Jiun-You OU

Statement

The ongoing project "yàn" started with the two inkstones that I used for my calligraphy course when I was a child. Although calligraphy is still an important tradition in the East Asian cultural sphere, nowadays we don’t actually practice it in our daily life. Because of the absence of calligraphy in my current life, I came up with the thought to cut, carve, facet the inkstones intuitionally and spontaneously. Gradually the forms and textures accidentally resemble the characters of calligraphy in a way. Thus, deconstructed functionality and interpreted materiality here deviously become carriers of intertwined traditions, memories, and even identities.

Vita

Ausbildung

2015-2018Master of Fine Arts, Edelstein und Schmuck, Hochschule Trier, DE
2016-2017Erasmus Study, Jewelley and Blacksmithing, Estonian Academy of Arts, EE
2008Vocational training with certificate in silversmithing and jewellery, TW

Berufliche Stationen

since 2009Personal Studio in Taipei (TW) and now in Vienna (AT)

Bedeutende Ausstellungen

2023Duo Solo, "RESONANCE", SCHMUCKE-GALERIE, Berlin, DE
2019Solo, "11", Kunsthalle ART AFFECT & Maler-Zang-Haus, Birkenfeld, DE
2019Duo Solo, "Writing", Galerie Door, Mariaheide, NL

Auszeichnungen

2022Förderpreis, Justus Brinckmann Gesellschaft e.V./ MK&G Freundeskreis, Hamburg, DE
2022Staatspreis, Staatspreis & Förderpreis für das Kunsthandwerk Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz, DE
2014TALENTE Prize, IHM, Munich, DE

Jiun-You OU

Vienna
AUT

https://www.oujiunyou.com