Huiqin Wang (1955, Nantong) is a Chinese-Slovenian artist. She completed her studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Nanjing Pedagogical University. In 1983, she participated in the Graphic Biennale in Ljubljana and has lived and worked in Slovenia ever since. She continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, where she graduated in 1986 with a degree in printmaking and in 1991 with a specialization in painting. She also advanced her studies at the Minerva Academy in Groningen, the Netherlands. Since 2000, she has been working in the field of contemporary art. She thematically combines the cultures and histories of the East and the West. She creates in the medium of installation, performance, video installation, painting, illustration, print and photography. The multi-awarded artist has presented herself at numerous exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad. In 2010, the City Art Gallery Ljubljana held a major retrospective exhibition, Huiqin Wang: An Interwoven Path. She teaches painting at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana.
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Production: Huiqin Wang, Andrej Kamnik , 2022
The animated film is about an unique artist and writer, a multilingual cosmopolitan and world-traveller, Alma Karlin (1889-1950), about her youth, her stay in Japan and her work and life there. The film summarizes her personality and part of Alma Karlin's...
Production: KID KIBLA, 2009
In her long artistic practice, the artist pays special attention to preserving the memory of significant historical figures who built a bridge between East and West and are part of our shared world heritage. For several years, she devoted herself to the r...
Production: KID KIBLA, Obalne galerije Piran, 2008
In collaboration with the dancer Maja Pučl, Huiqin Wang performed the multimedia performance Emptiness/Living Calligraphy in the Loža Gallery in Koper (co-production with KID Kibla, 2008). The project included dance, calligraphy and video scre...
Production: KID KIBLA, 2007
In conjunction with the Living Calligraphy/Melting exhibition in 2007 in Maribor’s KiBela, in collaboration with several artists, Huiqin Wang prepared a movement-art performance that combines traditional art forms with contemporary ones: d...