Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Artist Ying Xinxun (Ph.D.) is the Deputy Director of the Department of Fiber Art at China Academy of Art and Academic Chair of the Fiber Plastic Arts Studio at the same Academy. She lives and works in Hangzhou, China.
Her artistic practice is influenced by daily life, exploring the social texture of materials and objects to express certain contemporary qualities and social phenomena.
Recently, Ying has been focusing on social relations，ideology and human behavior presented by “society of spectacle,” “packaging,” and “surface.” Her works also concentrate on post-aesthetics, contemporaneity and the exploration of the relationship between media, body, and society.
Her artistic expression forms include installations, fiber arts, videos, performances, theater performances, and paintings.
She has been nominated for the Excellence Award by Today Art Museum Martell Art Fund’s highest award for future art; Focus On Talents Project Award and Wang Shikuo Nomination Award of Beijing Today Art Museum. She was sponsored by Today Art Museum Martell Art Fund for joining an artist in residency and study tour in Dusseldorf, Germany. She has recently been to Berlin, Germany, for another three-month artist-in-residence program.
She had solo exhibitions, including Red Eden (2023, Bergen, Norway), Landscape Sanatorium at Shanghai Baolong Art Museum (2022, Shanghai, China), Velvet at Can Art Space (2019, Ningbo, China), and DON’T WORRY at Sanshang Contemporary Art Space (2016, Hangzhou, China).
Ying Xinxun’s works have been exhibited in a number of artistic institutions including Today Art Museum（Beijing, China, Times Art Museum (Beijing, China) Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum, (Shenzhen), Shanghai BANK Gallery, Macau Contemporary ArtCenter, PIFO Gallery (Beijing, China) as well as in Germany and Japan.
Her group exhibitions include the 1st and 3rd Hangzhou Triennials of Fiber Art，the 4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts Stress Field, An Alternative Eye: Sights Between Identity and Media (International Contemporary Art Group Exhibition), the First CAFAM Future Exhibition Sub-Phenomena nomination, Frontier Fiber Art Exhibition0:00 by Shanghai BANK Gallery.
As a co-curator, she curated Being Theoria within the scope of the 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art in 2022. She has also curated several exhibitions, including the 0:00 Fiber Art Emerging Artists Exhibition at BANK Gallery in Shanghai, and served as the co-curator for Slow Existence– the 4th Hangzhou Fiber Art Triennial in 2022.
Her works are included in the collections of Today Art Museum, Martell Art Fund, Wang Shikuo Foundation, Shanghai Powerlong Museum, and other prestigious collections.