美丽的威海:“她的名字·存在”

毕可燕, 倪芙瑞莲,李笑男,闫平,李辉香,林耀明,王宝菊,佟玉洁

我刚从美丽的威海回来,这是一年半以来我第一次去北京之外的地方旅行。

 

我很高兴能参加这次“她的名字-存在”国际女艺术家邀请展,这是半岛美术馆该系列的第二回展,特别邀请知名当代艺术从业者参与……正好这一次都是女性艺术家。

她的名字·存在——威海市半岛美术馆

展览将持续至2021年10月22日

艺术从业者与学者们在半岛美术馆咖啡厅举办小组研讨会

见到很多知名艺术家同行,我真是太高兴了,比如闫平、毕可燕、林耀明、王宝菊等,还有学术主持李笑男和学术艺术作家佟玉洁。

遗憾的是,策展人郭桢目前仍在美国,此外艺术家黄佳和安娜·卡基米娜未能成行。非常感谢半岛美术馆馆长李辉香和各位敬业的工作人员,宁宁和王谦(音)为我们呈现了一个可以探索一系列有趣艺术品的美妙空间,并制作了一份令人印象深刻的画册。

八位参展艺术家概述请点击下方链接

 巴赫曼姑娘 布面丙烯 100×100厘米. 倪芙瑞莲 2017

Friend to Many CC 100x100cm acrylic on canvas , Niamh Cunningham 倪芙 2019

许多人的朋友  CC布面丙烯 100×100厘米.  倪芙瑞莲 2019

双生•舞 “清澈的牛奶系列”布面油画 50×50厘米.  倪芙瑞莲 2013

 

 

我在威海半岛美术馆展出了12幅我的肖像作品。

 

通过对数码变形进行加工,在画布上编辑和重新排列这些变形,邀请每个人重新审视那些我们自认为已经很熟悉的人。我们生活在一个需要从各个角度来看自己的时代。已故的格雷戈里·贝特森(Gregory Bateson)是一位深刻的系统思想家,他喜欢从不同的角度看待一件事,不断变换,以免陷入单一思维方式。 “连接的模式”是他致力一生的工作。他一心想要弄明白人类为什么经常以破坏自然生态系统的方式行事。

他提出一系列有关整体结构的问题,比如它如何运作,怎么起作用,关系是什么,它如何学习、思考,怎样相互作用等等。在全球文化中、在教育体系中,如果我们不去寻找连接的模式,我们很可能会打破它,贝特森说,当这种情况发生时“你必然会破坏所有的品质。” 重新解读我们如何感知与理解摆在眼前的东西,运用数码变形,在画布上改变、选择和重新布置,这就是我们必须做出的努力,与我们自身一起,为许许多多子孙后代创造一个安全的具有快速恢复力的星球。

 

在她眼中F&E布面丙烯 100×100厘米. 倪芙瑞莲 2019

新世纪 EL布面丙烯 100×100厘米. 倪芙瑞莲 2019

木版鉴赏家 CC布面丙烯 100×100厘米.  倪芙瑞莲 2019

 

在威海展出的肖像画人物包括我的朋友们、艺术家同行、策展人、家人和学生。在这些肖像中,只有一个人我并不认识,画的是反战诗人英格伯格·巴赫曼(Ingeborg Bachmann,1926-1973)在少女时代,这是为红门画廊2018年一个特别展览“延缓的时间”而作。

摆渡人 DC布面丙烯 50×50厘米. 倪芙瑞莲 2019

花把势Mamo  DC布面丙烯 100×100厘米.  倪芙瑞莲 2019

 

盟友耳朵低  EC布面丙烯 50×50厘米.  倪芙瑞莲 2019

 

 

以下每一位艺术家,我都附加了可以更多了解其艺术作品及创作情况的链接。

 

Link 1 for overview  of all artists

Link 2 overview 

 

Yan Ping 闫平

闫平是一位著名的中国艺术家,她不仅以其女性主义艺术和对20世纪90年代女性身体的借鉴为人所知,而且以其标志性的舞蹈与表演艺术作品而闻名。我曾在一个画册里看过一幅画,知道只有受过训练的舞者才能作出这样的姿势,据说她早年接受过芭蕾舞训练。(我对舞者的生活略知一二,因为在90年代初我在英国坎特伯雷的马洛剧院(Marlowe Theater)为沙德勒之井(Sadlers Wells)和波修瓦(the Bolshoi)等芭蕾舞团做过晚间服装助理。)

了解更多关于艺术家闫平的信息请点击链接

Guo Zhen  郭桢

 

我第一次见到艺术家/策展人郭桢是在2018年,在宋庄等一辆中巴车送我们去山东无棣参加雕塑驻地项目。郭桢以其创作的女性乳房大型纺织装置而闻名。

了解更多关于艺术家郭桢的信息请点击链接。

了解更多关于艺术家郭桢的信息请点击链接

 

 

我以她为人物制作的一幅肖像画目前正在北京后海Joy Beans艺术空间展出。

She GZ 50×50 acrylic on canvas 倪芙瑞莲.N Cunningham 2019 

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Bi Keyan  毕可燕

毕可燕是一位现居威海的艺术家。我喜欢听她谈论她的工作。她探索自由随性的泼墨及水墨在纸上的随机融合。

了解更多关于艺术家毕可燕的信息请点击链接。

 

 

Monika Lin 林耀明

我认识林耀明很多年了,我们曾在共同的艺术项目中一起工作。她的《哲思者之墙》由许多核桃壳内的复杂故事所组成,适合近距离仔细观看。

了解更多关于艺术家林耀明的信息请点击链接

 

 

Anna Kasima 安娜·卡基米娜

我第一次见到安娜·卡基米娜是在山东无棣的雕塑项目上,我们在此后的其他项目上也一直保持联系。来看看更多她的有趣的具象抽象作品。

了解更多关于艺术家安娜·卡基米娜的信息请点击链接。

 

 

 

Wang Baoju 王宝菊

王宝菊是一位现居北京的影像艺术家。她的影像装置《波澜》拍摄了60位十八九岁男孩儿的咽喉,展示了吞咽所引起的一系列动作。

了解更多关于艺术家王宝菊的信息请点击链接。

 

Huang Jia 黄佳

黄佳目前住在德国。可以多了解一下她的实心色块组成的极简主义绘画。

了解更多关于艺术家黄佳的信息请点击链接。

 

 

Niamh Cunningham  倪芙瑞莲

点击此处阅读李笑男与佟玉洁撰写的有关倪芙瑞莲肖像作品的文章。

 

 

 

And a personal thanks also to Cheng Li who shared plenty of  interesting stories and facts  during  my visit in Weihai. 

 

 

Niamh Cunningham- Bio 。。。个人简介-倪芙瑞莲
'The Pattern that Connects' is part of the Common Threads project showing at EPIC Museum Irish Emigration Museum, Dublin Feb 1- 14th


Currently Showing Oct 2022: The Sasse Museum of Art , Pomona, CA, in the US opened a photography exhibition last weekend showing a process print (23.01.2018) from my mixed media Sucrose Series "Ginkgo Palace", Niamh Cunningham 2018
The original physical sucrose plate and accompanying print on aluminium was collected at Art Beijing 2021
Promoting Connectivity through Creative Industries Sept 2022 at Yindi Art Museum, hosted by Opportunity Lab
Hair Skull recently exhibited (Oct 1st-7th 2022) at Art Plus Shanghai , the group exhibition"Linear" is curated by Chang Feng

For more information on the Hair Skull and working with DNA as an art material click HERE

Ann Derwin, Ambassador to Ireland in China with gallerist 庞春慧Peng Chun Hui at For 觅 gallery , August 2022
Currently showing - Moon Covenant
证在展出-月亮之约

Artist talk on gathering peoples tree stories before Spitoon Book Club discussion on Pulitzer prize winning novel " The Overstory" by Richard Powers
Online Catalogue launched Jan 2022 , showing Sucrose Series alongside Microbe Art
Recently exhibited in Xishuangbanna State Art Museum Dec 2021
Canal Bank Walk , Yuan Dadu Culural Relics Park Beijing
Grand Canal artist Residency and Exhibition

Her Name Penninsula Art Museum Weihai, Shandong 16 July- 22 Oct 2021

Linear….. showing at LangKong Art Museum (朗空美术馆) 07.7-30.7.21
Suzhou Couples Retreat Gardens
The Second Step – mini solo of 18 portraits in HouHai from 6.6 tp 8.8 2021
Astro World Exit Tourism – Group exhibition June 2021
Recently ART Beijing 2021 Booth B28 Irish Contemporary Art
Early stage – Sculpture project HongFangzi ShaWan Sichuan
Current Events 正在展出

即将展出:

2022 9月   谷山村中国农民丰收节暨大地艺术节

正在展出:

2022 9月   传粉者:北京西山鼓山乡村公园的再生材料雕塑

最新动态:

 

2022 6-8“月亮之约” For觅画廊,通州,北京

2022 1 来自爱尔兰的艺术家 ,线上展览 在线链接

2022 1 清华大学精准医学研究院, EBM 中心

202112“生命之律动”,西双版纳州美术馆,景洪

202112“线性”,竞衡艺术空间,上海

202110-11“中国抽象艺术”,江苏泰州

202110“相遇大运河”,通州新光大中心

20217 “线性”,798朗空美术馆,北京

20217“她的名字——存在”,半岛美术馆,威海

20216“润物细无声·艺术与遗产新解构”,苏州耦园 

2021610“万物有灵——多样之美” 艺术展与企业社会责任国际论坛,北京

20216“第二步”(小型个人展),龙头井胡同JoyBeans Space,北京

20216“天体世界:出逃旅行” 蓝色港湾KUN美术馆,北京

2021年3月4月 ART Beijing 2021

202012 艺术推动可持续未来” 中国企业社会责任国际学术研讨会, 北京泰富酒店

20209月“同生·由此及彼”,山东济宁市泗水等闲谷艺术粮仓美术馆 

20207  “沉默的爆破”,无锡外滩美术馆,江苏无锡, 7月11日至31日

2019年11月”中国 爱尔兰  MUSEu&m , 上海

*2019年11月装置中国—红房子首届国际户外装置创作营在乐山沙湾红房子开营 …开始阶段

*2019年8月*Gobi Heaven- August 戈壁。天堂-八月

*2019年7月”1919″ 爱尔兰  Sligo -Hamilton Gallery  

*2019年5月“胜日寻芳“ 山东济宁市泗水等闲谷艺术粮仓美术馆

2019年5月-16 爱尔兰大使馆布卢姆日的展览

20195-6  《一张棉花纸》   在宋庄东区玖层美术馆展出

*2019年4月-5月在匈牙利首都布达佩斯

*2019年4月”奥德赛——回归”群展2019年4月13日在东岳美术馆开幕。

*2018年11月-12月“地图与疆域”国际艺术邀请展 北京吉利学院

*2018年11月-12月“纸上·至上”展览,韩国光州市立美术馆北京创作中心

*2018, 10月中欧国当代艺术全球巡展·上海

2018, 9月-10月“纸上·至上”展览,沈阳市拓•空间,

2018, 6月-11月诗人叶芝日,爱尔兰,斯莱戈(SLIGO),汉密尔顿艺术画廊

*2018年8月 淮阴艺术馆提名展,淮安市

*2018, 8月 “纸上·至上”展览, 鄂尔多斯,

*2018 , 6月30日 济南“国际抽象艺术展”

*2018 , 6月17 日 纸上•至上2018 在青岛,

*2018 , 5月20 日存在-国际女性艺术展,湖南长沙,

*2018 , 4月21 日延缓的时间,4月21日-29日,红门画廊,798艺术区

*2018 , 4月20 日 挖掘,,和画廊,来鹏高尔夫俱乐部

*2018年4月-12日 挖掘, , 展览,悦美术馆,北京798艺术区

*2018年2月-3月深圳观澜版画艺术区,5个星期驻地项目

*2018年1月28日-3月3日,《红&果》,流浪美术馆融空间,新年主题艺术展,北京中关村融科资讯中心

*2017年12月,中外视觉艺术湖南展,湖南长沙梅溪新天地梅溪书院.

*2017年12月末至2018年1月末, 《时间之外》主题艺术展, 北京中关村融科资讯中心

*2017年12月, 形质与叙事, 形质与叙事, 东岳美术馆

 *2017年12月,广州新造当代艺术中心,纸上·至上 纸艺作品群展.

Upcoming Exhibitions:

* Gushan Rural Village Park Harvest  Autumn 2022

Current Exhibition

 

Recent  exhibitions:

2022 Moon Covenant Forgallery , Grasse Town , Beijing June- August

2022 Artists from Ireland (online) Sasse Museum of Art Pomona, CA, USA (catalogue link)

2022 Peoples’ Portraits EBM Centre, Tsinghua Uni Intelligent HealthCare, BJ

2021 Rhythm of Life Xishuangbanna Art Museum, Jinghong, Dec

2021 Linear Jingheng Art centre, Jinshan, Shanghai Dec

2021 Abstract China, Taizhou, Jiangsu Oct-Nov

2021 Meet the Grand Canal Xinguanda Centre Tongzhou, Oct

2021 Linear Langkong Art Museum 798, Beijing July

2021 Her Name – Existence Peninsula Art Museum, Weihai, July

2021 Silent and Soft -New Interpretations Suzhou classical Gardens June

2021 All things Bright CSR symposium Shangrila Hotel, Beijing June 10th

2021 The Second Step (mini solo) Joy Beans Space, Jiu Longtou hutong, June

* AstroWorld Kun Art Museum June 5 2021

*Portraits (solo) Joybeans  Hou  Hai 6.6-8.8

*River things  Suzhou Zhenyuan garden UNESCO world Heritage Training and Research centre June 12 th

*Art Beijing  2021 Booth B28  Garden of Friendship

*“Art promotes a Sustainable Future” China CSR international symposium Dec 2020.

*Silent Explosion, Wuxi Bund Art Centre, Jiangsu,  July 11-31 2020

* Sculpture project in HongFangzu , Shawan, Sichuan , begining phase Nov 2019

Current Exhibition

*China Ireland exhibition at MUSEU&m, near the Bund , Shanghai, Nov 29th 2019

* Sculpture project in HongFangzu , Shawan, Sichuan , begining phase Nov 2019

*1919 – Group Exhibition (Hamilton Gallery) in New York, Irish Consulate

*1919 – Group Exhibition Hamilton Gallery , Sligo , Ireland July – September

*Gobi Heaven Art Festival , Inner Mongolia , August 2019

*A piece of Cotton Paper  9th floor gallery Songzhuang June 15th

*”Winning the Day ‘ Granary Art Centre,  SiShui , Shandong, May – June 2019

*Beyond the form of Art , Wick Art Centre , Budapest, Hungary may 2019

*Odyssey The Return ; group exhibition at Dong Yue Art Museum, Beijing  in April

Map and Territory Art IRRCA at Beijing Geely College Nov 20- Dec 20 2018

*Thousands of Sprouts, an experimental online exhibition – by Elizabeth Ross  Nov 2018

* On Paper Supreme, Gwangju Art Museum Beijing Creative Centre Songzhuang Nov- Dec 2018

*China Europe Internaitional Contemporary Art Global Tour Shanghai Oct 2018

*An Irish Airman foresees his Death – Hamilton Gallery Sligo, Ireland June – Nov 2018

*On Paper Supreme, Extension Space, Shenyang, Liaoning,  Sept 16th – Oct 21st  2018

*Artist Nomination Exhibition, Huaiyin art gallery, Huai ‘an shi, Jiangsu, July-Aug 2018

*On Paper Supreme, Ordos Culture and Art Centre , Inner Mongolia , Aug 17th – Sept 10th  2018

*International Abstract Art , ChungChuen College, Jinan, July 2018

* On Paper Supreme, QingDao , Tiantai Art Centre, June 2018

* Existence , International Feminist Art Exhibition,  Mezzi Bookstore Art Space , Changsha

* Excavations 20 April-4th June  He Gallery, Golf Club.

*’Mortgaged Time’ 21st- 29th April at Red Gate Gallery , 798 Beijing  April 21st

*’Excavations’ 12-18th Enjoy Museum 798,  Beijing   preview 5 pm 12th April

* 5 week residency at Guanlan Printmaking base , Shenzhen (Feb-March 2018)

*Lunar New Year theme exhibition “Red Fruit” showing at Raycom IT centre, Zhongguancun,  28th Jan continues to March 3rd, organised by RoveArt , supporting the Female Protection Fund.

*Chinese & Foreign Visual Arts Hunan,  at the Meixi Academy Book Complex, Changsha Dec 26th to Jan 26th 2018.

* ‘Beyond Time’  Raycom IT Centre, Zhongguangcun, Beijing Dec – Jan 27th  2018

*”Qualitative Phase and The Narrative” Beijing Film Academy Triennial Exhibition at Dong Yue Art Museum, Beijing, curated by Li Zhen till Dec 18th 2017…………………………………………….

 

由此及彼——中(国)爱(尔兰)女艺术家邀请展 The Pattern That Connects Sept 2020
Wuxi Bund Art Centre “Silent Explosion”
My interview with Today Art Museum and Today Art Media on the COVID era

Recent Interview , click on above image April 2020

Link to newspaper coverage -Carlow Nationalist (click on image)

In Her Eyes, F&E 100x100cm acrylic on canvas, 倪芙瑞莲Niamh Cunningham 2019

Silent Explosion
‘China-Ireland’ exhibition Shanghai Nov 29th 2019

China Ireland exhibition at MUSEu&m, Shanghai , opening Nov 29th

‘Whirls in the Old’ in New York at the exhibition ‘1919’

1919-Whirls in the Old Terezin acrylic on canvas 30x30cm Niamh Cunningham 2019

Gobi Heaven Art Festival August 2019

Participating in the International Artists program for this exciting event in the Gobi Dessert

Jul.Aug 2019 Group Exhibition , Hamilton Gallery , Sligo, Ireland and also Sept 2019 at the Irish Consulate Offices , Park Ave NYC
Granary Art exhibition SiShui Shandong June 2019

Granary Art Exhibition SiSHui , Shangdong June 2019 click on image

Swim Duck Video …30 sec clip of original work recently shown at Bloomsday event at Embassy of Ireland Niamh Cunningham 2019
clip from Swim Duck video Niamh Cunningham 2019

Clip from 'Swim Duck' Video by Niamh Cunningham 2019

Group exhibition in Sishui, Shangdong 正在展出

Granary Art Museum , Sishui, Jining , Shandong

April /May 2019 in Budapest 近期展出匈牙利

Currently showing in Budapest Aprli- May 2019

Wandering Rocks series of portraits 游岩系列
Web Of Fabulous Grass – Sucrose Series Click on image for Artist Profile English &简体中文
Talk on James Joyce at Bookworm with prof Fu Hao 乔伊斯座谈会
Aritst Talk on James Joyce at Beijing Bookworm

Talk on James Joyce at Bookwork Beijing April 2019

Map and Territory project Nov -Dec 2018 at Beijing Geely University
Map and Territory

Map and Territory

Artist talk at Beijing Geely College Dec 11th 2018
-.On Paper Supreme made its final exhibition for 2018 in Beijing Songzhuang opening Nov 16th
Group exhibition Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Hamilton Gallery Sligo - Lonely Impulse 2

A response to WB Yeats poem 'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death'

Group show Oct 27th Shanghai Bund 27 The House of Roosevelt House , the Bund Shanghai
With curator Guo Zhen at the opening of Existence in Changsha , exhibition continues till end of July 2018

和策展人郭桢在开幕式《存在》

Recent ‘At your Leisure’ Summer exhibition Jiangsu “悠游“——淮阴艺术馆
exhibited in Jinan curated by Ma Yi Ying
简体中文Artist Interview & Profile for the Art Project ‘Existence’
Group exhibition at Red Gate in April 2018 focussing on antiwar poet Ingeborg Bachmann
Niamh Cunningham 'Bachmann Girl' 2017

Artwork for poster is 'Bachmann Girl' 100x100cm Acrylic on Canvas by Niamh Cunningham 2017

Recent Posts
Excavations showing at Enjoy Museum 798 April 2018

Excavations , a cross collaborative exhibition showing contemporary art by Chinese and Irish artists , showing in Enjoy Museum, 798 , 2018.4.12

Very honoured to have Irish Ambassador Eoin O’ Leary visit Chinese New Year exhibition “Red & Fruit”

Irish Ambassador Eoin O'Leary with subway paintings at Raycom Centre exhibition Feb 2018

The Grand Canal (Hangzhou to Beijing) artist residency(August 2021) and exhibition (Oct 2021)

RTE interview on preparing for upcoming group exhibition 2 min clip

Currently showing as part of the Common Threads project, at EPIC Irish Emigration Museum , Dublin

Feb 1 -14th , 2023