Born in China, Mingjun Luo studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Hunan Normal University between 1979 and 1983. As an assistant-teacher of drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts, she was awarded the Hunan Province Prize in 1984. In 1985, she founded the "0 Art Group", a collective of avant-garde artists, with her fellow students. She arrived in Switzerland in 1987 and settled in Biel.
From then on, she regularly exhibited in the canton of Berne and was awarded the Ernst Anderfurhen Prize in 1994 and 1996, the Frauenkunstpreis Berne in 2008 and the "Here and Elsewhere" grant from the canton of Berne in 2017. The personal exhibitions that marked her career took place in 2006 at the Creek Art Center in Shanghai, in 2008 at the Centre Pasquart in Bienne and in 2016 at the Musée d'art de Pully. Represented by Galerie Gisèle Linder in Basel, she has had numerous group exhibitions, including Sur papier at the Musuem of art and history of Neuchâtel (2021), Chinese Contemporary Art in Hubei & Hunan 1985-2009 at the Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts in China (2009) and The Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstract Art at CaixaForum in Madrid (2008).
Mingjun Luo's practice is an exploration of notions of identity and memory. Torn between Chinese and Western culture, she sees her work as a "third space", a hybrid and fertile ground where she feeds off different traditions and develops her own language, in a continuous movement between Asia and the West.
Since 2007, she has sought to capture the elusive aspect of memory in drawings based on family archives. Oscillating between reality and memory, the evanescent images evoke faded photographs, traces of a personal past.
Selected Solo Exhibitions: | |
2022 | Luo Mingjun,Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny, CH |
2021 | Border,Kunstverein Konstanz,KonstanzDE |
2020 | En scène,Musee Jurassien des arts, Moutier CH Lointains,;Gallery Gisèle Linder, Basel, Under the sky,Gallery Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne, |
2019 | I walk beside you, AYE Gallery, Beijing, China |
2018 | En scène, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland |
2017 | The Path of Time – Luo Minjun Solo Exhibition, AYE Gallery, Beijing, China Faraway Place – Luo Minjun Solo Exhibition, Artscape, Luxembourg |
2016 | Here and now, Musee d’art de Pully, Pully, Switzerland Open the door, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland |
2015 | A Paper Boat, Kunstkeller Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
2014 | The Third Space, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland GUAN XI, Aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium |
2013 | Close To Somewhere, Foundation Louis Moret, Martigny, Switzerland |
2012 | Rice, Davel 14, Cully, Switzerland Perfume of the Dust, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland Dust, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China |
2011 | Go and Back, LDX Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China Breeze, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland South of the Clouds, Atelier Raynald Métraux, Lausanne, Switzerland |
2010 | Here or There, Kunstkeller Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
2009 | Still Remember, Galerie Pretty land, Krefeld, Germany Deciphered, Foundation Louis Moret, Martigny, Switzerland |
2008 | The Red Dust, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland One Drop in the Ocean, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland |
2007 | 1/2 Alien, Creek Art Centre, Shanghai, China |
Selected Group Exhibitions: | |
2022 | “Sur Papier ”Museo delle Culture Lugano.CH |
2021 | “XXL Le dessin en grand ”;Musée Jenisch Vevey.CH; “Sur Papier ”Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Neuchâtel.CH “Existence”, Wind H Art, Beijing Chine |
2020 | “Salon de l’Estampe Contemporaine ” Musée du papier peint, Mézlères.CH |
2019 | “Cantonale Berne Jura ” Kunsthaus Centre d’art Pasquart, CH “Cartographie du don” Musée cantonal des beaux-arts Lausanne. CH “Chinese Art today”,Kunsthaus Interlaken, CH “Art Geneve”,“Art Basel Hongkong” “Art 50 Basel”, “Art 021 Shanghai” |
2018 | “d’Effacement(s)”, Galerie C, CH “Cantonale Berne Jura ” Espace d’art contemporain (les halles), Musée jurassien des Arts |
2017 | Black Cheque - AYE Gallery Beijing in Berlin, CFA, Berlin, Germany |
2016 | Fundamental - the 5th Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland My Art, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland |
2015 | Des seins à dessein, Foundation Francine Delacrétaz, Lausanne, Switzerland Liberating: the past from present - Contemporary Art in China, SZ Art Centre, Beijing, China; Gallery Astley Museum, Sweden; Diaghilev Modern Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 3, Beijing SZ Art Centre, China |
2014 | XinJiang Biennale, Urumqi, China PLATEFORME(S), Centre d’art Contemporain Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland China.ch, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland, Accrochage [Vaud 2014], Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland Cantonale Berne Jura 2014/2015, Centre PasquArt, Beil / Kunsthaus Interlaken, Switzerland |
2013 | One Meter Square·Situation, Linda Gallery, Beijing, China Wonderland 2013, Château de Rue, Freiburg, Switzerland Portrait, Gallery C, Neuchatel, Switzerland Ander fuhren Art Prints, Foundation Ander Fuhren, Biel, Switzerland |
2012 | This is a women’s world, Kunstmuserum Thun, Switzerland Undoing Shuimo, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China I am the space where I am-Swiss Women’s Contemporary Art Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Journée des photographes, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Fireflies, Aeroplastic contemporary, Brussels, Belgium Quo Vadis, Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Paris-Martigny, because the card is more important than the territory, Foundation Louis Moret, Martigny, Switzerland; Paris, France |
2011 | Accrochage [Vaud 2011], Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland Second Breaths, Regional School of Fine Arts, Besançon, France |
2010 | Busan Biennial: Now Asian Artist, Busan, Korea TRAFFIC LIVE, Shanghai, China Invisible City - Shanghai Metro Public Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China |
2009 | Chinese Abstract Art in Last 30 year, La Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain Contemporary Art in Hubei&Hunan 1985-2009, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China The Faces of the Industry, Musée des beaux-arts Le Locle, Switzerland |
2008 | Liberation Feet, International Drawing Research Institute (IDRI), Australia Summer Time, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland Paper, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland Miniaturization, Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland |
2007 | Carte Blanche, Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, Switzerland Self-taught Society - Exhibition in Deviation, Fei Contemporary Art Centre, Shanghai, China |