Ou Ning

1969 born in Zhangjiang, Guangdong, China
1993, graduated from Shenzhen University
Founder of U-thèque Organization, Sonic China Productions and Alternative Archive.
Now lives and works in Guangzhou and Beijing.

Fellowship Program

Beijing Case: Culture of the High Speed Urbanism, 2005, German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes)

Visiting Programs

Acadia Summer Art Program, 2005, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
The Japan Foundation Invitation Program 2003 for Art Coordinators from China, 2003, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Yamaguchi, Kokura, Fukuoka

Selected Solo Exhibitions & Screenin

San Yuan Li, 2005, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
San Yuan Li, 2005, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh
Blindness, 2004, Advance Art Center, Shanghai
San Yuan Li, 2004, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing
San Yuan Li, 2003, MK2 Bibliothèque, Paris
Talk Without Speaking, 1999, Libreria Borges, Guangzhou

Selected Group Exhibition

Total Stadt: Beijing Case, 2006, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Contemporary China:Architecture, Arts and Visual Culture,2006, NAI,Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Nederlands Fotomuseum
Celluloid Revolutions, 2006, House of World Culture, Berlin
Never Go Out Without My DV Cam, 2006, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid
Guangzhou: Cantonese Artists in the Sigg Collection, 2006, Kunstmuseum Bern
1st Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, 2005, OCAT
The Second Guangzhou Triennial, 2005, Guangdong Museum of Art
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, 2005
Kunst und Film, 2005, Kunstmuseum Bern
Traveling Outside & Within: 4 Contemporary Chinese Artists, 2005, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, 2005, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA; University at Buffalo Art Galleries, USA
Follow Me! Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium, 2005, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Unspeakable Happiness, 2005, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo,Mexico City
29th Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2005
London Chinese Film Festival 2005, 2005, SOAS, University of London
International Short Film Festival, 2005, Alliance Francaise, Bangkok
Living in Interesting Times: A Decade of New Chinese Photography, 2005, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Israel
Crossovers and Rewrites: Borders over Asia, 2005, World Social Forum 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, Porte Alegro, Brazil
Taiwan International Documentary Festival, 2004
Die Chinesen: Fotografie und Video aus China, 2004, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Reel China, 2004, Yale University, University of California, University of Washington
Seeing China, 2004, Nova Cinema, Brussels
Flip: Chinese Contemporary Book Design, 2004, Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Tätig Sein, 2004, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V. (NGBK) , Berlin
China Now, 2004, Gramercy Theatre, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Traditions and Contradictions: New Video Works from Asia, 2004, Filmtheater 't Hoogt, Utrecht;Argos, Brussels
Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction, 2004, Asia Center, Japan Foundation, Tokyo; Project Space Zip, Darling Art Foundation, Seoul
Fabricated Paradises : Artists from China, 2003, La Parvis Contemporary Art Center, Vidéo K 01, Pau, France
10th Biennial of the Moving Image, 2003, Centre pour I’Image Contemporaine, Genèva
Public Space and Personal Eyes, 2003, Kampnagel, Hamburg
Z.O.U.(Zone of Urgency), 50th Biennale di Venezia, 2003
Gwangju Biennale, 2002
Mirror Images of the Public: The Avantgarde Poster from China, 2001, Hochschule der Kunste Berlin
Living in Time: 29 Contempoary Artists from China, 2001, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin
19th International Biennale of Graphic Design, 2000, Brno

Lectures and Symposiums

Creative Links: Design and Consultation in Urban Regeneration, 2005,Hong Kong Design Centre and British Council
Design for the Poor, 2005, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
The Interaction of Art and Design, 2004, Cheung Kong School of Art & Design, Shantou University
Canton Cinema Retrospective, 2004, Guangdong Museum of Art
The Production of San Yuan Li, 2004, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Post-6th-Generation Chinese Independent Cinema, 2004, Hong Kong University
Nonfiction China: Chinese New Documentary Film, 2003, 2003 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
China Breakz: Contemporary Art, Sound, Film and Video from China Now, 2003, Kyoto Art Center and Japan Foundation (Tokyo)
New Wave of Multimedia, 2001, Sun Yat-sen University and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Alternative Moving Images, 2000, The 3rd Yearlong Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, He Xianning Art Gallery, Shenzhen
Talk without Speaking: Poetry, Music, Film, Culture and Graphic Design, 1999, Shenzhen University

Curated Exhibitions and Events

Alternative Issue, Modern Weekly, theme magazine, 2000-2005
Red Flag Collection: Liu Xiaodong, Zheng Guogu, Sui Jianguo and Liu Wei, artist monographs, 2005, Loft Gallery , Paris
Jia Zhangke: The World, film poster and publication, 2005
Wu Shanzhuan: Red Humour International, artist monograph, 2004, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Float: A Cine Ladder Project by Cao Fei, Chen Xiaoyun, Jiang Zhi and Yang Fudong, exhibition catalogue, 2004, Shanghai Biennale
Excessive, Dense, Speedy, Complex, Empty… But Humane, catalogue, 2004, Argos Festival, Brussels
The San Yuan Li Project, 2003, 50th Biennale di Venezia,
On The Mid-Ground: Selected Texts by Hou Hanru, 2002, Timezone 8
Fabricated Paradises : Artists from China, exhibition catalogue, 2003, La Parvis Contemporary Art Center, Vidéo K 01, Pau, France
Living in Time: 29 Contempoary Artists from China, exhibition catalogue, 2001, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin
Fang Lijun, artist monograph, 2001, Hunan Fine Art Publishing House
Zhou Tiehai, artist monograph, 2000, Hara Museum, Tokyo and ShanghART Gallery
New Sound of Beijing, experimental publication, 1999, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

Writings Published in English

Chinese Design Today, Monthly Design, Vol 232, October 1997, Seoul
Talk Goes On: Interview with Hou Hanru, On The Mid-ground, April 2002, Timezone 8
The U-theque Organization: An End or a Beginning? Yishu, Summer Issue, June 2003, Vancouver
Shadows of Time, Yishu, Spring Issue, March 2004, Vancouver
Revealing Keys To The Riddle Of Reality:Moving Images Of The Pearl River Delta From 1999 To 2003, Yishu, Summer Issue, June 2004, Vancouver
Digital Images and Civic Consciousness, Argos Festival 2004, Catalogue, October 2004, Brussels
Being As Surrealistic as Reality：Chinese Independent Cinema after the Fifth Generation, Metropolis M, October 2004,Amsterdam

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