CURRICULUM VITAE
photo by Thomas Wunsch
Art is a Game, a Serious and sometimes Dangerous Game.
Juan Xu
born in Chengdu, Sichuan, graduated from the University of Tübingen in Germany. She is an independent curator and art critic. She is also one of the founders of the Chinese feminist art group "Bald Girls" with a particular focus on Chinese feminist art and women's rights issues. Since 2012, she has curated several controversial "Bald Girls" exhibitions, including "A Door," "Timelag," and "Pink Solution." In 2013, she co-curated the "Social Sculpture—Beuys in China" exhibition with the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum. In 2018, she curated the large-scale Frankfurt art exhibition „Capital@Art·International."
Additionally, she serves as the artistic director of the Wiesbaden/Frankfurt Performance Art Festival in Germany and is the chairman of the German Arts Networking Association (IO Cultural Network e.V.), actively working between Germany and China.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
3/8 Aura -Internationale Women's Art Show
2022
10 Years Bald Girls - Chain Reaction 2022
2021
Bull 2024
WOYESHI /MeToo 2021 NO.1
Becoming A Woman NO.1
Becoming A Woman NO.2
Becoming A Woman NO.3
2020
99 Project: Sharing Crisis
Zero Edge Shift - Europe A
2019
Spectacle International Art Exchange Jiangxi China
The 7th UP-ON International Live Art Festival
2018
"Tianjin Live Art Exhibition" | Tianjin, China
"Ich habe schon alles gesehen" | Frankfurt, Germany
"Performance Day 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
"Capital@Art. international"| Frankfurt, Germany
"Feelings as Facts-Memory as Identity | Tianjin, China
2017
"Feminist Activism in China" | London, England
“Performance Day" | Wiesbaden, Germany
"Art Now Live Tour 3 -Join us to Kassel 2017 |, Kassel Germany
2016
“Performance Day" | Wiesbaden, Germany
2015
“Performance Day" | Wiesbaden, Germany
“Excluded“ Li Xinmo | Wiesbaden, Germany
2014
“Fluxus Time”
An original documentation exhibition of Fluxus Art | Golden Eagle Contemporary Art Space, Nanjing, China.
“Bald Girls Forum“
Feminist Art meets Feminist Activities, Videos, Lectures, discussions, Live Performance | Avantgarde Book Store, Nanjing, China
“Bald Girls – Pink Solution”
Dialogue Exhibition with South American feminists artists of South American | LIA Contemporary, Bogotà, Colombia.
“Bald Girls – Timelag”, “Single Moms” | Woman’s Museum Bonn, Germany
2013
"Social Sculpture: Beuys in China” | CAFA, Beijing, China
"Made in China" | Huantie Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
“Bald Girls - A Door”
A Cross-border Art Show with international artists Mary Bauermeister, Andrea Thal and Mizugumi | Zajia, Beijing, China
2012
“Bald Girls”, The first Chinese Feminist Art | Iberia Contemporary Art Space 798, Beijing, China
2011
"Empty Rooms: The Wiesbaden Architecture Festival Art Exhibition” | Wiesbaden, Germany
2010
“Young Contemporary Art Exhibition" | Berlin, Germany
2009
"Identity", Kaiser & Cream | Frankfurt, Germany
2008
“On the Road" | Wiesbaden, Germany
2007
"Kaleidoscope" | Frankfurt, Germany "
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