The reborn of Nomadic Spirit in modern form.
Bayin Foundation
Who we are
The Bayin Foundation is dedicated to preserving, revitalizing, and reimagining nomadic cultural heritage through cultural exchange and international creative collaboration.
Inspired by the nomadic worldview, rooted in movement, oral tradition, and deep ecological knowledge; the foundation serves as a platform for dialogue between communities, institutions, and disciplines.
Through partnerships, research, and shared cultural initiatives, the foundation seeks to celebrate the richness of nomadic traditions while exploring their continued relevance as a source of inspiration for future ways of living, making, and connecting.
7 Grange Road, Singapore
About Us
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The Bayin Foundation, initiated and developed by the Bayin Mengke Investment Group, is based in one of Singapore’s iconic black-and-white colonial houses. More than a platform for promoting MongolYuan culture, the Foundation carries a deeper mission — to share and evolve Bayin Mengke Culture.
Bayin Mengke Culture is a cross-temporal philosophy rooted in Mongolian heritage and shaped by modern civilization. It embodies the freedom, rhythm, and spiritual depth of the grassland, while embracing openness, creativity, and a global perspective from contemporary society. Through this fusion, it transforms tradition into a forward-looking cultural innovation.
The Foundation stands as both a tribute to history and a pathway to the future. With art, education, and cultural dialogue at its core, it fosters the meeting and coexistence of diverse civilizations, allowing the nomadic spirit to be reborn in modern form and to generate new cultural value on the world stage.
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The BaYin Arts Foundation (BAF) is supported by the BaYin Mengke Group, based in Erdos, Inner Mongolia, China, with its headquarters situated at a newly established cultural site and financial infrastructure anchored in Hong Kong SAR. Through this financial and cultural foundation, BAF seeks to connect Erdos to the world by developing projects that engage artists whose practices are rooted in the nomadic spirit and those based along the Silk Road Belt or inspired by its legacy.
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The nomadic spirit is both a way of life and a way of thinking. Rooted in the vast grasslands of Erdos, it reflects a deep relationship with movement, adaptability, and coexistence with nature. It values resilience, fluid identity, and communal strength over permanence or possession. To us, the nomadic spirit is not defined by borders but by a continuous search for connection; across cultures, disciplines, and landscapes. It honors tradition while embracing change, and it inspires us to build cultural frameworks that are open, mobile, and alive.
A Constant Exploration of Three Themes
Manifesto
To live freely, one must sometimes exile oneself.
To build the future, one must sometimes burn the map.
Nomadism Is Not the Past—It’s a Philosophy of the Future
These migrations were never just about survival.
They were movements of culture, language, song, technology, and cosmology.
Nomadic life crossed borders long before nations drew them—
and in doing so, challenged the illusion that civilization must be rooted to flourish