CV

Ma Yongfeng

Currently lives and works in Berlin

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025  Everything That Rises Must Converge, Juraplatz, Biel, Switzerland

2014  Suspending, Jiali Gallery,Beijing

2013  Everything That Rises Must Converge, Organhaus, Chongqing

2012   INVEST IN CONTRADICTION, Social Sensibility Research & Development   

      Program, Bernard Controls

      Performance pubblica "Micro Resistance" , Piazza Verdi, Bologna, Italy

2007  The Cretaceous Period, Artsway, Hampshire, UK

2006  Becoming Landscape , Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Invisible Networks, Moos Space, Berlin

Anarchic Art Practices in China under AI Socialism, TIER-The Institute for Endemic Research, Berlin

Recommonizing Cyberspace, c-base, Berlin

Video, Sound and Performance, Molt + OHM, Berlin

2023

No one is an Island, Niemand its eine Insel, Halle 6, Munich

examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Berlin Uferhallen

2022

No-mad. Rooted in becoming, International Video Art Festival, Konzepthaus Laboratorium, Thun, Switzerland

2020

examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Museum on the Seam Jerusalem & Pyramida Art Center Haifa

2019

Reverberation from Crystallised Revolution, tête, Berlin

China Boom!! LiTE-HAUS and Pantocrátor, Berlin

examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Gallery Waidspeicher and Kulturhof at Güldenen Krönbacken, Erfurt, Germany

Light Year 41: Ephemeral Movements, Manhattan Bridge, New York

30 Years – Looking Back to the Red Tiananmen, tête, Berlin

Berlin Perspectives, coGalleries, Berlin

On The Road 2019, Guanshanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen

2018

examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Ehemalige Volkshochschule, Bonn, Germany

Mitte Media Festival 2018, Fata Morgana/coGalleries, Berlin

Babel VII, Babelsbergerstr. 52

a burning giraffe, coGalleries, Berlin

Ethical Principle and Assembly Zone in Social Intervention, Cache Space, Beijing

Ephemeral Movements, Light Year, New York

2017

Precariat’s Meeting, McaM Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai

Zone of Collaboration, Shenzhen Central Park

Unknown Future, NIU Art Space,Shijiazhuang,Hebei

Gaze at Hong Kong, Big Space

You Really Know Where You Are. For the First Time in History, Unicorn Center for Art,Beijing

Partial Archive,Yell Space, Shanghai

Independent Art Spaces 2017, I:Project Space, Beijing

2016

Hypertext, 1House, Beijing

Residents:Recruitment, Boxes Art Space,Shenzhen

The Politics of Display: Curating and its Public - Curators in China Speak About Their Practice, I: project space, Yellow Mountain Foundation and CAFA Art Museum

It is exactly as if it had never happened, Alternative Culture Making Space,Shenzhen & 1House,Beijing

TO GAZE & TO DETACH, 1House,Beijing

On Camera: Chinese Experimental Video, AMNUA, Nanjing

2015

Temporary Residence Permit, Unicorn Centre for Art, Beijing

TEMPORARY BOUNDARY - A survey on China censured videos and photographs, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium

Live At Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing

The 1st Edition of Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennale, Changjiang Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing

examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, rauchmuseum, Freudenberg am Main, Germany

Consciousness and Reconstruction-from Yan’an Woodcarving to Anonymous Practices,  Xi’an Art Museum

ENOUGH OF ART, FUCK ART, espace Cinko, Paris

2014

Conforming to Vicinity-A Cross-strait four-region Artistic Exchange Project 2014, He Xiangning Art Museum; University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong ; Macao Museum of Art; Pingtung Art Museum

¡Ejemplos a seguir! expediciones en estética y sostenibilidad, Galeria Ignacio Merino, Museo Metropolitano Lima

examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Zeche Zollverein in Essen, Germany

2013

examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Memorial da América Latina
& Galeria Marta Traba, Sao Paulo, Brazil & Capilla del Arte UDLAP, Puebla, Mexico

Atypical, Gallery Beijing Space

Strolling in Heiqiao at Night, Beijing

All Can Be Meat, All Can Be Eaten, Songzhuang Art Festival

14th Open International Performance Festival, Space Station

SAYIZHENG, Rundeli Market

2012

WO BU SHUFU / I'M NOT SO WELL / NON MI SENTO TANTO BENE, Nowhere Gallery, Milano, Italy

Virtual Voices: Approaching Social Media and Art in China, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada

examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing 

Conscious Folly, am art space, Shanghai

2011

Not Only A Taoist Troublemaker, Za.project, Beijing

GLOBAL HOUSE, kunsthalle gwangju & Spinnerei Leipzig

ALIBI, Linda Gallery, Beijing

THE THIRD PARTY – An exhibition in Three Acts Act 3: "THE THIRD PARTY – A GROUP CELEBRATION!"  Platform China,Beijing

Memory_Identity, MK2 Art Space, Beijing

The Folded Plane, Mingyuan Art Center, Shanghai

2010

Dongxi-Things, Kunstverein Baden, Vienna, Austria

Flower of Chaos, Veneto Videoart Archive & ArtVerona, Italy

No Soul For Sale - Festival of Independents, Tate Modern

Get It Louder, Sanlitun SOHO, Beijing & 800 Show, Shanghai

Future Vision - The APT Global Art Collection, Li Space, Beijing

Two Sides of the Same Coin - Project Infrasound Round II, Pure Art Space

2009

Blank Screen, re-C Art Space, Chengdu

Express Through Images, Pure Space, Beijing

Crossing Landscapes the environment in international video art, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

2008

Digital Safari: International 'New Media' Exhibition,The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University

Digital Passages: Journey Beyond Reality's Threshold，Yuanfen New Media Art Space，Beijing

The Evolution of Concept:Ten Years’ Retrospection & Expection of Chinese Conceptual Photography,798 Times Space,Beijing

2007

The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, UK

Dragon’s Evolution, ChinaSquare Art Center, New York

Rejected Collection, Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai

FESTIVAL de Performance Pasage de la Paz, Off*Ample, Barcelona, Spain

2006

The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center at MOMA, New York &

Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing

Ruins: New Photography and Video from China at Inova，

Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

VideoZone3: The 3rd International Video-Art Biennial in Israel, The Center for Contemporary Art，Tel Aviv, Israel

2005

China Action 1-2, Centre chorégraphique national de Tours, France
Videonale 10 , Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

2004

How Can You Resist? Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2003

Videobrasil :The 14th International Electronic Art Festival, SaoPaulo

Bare Androgyny, Beijing

Art Focus 4, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Underground Prisoner’s Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Grants, Awards & Fellowships

“PRODUCTION” Residency Scheme, Chinese Arts Centre & ArtSway, UK

Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

14th Annual Asian Artists Fellowship, VSC Freeman Foundation, USA

Residency & Visiting Artist Program

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK

ArtSway, Hampshire, UK

Vermont Studio Center, USA

The Arts Institute at Bournemouth,UK

Next Wave Festival 2012, Melbourne, Australia