Jin Liang is a researcher, artist and hobby gardener based in Bremen. Her research and interests are public art, social practice art, community gardens, small-scale projects and urban planning. Her research’s goal is to investigate the question of the social role of artist, who develops urban neighborhoods by a particular work of public art. That is, her artistic practice researches the process of how the public is attracted by a given artwork, how this process influences a local community, and what is the actual nature of these arts and artists. The recent placemaking work in May 2024, Outdoor Wohnzimmer Werkstatt, invited local residents to build their own outdoor living room.
https://www.instagram.com/lucystomatengarten/
Ongoing projects:
2023-present: Mapping a gardencity 2030
2023-present: Kennenlernen-Kiosk at Rotkäppchen Community Garden, Bremen
Closed projects:
2024: Outdoor Wohnzimmer Werkstatt
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
2024-present, Binational Artistic PhD-Program, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Schulz, Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Asli Serbest
University of the Arts Bremen
2022-2023, Fine Arts, guest student
Class Ingo Vetter; University of the Arts Bremen
2020-2022, Integrated Design, Master of Arts
9D Master Studio; University of the Arts Bremen
Thesis: "Public art: How to design waiting space of pediatric clinics with tomato gardening for active communities"
Supervisor: Samuel Nyholm, Martin Schulz
2015-2019, Animation, Bachelor of Arts
Beijing Normal University
Thesis: "Study on the art style of the comic book "Emil and the detectives"
Supervisor: Yan Li
EXHIBITIONS
07/2024, Different Futures Make A Dialogue, (con)Temporary crafts studio, Bremen
04/2024, Tomapril solo exihibition, Umweltcontainer, Bremen
11/2023, Annual exhibition, University of the Arts Bremen, Bremen
07/2023, Illustrated recipes exhibition, Elli Community Garden, Bremen
11/2022, MA exhibition, University of the Arts Bremen, Bremen
06/2022, Humor als Strategy in Art, Dauerwelle ship, Bremen
01/2022, Conditions of a Necessity, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
Photo Copyright: Mara Achenbach
Mapping a gardencity 2030 is a collective temporary intervention during the Lucie community garden´s flea market in 2023, Bremen. Together with two garden members Elke and Linda, we invited the flea market visitors to share their ideas about green spaces in Bremen. Standing on the interactive map of city Bremen, we communicated about how we design the future together, what we need and what are the problems. The visitors could give their statements with color stickers and make notes on the map. This open-ended intervention is still ongoing, the interviews we collected should be evaluated later.
More information: instagram post neustadtbremen
Photo Copyright: Jin Liang
In the spring of 2024, I organized a community event Ourdoor Wohnzimmer Werkstatt 1 in a economically-deprived, multi-ethnic neighborhood in Kattenturm, Bremen, where waste management is always problematic. I gathered residents and invited them to join me and my partner Burhan, who lives as a refugee in Germany, in creating a community garden with upcycled furniture. The event continued for seven days and during the workshop open time socially engaged art course and upcycle furniture course for beginners were offered. The participants had the freedom and opportunity to build their community garden in their own aesthetics, but also to meet other neighbors, to express freely, to exchange, to strengthen their social links through this decision-making and placemaking process. In addition to these workshops, during the last two days of the programs we held a party, exhibition and Café inside our new “community garden”. I applied open-ended methodology, which means everyone could contribute to the program and every result of the placemaking was accepted.
More information: https://vskultur.de/ein-nachbarschaftsexperiment-die-outdoor-wohnzimmer-werkstatt/
Photo Copyright: Jin Liang
In the autumn of 2024, I repeated the community event Ourdoor Wohnzimmer Werkstatt in a economically-deprived, multi-ethnic neighborhood in Kattenturm, Bremen. There were more participants than last time. For instance, people were more actively bringing their ideas and donating old furniture. The photo shows how we tested the cocktail table project with pocketed coil we found in the neighborhood and with the LED fairy lights and plastic transparent board the participants donated.
Photo Copyright: Jin Liang
2023 - present
A place for meeting your new neighbors