Shi Yong was born in Shanghai in 1963. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Shanghai Light Industrial School. Shi Yong is a representative figure of contemporary Chinese artists who first s
Zhou Zixi created his characteristic approach of allegorical narrative, absurd visual expression and subtle landscape line drawing, and unceasingly pursued hidden facts through his works. He presents
Born in 1977, lives and works in Shanghai.
Xu Zhen has been considered as an iconic figure in Chinese contemporary art. His practice covers various media such as photography, installations, video,
Tang Maohong simultaneously references and undermines art history and popular culture. He has integrated a variety of visual elements and subject matters, producing works that inhabit the ever-blurred
YANG Zhenzhong (b. 1968) is an artist from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, currently based in Shanghai. YANG’s artistic practice mainly focuses on conceptual art, involving video, photography, installati
Liang Yue was born in Shanghai in 1979. She graduated from the Shanghai Art Academy in 2001. Now she lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Recent exhibitions include: Wang Xingwei in Shanghai 2002-2008,
Liu Weijian (b.1981) lives and works in Shanghai. He graduated from Shanghai Normal University of Art (2005).
Liu Weijian has defined his cold and recondite way of “social narration” through his e
Shao Yi's meticulously made objects operate on the threshold between sculpture, installation art etc. In many of the works, the unexpected combination of stylistically distinct objects and material su
Shi Qing, born in 1969 in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, lived and worked in Beijing for almost two decades before moving to Shanghai.
Shi Qing's work is hard to categorize and always evolves in both med
Excerpted from The Spirit of Contemporary Art: 100 Interviews (Lu Xinghua, edit)
The artwork only provides a framework for interpretation.
- Georges Didi-Huberman
Sha Yue: Your artwork Disg
“Art is alien.” (XU ZHEN®)
ShanghART Gallery is pleased to present XU ZHEN®’s solo exhibition: “Alien” in May 2018. This exhibition presents the large-scale installations XU ZHEN® made especially
1996
ShanghART Portman
In the early summer of 1996, after having organised several art projects and exhibitions at different places, ShanghART established its first stable space in the lobby of S
"Shanghai is a totally different city from other cities where I lived. It's not like Wuxi, or the north of China, which is where I'm from. Shanghai is not a typical Chinese city. For me, when I first
Singapore, August 2016 - ShanghART artist collective BIRDHEAD (SONG Tao and JI Weiyu), started their six-month Southeast Asia Residency program from July 2016. They scheduled to travel around Thailand
Opening: 5th June 2016 16:00-19:00
Duration: 6th June 2016 – 31th July 2016
Address: ShanghART S-Space, Seven Star East Street, 798 Art Zone, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
ShanghART S-Space is pleased to present a special project- Landscape by the artist group Birdhead on 5th June, 2016. The exhibition will last till 31th August, 2016. The first implement of this landsc
Xu Zhen (Produced by MadeIn Company) is pleased to present Corporate, a solo exhibition of the artist at Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. The exhibition, in cooperation with steirischer herbst, is curated by
Let’s begin by discussing MadeIn, the “contemporary art creation company” you founded in 2009. How is it structured? !at makes the company different from a production workshop like Murakami's Hiropon
http://www.shanghartgallery.com/texts/awsj-yangfudong.html
"Estranged Paradise" begins with a slow, elegant montage of hands: first, scrambling through the water of a tank to capture a
Shi Yong, born in 1963 in Shanghai, is a prominent figure in the contemporary art world in China. Since 1992, his works and practice - experimental, rational and pioneering - largely influenced the ar
HONG KONG — Xu Zhen, one of the leading lights of Shanghai’s explosive contemporary art scene, opens “Twenty,” his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong at PMQ on March 10, coinciding with this year’s Ar
Opening: April 12th, 2015, 16:00-18:00
Duration: April 13th to May 17th, 2015, 11:00-18:00(Closed on Mondays)
Venue: ShanghART Beijing, No.261 Cao Chang Di,Old AirportRd.,Chaoyang District
Contact:
ShanghART Gallery Beijing is pleased to present SHAO Yi Solo Exhibition: Totem Producing from April 12th to May 17th 2015, which is his first solo exhibition in Beijing. The exhibition will show the a
ShanghART Singapore is pleased to invite you to One Afternoon…| ZHOU Zixi solo exhibition from 24 May to 7 July 2014.
“After a long time has passed, when we look back down the road we’ve travelled
Opening : 30th April 2014, 21:30 - End
Duration : 30th April 2014 to 8th June 2014, 11:00 - 18:00 (Mon. Closed)
Address : ShanghART Beijing, 261 Cao Chang Di, Old Airport Rd., Chaoyang District.
Co
TANG Maohong's solo exhibition will be opened from October 12th, 2013 at ShanghART Beijing and will last until November 17th. It is the first solo exhibition by the artist in Beijing.
Concerning t
Take a stroll late on a Shanghai summer evening, when the traffic drifts fitfully towards sleep and the clouded sky shines with the reflected light of the city, from the neon signs, the apartment towe
XU Zhen - The Last Few Mosquitoes
by Contemporary Art Gallery
This will be the first solo exhibition in Canada for Shanghai based artist Xu Zhen who has emerged as one of the most inventive and p
Contemporary Art has been developed in the last two decades as a matter of business, of economic assets, objects and tastes. Treated as a targeted status symbol, it has kept on flourishing despite the
Song Tao and Ji Weiyu are photographers who live and work in Shanghai. Both were born in Shanghai; Song in 1979 and Ji in 1980. Song and Ji graduated from the Shanghai School of Arts and Crafts in 200
Shi Qing’s new exhibition "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air" is drawing to a close. Shi still holds the strength and intensity of destructive thinking to persistently inspect into various historical c
A lot of ash – A lot of dust
In Chinese the word hui has many meanings -- ash, dust, grey – all of which have neutral undercurrents, a tone which A lot of ash – A lot of dust tries to express. The
July 5th, 2004
Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong, Jin Feng (old), Jin Feng (junior), Tang Maohong, Huang Kui, Shao Yi and Yu Ji from Sichuan came up with the idea of “Delivery” after discussion in a café of
In the beginning of year 2010, a bunch of black suitcases have been sent to ShanghArt Warehouse in the Top art district. These seemingly common suitcases were holding six years ago the artworks of “Di
The Second Guangzhou Triennial
BEYOND: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization
BEYOND: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization
Exhibition: 18 Novembe
Art
In two presentations 'the New Urban Realities' group exhibition and the Xu Zhen solo exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen shows how the latest generation of Chinese artists is reacting to
cctv - Solo Exhibition of ZHANG Qing (2011 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program)
Subsequent to the solo exhibition Mao Yan in Dufftown successfully co-staged by ShanghART Gallery and Glenfiddich
Shi Qing's solo exhibition – Electricity will be shown at bizart Space from 13 to 20 October, 2006. Works are presented in the form of installation, video, and performance. Shi Qing will continue his
Why would Chinese conceptual artist Xu Zhen establish a company? What is the genealogy of his work as an artist and curator that would lead to the decision in 2009 to become the CEO of an enterprise,
Zhang Ding produces intriguing art, which he then dismisses with a gentle smile as "having no meaning." He does acknowledge that his work should induce a "strong feeling," but never lets on exactly wh
BüroFriedrich-berlin is happy to announce the first solo show Interiors of the Chinese artist Zhou Zixi in Germany. Zhou Zixi’s solo project is part in a series of exhibitions BF-b has had since 1998,
Participating artists: Shao Yi, Yang Qingqing, Fei Pingguo, Liu Jianhua, Jiang Zhi, Yang Fudong, Hu Jieming, Ding Yi, Mao Dou, Fan Mingzhu, Lao Mao, Chen Shaoxiong, Zheng Guogu, Liu Wei, He An, Zhu Yu
The People's Republic of China is undergoing a phenomenal transformation. In just a few years, the country has developed into the mecca of the market economy, a place where existing and new cities are
Zhu Yu, Liu Wei, He An, Wu Shanzhuan, Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong, Zhang Ding, Zhang Peili, Chen Xiaoyun, Geng Jianyi
Time: 2005, October 20th - 30th
Venue: Maple-poplar Woods - In Orioles Singing i
PRESS RELEASE
Zhang Enli was born in Jilin Province, China in 1965. He graduated from the Arts & Design Institute of Wuxi Technical University, Wuxi in 1989. Soon after graduating, the artist went on
ILLUMInations – La Biennale di Venezia
Opening June 4 – November 27, 2011
Giardini and Arsenale
Venice
ShanghART Gallery is pleased to announce the participation of Bir
The idea of organizing the contemporary art exhibition, "It's all right", was suddenly decided as we found the perfect exhibition venue: an old factory of the Hu Qing Yu Tang Museum of Traditional Chi
“Sound recorded at different moment of the day in different places of the Hui city Linxia, in Gansu province, are played on speakers mounted on a ball covered with wool blankets.”
Mirafiori Motor Village
Friday, November 9, 7.00 p.m. - Preview of the project and conference
Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Mole Antonelliana
Saturday, November 10, h. 9.00 – 1.00 p.m. – Video Rev
FOCUS SHANGHAI: Lu Chunsheng and Birdhead
Curated by Michelle Loh and Katy Martin
November 18 - December 18, 2010
Opening: Thursday, November 18, 6 - 8:30 pm
Curators' talk: Saturday,
Zhang Qing(Zhang): Let's talk about something interesting, not necessarily related to works. I think it's better to talk about something you care about. As you've been engaged in the art scene for qui
Shanghai's native son Xu Zhen assumes a new identity. He talks to Xhingyu Chen on what the future holds for him.
"MadeIn is not meant to be an obstacle. It is a means to create more interesting wo
‘Landscape’ consists of 5 different platforms that are dedicated to the imagery of Shanghai: Here, the city is captured photographically in a both poetic and realistic form of aesthetic.
From November 26th to December 2nd , Shanghai bizart Art Center will hold the solo exhibition of Zhou Zixi latest painting work.
At the time when Video Art, Installation, Performance Art and Anima
After arriving in Shanghai, Geng Jianyi collected almost 500 used articles in three days, exclusively from people he knew in Shanghai; including furniture, toys, kitchen appliances, bedroom settings a
ShanghART Gallery Beijing is pleased to announce
Geng Jianyi [excessive transition]
April 13, 2008 – May 20, 2008
The exhibition consists of an entirely new series o
We are in a period where it's easy to create idols, and easy to dissipate our admiration for them. Huang Kui shuffles feelings of common people towards big characters, who is the Mr. Big of tomorrow?
Half the artists are selected by international guest curators that we have worked with in some form over the past couple of years. We asked them to select works using the exact same criteria as us: we
I watched Sun Xun's animations in 2005 and see his Mosquito installations in Duolun Museum of Modern Art. Then i heard he teaches in China Academy of Fine Arts(CAFA).The lastest news is that he resign
Battling with heaven is endless joy, fighting with the earth is endless joy, and struggling with human beings is endless joy.
Mao Zedong
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In August, 2005, Xu Zhen, together with his team, re
Zhang Enli's recent idiosyncratic series of paintings signify a mild but crucial resistance to the cult of innovation, transience and contingency. The positioning and depiction of modest everyday obje
Shi Qing's solo exhibition, ElectriCITY, had been held in Shanghai bizart Art Center from October 13th to 20th, 2006, presenting installations, videos and performances. In this exhibition, Shi Qing wi
Location:
Shanghart opens at Portman-Shangri-La Hotel
ShanghART exhibitions (selection):
Exhibition: Ding Yi 15 x RED
Jin Weihong
Tang Guo
ShanghART exhibitions at other places:
Xue Song S
Zhou Tiehai
Zhou Tiehai's conceptual projects represent the artist's vengeance and attitude towards the self-absorbed art market. His work's power to amaze and provoke is the result of a host of st
Within the context of today's international attention and curiosity for Chinese contemporary art, and the hype currently surrounding it, Shanghai-based painter Zhang Enli occupies a very particular po
How Shanghai got its own airport
Philip Tinari
In 1996, the year that Shanghart Gallery opened, artist Zhou Tiehai spent 100,000 Renminbi to make a ten-minute film. Entitled “Will” (its Chinese
Organizer: China Academy of Art, New Media Department
Co-organizer: Shanghai bizart Art Center
Opening: December 15th, 2006, from 17:00 to 20:00
Venue opening hours: December 16th to 20th,
In 1996, the year that Shanghart Gallery opened, artist Zhou Tiehai spent 100,000 Renminbi to make a ten-minute film. Entitled "Will" (its Chinese name actually means "necessity") the film moves at th
Biljana Ciric: When and how did you first start creating animation? What was your intention?
Tang Maohong: Before animation, I tried doing many other art forms. After experimenting with various med
Opening: 18th March 2006, 6 - 9 p.m.
Duration: 18 th March - 29th April , Tue. - Sat. 12 - 6 p.m.
BüroFriedrich-berlin is happy to announce the first solo show Interiors of the Chinese artis
I deal with reality in order to express something that goes beyond reality – Zhang Enli
Born in 1965, Zhang Enli lives and works in Shanghai. His paintings depict the familiar and overlooked, ever
A lot of movement a lot of videos a lot of installations a lot of paintings a lot of photographs a lot of films a lot of curators a lot of artists a lot of theories a lot of art museums a lot of dolla
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The phrase "Light as Fuck", as in the title of Yang Zhenzhong's digital photographic work evokes the ease with which a finger holds the new, feather-light landscape of Shanghai's urban constructi