Photo by Eukin Dong

Ou(欧盐酸) is a material artist and interdisciplinary designer from Chongqing, China, currently living and working in Berlin. Her work is often devoted to exploring new connections between materials and the senses, especially sound, as well as expanding the potential for more contemplation of the details of ordinary life.

Exhibitions
2017 Image of the material & material of the image, Chengxi Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
2020 "NYLON Art festivel", Shijiangzhuang
2020 “LICHTBLICK”, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
2020 “X-RAY”, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
2020 "Fest der Dinge", Milan Design Week, Milan (postiponed)
2020 “Zoöp” - Publication in Venice Biennale, Venice (postiponed)
2021 "Migratory Birds 300", Aranya Theather Festival, Hebei
2021 "West by Southwest", INVOLVED Art Space, Chongqing
2022 "aboveonethousand- exporations in ceramics and glass", Salone de Mobile, Milan
2022~2023 "glass - hand formed matter", Bröhan-Museum, Berlin, Germany; The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finnland; the glass factory boda, Boda, Sweden; The Museum Baruther Glashütte, Baruth, Germany; kunststiftung sachsen-anhalt, Halle (Saale), Germany
2022~2023 "Wasser und Wein", KunstForum, Gotha; kunststiftung sachsen-anhalt, Halle (Saale); The Museum Baruther Glashütte, Baruth
2023 Residency on Boat - Artists exchange project with "Migratory Birds 300", London, UK
2023 Canal Dream Art Festival "Connecting - Boat of Visual Art", London, UK
2024 "Thick Description", Absent Gallery, online
2024 "Labyrinth 迷宫", Absent Gallery & 粮仓, Guangdong
2024 residency "Casa de Saúde do Telhal - Estúdio de Arte", Lisbon

Awards
2014 Works collected by the Foundation Department (CAFA, Design):
“Color Basis” “Material Experiment”
2014 “Design for middle school“ Sculpture competition: “Wind and Rain”
2016 Excellent student work: “Movebile”
2017 Designnova Design competition: “The Smell of time”
2021 finalist of the Signature Art Prize 2020/21

Education
09/2013~06/2017 China Central Academy of Fine Arts, BA
10/2018~04/2022 Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, MA

Experiences
09/2015~10/2015 UNION_DESIGN, intern
09/2016~01/2017 China ArtBattle, freelancer
10/2016~12/2016 Benwu Studio, intern
02/2017~09/2018 Shanghai Epoch Media, freelancer
09/2017~08/2018 Benwu Studio, designer
04/2021~05/2022 ARCHIMEDES EXHIBITIONS Berlin, Werkstudent / freelancer
06/2022~now PEELSPHERE, chief designer, project manager