Born in Shanghai, 1991
Vemo today lives and works between Berlin and Zürich.
Her studies around the whole globe, art in Switzerland and USA – MFA, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste 2016-2018, BFA Painting Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore 2012, and journalism in Morocco SIT Field Study in Journalism and New Media | Rabat Morocco 2012, gave her the chance of travel.
Travel and intercultural exchanges are the basis of Vemo’s artistic research, and of her interest on our relationship with the surrounding spatial environments.
Born in Shanghai, 1991
Vemo today lives and works between Berlin and Zürich.
Her studies around the whole globe, art in Switzerland and USA – MFA, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste 2016-2018, BFA Painting Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore 2012, and journalism in Morocco SIT Field Study in Journalism and New Media | Rabat Morocco 2012, gave her the chance of travel.
Travel and intercultural exchanges are the basis of Vemo’s artistic research, and of her interest on our relationship with the surrounding spatial environments.
Vemo Hang is a young artist from Shanghai that lives and works in Berlin and Zürich. Her diverse, playful and paint artistic practice is driven by an inquiry about our relationship with the surrounding spatial environments.
She was born in 1991 in Shanghai, lived afterwards in Japan, the U.S., Germany and Switzerland. Her art is deeply influenced by her experience of extensive traveling, at the moment consisting of site and room-specific installations and paintings about Shanshui/Landscapes.
The works inquire not only our common spatial notions but also those about shifting spaces, space as potentiality, movement-created, continual, heterotrophic spaces and at last simply about our experience and perception formed through a place.
From 2017, Vemo began to work intensively with the concept of playing inventively the Go/ Weiqi game in various interior spaces. Creating painted sculptures 30 times larger than the original game pieces, she use her painted Goes, together with marking in rooms with colored tape and process-oriented mural drawings, to explore the invisible, relational, effectual and potential spaces at given sites. On the other hand, contemplation on the notion of landscape also began to emerge and become central to Vemo’s artistic practice.
For Vemo, a space becomes a landscape at the presence of a witness, an “I”. A change between two possible positions of “I”, one that spectates and the other surrendered to the effects of experience, is both a negotiation of distance and a movement as much of the body and of our knowing (better is the German word Erkennen). “What moves the body returns as a movement of thought,” as it is said by Erin Manning. Vemo Hang’s work is eventually an act, which stretches a space into a potential, a potential into entrances, and those entrances invite movements that search for new equilibrium.
2019
MFA Zhdk | Zurich, CH
Enigmatic Utopia | Kang Contemporary, Berlin, DE
2018
Positions Art Fair, Berlin | Booth Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin
Natura Mirabilis | Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin
2017
(TRANS) MEDIAL DRAWING AND PAINTING | Kustraum ZHDK, Zürich
Layers of Tension | Postbahnhof, Berliner Art Week, Berlin, Germany
Showcase| Camden Arts Center, London, UK
Open Studio | Slade Research Center, London UK
Aki House| aki Gallery, Kath. Hochschulgemeinde Aki, Zürich, Switzerland
2016
Experimental Drawing| Connecting Space, Hongkong
2015
Exhibition Pop up: Vemo Hang| Tapir Lab, Berlin, Germany
Emerging Artists Exhibition| Berlin Blue Art space,Berlin Germany
Blickpunkt| Takt Gallery, Berlim, Germany
Hyper Hyper| Spinnereirundgang, Leipzig, Germany
“II”|Das Japanische haus, Leipzig, Germany
“didididieh”|Piloten Kueche, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2014
Galéria FOYER| Pešieho Pluku, Nitra, Slovakia
Multipoint| Gallery of Constantine University, Nitra, Slovakia
Open House| Your Mom’s Agency, Berlin
Multipoint”| Gallery of Constantine University, Nitra, Slovakia.
2018 Positions Berlin, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin with Luisa Catucci Gallery
2017 Berliner Liste, Postbahnhof, Berlin
2017 London Summer Intensive, Slade school of art, London, UK
2015 Piloten Küche International Artist residency, Leipzig, Germany
2014 “Multipoint” artist residency, Nitra, Slovakia
2012 Photographs for article: “Women”; “The People of Sbaa Rouadi, Morocco”, Round Earth Media.