About Huiqin
Huiqin Wang is a Chinese-Slovenian artist: painter, calligrapher, book illustrator, and author. She was born in Nantong, China in 1955. She graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Nanjing Faculty of Education. In 1983, Wang came to Slovenia where she specialized in graphic arts and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She lives and works in Ljubljana.
She represents an extremely precious addition to Slovenian multiculturalism. She lives the Asian-European experience in her own way, as a sensitive creator that unites ontological experiences of the Western and Eastern painting traditions with the intimate experience of a displaced person-woman. In 2005, the Slovenian Times chose her for the cultural personality of the year. She represented Slovenian artists at the entry of Slovenia into the European Union and exhibited in Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Austria, and Germany.
For inquiries about her work, please contact Equrna Gallery.
AWARDS
2023 Nomination for the Alma Award, Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Italy
2023 LGBT Film Festival, Ljubljana, Pink Dragon Award for best Slovenian short film
202114th Biennal of Slovenian Illustration, Special Compliment
2015Ljubljana Mayor’s Award: City of Ljubljana Award
2015The Golden Pear Award
2014Kristina Brenkova Award
2008International Ex Tempore, Piran, Slovenia
2005Guest Star – Slovenia Times
1993Hinko Smrekar Distinction
1993Levstik Award
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Connecting the World with Keyboards, Beijing Capital Library, Beijing
2023 Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein and his monument, Ljubljana
2023 Exhibition at the Gallery of the Department of Art Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana
2023 Alma Maximiliana Karlin, Haus am Dom, Fankfurt, Germany
2021 14th Slovenian Biennial of Illustration (Illustration Collection UGM), Ljubljana
2020Huiqin Wang, Little Alma on the Big Road, Gallery FDV, Ljubljana
2020Huiqin Wang, Alma potuje okrog sveta naprej, Slovenian Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana
2020 Unforgettable, 26th City of Women, Vegova Street Galery – Tam-Tam, Ljubljana
2020Treasures of Slovene Creativity, Nanjing Museum and Xi’an Qujiang Museum, China
2019Study Exhibition of Nantong Phenomenon in Chinese Fine Arts of the 20th Century, Nantong
2019S27th Biennial of Illustrations (BIB) Bratislava, Slovakia
201913th Slovenian Biennial of Illustration, Cankar Centre Gallery, Ljubljana
2019Collection of Illustrations, Šivec House Gallery, Radovljica, Slovenia
2019Black and White, 8th International Festival of Fine Art, Kranj, Slovenia
2019Oriental Ink Charm, Gallery UL PEF, Ljubljana
2019Hallerstein, Slovenian Illustration at Vienna Book Fair, Vienna, Austria
2019Study Exhibition of Nantong Phenomenon in Chinese Fine Arts of the 20th Century, Nantong
2019Eastern Ink Charm, Project funded by Jiangsu Arts Foundation, Ljubljana
2019Dissemination of Silk Road International, Gallery of Nantong University, Nantong, China
201814th International Art Colony, Ljubljana Festival, Slovenia
2017 Kiblix 2017, The Conquer of Babylon, Maribor, Slovenia
2017 Hallerstein and the Silk Road, the Park in front of the Slovenian National Archive, Ljubljana
2017Hallerstein and the Silk Road, United Nations Office at Vienna, Austria
2017 Wazer Charm, Shanghai Duoyun Art Gallery, China
2017 Charm of River and Sea, Graphics Exhibition, Chengdu Yongling Museum, China
2017Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Cultural Institute in Slovenia, Ljubljana
2017Silk Road, National Museum, Ljubljana
2016 Huiqin Wang with Vladimir Leben, On the Horse, Zala Gallery, Ljubljana
2016Hidden Worlds, Exhibion of Artists from China, Historic Atrium of the Town Hall, Ljubljana
2016Crossing borders, San Francisco International Arts Exhibit, USA
20165th International Festival of Fine Art, Kranj, Slovenia
2015Equrna Pop, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana
2014Hallerstein, Slovenian in Forbidden City, Slovenian Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014Hladna lepota, Galerija KRKA, Novo mesto, Slovenia
2013Icons of Socialism (with Metod Frlic), Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013Erozija časa, Galerija Loža, Koper, Slovenia
2012May or May not, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011Everything is possible, The White Box Gallery, Beijing 798, Beijing, China
2010Intertwined path, City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2009Science Meets Art, Ge Yi Gallery, Nantong, China
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 I, Marco Polo; Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga
2015 Giuseppe Castiglione: A Painter in the Forbidden City; Jezero: Morfemplus
2014 Hallerstein: The Foreign Astronomer in the Forbidden City; Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga
2010 Calligraphy as an Art, Scripta, Beletrina
1998 Pursued Memories, Dolenjska založba, Novo mesto
1996 The Most Beautiful Fan, Japanese Fairy Tales, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana
1995Tales from the Roof of the World, Tibetan Tales, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana
1994Chinese Notes, Dolenjska založba, Novo mesto
1991Brocade Image, Tales of Chinese Ethnic Minorities, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana
1986The Call of the Wild, ČZP Kmečki glas, Ljubljana