PU Yingwei
Pu Yingwei, (b.1989), Lives and works in Beijing, China. received his BFA from Sichuan Fine Art Institute, DNSEP (MFA with Félicitation du jury) from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Pu Yingwei's work has been defined as an exercise in conceptual art with a strong utopian zeal. He is the artist who interprets the multiple media and identity narratives that he practices in the public sphere as a comprehensive mobilization.
Tan Yongqing
Born in Hebei, China in 1990, Tan Yongqing received his Bachelor's degree in Oil Painting from the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts in 2014 and his M aster's degree in 2016. He taught at Hebei Normal University between 2016-2021 and now lives and works in Shijiazhuang. His paintings always maintain an exploration of the universality and layering of life. The figures in his practice are often presented in a blurred and distorted manner, with a hint of gloom, emptiness, and detachment. At the core is the artist's concern for life consciousness and social issues.
During the creation process, Tan often spends a lot of time repeatedly refining and modifying some details of his works until he finds a subtle feeling close to idealization. In an era when more and more people are pursuing innovations, Tan Yongqing has instead chosen to restrain and converge, a reverse firmness that is rare among post-1990 artists.
Sun Yitian
Sun Yitian was born in Zhejiang, China in 1991. She graduated from the OilPainting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2015 and obtaineda master’s degree in Oil Painting in 2018. Currently, she is pursuing a doctoral degree at the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University and resides and works in Beijing. Sun Yitian is best known for her paintings of mass-produced objects, generally based on staged photographs taken by the artist herself. Lovingly rendered in colorful acrylic paint, the surfaces of the inflatable toys or severed dolls heads—both frequent motifs —shine brightly, often with flecks of reflecting camera lights visible.
The paintings’ aesthetic is a quality of the painting process: Seen up close, the photographic precision dissolves, as the painterly and coloristiceffects created by the artist’s expert application of paint become apparent. Carefully placed to seduce our gaze—to “remove all resistance to perception” in Sun Yitian’s words—the subtlety of this effect allows the works to exist in acontinuously contested realm between representation and abstraction.
Gallery in HAUS is a platform provided for artists, curators galleries and institutions by ART IN SUHE HAUS, which focuses on cultural diversity in the curatorial field. Working together with the curator, each gallery will present a curated exhibition. The exhibition will drive attendance and exposure for participating galleries, both locally and abroad, as well as incubate newer ideas for the Chinese art community.
Art in SUHE HAUS is honored to present the inaugural young artists project, as well as the solo exhibition "Action de Jouissance" of Feng Junyuan. Artist Feng Junyuan's writings and artworks root in the research of urban infrastructure, macro-economics, media criticism, Affect Theory and post-cyber culture, who frequently produces animation based on fictional narratives inspired by science-fiction or anecdotes, and extending to ready-made sculptures and photo realistic renderings of images.
In ART IN SUHE HAUS, Feng Junyuan continues his usual observations and reflections on economic phenomena and graphic technology, researches and explores the state of individual consciousness and spirituality in the era of globalization together with curator Claire Li, attempting to evolve post-cyber consuming aesthetics. By presenting the brand new series "Action de Jouissance", he hints at the truth of emotional labor in the future.