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Ying Mei Duan, China/Germany

 

Born in 1969, lives and works in Braunschweig.

Yingmei Duan is a curious observer who asks questions of all facets of life in order to continuously learn and develop. For the past twelve years she has concentrated her energy and creativity on making performance art and researching the medium.

Much of Yingmei’s performance art explores human instincts such as fear and desires. Various different themes inspire Yingmei and are reflected in her work including examining society and questioning its conventions and human behaviour.

Within her performances she crosses mediums and incorporates sound, video and installation. She often spontaneously develops performances as situational experiments. On the other hand she can also plan her performances with intense attention being paid to the last detail.

Besides her solo projects Yingmei loves to work with people from different cultures, ages and areas of life and has realized over 50 collaborative performances. Her artworks frequently in progress, and can stretch over long periods of time.

Born in China, Yingmei Duan is part of the Chinese avant-garde. She worked as a painter for many years living in the legendary art district of Beijing’s East Village. In 1995 she participated in the performance To add one meter to an anonymous mountain, which is considered to be one of the classics of Chinese modern art. She became a pure performance artist under the influence of Marina Abramović, with whom she studied at the HBK Braunschweig in Germany from 2000 to 2004. There, she also worked for one year with the filmmaker and action artist Christoph Schlingensief.

Yingmei Duan has made her name in numerous national and international exhibitions, festivals, residencies, lectures and workshops through her remarkable, thought provoking and emotional performance art.


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Yingmei Duan. Friend. © Yingmei Duan.

 

cornerYingmei Duan. Corner. © Yingmei Duan.


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Yingmei Duan. I Love Computers. © Yingmei Duan.





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Analia BELTRAN I JANES, Spain


Nadia CAPITAINE, France


Manuela CENTRONE, Italy


Chuyia CHIA, Singapore


Yingmei DUAN, China/Germany


Helinä HUKKATAIVAL, Finland


Magnus Logi KRISTINSSON, Iceland


Rita MARHAUG, Norway


Rainer PAGEL, Great-Britain


Tomas RULLER, Czech Republic


Joakim STAMPE, Sweden


Nenad BOGDANOVIC, Serbia


Gustaf BROMS, Sweden


LAN Hungh, Taiwan


Emilio ROJAS, Mexico


Guadalupe NEVES, Argentina


Mi ANDER, Germany


John COURT, UK/Finland


Bill AITCHISON, UK


Wathiq AL-AMERI, Iraq/Switzerland


Ali AL-FATLAWI, Iraq/Switzerland


Robert ALDA, Norway/Poland


Gustavo ALVAREZ, Mexico


Peter BAREN, the Netherlands


Chun Hua Catherine DONG, Canada


Anna KALWAJTYS; Poland


Omar GHAYATT, Egypt/Switzerland


Pekka KAINULAINEN, Finland


Katri KAINULAINEN, Finland


Nigel ROLFE, Ireland


Neung Kyung SUNG, South Korea


Jaeseon MOON, South Korea


HE Liping, China


CHEN Yufei, China


Guadalupe MARTINEZ, Argentina/Canada


Sinnikaä TÖRMÄLÄ, Finland


Inari VIRMAKOSKI, Finland


Regina FRANK, Germany


XI Jianjun, China


Chongmin BAI, China


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