Yuning Teng, M.A.
Photo: P. Feuerböther
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- Political Iconography
- Urban Landscape
- Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art
Associated Project: A Case Study of Difficult Heritage in China
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Yuning Teng is a postdoctoral researcher at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, affiliated with the ERC Consolidator Grant project “Art Academies in China: Global Histories and Institutional Practices (CHINACADEMY).” She completed her doctoral dissertation at the Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Universität Hamburg, entitled “The Public Park as a Traveling Concept: Visual Transformations from an Imperial Altar to Jingzhao Park in 1920s Beijing.” She previously studied art history and film studies at Peking University (BA and MA).
Yuning Teng served as a research associate and lecturer at the Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Universität Hamburg (2022–2025), and as 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 served as Deputy Secretary General at the Wu Zuoren International Foundation of Fine Arts (2013–2022) and as a member of the Chinese Secretariat of CIHA (2012–2021). In 2016, she served as 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).
