CUI YUXUAN 

Documentary Photography, Place, Journey

  1. Puppet Manchukuo: Echoes in the Layers of Time
  2. Divided Spaces, Dissolved Orders
  3. Deconstruct the “Tools” 
  4. Lost, Lost, Lost  失，失，失
  5. I’ve Never Heard a Swan Song

Space, Narrative, Installation

  1. What you will  第十二夜
  2. Love Me Tender, Bite Me True 
  3. Trespass 飞（非）地烟花
  4. 溯流 Go Upstream
  5. Jiakong, Jiakong 
  6. -Borderline as Storyline- 

Object, Text, Life, Act on Instinct  
  1. 言之凿凿 As if It's Carved in Stone
  2. Cleaning as Method  
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©2024 Cui Yuxuan


07.04.1999
+31 612736162
yuxuancui8@gmail.com
@yuxuancui0407

Cui Yuxuan (b.1999, Changchun, China) is a visual artist and storyteller currently living and working in the Netherlands. Yuxuan holds a BA from School of Foreign Studies & School of Arts, Nanjing University, and obtains her MA Fine Arts at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU).

Her work extensively combines photography, video installation, archives, semi-fictional text, and participatory experience. These narratives reside in the interstice between fiction, documentary, and investigative research. Stemming from individual life experiences, she employs a feminine perspective and poetic language to narrate the transformations of identity amidst geographical migration and varied relationships. She delves into the intricate geopolitical dynamics of marginal areas and the political and historical remains therein. Committed to making the invisible visible, the clear ambiguous, and the solid flexible, she endeavors to utilize bodily perception and border-crossing movement as subtle interventions in society, responding to the pervasive power micro-techniques within history and memory.

EDUCATION

2021 - 2023  MA- Fine Art, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU), Utrecht, the Netherlands

2019 - 2021   BA- Art and Cultural Creativity, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

2017 - 2021   BA- Japanese Language and Literature, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

ARTIST RESIDENCY

2024.5 - 2024.8   Het Wilde Weten Residency Program, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2024.3 - 2024.4   Taoxichuan Art Center Residency, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China

2023.9 - 2024.2   Brutus Art Lab Residency Program, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2022.7                      Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzberg, Austria

2021.8                      Sanjiazi-724 Factory Artist Residency, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

AWARDS & GRANT

2023   Kunpeng Award (TOP 10), Young Chinese Photographer Promotion Plan of Pingyao International Photography Festival

2023   Selected for NAFI FUTURE of Nanjing Art Fair International, TOP3

2023   Selected for Rotterdam Photo Festival

2022   Selected for Miami New Media Festival

2022   Scholarship from Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

2021    First Prize Scholarship in Art & Cultural Creativity from Nanjing University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024.8.23 - 2024.8.25 He made a decision..., Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2024.7.12 - 2024.8.16 Puppet Manchukuo: Echoes in the Layers of Time, Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, Finland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024.10.1 - 2024.11.29 Fusion Evolution: Ceramic Art in Post Globalization Era, Qiumo Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, China

2024.7.19 - 2024.8.25 Pet Shop, Kunsthal Gent, Gent, Belgium

2024.6.29 - 2024.8.24 Limburg Biënnale 2024, Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, the Netherlands

2024.6.1 - 2024.7.1 Trace, Hero Image Art, Hangzhou, China

2024.3.30 - 2024.6.30 The Coming Community: New Youth Experimental Art Biennale, Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen, China

2024.1.31 - 2024.2.2 Open Studio - Rotterdam Art Week, Brutus Lab, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2023 Natural Growth, Nature Art ( CQ. JGB ) Space, Chongqing, China

2023 Nanjing Art Fair International- NAFI FUTURE, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing, China

2023 Pingyao International Photography Festival - Young Chinese Photographer Promotion Plan, Pingyao, China

2023 Soupspoon Collective - “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity” 24h Marathon, Rib Art Space, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2023 Refractions (Graduation Show of HKU MAFA), Bak, Utrecht, the Netherlands

2023 Intersectional Expressions, UM Daftar, Maastricht, the Netherlands

2023 “Timehouse: Where are We NOW?”, Lowenpalais, Berlin, Germany

2023 Bonjour Art Book Fair, Langyuan Vintage, Beijing, China

2022 HKU Mafa temporary take_over, Casco, Utrecht, the Netherlands

2022 “Hybrid Dialogues”-Miami New Media Festival: Civility Vs. Violence, punt WG, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2022 “Notes on Camp”, collective performance, Hohensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg, Austria

2022 “F.I.R.E”, puntWG, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2021 “Blue Dreams”, 600 Gallery, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China

2021 “The Land of Peace”, Art Gallery of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

2021 “2020”, BANSHAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2020 “The Field of Art and the Aesthetic Education of Field”, Jianliang Building, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

2019 “Encountering America - Group Exhibition of American Art History”, Former Residence of Pearl S. Buck, Nanjing, China