Short Biography
Yingmei Duan was born on the 27th October 1969 in China. She works as an artist in performance, installation and video in Braunschweig.
Yingmei Duan belongs to the Chinese Avant-garde, which positioned itself in the 90's in the artist colony East Village in Beijing. 1995 she participates in the famous performance „To add one meter to an anonymous mountain“.
To develop herself artistically, she goes to Germany on 1998. 2006 she finished her Postmaster studies with Marina Abramović, Birgit Hein and Christoph Schlingensief at the “Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste Braunschweig”.
Since 1993 she has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, festivals and workshops, e.g. Braziers International Artists Workshop in England 2003, 1st Performance festival in Salzau 2005, etc. Likewise she has taken part of multiples exhibitions from the IPG (Independent Performance Group), curated by Marina Abramovic, e.g. PAC Milan 2003, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 2005 and the Venice Biennale 2007.
Yingmei Duan's performances, installations and videos deal with aspects from the daily life: memories, fears, longings and dreams.
Site-specific she develops and changes experimentally her concepts, e.g. 2003 she realized during one month different performances in the solo exhibition “26 days in OK”; 2005 she connected performance and installation in the solo exhibition “Playing with 14 rooms”; 2006 she created performances that communicated with the other exhibited works of the group exhibition “Excellent” in dialogue with other artists; 2007 she researched the media performance and painting in the solo exhibition “Performance-Painting”, where she interprets performance pieces into painted canvasses.