated for the 2016 Art Sanya Huayu Youth Award.