段英梅 · Yingmei Duan

Curriculum Vitae

27.10.1969 Born in China; lives in Braunschweig, Germany

Education

2005-2006 Master studies with Marina Abramovic, Birgit Hein and Christoph Schlingensief at Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Braunschweig, Germany(HBK)
2000–2004 Studies in Performance with Marina Abramovic; Film Studies with Birgit Hein at HBK
1993–1998 Freelance artist in Beijing (1993-1995 in Beijing East-Village)

Exhibitions & Festivals

Solo exhibitions

2008

Yingmei Duan in Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö, Sweden

2007

“Performance-Painting”, Galerie auf Zeit Braunschweig, Germany

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

2015

“Infr‘action Venezia 3“, Venice, Italy

“Streiflichter“, 50 Jahre Kunstverein Celle, Germany

“Schönheit!?” Galerie auf zeit, Braunschweig, Germany

“Die Gelber Gefahr“, Milchhof, Berlin, Germany

“Die Gelber Gefahr“, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany

“(CON)TEMPORARY”, Month of Performance Art, Berlin, Germany

“The ‘Art of Encountering’”, Paersche Aktionslabor, Cologne, Germany

Malerkapelle am Elm Königslutter, Germany

2014

“You Imagine What You Desire”, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Australia

“OPTIMISM”, Office of Contemporary Chiense Art(OCCA), Oxford, UK

“PRESENT TENSE SERIES I”, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

“The Artist is an Explorer”, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

“Double Vision: The Culture China Overseas Chinese Women’s Invitational Exhibition”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

“Mother's Tongue“, Universum Theater, Helsinki, Finland

”Guangzhou Live 5“, Xiaozhou cun, Guangzhou, China

“EMERGE, Art14“, Hanmi Gallery, London, UK

“perFORM.Performance in der Stadt: antiform“, Königswinter, Germany

Zuflucht von der Sehnsucht des Paradieses“, Ahrenshoop, Germany

2013

“DIGITALIVE”, Guangzhou, China

“MIPAF-2013”, Macau, China

“GUANGZHOU LIVE 4”, Guangzhou, China

“Let’s See What Happens...”, Gylnn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales

“Breathing Space”, Hanmi Gallery, London, UK

“Spur”, ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia

“UPROOTED Fake Nations”, Helsinki, Finland

“LIVE AiR”, Gothenburg, Sweden

“24 Spaces” Malmö Konsthall, Sweden

“Father and Mother (Part 1)”, China & Nordafrika

2012

“Art of Change - New Directions from China”, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

“Endstation”, Königswinter, Germany

“Re.act.feminism #2 - a Performing Archive”, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark

“PAErsche --Displacing Time”, Cologne, Germany

“Verkündigung”, Malerkapelle am Elm Königslutter, Martinikirche Braunschweig, Nikolauskirche Lehrte, Marktkirche Goslar, Germany

“Make Space Make Dust”, Statt, Berlin, Germany

“Bergen International Performance Festival”, Bergen, Norway

“PACKET–SOUP”, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

“Who is the Party?”, Stockholm, Sweden

2011

“NACHTUNDNEBEL”, Berlin, Germany

“'BODY' SOUND”, Galerie auf Zeit, Braunschweig, Germany

“Double Screens”, Wie Kultur, Berlin, Germany

“NOMADIC SETTLERS-SETTLED NOMADS”, Kunstraum Bethanien, Kreuzberg, Berlin

“kunst...hierundjetzt”, Das Kunstfest der offenen Ateliers, Braunschweig, Germany

“INFR'ACTION VENEZIA”, Venice, Italy

“INFR'ACTION PARIS”, Swedish Cultural Center, Paris, France

“LILITH PERFORMANCE EVENTS 2011”, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden

“BS.VISITE”, Rebenpark, Braunschweig, Germany

“MORGENLAND FESTIVAL”, Liechtenstein

“A-Y/Y-A”, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland

“NEW TERRETORIES - INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LIVE ART”, Glasgow, Scotland

“VERÃO AZUL: FESTIVAL DE ARTES PERFORMATIVAS", LAC in Lagos, Portugal

2010

“GUANGZHOU LIVE 10”, Guangzhou, China

“EXTENSION SERIES 6”, GRIMMUSEUM in Berlin

“YINGMEI DUAN IN GEORGIA”, Goethe institute in Georgia

“ARTIST IN RESIDENCY”, Bluebell Wood Children Hospice in Sheffield, UK

“Appointment”, Hotel25 in Berlin, Germany

“THE PAVILION OF REALISM”, Other Gallery in Shanghai Space & Other Gallery in Beijing Space, China

“BOUCHE Á OREILLE”, SAVVY CONTEMPORARY in Berlin, Germany

Embiteni Arts at Nkwalini Centre in Mbabane, Swaziland, Africa

“NON-ALIGNED: Yingmei Duan and Zhou Tao”, Marina Abramovic Institute West, San Francisco, USA

“BEHIND THE DOOR”, University of Applied Sciences Nijmegen, Netherlands

2009

“RE.ACT.FEMINISM - PERFORMANCEKUNST DER 1960ER & 70ER JAHRE HEUTE”, Ljubljana, Slovenia

“re.act.feminism - performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute”, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany

“MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ PRESENTS…”, Manchester International Festival, UK

“BREATHE RESIDENCY”, Chinese Arts Center in Manchester, UK

“ACCUMULATOR”, Visual center for contemporary art, Carlow, Ireland

“INFR'ACTION 09”, Festival International d’Art Performance, Sete, France

“IN TRANSIT 09”, Haus der kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Temporärer FreiRaum für künstlerische Aktion in Hildesheim, Germany

Democracy Biennale, Turin, Italy

Festival Fabbrica Europa, Florence, Italy

2008

“RE.ACT.FEMINISM - PERFORMANCEKUNST DER 1960ER & 70ER JAHRE HEUTE”, Berlin, germany

“BS-VISITE”, Rebenpark in Bruanschweig, Germany

“THE FUTURE OF IMAGINATION 5, 2008”, Singapore

“ASIATOPIA”, Bangkok, Thailand

“08'UP-ON INTERNATIONAL LIVE ART FESTIVAL”, Chengdu, china

“THE 6TH DADAO LIVE ART FESTIVAL”, Shanghai, China

“THE 6TH DADAO LIVE ART FESTIVAL”, Beijing, China

“PARTECIPANTI, CONNESSI E IN-DIPENDENTI”, Gallery Lungomare in Bozen, Italy

“PATHOLOGICAL AESTETICS”, University of Applied Sciences Nijmegen, Netherlands

“FILIAL PIETY” performance of Yingmei Duan & Weidong Feng, Internet

“POSITIONEN 1970–2008”, Darmstadt, Germany

“SMALL EAST ASIA COPROSPERITY RESTAURANT 08”, Tokyo & Nagoya, Japan

2007

“Hweilan International Artists Workshop” Hualian, Taiwan

“INTERNATIONAL CHINESE LIVE ART FESTIVAL”, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK

“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, Slovenia

“BODY & EROS”, Biennale in Venedig, Italy

“SOMMERFEST”, Greenpeace in Berlin, Germany

“DIVERSE UNIVERSE III”, Non Grata, Estonia

“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, UK

2006

“"IPG UNCENSORED ICONOGRAPHY" with Illy at Moroso”, Milan, Italy

“INTERNATIONAL CHINESE LIVE ART FESTIVAL”, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK

“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

2003

“Colours Nachwuchs-Filmfest”, Kino im Künstlerhaus Hannover, Germany

“Braziers International Artists Workshop”, Oxfordshire, UK

“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