Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne

Wang Xingwei

(Chinese, b. 1969)

Wang Xingwei

By the River Neva in St. Petersburg, 2014

Wang Xingwei

Mr. Lu Hao, 2012

Wang Xingwei

Pura Tanah Lot Temple, 2011

Wang Xingwei

Pura Tanah Lot Temple No. 2, 2013

Wang Xingwei

Untitled (bonsai old lady), 2011–2012

Wang Xingwei

Untitled (in spring), 2013

Timeline

1969: Born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
: Lives and works in Shanghai, China

Exhibitions

2010: The Official Opening of Minsheng Art Museum – Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
: The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing, Namoc, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
: Jungle - A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China (Space A, B, C, inside and outside space), Beijing, China
2008: RED Aside - Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection, Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
: Community of Tastes, La Exposición Inaugural del Centro de Arte Contemporánea Iberia, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
: Sky, Red Space, Beijing 798 Art District, Beijing, China
: Wang Xingwei – one-man show, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China (solo)
: Opening Exhibition, Nam June Paik Art Center, Suwon-Seoul, South Korea
: Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
: Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
: 1997-2007. Awakening From a Ten-Year Long Sleep, Hejingyuan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
: Large Rowboat, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China (solo)
: Strategy on Paper -- Works on paper invitational, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
: Large Rowboat, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland (solo)
: Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
: The Year of the Golden Pig – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University college Cork, Ireland
2007: Energies – Synergy, Foundation DE 11 LIJNEN, Oudenburg, Belgium
: Allookksame?/Tuttuguale? Art from Japan, China, and Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
: Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
: 6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
: From 'Polar Region' to ‘Tiexi District' – Contemporary Art in Northeastern China 1985-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2006: Double Sound Cracker, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
: Instants. 1st Exhibition of Left Right Art Zone, Left Right Art Zone, Beijing, China
2005: China – Contemporary Painting, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Palazzo Saraceni, Bologna, Italy
: Show Me… Catch Me… Sight Unseen – Xie Nanxing and Wang Xingwei", China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China
: The Wall – Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, USA; Millenium Art Museum, Beijing, China
: China. Prospettive d'Arte Contemporanea / China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists, Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
: Pictoral DNA Made in China, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
: Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland
: Silknet – Emerging Chinese Artists, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
: All under Heaven, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
: The Monk and the Demon – Contemporary Chinese Art, Musée d' Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
: Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
: Persona3, China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China
2004: Interlinked Dreams, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland (solo)
: Degenerated, Modern Chinese Art Foundation (MCAF), Gent, Belgium
2003: Junction – Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art, Shanghai Lianyang Architecture Museum, Shanghai, China
: Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
: Open Sky – Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
: Second Hand Reality – Post-Reality, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
: Fostered Art, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai, China (solo)
2002: The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
: Mirage, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China
2001: Still Paint – Wang Xingwei & Chen Danqing, China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China
: Between Earth and Heaven – New Classical Movements in the Art of Today, P.M.M.K Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
: The First Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
: Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups, BizArt, Shanghai, China
: Unusual & Usual, Yuangong Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2000: Futuro - Chinese Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Centre (CACOM), Macau
: Fuck Off, EastLink Gallery, Shanghai, China
: Hsin: a Visible Spirit – Contemporary Photography from the People's Republic of China, Cypress College Photography Galleries, Cypress, USA; BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, USA
: Changing Views, Kunsthal Hof 88, Almelo, The Netherlands
: China's High Potentials Canvas, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Innovations Part I, China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China
1999: d'APERTutto, La Biennale di Venezia, 48. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy
: Concepts, Colors and Passions, China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China
: Zeitwenden – Rueckblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Kuenstlerhaus & 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria
: Modern China Art Foundation Collection, Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium
1998: It's Me! , Main Ritual Hall of the former Imperial Ancestral Temple (Workers' Cultural Palace, Forbidden City), Beijing, China
: Confused... Reckoning with the Future, Kunst RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: China Five Thousand Years, Guggenheim Art Museum, Bilbao, Spain
: Opportunists, North Third Ring No. 10, Basement, Beijing, China
1997: Biennale d'art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
: Reckoning with the Past – Contemporary Chinese Painting, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
: The Dust of the Romantic History of Male Heroism, Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (solo)
1996: China Now, Littmann Kultur Projekte, Basel, Switzerland; Parco Square and Kirin Art, Tokyo, Japan
: China – Aktuelles aus 15 Ateliers, Artcircolo Kunstprojekt GmbH, Munich, Germany
1994: Put to Trial, Beijing Central Art College Gallery, Beijing, China

Literature

2007: China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007. www.chinaartbook.de

Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne

Wang Xingwei

(Chinese, b. 1969)

Wang Xingwei

Wang Xingwei

Wang Xingwei

Wang Xingwei

Wang Xingwei

Wang Xingwei

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature