Hui Ye (b. Canton, China) is an artist and composer based in Vienna. She studied Composition and Electroacoustic Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2004–2011), and Digital Arts and TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2010–2018).
Working across video, sound installation, and sonic composition, her artistic practice explores the intersections of sound, history, and identity. Central to her work is listening—understood as a political, social, and emotional act that shapes both collective and individual experience. Her recent research focuses on the voice and its diverse forms of vocalisation, ranging from human and machinic speech to spiritual practices such as chanting and mediumistic channelling. Ye investigates how aural memory and sonic expression operate as agents of self-articulation, reflection, and the reclamation of histories marginalized by institutional narratives.
Hui Ye is co-founder of Mai Ling, a queer-feminist collective of Asian artists, and a member of Vienna Secession. Her works have been recently presented at the 25th Biennale of Sydney, Manifesta 15 Barcelona (with radio SLUMBER), Kunsthalle Wien, Belvedere 21 Vienna, Jim Thompson Art Center Bangkok, Lothringer 13 Halle Munich, Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum Shanghai, and the Times Museum Guangzhou, China.

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Prize | Nomination | Scholarship

2022 Braunschweig Projects Scholarship by Braunschweig University of Art and the Federal State
of Lower Saxony Germany
2020 Nomination of Follow Fluxus Wiesbaden Grant 2020
2019 Nomination of Kardinal-König Art Prize 2019
2018 Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018
2017 Jury selection of Japan Media Arts Festival
2015 State scholarship for composers by BKA – Austrian Federal Chancellery of Art and Culture
2012 Start scholarship for young artists by BMUKK – Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Art and Culture
2007 Laureate of Theodor-Körner Fonds Austria

Artist in Residence

2025 Current Plans, Hongkong
2022 SHAPE+ residency (co-hosted by Musikprotokoll), Austria/Germany
2018 Times Museum | Guangzhou, China.
2017 The Swatch Art Peace Hotel | Shanghai, China;
2016 Barim | Gwangju, South Korea

Teaching & Research Experiences 

2024-2025 Artist and researcher at MDW – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Spirits in Complexity – Making kin with experimental music systems, Artistic research project (conducted by Thomas Grill ) supported by FWF
of Lower Saxony Germany
2018-22 Artist and researcher at MDW – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Creative (Mis)Understanding – Methodologies of Inspiration, Artistic research project (conducted by Weiya Lin & Johannes Kretz) supported by FWF
2016-19 Guest lecture at GAFA – Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts