Bienne, Switzerland
B.1963
Born in China, Mingjun Luo studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of the 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 Bienne.
Over the year, the exploration of the concepts of identity and memory has always been present in Luo Mingjun’s works. In the interstices between Chinese and Western cultures, face of the changes in ideology and cultural identity brought by the two opposing cultural environments, she has created for herself a middle ground for easy dialogue and communication, a “third space“ where different cultural factors can be fused, filtered, and transformed into a personal style of work.
COLLECTIONS PUBLIQUES & FONDATION
Ville de Bienne / Ville de Berne / Canton de Berne
Musée d’art de Lausanne CH
Musée d’art et l’histoire de Neuchâtel CH
Musée d’art de Pully CH
Museum Zeughaus Rapperswil. CH
Sturzenegger-Stiftung im Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, CH
Fondation Kunsthaus Centre d’art Pasquart, Bienne.CH
Die Mobiliar. CH
Hoffmann La Roche. CH
La Fondation Herzog. CH
Collections Uli Sigg
Banque Nationale Suisse.CH
Banque cantonale de Berne, CH
Banque dello Stato del Cantone Ticino, CH
SRG SSR Idée Suisse, CH
White Rabbit Contemporary se Art Collection, Australia
Morgan Stanley collections
Beijing He jingyuan Art center, Chine
Nanjo Museum of Art, Okinawa, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2024｜No way back, Lechinska Gallery, Switzerland
2024｜Rivers, Gallery Oriane, Munich, Germany
2023｜Drifting Through Eternity, Aye Gallery, Beijing, China
2023｜Tu es je suis, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2022｜MINGJUN LUO : L’autre rivage, Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny, Switzerland
2021｜Border, Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
2020｜On stage, Musee Jurassien des arts, Moutier, Switzerland
2020｜Far away, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2020｜Under the sky, Gallery Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne, Switzerland
2019｜I Walk Beside You, Aye Gallery, Beijing, China
2018｜On stage, Gallery Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2017｜The Path of Time, AYE Gallery, Beijing, China
2017｜Faraway Place, Artscape, Luxembourg
2016｜Here and now, Musee d’art de Pully, Switzerland
2016｜Open the door, Gallery Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2015｜Paper boat, Kunstkeller, Berne, Switzerland
2014｜The third space, Gallery Gisèle Linder Basel, Switzerland
2013｜Close to somewhere, Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny, Switzerland
2012｜Rice, Davel 14, Cully, Switzerland
2012｜Scent of dust, Gallery Gisèle Linder Basel, Switzerland
2011｜Go and back, LDX, Songzhuang, Beijing, China
2011｜Au sud des nuages，Atelier Raynald Métraux, Lausanne, Switzerland
2011｜Brises，Gallery Gisèle Linder Basel, Switzerland
2010｜Ici ou là bas, Kunstkeller, Berne, Switzerland
2009｜Deciphered, Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny, Switzerland
2008｜Red Dust, Kunsthalle Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
2008｜La goutte d’eau dans l’océan, Gallery Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2007｜1&1/2 Alien, Creek Art Center of Shanghai/Beijing, Shanghai/Beijing, China
2006｜Aches, Wenwork, Beijing, China
2001｜Noah ark, Espace Libre Bienne, Switzerland
2000｜MINGJUN LUO, Kunstkeller, Berne, Switzerland
1989｜Break the chinese character, Kunstkeller, Berne, Switzerland
1993｜MINGJUN LUO, Berner Galerie, Berne, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions（Selected）
2024｜The way of Writing, Museum Correr, Venice, Italy
2023｜Chinese Contemporary Art frome the SIGG collection, Songeun Art Museum, South Korea
2022｜Through Frozen Soil, Desert and Glacier, He xingning Art muserum, Shenzhen, China
2021｜On Paper, Museo delle Culture Lugano, Switzerland
2021｜XXL The big drawing, Musée Jenisch Vevey, Switzerland
2021｜On Paper, Museum of Art and History Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2021｜Existence, Wind H Art, Beijing, China
2020｜Salon of Contemporary Printmaking, Wallpaper Museum, Mézlères, Switzerland
2019｜Cartography of the gift, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts Lausanne, Switzerland
2019｜Chinese Art today, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Switzerland
2017｜Blank Cheque, Beijing in Berline, Berline contemporary fine arts, Germany
2017｜The World, Qianxing Art Museum, Changsha, China
2016｜Fundamental - la 5e Biennale des médiations, Poznan, Pologne
2015｜Liberating, Modern Art Museum of St.Petersburg, Russie & Galleri Astley Museum, Sweden
2015｜Des seins à dessein 2015, l’Espace Arlaud Lausanne, Switzerland
2015｜3, Beijing SZ Art Centre, China
2014｜China.Liestal, Biennale XinJiang, China
2014｜china.ch, Kunsthalle Palazzo , Switzerland
2013｜Wunderland 2013, Exposition d’art contemporain au Château de Rue, FR, Switzerland
2012｜This is a women’s world, Kunstmuserum Thun, Switzerland
2012｜Undoing Shuimo, Duolun Art muserum, Shanghai, China
2012｜I am the space where I am, He xingning Art muserum, Shenzhen, China
2011｜Second wind, Pavés dans la mare, Besançon, France
2010｜Now Asian Artist, Busan Biennal, South Korea
2009｜Contemporary Art in Hubei & Hunan1985-2009, Museum of fine Art Guangdong, Chine
2008｜L’art abstrait chinois des 30 dernières années, La Caixa Forum, Espagne
2008｜Liberation feet, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University of New South Wales, Australia
2005｜Dix artistes femmes, Pingyao international photography Festival, China
1999｜Change directory, Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland
1992｜Berner Biennale 1992, Kunsthalle Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
1985｜Fondatrice de “0 Art Group” et participante à l’exposition, changsha, China
1984｜6th se national exhibition, Shenyang, Chine
PUBLICATIONS DANS LE CADRE D'EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES
2016 Here and Now, published on the occasion of my solo exhibition "Here and Now".
presented by the Museum of Art in Pully, Switzerland, from March 3 to May 15, 2016.
Texts by : Bernard Fibicher, Delphine Rivier and Stéphanie Lugon, Edition Till Schaap
2008 Red Dust, published for my solo exhibition “Red Dust”
presentend by Kunsthaus Centre d’art Pasquart, Switzerland, from 29th June to 31st August 2008.
Texts by : Dolores Denaro, Zou Yuejin,erlag für monderne Kunst Nürnberg Edition
2006 1/2 Alien,published for the exhibition “1&1/2 Alien” (Mingjun Luo & René Zäch)
at Creek Art Center of Shanghai/Beijing, Shanghai/Beijing Chine in 2006/2007, Published by the artist Texts by : Bernard Fibicher, Liaowen, Chen Tong
PRICE/AWARD
2017 Scholarship "here and elsewhere" Canton of Bern, Switzerland
2012 Travel grant, Canton of Berne, Switzerland
2008 Women Art Prize, Berne, Switzerland
1994/1996 Bourse Anderfuhren, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
1984 Hunan Province Award, China
