About

Academic Background
2015-2018 M.A. Art in Context, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
2011-2013 lecturer at Shanghai Film Art Academy, China
2008-2011 M.A. Artistic Designing, Donghua University, China
2009/2010 Exchange Student in Communication Design and New Media, DFI Hamburg, Germany
2004-2008 B.A. Visual Communication, Zhejiang University, China

Grants / Residency
2024 YUI-PORT, 14. Jul. – 12. Aug., Niigata, Japan
2024 Das Mobile Atelier, BBK Bayern, 31. Aug. – 13. Oct., Waldsassen, Germany
2023 Lapis Lazuli: artE, 19. Sep. – 15. Dec., Venice, Italy
2023 NordhalbenAktiv, Artist House Nordhalben (MAX-HAUS), 10. Aug. – 12. Sep., Nordhalben, Germany
2023 Rural encounters, The Donnersbergkreis Art Association, 3. Apr. – 10. Jul., Obermoschel, Germany
2022 31. International Landscape Pleinair „Artists Experience the Lower Oder Valley National Park“. Art Association Schwedt e.V., July, Brandenburg, Germany
2021 City Finds Art. Senate Department for Cultur and Europe, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf District Office of Berlin. May – July, Berlin, Germany
2020 Artist in Rural Area. SV Sparkassen Cultural Foundation Hesse-Thuringia. Sep. – Oct., Ranis, Germany
2016 Context Labor Bernau. The Cultural Office of the city Bernau and Berlin University of the Arts. May – Jul., Bernau, Germany

Art Collection
2025 Fondazione Barovier&Toso Collection, Venice, Italy

Solo Exhibitions
2024 Ranis – Flows, Museum Burg Ranis, Ranis, Germany
2024 Water Impressions – Dialogue between humans and nature, Art House Waldsassen, Germany
2023 What Water Tells, MAXHAUS, Nordhalben, Germany
2023 Waters – Obermoschel, Keiper-Haus, Obermoschel, Germany
2023 Waters – Stetten, Boudier&Koeller, Stetten, Germany
2021 Color Tone in Güntzelkiez, open air exhibition, Leon-Jessel-Platz, Berlin, Germany
2020-2021 See My Voices, Museum Burg Ranis, Ranis, Germany

Group Exhibitions
2025 marehalm ART award, Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll, Germany
2024 Sado Island Galaxy Art Festival, Sado Island, Japan
2024 The Pue Rhine, Fort Paul, Köln, Germany
2024 H2O Venezia : Diari d’acqua / Water Diaries, SPUMA Art Space, Venice, Italy
2024 Drag-On! Gallery Z22, Berlin, Germany
2023 3TageKunst, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Germany
2023 Movements, Galerie Olymp, Berlin, Germany
2022 Pop-Up art exhibition, Octopinns, Berlin, Germany
2022 Water in the Floodplain, Galerie am Kietz, Schwedt/Oder, Germany
2021 The nature I see, Kunstgalerie Lancini, Berlin, Germany
2021 Encounter, “9. Kastler Kunst Tage 2021”, Steinstadel, Kastl, Germany
2021 Self-Portrait 2021, Kunstgalerie Lancini, Berlin, Germany
2019 Tell me your C.A.T., Tête, Berlin, Germany.
2019 Begegnung, “ART | an der Grenze | na granicy”, Art festival, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
2018 “Denk Um & Mach Mit”, Gallery Bernau, Bernau, Germany
2016 On Timing and Duration, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
2016 Unique You, Context Labor Bernau, Bernau, Germany

Projects
2024 Waves of Perception, a reflective and participatory project about water, Niigata, Japan
2023 What Water Tells, an art project about the uniqueness of the waters around Nordhalben, Germany
2022 The Life of The Floodplain, a research project on the border river Oder, Schwedt/Oder, Germany
2022 fair share! Sichtbarkeit für Künstlerinnen, group performance, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2021 Color Tone in Güntzelkiez, participatory research project on the psychological color perceptions associated with residential environments, Berlin, Germany
2020 See My Voices, participatory research project on the psychological color perceptions of urban environments, Ranis, Germany
2017-2018 Interaktiv-Kollektiv-Integrativ, a research report on the establishment of an anti-colonial memorial in the “Afrikanisches Viertel” of Berlin, Germany
2016 Will you stop for “a While”, performance, artistic intervention on the Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany
2016 Meeting Carl Andre, group performance, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
2016 Unique You, participatory art project exploring individual and collective psychology through camera obscura, Bernau, Germany.
2011 Love Creation Love Life, Installation, in Century Park, Shanghai, China.

Awards / Honors
2025 Second Prize – marehalm ART award, Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll, Germany
2011 Outstanding Postgraduate, Shanghai, China
2010 Excellent Work – 2nd Contemporary Photography Competition for Chinese University Students, China
2009/2010 First Prize Scholarship, Donghua University, China
2008 First Prize – 2nd Creative Culture Festival for Graduate Students of Shanghai, China
2008 Outstanding Graduates; Excellent Thesis (design), Zhejiang University, China
2007 Finalist – Creative Achievement Award by the China Creative Studies Institute, China
2007 Second Prize Scholarship, Excellent Student, Zhejiang University, China
2005/2006 Third Prize Scholarship, Excellent Student, Zhejiang University, China
2005 The Third Prize – Psychological Drama Competition, Science Institute, Zhejiang University, China

Catalogue
2024 Xiaosong Wang, ‘有界无境 – 有感于吴佳莹威尼斯之行’ / ‘Boundless’ – Reflections on Jiaying Wu’s Journey to Venice’ / ‘“Senza confini” – Riflessioni sul viaggio di Jiaying Wu a Venezia’, in: Mara Hofmann (ed.), H2O Venezia: Diari d’acqua / Water Diaries, exh. cat. SPUMA – Space for the Arts, Venice, 18 April – 24 Nov. 2024. Milan: Electa, 2024, pp. 100-109, ISBN 9788892825697

Guest lecture
2021 Lecture Performance „Interaktiv-Kollektiv-Integrativ” in frame of the Seminar „Das geleerte Museum: Kuratorische und kunstvermittlerische Strategien der De-Kolonialisierung am Beispiel des Humboldt-Forum (Berlin)“, University Paderborn.
2018 Chinese Calligraphy and Painting, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany.

Publications
2011 Gang Feng; Jiaying Wu, Symbolic Interpretation of Performance, in: Journal of Donghua University (Social Sciences), 2011, ISSN 1009-9034/ CN 31-1848/C
2010 Jiaying Wu, Taoist Landscape Architecture, in: Journal of Henan Science and Technology, 08. 2010, ISSN 1003-5168, p. 230.