SUN Minqi

SUN Minqi was born in 1988 in Shanghai and studied at the China Academy of Art and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. She currently lives and works between Stuttgart and Shanghai.

Her practice explores the subtle vibrations between the everyday and the psyche, employing painting, sculpture, and installation to construct imaginative spatial narratives. She investigates the relationships between emotion, consciousness, and states of being, while engaging in context-sensitive deconstruction and disruption of space. Core themes in her work include the imagination of intimate spaces, the possibilities of human–space interaction, the overlap of dreams and reality, and the tracing of memory.

Sun’s recent work revolves around the concept of the “house” as an inner space – a site where memory, dreams, and identity sediment. In her view, “home” is not a fixed location, but a fragile structure woven from imagination, experience, and emotion – an intermediary realm suspended between body and soul, reality and fantasy.

Within her often surreal and poetic visual worlds, scenes emerge that are both familiar and strange. Through observation, participation, and lingering, viewers encounter a sense of “in-between-ness”: a metaphor for memory, imagination, and transience. The act of looking at the everyday becomes a search for connection and an attempt at understanding – a pursuit always shadowed by misinterpretation.

These works invite audiences to consider the “house” as an open narrative space—a site where intimacy and distance, protection and exposure, self and other are continuously renegotiated.