Peixuan Qiu / MAOYI

(b, 1993, CN)
maoyiorwhat@gmail.com
Rotterdam, NL

My practice predominantly revolves around concepts of ephemeral
communication, autonomy, anonymity in the digital realm, and somatic interdependency. These themes are often exam through the mediums of video, sound installations, and performance.

Over the past two years, video has become a central medium in my artisti research on somatic-technology. My video works, framed as essayistic explorations on the interiority of the moving images, seek to unravel intricate connections and power relation between the observer and the observed. These video employ a visual language of collage -imperfect images, found footage, distortion, and hyper-detail -creating snapshots of theory in perpetual motion.

I obtained a Master in Art Praxis from the Dutch Art Institute in 2022, and currently am part of the BAK Cell, Utrecht, in the Fellowship for Situated Practice 2023-2024. I am also a founding member of the queer feminist collective Q-Space in Beijing (established in 2016), a collective that I am still a key part of. In 2022, I became a member of Soupspoon collective based in Rotterdam, attempting to cultivate a common, Asian contextualized space for the particularities that elude translation, [and] it aims to convene a generative forum of “minor gestures” and “micro politics.”.

Exhibitions

2024 December - 2025 January Solo exhibition, at Imaginary Z, Hangzhou, China

2024 July
“research interrupt” group exhibition, BAK fellowship for Situated Practice. At BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

2024 April 19-21
“Salon’24”, Group exhibition,
At South Explorer, Rotterdam, NL.

2023 April 21st-23rd.
“Conditioned Listening“,
exhibition in collaboration with Tomi Hilsee.
At Available & the Rat, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

2022 December 8th-15th
“Dialetics of arrival”, group exhibition. At Goethe Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

2022 August 22nd-23rd.
“Fruiting bodies”, group exhibition. At BACO(Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna), Orto botanical, Bergamo, Italy.

Performances/Screenings

2024 July
“The Child of All Demos” public screening, at Available & the Rat, Rotterdam, NL

2024 June
“Momentum” public screening pro- gram, at Imaginary Z, Hangzhou, China

2023 October 28th
“Paranoiaaa”live performance, at Pa- viljoen an het Water, Rotterdam, NL

2023 June 8th.
“Thresholding” live performance, at

OT301, Amsterdam, NL. 2023 February 5th.
“Rifts” live performance,
At HAU 2. Berlin, Germany.

2022 July.
“Thresholding: to the limit of an arriv- al” video installation and live perfor- mance. At Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy.

2022 June 3rd.
“under_score #1” public screening, Performing Art Forum(PAF), at St. Erme, France.

2021 November -2022 April. “Symphony of Intimacies” live per- formances, in the frame of “SENSE – Geographies of Perception“at DAAD Gallery, and Radial System, Berlin, Germany.

2019 September.
“Queering safer space”.Lecture per- formance.
At Independent Art Space Fes- tivel(IAS), Beijing, China.

Grants/Residency

2025 September - October Residency at TABC project space, Donostia, Basque Country, Spain

2024 April-June
Grant by CBK atistic contribution, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

2023 October -2024 June
BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice. At BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

2023 July 24th -August 12th.
Color Block (Ten) artist residency Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen, Germancy.

2023 July-August.
Rib, residency.
Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

2023 February.
Artist in Transit at Studio Plesungan. Solo, Java, Indonesia.
2023 January 27th - February 5th. CTM MusicMakers Hacklab.
Silent Green, Berlin, Germany.

2022 September - December. Geothe investigating Residency. Goethe Institute, Rotterdam, NL.

2021-2022,
Droom en Daad.
Project fund for ‘Queer shape’ Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Public presentation/

talks/symposiums

2024 June Soupspoon zine launch, in collaboration with TENT X Read- ing Room Rotterdam.
At Kiosk Rotterdam, NL

2024 April
Guiding Collectivity workshops, Au- tonomous practice WDKA X Rood- kapje, Rotterdam, NL

2024 March, 2023 September
’So Happy Together’ Sympa-Sym-

posium, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

2023 September 2nd-3rd
‘As if You Could Kill Time Without Injuring Eternity’,
Soupspoon 24h marathon.
At Rib, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

2023 July 24th -August 12th. Mentor, workshop facilitator, Color Block (Ten) artist residency At Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen, Germancy.

2023 July 14th - 16th.
Non-Native Native Fiar.
At Framer Framed, Amsterdam, the Netherlads.

2023 June
External supervisor at Graduation exam of autonomous practice
at WDKA, Rotterdam, NL

2022 December. Errotic Orbits Vol.2 With Derek Di Fabio, Azul De Monte, Raffia Li, Ioana Lupascu.
At KioskRotterdam, Rotterdam.

Sound Works

2024 January 14th ‘Toxic Inher- itance’. WET, Rotterdam, the Nether- lands. Clementine Edwards.

2023 October
Shaking Shame, Frascati theater, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Melyn Chow.

2023 October 6th
Pollination / Pollution, Subcultcha Sprout Issue 14 release, at Perdu theater, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Sound design for Clementine Ed- wards.

2023 February 9th
‘The Good Falling’, Het Wilde Weten. Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

2023 January 11th-14th.
“I happen to be doing this for you” Sound and video installation. Frascati Theater. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Melyn Chow.

2022 November.
“VV” Performance, In the Track of “Welcome to our Guesthouse” At

Theater Rotterdam. The Netherlands. Melyn Chow.

2022 January 28th- April 30th. “Seasonal Neighbours, Our Invisible Hands”
At Z33 House for Contempo- rary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium. Ioana Lupascu.

Collective Research

2024 March-Dcember
Soupspoon x Tent x Reading Room Rotterdam. Hoted at varies location in Rotterdam, NL.

Publication/texts

2024 June 15th
Soupspoon Zine Launch
At Kiosk Rotterdam, In collaboration w/ Reading Room Rotterdam,
Tent, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

2022 Disappointment Letter. Girls Like Us #14

2021 “For Tear & Tears”
Chusma calendar, CHUSMA 2.0, A Coalition of Gossip,
At Dutch Art Institute.

2021 Subtropical Asia Guest writer https://subtropicalasia.de/