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Curator Dr. Huang Mei
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Dr. Huang Mei was born in Hengyang, Hunan province. She graduated from Peking University where she had studied
aesthetics under Master Li Zehou. In 1997, Dr. Huang received her doctor’s degree in art education from Goethe University
Frankfurt am Main. She is an international curator, a scholar as well as a writer and translator, and has been living in Germany
for more than twenty years. In 2009, she led the cultural project within the large scale project “Germany and China Moving
Together- into Wuhan Hubei”. Currently she is the president of the non-profit FIAKE e.V. and the manager of the Three Monks
economics and art education center.
Since 2002, Dr. Huang has been holding the cross-cultural event “German and Chinese Youth Art Festival” in Berlin, which is
now taking place for the 16th time. Major television channels such as CCTV and several German channels have reported about the
event. Since 2003, Dr. Huang has also been directing “Ode to Joy – 100 Concerts”. After the event had been held over 82 times and
for more than ten years in major Chinese cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Luoyang, Wuhan, Wuxi, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, in
2015 it first arrived on the island Hainan and was continued there in 2016.
In 2013, Dr. Huang’s autobiographical novel “Marital Right to Speak” was published in China and stirred up discussions about
cross-cultural existence and development. Different news media gave the book extensive amount of coverage.
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As Curator:
1. December 2016, A Dialogue between Tan Ping and Luciano Castelli, Zurich, Helmhaus, Switzerland.
2. December 2016, "The Harbor of the Soul" Haitian festival of European oil painting exhibition, Haikou and Sanya, Hainan Province
3. September 2016, Dunhuang Fair World Oil Painting Exhibition, Dunhuang, Gansu Province
4. March 2016, Shanghai Oil Painting Sculpture Academy Art Museum, A Dialogue between Tan Ping and Luciano Castelli, Shanghai
5. May 2015, “Oriental Abstraction VS Western Figuration”, Dialogue between Tan Ping and Luciano Castelli, Beijing China Art Museum, Beijing
6. June 2015, Today Art Museum, Russian artist Sergey Dozhd solo exhibition, Beijing
7. October 2015, Hong Kong's first World Female Artists Exhibition, Hong Kong
8. May 2013, Exhaustion - Germany New Performance Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing
9. September 2009, German contemporary art exhibition, Wuhan
10. June 2006, Sino - German Contemporary Art Forum & Exchange Exhibition, Beijing
Monographs, translations, essays:
1. 2017, "Introduction to the History of Art", editor Hans Belting, Peking University Press (forthcoming), 400,000 words, more than 70 illustrations
2. 2013, curation and album "Exhaustion: German New Expressionism / Contemporary Art"
3. 2011, translation of the exhibition collection "Exhibition Practice Handbook", Wolfger Pöhlmann, Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House
4. 2009, co-curation and co-editing of album “German Contemporary Art Exhibition", Hubei Fine Arts Publishing
5. 2006, co-curation of the German-Chinese “Line of Vision – 2006 Contemporary Art Exhibition” and co-editor of "Globalization and Local
Characteristics in Art" (articles, art collection)
6. 2000, monograph: "German Art Education", Hunan Art Press, 200,000 words, more than 30 illustrations
7. 1998, German monograph about Chinese primary school art education: comparison with Germany, emphasis on cultural background analysis.
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