Wang Xiaohui (photographer)
Wang Xiaohui ( Chinese 王小慧 , Pinyin Wáng Xiǎohuì , also called Xiao Hui Wang in Germany ; born June 15, 1957 in Tianjin ) is a Chinese photographer and author . She lives and works in Germany and China. The artist honor was in 2013 Suzhou the Xiao Hui Wang Art Museum opened.
Career
From 1978 she studied architecture at Tongji University in Shanghai . After graduating from Tongji University in Shanghai in 1983, Wang completed a three-year additional course in communication science (master's degree). After that, she stayed as an assistant at the same university and occasionally hosted programs on international architecture on Chinese television. On a scholarship, she came to Munich in 1986 , where she has lived ever since. Here she was a doctoral candidate at the Technical University of Munich and at the same time a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich . During this time, Wang Xiaohui presented her photographic work for the first time in an exhibition. This was followed by commissioned work for photo books, including three illustrated books in the See and Experience series about Munich, Prague and Saxony by Süddeutscher Verlag .
In 1990 she was awarded the Bavarian Culture Prize (2nd place), and in the same year she took up a guest study at the Munich Film Academy. Since 1991 Wang has worked on several film projects for Bavarian Radio, including as an assistant director and consultant, and created the templates for the television series Cultures of the World on Daoism and Buddhism . At the end of 1991 her husband, whom she had known from studying in Shanghai and with whom she had been married for five years, died in a serious car accident . Her serious injuries and the resulting break led to a reorientation towards photography. As a freelance artist, she has since devoted herself to photography . At the same time, Wang Xiaohui writes and publishes books on various topics.
In 1994 she received Bavarian film funding for the production of her short fiction film Broken Moon , which won the title “particularly valuable” and an “honorable mention” at the international art film festival Alpinale in Austria . 1995 assistant director at the China-Hong Kong-Japan production for the movie Chair and own script for a feature film Burnt Out Blue Candle . 1996 Script and direction of the documentary Von Opern und Erben , which has meanwhile been broadcast in six countries. In 1997 she received the KODAK Photo Prize in the People's Republic of China.
In 1998 her work appeared in masterpieces of nude photography from 150 years ( Prestel Verlag , Munich). On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic of China , Wang took part in the project Shanghai - In the eyes of world's top photographers in mid-1999 . To date 23 books have been published, including Heimat des Drachens (Dortmund, 1991), Merian-Life: Bangkok (Hamburg, 1993), Frauenbilder (Heidelberg, 1997). At the end of 2000, together with Monika Endres-Stamm , she published Daughters of Half Heaven - Life stories of seven Chinese women at Fischer Verlag . In 2001 a comprehensive, richly illustrated book was published in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan with the title Mein visuelles Tagebuch - 15 Years of Life in Germany for which she received the Shanghai Book Award and the Bingxin National Literature Award . Since autumn 2001 this book has been in the top 10 of the Chinese bestseller list. In autumn 2001 the photo book Close to the Eyes (Prestel Verlag) was published.
Her work is in various private and public collections. Among them Agfa, the Bavarian Insurance Chamber, Volkswagen, the Ritz Carlton Hotel and the Shanghai Library. Since November 2001 professor of photography at Tongji University in Shanghai, where she has a photo studio ( Xiao Hui Wang Art Workshop ) available to her, as well as visiting professor at the National University of Beijing . Since 2003 Wang has been working on an art concept for the international automobile city of Anting / Shanghai. In 2006, Wang Xiaohui was made an honorary member of the Association of Freelance Photo Designers .
Books
- Introspection , photo book, Hirmer, 2012
- My visual diary (German), biography, 2006
- Samed The work of the soul
- Xiao Hui Wang in Dialogues (Chinese), 2005
- Erotic Flowers , photo book, 2004
- Close to the Eyes , photo book, 2001
- My visual diary - 15 years in Germany (Chinese), 2001
- Daughters of half heaven (German), 2000
- Pictures of women , photo book, 1997
- Blue Candle Burnt Out (Chinese), film, 1994
- Don't be afraid of thin air , photo book, 1993
- See and experience - Saxony , photo book, 1992
- See and do - Prague , photo book, 1992
- See and experience - Munich , photo book, 1991
Web links
- Literature by and about Wang Xiaohui in the catalog of the German National Library
- xiaohuiwang.com - Wang Xiaohui official website
- extensive biography of Wang at Artnet.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief portrait of Xiao Hui Wang at Galerie Maurer Contemporary Art ( Memento from February 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wang Xiaohui |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 王小慧; Wáng Xiǎohuì, Xiao Hui Wang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese photographer and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tianjin |