OU Jiun-You (歐軍佑) is a Taiwanese artist currently living and working in Vienna (AT) and Taipei (TW).
As a longtime stoneworker and recent sound collector, Ou's current research focuses on the intersection of art and (pseudo)science. She is particularly interested in how devious and seemingly problematic methodologies can serendipitously lead to the results that represent one's odyssey. Stone, space, or landscape, resonates with oneself and one's position, composing weighty objects, floating sounds, 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 in 2008. While working and teaching in the field of metalsmithing for a few years, her interest in stone led her to move to Germany and begin studying at the Hochschule Trier, Campus Idar-Oberstein (DE) in 2015, and later through the Erasmus exchange at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EE) from 2016 to 2017. Ou received her MFA in 2018 and then moved to Karlsruhe (DE) and now Vienna (AT) to continue her stone-based practices and interdisciplinary development.
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 was 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), Taiwan Fine Arts Foundation (TW), and so on. 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), and more.
As a longtime stoneworker and recent sound collector, Ou's current research focuses on the intersection of art and (pseudo)science. She is particularly interested in how devious and seemingly problematic methodologies can serendipitously lead to the results that represent one's odyssey. Stone, space, or landscape, resonates with oneself and one's position, composing weighty objects, floating sounds, 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 in 2008. While working and teaching in the field of metalsmithing for a few years, her interest in stone led her to move to Germany and begin studying at the Hochschule Trier, Campus Idar-Oberstein (DE) in 2015, and later through the Erasmus exchange at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EE) from 2016 to 2017. Ou received her MFA in 2018 and then moved to Karlsruhe (DE) and now Vienna (AT) to continue her stone-based practices and interdisciplinary development.
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 was 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), Taiwan Fine Arts Foundation (TW), and so on. 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), and more.
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