Yingmei Duan

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Yingmei Duan (* October 27, 1969 in the People's Republic of China) is a chinese Performance artist. She lives in Braunschweig, Germany.

Contents 1 Short Biography 2 Art works 3 Exhibitions 3.1 Solo exhibition 3.2 Group exhibition 4 links

[edit] Short Biography

After her study in Petroleum Exploration in China she began to work as a freelance artist for several years. From 1993 to 1995 she was artistically active in the East Village in Beijing. „To add one meter to an anonymous mountain“ is one of the most well-known performances, in which she participated in. Until 1998 she works in China freelance.

To develop herself artistically, she went to Germany in 1998. Until 2006 she studied performance at Marina Abramovic, Film at Birgit Hein „Kunst in Aktion“ and at Christoph Schlingensief at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste in Braunschweig and finished her Master in 2006.

During her study in Germany she participated in a multiplicity of IPG exhibitions organized by Marina Abramovic (e.g. „Recycling the Future“ at the Biennale in Venice 2003; „Persistent and Gradual Loss of Self control“ in Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 2005) influenced her development and also the workshops „Cleaning The House“. Likewise the participation in numerous national and international exhibition, projects, and workshops (e.g. Braziers Internationally Artists Workshop in England 2003). There was lots of exchange of experience among artists from all over the world and interesting community projects were developed. She could take up important impulses through a co-operation with other artists, which positively affected her own artistic work.

Besides she could present her artistic work in single exhibitions, whereby the 26 performances of the exhibition in the OKS gallery(26 days in OKS) in Braunschweig were very important; In the single exhibition „Playing with 14 rooms“ 2005 sie connects performance and installation.

[edit] Art works

The aspect in Yingmei's performances and performance installations comes from her daily life: Memories, fears, longings, dreams. She is often to be seen as sleeping or dreaming, the arranged elements in her environment give symbolic References. The audience can actively take part in the Performances and performance installations, experience her melancholy world. At the same time they confront with whole personal wish and fear.

Since 2003 Yingmei in her performances and performance installations experiment with time, with Changing, with space, with the changing of space, with the space of time.

[edit] Exhibitions

[edit] Solo exhibition

2005-2006

• “Playing with 14 rooms” Galerie auf Zeit Braunschweig, Germany
• “Bedroom 07. 11. 2005 - 02. 08. 2006” Juliusstr. 17, 38118 Braunschweig, Germany

2003

• “Yingmei Duan – Performance” OKS Galerie Braunschweig, Germany

1996

• “Bilder aus Peking” Galerie am Prater, Berlin, Germany

1995

• “Duan Yingmei - Peking” KunsthausErfurt, Germany

[edit] Group exhibition

2006

• “"IPG UNCENSORED ICONOGRAPHY" with Illy at Moroso”, Milan, Italy
• “International Chinese Live Art Festival”, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, England
• “Drop Spot”, Kunstverein Celle im Schloss Celle, Germany
• “BoulevART”, Kunstherbst Berlin, Germany
• “Happy birthday”, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany
• “Gipfeltreffen”, Projektraum für aktuelle Kunst und Performance in [[Base[[]], Switzland
• “Big River 3”, CCA7, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

2005

• “commonplace”, ICEbox Kulturzentrum in Beijing, China
• “PLATTFORM #2”, Kunstverein Hannover, Deutschland
• “Aiwa International Artists Workshop”, Aley, Lebanon
• “Von Angesicht zu Angesicht”, Der Offene Kunstverein e.V. Potsdam
• “Gifted generation”, Hebbel-Theater, Berlin, Deutschland
• “Persistent and Gradual Loss of Self-Control”, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Niederlande
• “1. Performance Festival”, Schloss Salzau in Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Deutschland
• “I love computer”,Cebit Hannover, Deutschland

2004

• “Re-Enact”, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• “Nude with Skeleton”, MARTa Herford, Germany
• “The Retrospective Abramovic Class 1997-2004”, HBK Braunschweig, Germany
• “Real Presence 4”, Museum ‘25th of May’, Belgrad, Jugoslavien
• “Cleaning the House-Performance Loop”, Montenmedio Arts Contemporaneo, Cadiz, Spain

2003

• “Colours Nachwuchs-Filmfest”, Kino im Künstlerhaus Hannover, Germany
• “Braziers International Artists Workshop”, Oxfordshire, England
• “Recycling the Future”, Biennale in Venedig, Italien
• “Performance in der Kunsthalle”, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
• “As soon as possible”, PAC Mailand, Italy

2002

• “Body Power - Power Play2”, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
• “Prêt_Á_Performance”, Viafarini Mailand, Italy
• “16. internationales filmfest Braunschweig”, Braunschweig, Germany
• “Body Basics”, Franzensfestung Brixen, Italy
• “Cleaning the House”, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• “Common Ground#1”, Landesvertretung Niedersachsen und Schleswig- Holstein, Berlin, Germany

2001

• “Marking the Territory”, Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
• “100 Selbstporträts”, Freistaat Vertretung Thüringen beim Bund Berlin, Germany
• “100 Selbstporträts”, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany
• “Yingmei Duan und Finn Richardt”, Birkrod Kunstforenning, Denmark

2000

• “Cleaning the House” Domaine de Kerguéhennec, France
• “Wer hat Angst vor Roger Whittaker?”, Städt. Museum Zwickau, Germany

1999

• “Bilder und Skulpturen”, Niedersächsisches Umweltministerium Hannover , Germany
• “Yingmei Duan und Finn Richardt”, Schlossgalerie Eichhofen, Germany

since 1998

• “To add one meter to an anonymous mountain” (eine kollektive Arbeit von zehn Künstlerinnen aus dem Künstlerdorf East-Village in Beijing), Los Angeles, Biennale in Venedig, Hongkong usw.

1996

• Qiran Galerie, Beijing, China
• “Herbst Salon”, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany

1994

• “2nd Joint Exhibition of Chinese Professional Painter's Works”, Ammonal Gallerie, Beijing, China

1993

• “100 young artists” China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

[edit] links

• Yingmei Duan persönliche Website
• Independent Performance Group Seite über die Künstlerin bei IPG (englisch)