CUI YUXUAN
Documentary Photography, Place, Journey
Space, Narrative, Installation
Info/Bio
Instagram©2024 Cui Yuxuan
07.04.1999
+31 612736162
yuxuancui8@gmail.com
@yuxuancui0407
Cui Yuxuan (b.1999, Changchun, China) is a visual artist and storyteller currentlybased in Rotterdam, NL. 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). Working with photography and moving images, she navigates the spaces between fiction, documentary, and artistic research, tracing memories and historical remnants that linger like ghosts. Her practice engages overlooked sites and interstices, using embodied perception and fluid narratives to make the invisible visible, the clear ambiguous, and the solid flexible.
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
2026.4 - 2026.6 atelier WG Residency Programme, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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
2024 Selected for the longlist of the 2025 FORMAT International Photography Festival
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
2025.12.13 - 2026.1.25 Threshold Folds, Xiamen Powerlong Art Center, Xiamen, china
2025.6.21 - 2025.9.21 Collective Roots: innerscapes of healing, Plek, Brussels, Belgium
2025.6.18 - 2025.6.23 Fluvial Soliloquy For Songhua River, 四相SEASONS, Halbin, China
2025.6.13 - 2025.6.15 Broeikas, De kas, Gent, Belgium
2025.3.1 - 2025.3.24 Becoming: Sino Dutch Young Female Artists Photograph Exhibition, Art 23 Contemporary Art Gallery, Guangzhou, China
2024.12.21 - 2025.1.5 Light & Nature, Waterliniemuseum Fort bij Vechten, Bunnik, the Netherlands
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
2023.10.29 - 2024.1.14 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