Tingwei Li

Born in 1989, Yantai/Shandong, China

 

Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany
Meisterschüler Titel 2017

Fine Arts, Master’s studies, 2011–2016

Hunter College, The City University of New York, NY, USA
Fine Arts, MFA program, 2014

University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Visiting student in the College of Pedagogical Education, 2010–2011

Tongji University of Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Studied Photography and German, 2008–2010 

Middle school affiliated to China Academy of Art (CAA), 2005­­–2008 
 

Exhibitions

 

Solo and Two-Person Shows
Feeling Good?, J:Gallery, Shanghai, March–May, 2017
The Chatting Room, Salt Projects, Beijing, August 26–28, 2016
><, EGG Gallery, Beijing, June–August, 2016 
Bits and Bobs, EGG Gallery, Beijing, August–October, 2015

Selected Group Exhibitions
Being Information, SSSSTART Museum, Shanghai, July–September, 2017
Yell Space Programme Exhibition: Partial Archive, Yell Space, Shanghai, May–June, 2017 
Digital Samplers, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, April–May 2017
No Commission Shanghai, Dean Collection, Shanghai Exhibition Center, April 2017
Noise, J:Gallery @CAPO, Shanghai, November 2016
AIVA Contemporary, Starspace, Shanghai, July–September, 2016
VOLATILITY, Galerie Gerken, Berlin, June–July, 2016
Berlin School of Painting, Villa Renata, Basel, June 2016
The Existential Crisis, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, June–July, 2016
Hyper Text, The Door Art, Beijing, April–May 2016
A great event is in the making, but no one has noticed, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, January 2016
Art in the City, chi K 11, Shanghai, September, 2015 
Not a state, but an artists’ colony, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, August–September, 2015
O.C.D, EGG Gallery, Beijing, June–July, 2015
Neue Sinnlichkeit, ehem, JVA, Magdeburg, May–September, 2015
Anti-Physis, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, May 2015
Perched in The Eye of A Tornado, Ying Space, Beijing, March–April, 2015
Second Thought, Flowers Gallery, New York City, January–February, 2015
Migrant I, Zhong Gallery, Berlin, September–October, 2014
MACHT, Wals.Gallery, Munich, July–August, 2014
European Project PHYSIS, Minigallery Assisi, Assisi, November 2013–January 2014
LUXUS+, Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, Germany. October-November, 2013
PHSIS 2013, Goethe Institut, Athens, October–November, 2013 
Moments of Encounter, Confucius Institute, Berlin, June–August, 2013
Starting point: 366 Tage involvement in Art, Growing and Changing from 01 January to 31 December 2009, Himalaya Art Museum, Shanghai, April, 2009

 

(source: artist website)
 

Tingwei Li - Bibliography

 

“The Romanticism in Vienna 200 years ago”, The Art Newspaper China, Jan 2016 
“Art center in Berlin after WWII”, Scope, Dec 2014
‘EIGENART’ ISSN: 1869-8956, No.85, 2014, P.91, "Tisch"
‘EIGENART’ ISSN: 1869-8956, No.83, 2013, P. 86- 89 - “3 Themen” consisted of drawings and 2 installation projects
‘Annual Catalogue of the Open Days’, Berlin University of Arts, 2012 - Grundlehre featured 
PHOTOWORLD, No. 337, Jan 2010 - OFPIX Photo camp featured
PHOTOWORLD, No. 339, Mar 2010
PHOTOWORLD, No. 343, Jul 2010
PHOTOWORLD, No. 345, Sep 2010

 

(source: artist website)

I’m interested in creating a space for experience of subtle emotions. By arranging information associated with objects, videos, texts, posters, symbols and sound I engage in researching phenomenon and core issues in contemporary life, addressing mental conditions and body awareness. The newly solo show addresses on our self-improvement and the development of self-care and self-help culture in industrialization process of the society. 

My current works "Great Days" discuss about the increasing multiple choices in modern life as well as the endless copy or reproduction of information, sharing some idea and criticism about how human consciousness and behavior are being reformed by rapid changes in consumer society and how could we respond to our emotion personally and be responsible for our choices morality in the meantime. As it in "Great Days" goes: I am thinking hard, thinking hard.

 

(source: artist website)

artist website: www.litingwei.de