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Gao Brothers    (Chinese)

  Gao Brothers - High Place-Sponge (Photographs) h: 95.5 x w: 22 in / h: 242.6 x w: 55.9 cm
Gao Brothers
High Place-Sponge 2005
 
  

Biography
1956 Gao Zhen Born in Jinan,China
1962 Gao Qiang Born in Jinan,China
The Gao Brothers are a pair of artist brothers based in Beijing, the authors of several published works, including“How Far Can You Walk in One Day in Beijing”, “The Current State Of Chinese Avant-Garde Art” and “The Report Of Art Environment”, who have been collaborating on installation, performance, photography works and writing since the mid1980s.Some of their works were published in “A History Of China Modern Art”,” China Avant-garde Photography”, “The Best Photography Of China”,etc,and collected by Chinese and foreign people and museums.

Exhibitions
2007 The Gao Brothers, Box Art Gallery, Verona, Italy (solo)
2007 The Exhibition Of Chinese Contemporary Social Art, The State Tretyakov Museum, Moscow
2007 China Under Construction: Contemporary Art from the People’s Republic, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2007 Another World, Rencontres D'Arles Photography Festival, Arles, France (solo)
2007 The High Place: Gao Brothers Photography and Sculpture Exhibition, Beijing New Art Projects, Beijing (solo)
2007 The Miserable Prostitutes: Gao Brothers Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Gao Brothers Art Center, Space II ,Beijing (solo)
2007 From China with Love: Gao Brothers Photography and Sculpture Exhibition, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
2007 Dragon’s Evolution, China Square, New York
2007 Breathe: Shandong Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shandong Museum, Jinan
2006 Miss Mao: Gao Brothers Sculpture and Photography Exhibition, Krampf/Pei Gallery, New York (solo)
2006 One and Together: Gao Brothers Photography, Moscow House of Photography, Gallery Solyanka, Moscow (solo)
2006 The Passage of Time: Gao Brothers Photography Exhibition, La Galerie Guislain Etats d’ Art, Paris (solo)
2006 The Utopia of Hugging, London, Nottingham, Marseilles (solo)
2006 Trope of Body: Gao Brothers Photography Exhibition,Beijing New Art Projects, Beijing (solo)
2006 The Exhibition Of Chinese Contemporary Social Art, The State Tretyakov Museum, Moscow.
2006 The Photographs of the Performance in China, Ying Art Center, Beijing
2006 Dragon’s Evolution, China Square, New York
2006 Breathe: Shandong Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shandong Museum, Jinan
2006 Ten Chinese Avant-garde Photographers, Asia Art Center, Beijing.
2006 Photography of Gao Brothers, Matteo Basile and Raimondo Galeano, IL PONTE CONTEMPORANEA, Rome “MissMao”, Black Projects,London
2006 Between Art and Architecture,798 Avant Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Beijing-Soldiers at the Gates, Factory 798 Dashanzi Art District, Beijing
2006 The First Annual Exhibition Of Chinese Contemporary Art, China Century Altar, Beijing, China
2006 My Space, Your Space, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
2006 Brothers, Xin Dong Chen Space For Contemporary Art, Beijing
2006 Ruins,Inova Art Center,Peckschool of Art,University of Wisconsion, Milwaukee, USA
2006 Field OF VIision:Beijing, Beijing New Art Projects, Beijing
2006 Post Electronic Image, MUSTBE Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
2006 5×7 Frame Decide the Attitude Exhibition in Pingyao International photography Festival,Pingyao, China
2006 Photographing China,The circumvallation site of Ming Dynasty, Beijing
2006 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China,Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA
2005 One Abandoned Building’s Visual Story—Gao Brothers Photography Exhibition, Beijing New Art Projects (solo)
2005 Mahjong - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Fine Arts Museum Berne, Switzerland
2005 China,Tiananmen, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 A UTOPIA OF THE VISIBLE: 13 Outstanding Art Photographers In China, Beijing New Art Projects, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2005 8. International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Venice Lido, Italy
2005 The Gesture. Visual Library in progress, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2005 The City in 360 Degrees: French and Chinese Photographers in China, Beijing New Art Projects, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2005 China Avant-Garde: Contemporary Chinese Art, ARENA, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
2005 Start To Fly: He Xiangning Art Museum OCAT Contemporary art Collection He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2005 SCRATCH-OR China-Singapore Digital Image Art Exhibition,Beijing New Art Projects, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2005 One Abandoned Building’s Visual Story—Gao Brothers Photography Exhibition, Beijing New Art Projects (solo)
2004 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography and Asia Society, New York
2004 Tiananmen, Chinese Eyes Gallery, Paris
2004 Design the marble – 40 international artists in Carrara, Carrara, Italy
2003 The 2nd International Photo Festival of Rome. L' Officina, Rome, Italy
2002 The First Triennial Of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art Museum, China
2002 A Dinner With The Homeless People, Performance, Jinan, China (solo)
2001 Embrace: Gao Brothers' New Works, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing China (solo)
2001 The 5th Los Angeles International Biennale, Bergamot Station Arts Center, LA
2001 The First Tirana Biennale, National Gallery & Chinese Pavilion, Albania
2001 Nice International Photography Festival: Chinese Album, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice, France
2001 Mao Y'a Pas Photo, the Espace d' Art Contemporain of La Rochelle, Paris
2000 China Avant-garde Artists Documents, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
2000 Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups from the MCAF collection, BIZART, Shanghai, China
2000 China Avant-garde Artists Documents, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
2000 Fuse: Gao Brothers' Photography, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China (solo)
1999 The 2nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Shenzhen, China
1999 The Documentary Exhibition of World Chinese Installation Art, Hongkong Art Commune
1995 The End of Mankind:Gao Brothers' Installations, Jinan Painting Institute,China (solo)
1992 Guangzhou Biennale, Guangzhou, China
1989 China Avant-Garde, China National Art Museum, Beijing, China
1985 Shandong Modern Art Exhibition, Jinan, China
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