Works

 

ARTIST

 

Gu You

Born in Hunan, China, based in Berlin and Beijing. 


After her FBA studies at the Beijing Film Academy, she moved to Berlin, and fifinished her six years study at the Berlin University of Arts in 2021. 


She grew up in a period of rapid social and economic development along with cultural fusion, and was deeply inflfluenced by cinema, music, comics and literature. Guided by her own experiences and the journeys made between the East and the West, her creative inspiration and focus/theme selection continually derives from her life experience in contrasting environments as well as her observation and reflflection thereof. With her works, she probes into the veiled historical and cultural convictions, contradictions and fifinally individual mentalities behind human behaviour. 


The dominant medium of her artistic practice is photography that engages in peculiar photography printing techniques. For her, photography is like a slice extracted from a complete story, of which she tells her own account, but also leaving the audience with a relatively open thinking space (to fifill in the blanks). — Using an unconventional technique, she allows the pixels to ripple, resulting in a morphed image of the original content. Through the undulations of these new visual elements, the meaning of the photograph becomes blurred. This transformation has a two-fold signifificance to her; on one hand this is a mirroring her cognitive habitat, and on the other, it is a welcoming entry point for the beholder to create similarly unique and personal interpretations.


Education & Teaching (Selected)

2014 - 2021 

 

Diploma Course, Berlin University of Arts, class of Prof. Josephine Pryde

2009-2013

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Beijing Film Academy, class of Prof. Liu Xuguang


Awards / Grants (Selected)

2021

Nominierung, 25.Bundeswettbewerb, Bundespreis für Kunststudierenden, 

Germany 

2020

Studienabschluss-Stipendium des DAAD, Berlin 

2018

New Media Art Triennial Academy Award, Beijing, China 

2017

Anerkennungspreis, IBB-Preis für Photographie 2017, Berlin, Germany  


Exhibitions (Selected)

2019

Knock Down The Duvet, Kronenboden, Berlin, Germany


Digital Image of Contemporary Chinese Young Artists, Lang Museum, Qingdao, 

China

2018

Auf der Jagd nach dem Nierenstein, West Berlin, Berlin, Germany 


The Structure of the Dimension: Fields of Contemporary Art, Kerry · HABITAT, Qin 

Huangdao, China 

2017

Iteration and Blending—The Fourth Beijing Film Academy New Media Art Triennial, Enjoy-Art Museum, Beijing, China 


IBB-Preis für Photographie, Investitionsbank Berlin, Berlin, Germany 


Imaginäre Portraits & Objekte, Köppe Contemporary, Berlin, Germany 


SEEN BY #8, Museum für Fotografie Berlin, Berlin, Germany 

2015Class Exhibition of Prof. Josephine Pryde, UdK, Berlin, Germany 
2013

The Third Beijing Film Academy New Media Art Triennial, 4D Space, Beijing, 

China 

2012

Inkubator, 4D Space, Beijing, China 


Undefined, Xia Gu Shu Yu Space, Beijing, China