Yingmei Duan

Yingmei Duan (段英梅, born October 27 1969 in the People's Republic of China) is a concept artist, performance artist, installation artist and video artist. She lives in Braunschweig, Germany.

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. Until 1998 she worked in China freelance.

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

During her study in Germany she participated in several 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). These influenced her development, as did 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).

Solo exhibitions include the 26 performances of the exhibition in the OKS gallery(26 days in OKS). In her exhibition „Playing with 14 rooms“ 2005 she connects performance and installation.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2005-2006

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

2003

• “26 days in OKS” OKS Galerie Braunschweig, Germany

1996

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

1995

• “Duan Yingmei - Peking” KunsthausErfurt, Germany

Group exhibitions

2007

• „Hweilan International Artists Workshop“ Hualian, Taiwan
• „International Chinese Live Art Festival“, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, England
• „BoulevART“, Kunstherbst Berlin, Germany
• „Kasseler Kunstvereinsheim“ Kunstverein Kassel, Germany
• „kunst...hierundjetzt“, das Kunstfest der offenen Ateliers in Braunschweig und Region, Germany
• „FRoots 2007 Festival“, Metelkova area in Ljubljana, Slovenia
• „BODY & EROS“ la Biennale di Venezia 2007, Italy
• „DIVERSE UNIVERSE III“, Non Grata, Estland
• „Inside out year of the pig“, Trocaadero London, England
• „Yingmei Duan – Performance im m&n“, Kolonie Wedding in Berlin, Germany
• „Sommerfest“, Greenpeace in Berlin, Germany
• „Liste Koeln 2007“ Messegelände in Köln, Germany

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 Basel, Switzerland
• “Big River 3”, CCA7, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

2005

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

2004

• “Re-Enact”, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• “[...] with Skeleton”, MARTa Herford, Germany
• “The Retrospective Abramovic Class 1997-2004”, HBK Braunschweig, Germany
• “Real Presence 4”, Museum ‘25th of May’, Belgrad, Jugoslavia
• “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, Italy
• “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

Art works

• Yingmei's [...] body, performance, 2007
• Performance-Painting, concept performance painting installation, 2007
• HBK - my last lesson, concept performance installation, 2006
• Akte Spuren Menschenbilder, performance, 2006
• Dreaming in the forest, performance, 2006
• Playing with 14 rooms, installation performance, 2005/2006
• HBK - my love, performance installation, 2005
• Sleeping in Van Gogh museum, performance, 2005
• Paradise, performance installation, 2005
• I love computer, performance, 2005
• In between, performance, 2004
• Patience, performance, 2004
• Sleeping, Performance, 2004
• 26 days in OKS, concept performance, 2003
• Little secret, performance, 2003
• Friend, performance, 2003
• Sleepwalker, performance, 2002
• Talk to myself, videofilm, 2001
• Clown, performance, 2001
• My future, performance, 2001
• Old water, Performance, 2001
• To add one meter to an anonymous mountain, performance, 1995

External links

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

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