Ying Xu
Biography
Xu Ying, born in Shanghai, lives and works in Switzerland.
Her practice centers on the resonance between body and consciousness, exploring the subtle relationships among personal experience, cultural memory, and the passage of time. Painting remains the foundation of her work—a way of perceiving, reflecting, and tracing emotion through form. Through depictions of the human body, she examines how social and cultural imprints are inscribed upon the flesh, shaping both identity and perception.
Now living in Switzerland, Xu carries within her the experiences and sensibilities formed during her life in China. This dual awareness allows her to observe and understand the world from shifting perspectives, infusing her practice with both distance and intimacy. Her works move between vulnerability and strength, conformity and self-definition—becoming visual meditations on belonging and transformation.
In recent years, she has extended her practice to textiles, found fabrics, and modest everyday materials. She approaches Mending as a Manner—not merely as an act of repair, but as a way of thinking, of attending to the quiet dialogue between time, memory, and existence. In this ongoing project, sewing becomes a contemplative philosophy: a non-violent gesture of care, reflection, and renewal.
Through this restrained yet sensuous language, Xu Ying reveals that truth does not arise from perfection, but from the slow and tender process of mending—an intimate cultivation of being.
Member of VisarteSwitzerland
Board member of Vebikus Kunstverein
Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Member of Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Ausstellungsverzeichnis
- 2025: In Her Own Words Zürich,Schweiz
- 2025: Kunst im Saratz , Saratz, Pontresina, Switzerland
- 2025: < Luxese-Textilkunst zwischen Luxus und Askese> Muri, Aargau,Schweiz
- 2025: < Being...>Einzelausstellung, Zürich,Schweiz
- 2024: < Room For Obsessions > gruppenausstellung under the Summer Camp program, Rote Fabrik, Zürich
- 2024: < UnSaid > gruppenausstellung, Zürich,Schweiz
- 2024: < Goldrausch > Zürich, Schweiz
- 2023: < IRRITATION-eine maximale Verwirrung> Berlin, Germany
- 2023: FATart FairSchaffhausen, Schweiz
- 2023: < schiefrhmen > gruppenausstellung, Kammgarn West, Schaffhausen, Schweiz
- 2023:<Irritation - The Art Of Getting Lost > ein KooperationsprojektVebikus Kunsthalle, Verein Berliner Künstler, Female Artist Table
- 2023: <Das Flicklabor / The Mending Laboratory> ein Kooperationsprojekt mit Das Feministisch Kapital,Vebikus Kunsthalle, Schaffhausen, Schweiz
- 2023: < fermé - ouvert > Vebikus Kunsthalle, Schaffhausen,Switzerland
- 2022: jurierte Ausstellung
ERNTE22 Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
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2022:Einzelaustellung <Double
Visions>, Heimatmuseum Reinach, Basel, Switzerland -
2022: Sommerintermezzo, Vebikus Kunsthalle Schaffhausen, Schweiz
- 2022: FACETTE, Stadtgalerie Baliere, Frauenfeld, Schweiz
- 2021: ouvert:mit_Abstand,
- Vebikus Kunsthalle Schaffhausen, Schweiz www.vebikus.ch/
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2019: HTWL. DER TWIEL IM BLICK
Gruppenausstellung, Kunst Museum
Singen, Deutschland - 2018: Zwischen Licht und Schatten - Altes Handwerk | Zünfte | Laterne. Haus
Appenzell Zürich, Schweiz
- 2018:Scenery Of Mind, Einzelausstellung, Galerie am Platz, Eglisau, Schweiz
- 2017: AUFIMMER,AUF DAUER,AUF ZEIT-Neues zur Kunst am Bodensee, Gruppenausstellung, Kunstmuseum Singen, Deutschland
- 2016: Einzelausstellung,YING XU,Galerie Mera Schaffhausen, Schweiz
- 2015:ERNTE15, Gruppenausstellung, Museum zum Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Schweiz
- 2014:Einzelausstellung,Femin/Inner Feeling, Galerie Mera Schaffhausen, Schweiz
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2013: ERNTE13 Gruppenausstellung, Museum zum Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Schweiz
- 2010: Vision Shenzhen, Gruppenausstellung, GuanShan Yue Art museum, Shenzhen, China
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2004: < Shenzhen Realistic Oil Painting
>, Gruppenausstellung, GuanShan Yue Art museum, Shenzhen, China
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2002: Art Forum Lantern of the East, International Gruppenausstellung, Seoul, Korea
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2002: 11th PyongTaek International Art Festival, Gruppenausstellung, PyongTaek, Korea
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2001: World of Nine Artists, Gruppenausstellung, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
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2000: Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen,China
- 1998: Art Now, Gruppenausstellung, Museun of Contemporary Art, Peking, China
- 1998:Oil Painting Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing,China
- 1994: Academy Art Exhibition, Gruppenausstellung CAFA Art Museum, Peking, China.
Ausbildung
- 1994 – 1998: Universität der Kunst, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Abteilung der Malerei in Peking, China. (Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts)
- 1990 – 1994: Kunst Hochschule in Peking, China (Fine Arts School Affiliated to Central Academy of Fine Arts, Peking)
Anstellung, Lehrtätigkeit
- 1999 – 2011: Shenzhen Art School, Shenzhen, China, Anstellung als Hauptlehrerin an der Fakultät der bildenden Künste der Kunsthochschule in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- 2000 bis 2011, private Kunstgewerbe Lehrerin in Shenzhen, China