Curriculum Vitae

27.10.1969Born in China; lives in Braunschweig, Germany

Education

2006Masters with Prof. Marina Abramović, Birgit Hein and Christoph Schlingensief at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) Braunschweig, Germany
2005Diploma in Fine Arts at HBK Braunschweig, Germany
2000 – 2006Studies in Performance with Prof. Marina Abramović; Film Studies with Prof. Birgit Hein and “Art in action” with Prof. Christoph Schlingensief at HBK Braunschweig, Germany
1999 – 2000Studies in Performance and Film with Prof. Mara Mattuschka at HBK Braunschweig, Germany
1998 – 1999Studies in Painting with Prof. Nobert Tadeusz at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK), Braunschweig, Germany
1993 – 1998Freelance artist in Beijing (1993-1995 in Beijing East-Village, 1995-1998 in Songzhuang Art Colony)
1996 – 1997Studies in Sculpture at the Central Academy of Art and Design in Beijing, China
1993 – 1994Studies in Graphic Design at the Central Academy of Art and Design in Beijing, China
1991 – 1993Studies in Oil and Mural Painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China
1991Beginning art learning with teacher Mr. Jianhua Yang in Beijing, China
1987 – 1990Studies in Petroleum Exploration at the Northeast-Petroleum University, China and Practical training as Technician in Daqing, China

Exhibitions & Festivals

Solo exhibitions

2018Yingmei duan Music Album“Forty-Eight Years Ago, the Road an Ocean”, Capsule Shanghai, China
2017“Thingness”, Neuer Kunstverein, Austria
2017“Mementos”, Capsule Shanghai, China
2008Yingmei 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

2021Gagage Museum Moscow, Russia
IASPIS Residency, Umea, Sweden
Allgemeiner Konsumverein, Braunschweig, Germany 
2020Kunstverein DIE H_LLE e.V., Braunschweig, Germany  
IASPIS Residency, Umea, Sweden
“THE GAZE OF HISTORY – Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited”, Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China 
2019“Yingmei Curious about Macau”, Post – Ox Warehouse Experimental Site, Macau, China “Poesie der Begegnung”, Kunstpavillon Burgbrohl, Germany 
“AGGRESSIVE GESTURES – part 2”, Werkhalle, Dortmund, Germany 
“Yingmei and Her Friends in Chongqing”, Dimensions Art Center(DAC), Chongqing, China “ROOM 100”, NYU Shanghai, China 
2018“Taipei Dangdai”, Moca Taipei, Taiwan, China
“Performance Histories. Tehching Hsieh | Yingmei Duan”, Nottingham Contemporary, UK 
“Hanmi Gallery”, London Art Fair, London, UK
“Audience as Performer”, Goethe-Institut, Hongkong, China
“Monomyth Hero’s Journey”, quabitArt Gallery, Berlin, Germany 
“ACAPITAL@ART.INTERNATIONAL“, Ost-Stern, Frankfurt, Germany
“IV Performance Day”, Ost Stern, Frankfurt, Germany
“I want to be invisible”, Video Bureau, Beijing, China
“Freundinnen”, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Gemany
“What we talk about when we talk about Residence”, Atelierhaus, Neuss, Germany
“Harvesting Mind – Geist Ernten”, Performance ART Saturday, Braunschweig, Germany
2017“Asia in the Mirror”, Medo Space, Vienna, Austria
“Tag der offenen Tür”, Lukas Künstlerhaus, Ahrenshoop, Germany
“Coincide, Schuhmaschinenfabrik Rödelheim / Haus 3”, Frankfurt, Germany
“Ein Stellung Aus”, SALO Räume, Braunschweig, Germany
“Blocked the politics of open doors”, plan.d.produzentengalerie e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany
“The 5th UP-ON INTERNATIONAL LIVE ART FESTIVAL”, School of Architecture and Design, Southwest Jiaotong University & JZFZ Art Space, Chengdu, China
“The 1st Dimensions International Live Art Festival in Chongqing”, China
“Third PERFORMANCE DAY”, Kaiser & Cream Art District, Wiesbaden, Germany
2016“Strolling along the Discernible Min Jiang IV“, Chengdu, China
“PAO Festival”, Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo, Norway
“Beijing Live”, Danish Cultural Centre, Beijing, China 
“Shenyang International Performance Art & Music Festival”, Shenyang, China
“Fyodor’s Performance Carousel in Wiener Festwochen”, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
“Per Anhalter”, Kunsthalle am Hamurger Platz, Berlin, Germany
“Breaking & Making Routines”, Goethe Institute organized by PAE, Rotterdam, Netherlands 
“Beyond Action”, Kylin Contemporary Center of Art in Beijing, China
“When we become us”, Capsule Shanghai, China
“Be my guest”, Kunstpavillon Burgbrohl, Germany
2015“Close Observation Art at MK”, Martino Katharineum, Braunschweig, Germany
“ZAZ Festival”, The new central bus station, Tel-Aviv, Israel
“German Performance Art”, SOLYANKA STATE GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
“Genial”, Medienhaus E.V,  Hannover, Germany
“Schönheit!? ”, Galerie auf zeit, Braunschweig, Germany
“Streiflichter”, 50 Jahre Kunstverein, Celle, Germany
“Die Gelber Gefahr”, Milchhof, Berlin, Germany
“Die Gelber Gefahr”, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany
“Infr‘action Venezia 3”, Venice, Italy
“(CON)TEMPORARY”, Month of Performance Art, Berlin, Germany
“The ‘Art of Encountering’”, Paersche Aktionslabor, Cologne, Germany
“Holzwege”, 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, GermanyEmbiteni 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, GermanyTemporärer FreiRaum für künstlerische Aktion in Hildesheim, GermanyDemocracy 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
1996Qiran 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
27.10.1969Born in China; lives in Braunschweig, Germany

Education

2006Masters with Prof. Marina Abramović, Birgit Hein and Christoph Schlingensief at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) Braunschweig, Germany
2005Diploma in Fine Arts at HBK Braunschweig, Germany
2000 – 2006Studies in Performance with Prof. Marina Abramović; Film Studies with Prof. Birgit Hein and “Art in action” with Prof. Christoph Schlingensief at HBK Braunschweig, Germany
1999 – 2000Studies in Performance and Film with Prof. Mara Mattuschka at HBK Braunschweig, Germany
1998 – 1999Studies in Painting with Prof. Nobert Tadeusz at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK), Braunschweig, Germany
1993 – 1998Freelance artist in Beijing (1993-1995 in Beijing East-Village, 1995-1998 in Songzhuang Art Colony)
1996 – 1997Studies in Sculpture at the Central Academy of Art and Design in Beijing, China
1993 – 1994Studies in Graphic Design at the Central Academy of Art and Design in Beijing, China
1991 – 1993Studies in Oil and Mural Painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China
1991Beginning art learning with teacher Mr. Jianhua Yang in Beijing, China
1987 – 1990Studies in Petroleum Exploration at the Northeast-Petroleum University, China and Practical training as Technician in Daqing, China

Exhibitions & Festivals

Solo exhibitions

2018Yingmei duan Music Album“Forty-Eight Years Ago, the Road an Ocean”, Capsule Shanghai, China
2017“Thingness”, Neuer Kunstverein, Austria
2017“Mementos”, Capsule Shanghai, China
2008Yingmei 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

2021Gagage Museum Moscow, Russia
IASPIS Residency, Umea, Sweden
Allgemeiner Konsumverein, Braunschweig, Germany 
2020Kunstverein DIE H_LLE e.V., Braunschweig, Germany  
IASPIS Residency, Umea, Sweden
“THE GAZE OF HISTORY – Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited”, Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China 
2019“Yingmei Curious about Macau”, Post – Ox Warehouse Experimental Site, Macau, China “Poesie der Begegnung”, Kunstpavillon Burgbrohl, Germany 
“AGGRESSIVE GESTURES – part 2”, Werkhalle, Dortmund, Germany 
“Yingmei and Her Friends in Chongqing”, Dimensions Art Center(DAC), Chongqing, China “ROOM 100”, NYU Shanghai, China 
2018“Taipei Dangdai”, Moca Taipei, Taiwan, China
“Performance Histories. Tehching Hsieh | Yingmei Duan”, Nottingham Contemporary, UK 
“Hanmi Gallery”, London Art Fair, London, UK
“Audience as Performer”, Goethe-Institut, Hongkong, China
“Monomyth Hero’s Journey”, quabitArt Gallery, Berlin, Germany 
“ACAPITAL@ART.INTERNATIONAL“, Ost-Stern, Frankfurt, Germany
“IV Performance Day”, Ost Stern, Frankfurt, Germany
“I want to be invisible”, Video Bureau, Beijing, China
“Freundinnen”, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Gemany
“What we talk about when we talk about Residence”, Atelierhaus, Neuss, Germany
“Harvesting Mind – Geist Ernten”, Performance ART Saturday, Braunschweig, Germany
2017“Asia in the Mirror”, Medo Space, Vienna, Austria
“Tag der offenen Tür”, Lukas Künstlerhaus, Ahrenshoop, Germany
“Coincide, Schuhmaschinenfabrik Rödelheim / Haus 3”, Frankfurt, Germany
“Ein Stellung Aus”, SALO Räume, Braunschweig, Germany
“Blocked the politics of open doors”, plan.d.produzentengalerie e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany
“The 5th UP-ON INTERNATIONAL LIVE ART FESTIVAL”, School of Architecture and Design, Southwest Jiaotong University & JZFZ Art Space, Chengdu, China
“The 1st Dimensions International Live Art Festival in Chongqing”, China
“Third PERFORMANCE DAY”, Kaiser & Cream Art District, Wiesbaden, Germany
2016“Strolling along the Discernible Min Jiang IV“, Chengdu, China
“PAO Festival”, Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo, Norway
“Beijing Live”, Danish Cultural Centre, Beijing, China 
“Shenyang International Performance Art & Music Festival”, Shenyang, China
“Fyodor’s Performance Carousel in Wiener Festwochen”, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
“Per Anhalter”, Kunsthalle am Hamurger Platz, Berlin, Germany
“Breaking & Making Routines”, Goethe Institute organized by PAE, Rotterdam, Netherlands 
“Beyond Action”, Kylin Contemporary Center of Art in Beijing, China
“When we become us”, Capsule Shanghai, China
“Be my guest”, Kunstpavillon Burgbrohl, Germany
2015“Close Observation Art at MK”, Martino Katharineum, Braunschweig, Germany
“ZAZ Festival”, The new central bus station, Tel-Aviv, Israel
“German Performance Art”, SOLYANKA STATE GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
“Genial”, Medienhaus E.V,  Hannover, Germany
“Schönheit!? ”, Galerie auf zeit, Braunschweig, Germany
“Streiflichter”, 50 Jahre Kunstverein, Celle, Germany
“Die Gelber Gefahr”, Milchhof, Berlin, Germany
“Die Gelber Gefahr”, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany
“Infr‘action Venezia 3”, Venice, Italy
“(CON)TEMPORARY”, Month of Performance Art, Berlin, Germany
“The ‘Art of Encountering’”, Paersche Aktionslabor, Cologne, Germany
“Holzwege”, 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, GermanyEmbiteni 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, GermanyTemporärer FreiRaum für künstlerische Aktion in Hildesheim, GermanyDemocracy 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
1996Qiran 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