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Timur Si-Qin is an artist and writer whose work imagines new protocols of spirituality in the face of climate change and biodiversity collapse. Born in 1984 Berlin, Si-Qin grew up in a German, Mongolian/Chinese and San Carlos Apache Native American family in the American Southwest. This unique blend of cultures and perspectives, combining indigenous upbringing with diverse global influences, deeply informs his work.

Si-Qin’s work often explores the concept of “New Peace,” the proposal of a post-secular faith that reestablishes the sacredness of nature in a contemporary globalized, and technologically saturated world. Using hyper-real renderings of wilderness and 3d printed sculptures, Si-Qin’s work challenges traditional distinctions between the natural vs. cultural, the human vs. non-human, the organic vs. synthetic. Through New Peace, individual works aggregate into a ecosystem of signifiers and distributed meaning systems, seeding new narratives for our relationship with the natural world in the 21st century.

His work has been extensively shown in solo exhibitions in Europe, the United States, and Asia, and was included in exhibitions at The High Line, New York; Schirn, Frankfurt; K11 Art, Shanghai; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Ullens Contemporary Art Center, Beijing; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and Kunsthalle Wien, among many others. He has participated in large-scale international exhibitions such as the Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok; Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennial, Saudi Arabia; Kunsttriennale Beaufort, Belgium; Riga International Biennial Of Contemporary Art, Latvia; Ural Biennale, Russia; 9th Berlin Biennale; Germany; and Taipei Biennial.