Shuree Sarantuya is media artist and activist based in Cologne, born and raised in
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Her practice engages with ethnic minorities, last nomadic tribes,
and Indigenous peoples in North, East, and Central Asia, employing artistic
research, nomadic knowledge systems, 3D software, and game engines.
Currently lecturer of expanded and experimental games at the Academy of
Media Arts Cologne.
Education
2012 – 2016
Film and Broadcasting Director, BA
State University of Culture and Arts, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2018 – 2024
Media Art, Diplom I
Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany
Work Experience
2017 – 2023
Freelancer
2D & 3D Animation, VR and XR Development
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Cologne, Germany
2024 –
Lecturer of Expanded and Experimental Games
Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany
Promotion
2024
Grand Art Prize 2024
Friends of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
"(Re)thinking the Media"
Sleepless Video Art Night
CIFRA x Art Night Venice
2023
Best Art
Digicon6, Golden Ger International Film Festival
Jury Prize
Animation-Installation
KUKAV 2023, Tuttlingen
Limited ART COLOGNE 2023 Kölsch Glass
Private Brewery Gaffel Becker & Co. OHG & ART COLOGNE
2020
DAAD Prize for Outstanding Achievements of Foreign Students
German Academic Exchange Service
Sponsorship Award for Young Students
Friends of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
2015
Best Animated Short Film
Golden Reel International Underground Film Festival
2008
Sponsorship Award
UNICEF Painting Exhibition
2007
Sponsorship Award – Best 100 Photographs of the Year
Canon & Gamma Agency of the National Photographers of Mongolia
2006
Sponsorship Award
Kanagawa Prefecture Artists' Association
Selected Screenings
2024
Curse of Staged Atavism
Gentle Tremor
Loop Festival 2024, CIFRA
Curse of Staged Atavism
Sleepless Video Art Night, CIFRA x Art Night Venice
Liminal Beings
Stuttgart Trickfilm International Animated Film Festival
2023
Liminal Beings
Digicon6 Asia
Liminal Beings
Montanha Mágica Festival
Liminal Beings
Animation Installation
KUKAV, Tuttlingen
Liminal Beings
Golden Ger International Film Festival
Liminal Beings
Film Showcase
Kabinett West Am Hafen, Cologne
2022
The Sleep
Prime Cineplex Mongolia
The Sleep
Cinema Galleggiante | Floating Cinema
2016
The Sleep
Playtime Music Festival
2015
Feature Film Exercise 1 & 2
Film & TV Education Exchange Project
Shanghai Theatre Academy
Solo Exhibition
2024
Liminal Beings and Curse of Staged Atavism
3-channel video installation
GLASMOOG – Room for Art and Discourse, Cologne, Germany
Group Exhibition
2025
Liminal Beings and Curse of Staged Atavism
Video installation · "The Aesthetics of Decline" – Cologne Congress 2025
Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, Germany
2024
Liminal Beings and Curse of Staged Atavism
Video installation · Cologne Design Prize 2024
MAKK – Museum of Applied Arts Cologne, Germany
Liminal Beings and Curse of Staged Atavism
3-channel video installation · Grand Art Prize 2024
GLASMOOG – Space for Art and Discourse, Cologne, Germany
2023
Liminal Beings
Video installation · ART COLOGNE, Hall 11.1, Stand D-001
Messe, Cologne, Germany
Liminal Beings
Video installation · Animation-Installation 2023
KUKAV, Tuttlingen, Germany
Red is a Color
Video installation · Leaky Archive, Not Allowed to Rot
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany
2022
Technonomad
Video installation · Annual Exhibition, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Trinitatiskirche, Cologne, Germany
2021
Vertical Poetry
Live design · Artvent Calendar – Door No. 22
Ebertplatz, Cologne, Germany
Technonomad
Video installation · Impulse Exhibition – jungekunstfreunde x STRÖER
Cologne Central Station / Cathedral Square, Germany
Technonomad
Video installation · KHM Open Digital CLPs Infoscreens
Breite Straße, Ehrenstraße, Schildergasse, Neumarkt, Cologne
Ethics of Mineral and Metal Consumption
Web art, installation · Impact: Art in Confrontation with Sustainability
Unikat, Witten, Germany
2020
Minimal Space
Experimental photography · Minimal Photography Exhibition
Case – Project Space for Photography, Cologne, Germany
2019
Unrast
VR installation · "On the Road – 8 Theatrical Miniatures on Restlessness"
Cologne, Germany
Juise
Mixed media installation · Chitrakatha International Student Festival
Vijayawada, India
URTS
VR installation (Catalogue)
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Elemental Intrusion
Animation mapping · Video Mapping Festival #2 – Opening Night
Lille, France
Filmography
2023
"Red is a Color"
10 min · Experimental 3D Video
Direction, Animation, Editing
"Liminal Beings"
12 min · Experimental 3D Film
Direction, Animation, Editing
"Bir Agac Gibi"
Short Film
Animation · Directors: Yonca Sicimoglu, Emma Externbrink
2022
"Before We Eat"
11 min · VR Short Film, Mixed-media Installation
VR Camera, Post-production · Director: Mikkel Haynes
2021
"Technonomad_MTV_Ep1"
18:51 min · 2D Animation and Video Art
Direction, Animation, Sound, Editing
2019
"Juise!"
8 min · 2D Animation, Mixed Media and Light Installation
Animation
"Elemental Intrusion"
02:48–03:34 min · Experimental Animation, Video Mapping
Animation
"The Book of the City of Ladies: Book 2, Chapter 7"
02:05 min · 2D Animation
Direction, Animation, Editing
"Sappho von Lesbos"
01:18 min · 2D Animation
Direction, Script, Animation, Editing
"Lilith"
03:34 min · Short Film
Animation · Director: Yonca Sicimoglu
2018
"Gavan gavan"
03:54 min · 2D Animation, Music Video
Direction, Animation, Editing
2016
"The Dream of Ridiculous Man"
02:51 min · 2D Animation, Music Video
Direction, Animation, Editing
"Triangle"
03:54 min · 2D Animation, Music Video
Direction, Animation, Editing
"Lebensvermittler"
07:58 min · 2D Animation
Direction, Script, Animation, Editing, Sound Design
"Sleep"
04:10 min · 2D Animation
Direction, Script, Animation, Editing, Sound Design
2015
"Project Egg"
12:10 min · Short Film
Editing · Director: Battulga. D
"Beautiful Flower"
14:09 min · Short Film
Editing · Director: Battulga. D
2014
"Urban Nomads"
06:52 min · Experimental Film
Direction, Editing
"Khel Khuur"
04:44 min · Music Video
Direction, Camera, Editing
"Inner Monologue"
05:13 min · Experimental Film
Direction, Camera, Editing · Director: Antschi von Moos
"Childhood Memory"
2 min · 2D Animation
Direction, Script, Animation, Editing