OU Jiun-You (歐軍佑) is a Taiwanese artist currently living and working in Vienna (AT) and Taipei (TW).
As an experienced lithic-based practitioner and a recent sound explorer, Ou's current research expands through material investigation, sonic–spatial methodologies, and mediational forms of working. She is particularly interested in how unconventional and seemingly problematic methodologies result in a personal or collective odyssey. Stone, space, and landscape operate as relational sites within her practice, composing weighty objects, floating sound, and an atlas.
After graduating from National Taiwan University (TW) with a BA in Political Science-International Relations, Ou began her largely self-taught exploration of raw material-based practices. While working and teaching in the field of metalsmithing for a few years, an encounter with stone led her to move to Germany and study at the Hochschule Trier, Campus Idar-Oberstein (DE), and later through the Erasmus exchange at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EE). Ou received her MFA in 2018 and later live and work in Karlsruhe (DE) and Vienna (AT) to continue her stone-based and interdisciplinary research.
Ou has been awarded Grassipreis der Carl und Anneliese Goerdeler-Stiftung 2023 (DE), Justus Brinckmann Förderpreis 2022 (DE), Staatspreis für das Kunsthandwerk Rheinland-Pfalz 2022 (DE), TALENTE Prize 2014 (DE), among others. She is also the recipient of Annual Regular Grants from the National Foundation for Culture and Art (TW), Ariadnestipendium (DE), Deutschlandstipendium (DE), Residency Grants of the Ministry of Culture (TW), the Scholarship from the Ministry of Education (TW), etc. She was the artist in residency in Centro Internazionale di Scultura 2024 (CH), Jakob Bengel Industriedenkmal 2020 (DE), Ministry of Culture's Residency Program for Cultural Professionals Abroad: Anderson Ranch Arts Center/New York City in 2015 (US), and so forth.
Her works are in the public collections of Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst (DE), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (DE), Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum (NO), Fondazione Internazionale per la Scultura (CH), Taiwan Fine Arts Foundation (TW), as well as in private collections, mainly in Europe and Asia. Ou's works are also widely exhibited, such as at Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (DE), Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf (DE), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (DE), Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (EE), Imatra Art Museum (FI), Kuopio Art Museum (FI), National Design & Craft Gallery (IE), The Museum of Arts & Crafts ITAMI (JP), Museum Arnhem (NL), Künstlerhaus (AT), Funkhaus Wien (AT), Vienna Art Week (AT), and more.
As an experienced lithic-based practitioner and a recent sound explorer, Ou's current research expands through material investigation, sonic–spatial methodologies, and mediational forms of working. She is particularly interested in how unconventional and seemingly problematic methodologies result in a personal or collective odyssey. Stone, space, and landscape operate as relational sites within her practice, composing weighty objects, floating sound, and an atlas.
After graduating from National Taiwan University (TW) with a BA in Political Science-International Relations, Ou began her largely self-taught exploration of raw material-based practices. While working and teaching in the field of metalsmithing for a few years, an encounter with stone led her to move to Germany and study at the Hochschule Trier, Campus Idar-Oberstein (DE), and later through the Erasmus exchange at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EE). Ou received her MFA in 2018 and later live and work in Karlsruhe (DE) and Vienna (AT) to continue her stone-based and interdisciplinary research.
Ou has been awarded Grassipreis der Carl und Anneliese Goerdeler-Stiftung 2023 (DE), Justus Brinckmann Förderpreis 2022 (DE), Staatspreis für das Kunsthandwerk Rheinland-Pfalz 2022 (DE), TALENTE Prize 2014 (DE), among others. She is also the recipient of Annual Regular Grants from the National Foundation for Culture and Art (TW), Ariadnestipendium (DE), Deutschlandstipendium (DE), Residency Grants of the Ministry of Culture (TW), the Scholarship from the Ministry of Education (TW), etc. She was the artist in residency in Centro Internazionale di Scultura 2024 (CH), Jakob Bengel Industriedenkmal 2020 (DE), Ministry of Culture's Residency Program for Cultural Professionals Abroad: Anderson Ranch Arts Center/New York City in 2015 (US), and so forth.
Her works are in the public collections of Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst (DE), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (DE), Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum (NO), Fondazione Internazionale per la Scultura (CH), Taiwan Fine Arts Foundation (TW), as well as in private collections, mainly in Europe and Asia. Ou's works are also widely exhibited, such as at Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (DE), Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf (DE), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (DE), Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (EE), Imatra Art Museum (FI), Kuopio Art Museum (FI), National Design & Craft Gallery (IE), The Museum of Arts & Crafts ITAMI (JP), Museum Arnhem (NL), Künstlerhaus (AT), Funkhaus Wien (AT), Vienna Art Week (AT), and more.
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