Overlapping Versions
Cheng Ting-Jung, Ma Jia, Qu Jianan, Song Jing, Ye Hui
"Overlapped Versions - Austrian Chinese Artists Group Exhibition" invited five young Chinese artists who have settled in Austria to participate in this event. These artists received Western art education in Europe and experienced cultural shocks as well as identity issues. Their personal experiences inform their psychological perceptions of identity and cultural reflection.
These artists have a cross-cultural background, and their artistic practice offers glocalization characterized by "thinking globalization and action localization." So glocalization is a neologism and a portmanteau word formed from the terms globalization and localization, where these two terms are to be understood as a spectrum of scales, that is, not as opposites, but as connected levels.
陳庭榕 (Ting-Jung Chen)
Ting-Jung Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1985. She received her first bachelor's degree in philosophy from National Taiwan University in 2008. After breaking up her band and quitting her job as a sound engineer and lighting designer in Taiwan, she decided to study fine arts in Europe in 2010. She received her second bachelor's degree from the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK) in 2015, where she studied sculpture. In 2018, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with a degree in Performative Arts and Sculpture, and received the Kunsthalle Wien Award the same year.
She writes articles for Art Collection + Design magazine, gives workshops at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and is involved in participatory projects, such as her salon residency A Room of One's Own in Vienna. In addition to the 2018 Kunsthalle Wien Award, Ting-Jung Chen received the Judges Award of the 2015 Taipei Arts Awards and various fellowships, including the Deutschlandstipendium, the Karl H. Ditz Fellowship, several project grants, and the Koganecho Residency Fellowship in 2017.
https://www.info-tingjungchen.com
叶慧 （YE Hui）
Ye Hui was born in Canton, China.
2004-2011 studied composition and electroacoustic composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
2010-2017 studied Digital Arts and TransArts (Master Studies) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Her artistic works spans a variety of media such as video, film, installation as well as music composition and live sound performance with a focus on electroacoustics. Having an artistic background as composer and sound performer, exploring the relationship between sound and moving image, along with experimenting with how these time-based media can be transformed in new and challenging ways, is one the main concern of her work.
As a chinese artist based in Vienna/Europe since years, Hui Ye observes and understand her personal experience and let it influence her artistic work. The question how social identity is shaped in different cultural and political contexts is another vital issue of her artistic research.
Ye‘s works were shown internationally, e.g. at Kunsthalle Wien, Künstlerhaus Wien, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Krinzinger Projekte, Tresor at Kunstforum Wien (Vienna, Austria); Ohrenhoch Sound Gallery, Times Art Center Berlin (Berlin, Germany); WRO Media Arts Biennial 2017, 2019 (Wroclaw, Poland); am Art Space (Shanghai, China) and Times Museum (Guangzhou, China).
Since 2017 Hui Ye works as guest lecturer at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA) in South China.
https://yehui.org/about/
马佳 （Ma Jia）
Ma Jia is a chinese artist living in Vienna and working in the fields of painting and sculpture. She was born in Jilin, China in 1981. From 2001 to 2005 she studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. In 2011 Ma Jia moved to Vienna and started studying at the Academy of Fine Arts.
http://www.majia.at/cv.html
宋鏡 SONG JING
Born 1983 in Zhengzhou, China. Lives and works since 2002 in Vienna, Austria.
Education
Photography, Fine Arts, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
MA, International Business Administration, University of Vienna, Austria
Works held by various public and private collections such as:
Collection Wien Museum/A
Collection Hummel/A
private collections
http://www.songjing.at/pages/biography/
曲嘉男 Jianan Qu,
Qu Jianan born 1985 in Shandong/China, lives and works in Vienna, Austria
Education:
2003 – 2004 Contemporary Dance
Institute of Dance Arts – The Anton Bruckner University, Linz
2012 – 2015 Sculpture
Department Sculptural Conception – The University of Arts, Linz
2015 – 2017 Fine Arts
TransArts – The University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Jianan Qu is a performance and visual artist. Immaterial and reduced expressions are often the key elements in Qu’s works. Without being bonded to materials, the artist tries to make the concept speak for his mind. Over the years, Jianan Qu has developed an interactive practice, discovering the potential performative exchanges in society, arts and art spaces.
Qu’s works have been shown at various international institutions and festivals such as the Vienna Art Week, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Kasseler Kunstverein, The OCT Art & Design Gallery Shenzhen China, National gallery of North Macedonia, Krinzinger Lessehause (Krinzinger Gallery), Organhaus Chongqing, Hong Kong Arts Festival, ImpulsTanz Vienna, Kunstraum Niederösterreich Vienna, euro-scene Leipzig, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Landesgalerie Linz, FLUCA – Austrian Cultural Pavilion in Bulgaria.Jianan Qu lectures at Anton Bruckner Private University Linz. He was a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (2018), and visiting lecturer at Academy of Arts & Design Tsinghua University, Beijing/China (2019), SOZO Kassel Hochschule (2018, 2019), Shandong University of Arts, China (2017) amongst many others.
