GET IT LOUDER (UK Exhibits)
London Guest City programme of Beijing Design Week
Talking Innovation
Design UK Front Page
IYDEY 2007 Award
IYDEY 2006 Award
Design in the UK
Ou Ning
As a graphic designer, Ou Ning is perhaps best known for his seminal book New Sound of Beijing (1999) which helped define the capital's emerging rock scene, and the experimental magazine Bie Ce(2000-2006) he edited and designed for Modern Media Group. As a curator, he co-founded the large-scale touring biennale Get It Louder in 2005, and organized a sound project at Battersea Power Station, London in 2006 for Serpentine Gallery. As an artist, he has organized such urban research and documentation projects as San Yuan Li, showed at 50th Biennale di Venezia (2003); MoMA, New York (2004); Mori Museum, Tokyo (2005); House of World Culture, Berlin (2006) and more recently Da Zha Lan, sponsored by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, showed at NAi, Rotterdam (2006); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2006); MoMA, New York (2006); San Francisco Art Institute (2007) . He is a writer, blogger and lecturer. He is also the founder of U-thèque, an independent film and video organization; and Alternative Archive, a platform for alternative cultural activities. He was born in 1969, lived and worked in Guangzhou until September 2006, when he moved to Beijing.
