Nini Sum

Nini Sum is a visionary mixed media artist from Shanghai deeply rooted in the world of screen printing. Her art pushes boundaries and includes experimentation with a diverse range of media such as collage, larger-than-life murals and public art.

Together with the German artist Gregor Koerting, she founded China's first independent screen printing studio IdleBeats in Shanghai in 2010, which became particularly popular in Shanghai's young music and cultural scene.

Nini Sum, For the betterment of well people, IdleBeats, 2022 © Nini Sum

Sampling fragments of the human cultural process: ancient Greek statues of Hercules, prayer flags of Tibetan Buddhist temples, turbans of Arab boys, nose wings of Gandhara stone statues, and natural forces that cross cultural and time boundaries: earth, moon, desert, flying birds , Nini Sum collages a spiritually flowing surreal world. The open story line inspires a spiritual fusion that spans dynasties, regions, beliefs and species. Here the animism perception passes through the barrier of ideologies, the mind is free and everything is soulful and alive.

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Nini Sum, For the betterment of well people, IdleBeats, 2022 © Nini Sum

This introduction to awareness - natural liberation through naked perception - has been composed for the sake of future generations, the sentient beings of a degenerate age. You are one of us.

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Participating in abC - Art Book In China, 2021