Yin Xiuzhen

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Yin Xiuzhen , abbreviation尹秀珍 (* 1963 in Beijing ), is a Chinese visual artist who expresses herself through sculpture , installation and performance .

Life

Yin (family name) studied art at the Department of Fine Arts at Capital Normal University in Beijing. In 1989 she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in oil painting there . In her career as a freelance artist, which she embarked on from the 1990s, she became known for installations in deserted landscapes and performances that are documented by photographs. Since the late 1990s she has been creating large sculptural and installation works from old clothes, shoes, furniture and simple building materials such as cement and stone, often in public spaces. She combined second-hand clothes, often in combination with technical ingredients, into monumental objects in a visual language. Her art plays with associations and memories that cling to the textiles worn and the shapes and signs created with them. Yin has been married to the visual artist Song Dong since 1992 , with whom she also develops joint works of art. She lives and works in Beijing.

Works (selection)

  • 1994: The Trees of Parting , documented as a photograph
  • 1994: Silenced Voice , installation, documented as a photograph
  • 1995: Harp , installation, documented as a photograph
  • 1995: Washing River , performance, documented as photography
  • 1996: Ruined City , installation made from used furniture and cement powder
  • 1996: Shoes with Butter (Lhasa, Tibet) , installation, documented as a photograph
  • 2001 ff .: Portable Cities: Beijing (2001), Singapore (2003), Shenzhen (2008), Urumchi (2008), Jiayuguan (2008), Melbourne (2009), Stuttgart (2010), Hangzhou (2011), Madrid (2012 ), Düsseldorf (2012) etc. , Textile sculptures depicting cities, arranged in suitcases with integrated loudspeakers that reproduce typical city noises
  • 2003–2007: Weapon , installation
  • 2007: Collective Subconscious , installation made of minibus parts and textiles

Awards

  • 2000: China Contemporary Art Award
  • 2000: Unesco / Aschberg Bursary for artists

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portable Cities by Yin Xiuzhen , website in the ignant.de portal , accessed on December 13, 2015
  2. ↑ Artwork of the month: September 2013: Yin Xiuzhen: Portable City: Düsseldorf, 2012 , website in the portal smkp.de , accessed on December 13, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Yin, Xiuzhen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Beijing