About Luo Mingjun

Born in China, Mingjun Luo studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of the Hunan Normal University between 1979 and 1983. As an assistant teacher of drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts, she was awarded the Hunan Province Prize in 1984. In 1985, she founded the "0 Art Group", a collective of avant-garde artists, with her fellow students. She arrived in Switzerland in 1987 and settled in Bienne.     

From then on, she regularly exhibited around the world and was awarded the Ernst Anderfurhen Prize in 1994 and 1996, the Frauenkunstpreis Berne in 2008 and the Here and Elsewhere grant from the Canton of Berne in 2017. The personal exhibitions that marked her career took place in 2006 at the Creek Art Center in Shanghai, in 2008 at the Centre Pasquart in Bienne and in 2016 at the Musée d'art de Pully.      

She has had numerous group exhibitions, including The Way of Writing (Musée des beaux-arts de Correr, Venise 2024), Chinese Contemporary Art - The Sigg Collection (Musée d'art Songeun, Séoul, Corée du Sud, 2023), Through the Tundra, Deserts and Glaciers - The 5th Global Chinese Art Exhibition (Musée d'art He Xiangning, Shenzhen, 2022), Sur papier at the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Neuchâtel (2021), Chinese Contempo-rary Art in Hubei & Hunan 1985-2009 at the Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts in China (2009) and The Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstract Art at CaixaForum in Madrid (2008).

Over the year, the exploration of the concepts of identity and memory has always been present in Luo Mingjun’s works. In the interstices between Chinese and Western cultures, face of the changes in ideology and cultural identity brought by the two opposing cultural environments, she has created for herself a middle ground for easy dialogue and communication, a “third space“ where different cultural factors can be fused, filtered, and transformed into a personal style of work.