Yuning Teng, M.A.

Photo: P. Feuerböther
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- Political Iconography
- Urban Landscape
- Contemporary Chinese Art
Associated Project: A Case Study of Difficult Heritage in China
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Yuning Teng studied art history and film studies at Peking University and is currently a doctoral candidate with the Department of Art History at the Universität Hamburg. Previously, Yuning Teng served as the deputy director of the Center for Visual Studies at Peking University, where she was responsible for the Chinese Modern Art Archive (CMAA) and the Annual of Contemporary Art of China from 2008 to 2022. Additionally, she held the position of Deputy Secretary General at the Wu Zuoren International Foundation of Fine Arts from 2013 to 2022 and served as a member of the Chinese Secretariat of CIHA from 2012 to 2021. In 2016, she acted as the junior chair of the “Landscape and Spectacle” section at the 34th CIHA World Congress in Beijing. She has curated more than twenty exhibitions in and outside of China, including the recent Guangzhou Image Triennale 2021, where she served as co-curator for the Hyperimage Group. Yuning Teng is also a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
Publications
2024
A Short-Lived Challenge to Socialist Realism
Published: Chapter in: Art and Modernism in Socialist China: 57-71, 15 p., Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (Art and Modernism in Socialist China)
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2022
Hyperimage (超图像)
Published: Collected editions and anthologies
Napoleon as a tragic hero in China - from Paul Delaroche's "Napoleon at Fontainebleau" to Chinese illustrations
Published: Book: De Gruyter
2021
A Modern World Garden in the Ancient Temple of Earth - Public Space Designed for Patriotic and Nationalistic Propaganda
Published: Conference contribution - Article for conference in: Art, Design and Society – Global Perspectives: 188-195
Collectivity - rethinking collectivity: re-/de-collectivizing art in action
The re-fabrication of Napoleon in China (1900-1930)
Published: Other
2020
A challenge to socialist realism - Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and others in an unknown 1960 exhibition in China
Published: Chapter in: Das verirrte Kunstwerk / Uwe Fleckner und Elena Tolstichin (Hg.)
2018
Walking (行人) - Xiangqun Lee and His Art (李象群艺术)
Published: Catalogues: Intellectual Property Publishing House (知识产权出版社)
2016
Dispersing the political shadow - constructing and deconstructuing authority in the portraits of Cixi
Published: Chapter in: Hermeneutik des Gesichts / herausgegeben von Uwe Fleckner und Titia Hensel
Activities
2024
"Lenin in the Art Field" or a Formalist Bourgeois? The Reception and Adaptation of Pablo Picasso in 20th Century China
Published: 2024, Presentation/Talk
2021
Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021
Published: 2021, Trade fairs and exhibitions
2018
International Association of Art Critics (AICA) (External organisation)
Published: 2018, Membership in academic networks or partnerships
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