Curriculum Vitae
| 27.10.1969 | Born in Daqing in Heilongjiang Province, China; lives in Braunschweig, Germany |
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Education
| 2005-2006 | Master studies under Marina Abramovic, Birgit Hein and Christoph Schlingensief as well as Michihiro Shimabuku at Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Braunschweig, Germany(HBK) |
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| 2005 | Diploma in Fine Arts at HBK, then Guest studies under Else Gabriel |
| 2000–2004 | Studies in Performance under Marina Abramovic; Film Studies under Birgit Hein at HBK |
| 1999–2000 | Studies in Performance and Film under Mara Mattuschka at HBK |
| 1998–1999 | Guest studies in Painting under Nobert Tadeusz at HBK |
| 1993–1998 | Freelance artist in Beijing (1993-1995 in Beijing East-Village) |
| 1996–1997 | Studies in sculpture at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts in Beijing |
| 1993-1994 | Studies in graphic design at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts in Beijing |
| 1991–1993 | Studies in Oil Painting and Mural Painting at the Central Akademy of Fine Arts in Beijing, initial teacher Yang Jianhua |
| 1989–1990 | Practical training as Technician in Daqing, China | 1989 | Graduation in Petroleum Exploration at the Northeast Petroleum University, China |
Exhibitions & Festivals
Solo exhibitions
| 2007 | “Performance-Painting” Galerie auf Zeit Braunschweig, Germany |
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| 2005 | “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”, Kunsthaus Erfurt, 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 “der rest ist bewältigung”, HBK Braunschweig, Germany “FRoots 2007 Festival”, Metelkova area in Ljubljana, Slowenien “Body & Eros”, Biennale in Venedig, Italy “Sommerfest”, Greenpeace in Berlin, Germany “Diverse Universe III”, Non Grata, Estland “DIE KINDER SCHWIMMEN.DIE KINDER BRATEN”, Kunstraum B in Kiel, Germany “Yingmei Duan – Performance im m&n”, Kolonie Wedding in Berlin, Germany “Liste Köln 2007”, Liste Köln 2007 in Köln, Germany “Inside out year of the pig”, Trocaadero London, England |
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| 2006 | “"IPG UNCENSORED ICONOGRAPHY" with Illy at Moroso”, Milan, Italy “International Chinese Live Art Festival”, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, England “Kaprow City” by Christoph Schlingensief, Volksbuehne Berlin, Germany “Drop Spot”, Kunstverein Celle im Schloss Celle, Germany “BoulevART”, Kunstherbst Berlin, Germany “Happy birthday”, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany “Akte Spuren Menschenbilder”, OKS Galerie Braunschweig, Germany “Gipfeltreffen”, Projektraum für aktuelle Kunst und Performance in Basel, Switzerland “Big River 3”, CCA7, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago “AREA 7 – Matthäusexpedition” by Christoph Schlingensief, Burgtheater in Wien, Austria |
| 2005 | “Commonplace”, ICEbox Cultural Centre 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 “Querfeldein”, HBK Braunschweig, Germany “Persistent and Gradual Loss of Self-Control”, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands “1. Performance Festival”, Schloss Salzau in Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany “I love computer”, Cebit Hannover, Germany “Kalte Küche” HBK Braunschweig, Germany |
| 2004 | “Re-Enact”, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands “Menschenbilder”, HBK Braunschweig, Germany “Nude with Skeleton”, MARTa Herford, Germany “The Retrospective Abramovic Class 1997-2004”, HBK Braunschweig, Germany “Braunschweiger Kulturnacht”, LOT-Theater Braunschweig, Germany “Real Presence 4”, Museum ‘25th of May’, Belgrade, Yugoslavia “Cleaning the House - Performance Loop”, Montenmedio Arts Contemporaneo, Cadiz, Spain |
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| 2003 | “Colours Nachwuchs-Filmfest”, Kino im Künstlerhaus Hannover, Germany “Braziers International Artists Workshop”, Oxfordshire, England “Recycling the Future”, Venice Biennale 2003, Italy “Performance in der Kunsthalle”, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany “As soon as possible”, PAC Milan, Italy |
| 2002 | “Body Power - Power Play2”, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany “Prêt_Á_Performance”, Viafarini Milan, Italy “Body Basics”, Franzenfestung, Brixen, Italy “16. internationales filmfest Braunschweig”, Braunschweig, Germany “Braunschweiger Kulturnacht”, LOT-Theater Braunschweig, Germany “Cleaning the House”, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea Santiago de Compostela, Spain “Common Ground#1”, Landesvertretungshaus Niedersachsen und Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin, Germany |
| 2001 | “Marking the Territory”, Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland “Get that Balance”, National Sculpture Factory in Cork, Ireland “Ovalen den frie udsillings bygning”, Copenhagen, Denmark “100 Selbstportraits”, Freistaat Vertretung Thüringen beim Bund Berlin, Germany “100 Selbstportraits”, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany “Durch die Zeit”, Kunstraum Zehn, Hannover, 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” (The collective works by the Beijing East Village artists) Los Angeles, Biennale in Venice, Hongkong and so on |
| 1996 | Qiran Galery, Beijing, China “Herbst Salon”, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany |
| 1994 | “2nd Joint Exhibition of Chinese Professional Painter's Works” Amana Galerie, Beijing, China |
| 1993 | “100 young artists”, Chinesisches National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China |