Xu Zhen
Untitled
photo-Ed. 5
221x121 cm
2004
XZ33


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Publication

 

Dang Dang Dang Dang
Shanghai Biennale 2004

Light as fuck
Shanghai Assemblage 2000-2004

 

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Xu Zhen
Untitled 5
photo-Ed. 5
90 x 130 cm
2003
XZ26-5
       
         
       
Xu Zhen
Untitled 7
photo-Ed. 5
90 x 150 cm
2003
XZ26-7
 
       

 

Xu Zhen
Actually I'm also dim
Printed post it installation 
2000

Xu Zhen
Problem of colorfulnes
Photo
2000
Xu Zhen
Problem of colorfulnes
Photo
2000
Xu Zhen
Problem of colorfulnes
Photo
2000

 


Xu Zhen
Sewer - Ed. 5
photo
30 x 380 cm
1999
XZ09

 

 

Careful, Don't Get Dirty
Sept. 19- Nov. 9, 2002

 

La Biennale di Venezia 
49 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte
Xu Zhen:  Rainbow

 

 

1977 Born in Shanghai
1996 Graduated Shanghai School of Arts and Crafts
Lives and works in Shanghai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Follow Me! Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millenium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Monuments of the USA, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Shanghai Constructions, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2004 Shanghai Surprise, lothringer dreizehn, Munchen, Germany
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, USA
Is It Art? - Black Show, Noanoa Center, Xian
Is it Art? - White Show, Shanxi Provincial Art Museum, Xian
Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknewll University, Lewisburg, USA
Chine:Generation video, Mep-Maison Europeene de la photographie, Paris, France
Techniques of the Visible, 5th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, ICP and the Asia Society, NY, USA (traveling, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Seattle Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum
of Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
A I'ouest du sud de I'est, Centre Regional d'Art Contemprain, Villa Arson Nice, France
Light as Fuck! Shanghai Assemblage 2000-2004, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
China Now, MoMA Film at the Gramercy Theater , New York, USA
2003 The Fifth System: Public Art in the Age of Post-Planning, He Xiangning Art Gallery, Shenzhen
Dajia-Studying on Design from Contemporary Art, the Museum of Fudan University, Shanghai
Open Sky, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis centre d'art contemporain, Ibos, France
The Fifth System: Public Art in the Age of "Post - Planning", Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen
Department, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
Control-Z, Top Space, Beijing, China
  "Zooming into Focus" - Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection, San Diego State University & San Diego Museum of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, China
The minority is subordinate to the majority, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai
+System, Short videos from the world 2002-2003, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai
2002 Careful, Don't Get Dirty, Galerie Waldburger, Berlin
Fan Mingzhen & Fan Mingzhu (Twin exhibition) - Glad to meet, Jin Sha Jiang Rd., Shanghai
Too Much Flavour, 3H Art Center, Shanghai
  VideoROM. Le Toit du Monde - Centre Multidisciplinaire Pour la Culture Actuelle" Vevey. Switzerland,
"VideoROM 2.0, Giancarla Zanutti Gallery, Milan, Italy
24:30 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bizart, Shanghai
A Young Man, Bizart, Shanghai (solo show)
Art in General's, 4th Annual Video Marathon, 12 hour screening, New York, USA
2001 The First Valencia Biennal, Valencia, Spain
Living in Time, Contemporary Artists form China, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italy
Hotpot Kinesisk Samtidskunst, Hustnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Developing Time / Temps de Pause, Bizart, Shanghai
Mantic Ecstasy, Photography & Video, Hangzhou
Inside the body, ISE foundation, New York, USA
ARCO, Asian Party, Global Game (curated by Hou Hanru), Madrid, Spain
2000 Useful Life, (together with  Yang Zhenzhong and Yang Fudong), Shanghai
Uncooperative Approach, (Fuck Off), Shanghai
BIG Torino 2000, Torino, Italy
Inertia and Mask - Works on Paper, Shanghai
Video Circle, Hong Kong, Berlin, Germany
Exit, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
1999 Love, Tokyo Art Festival, Japan
Food for Thought , MU Art Foundation, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
The Same but Also Changed, 859 Tian Yao Qiao Road, Shanghai 
Ideas & Concepts, Shanghai
BM99 Biennial da Maya, Maya, Portugal  
Exchange, Paris, France
Art for Sale, Shanghai Plaza, Shanghai
1998 Jin Yuan Lu 31, Shanghai
Works (Selection)
1998 Breath Video Installation
2 color TV set (21″&14″), 2VCR, VHS tapes, light sensitive sensor, electric fan, wooden cabinet (200×70×80)
In a perfectly darkened room, a monitor is mounted on a cabinet, showing a close-up-sequence of someone blowing dry a liquid on the palms of his hands. With each blow, the screen lightens up for a couple of seconds and a draught of air can be felt. The room then returns to darkness. Once a minute a smaller monitor screen on the floor opens on a short scene about this liquid.

“I realize- I am in the process of disappearing.”

  Rainbow Video 3′59″ 1998
Someone beat the back by hands until the skin turn to red.
  Shouting Video 4′ 1998
Shouting in the crowds and shooting the scene that the people in the street turn back to see what ’s on.
1999 From Inside the Body Video Installation 1999
Tow display screens simultaneously show a male and a female smelling their own bodies. A third screen in the middle shows a male smelling each others’ bodies.
  But I Don't Need Anything Video 1999
2000 Sewer 380×30cm 2000
Photo Patchwork
  Actually, I am also Dim 2000
installation with post-it notes printing
  The Problem of Color
Photography, 13 Pieces, 2000
  I’m changing here performance & video installation 2000
In a small room, 5 people move in the closed plastic bags, one of them shot the movement. The signals of image and voice are transmitted to the projector and audio in the next room.
2001 Untitled performance 2 hours 2001
An empty space, white and bright. On a wall, about 8 arms are hanging out of some holes in the wall. As soon as visitors enter the room the arms point at them, and follow their movement until they exit the room. On the wall opposite the arms there a very big mirror and the door.
A camera filming in the “performance-room” is connected to a monitor in the room next door: the operators look at what is happening in the room and act in consequence.
  The Only Thing Black is Hair installation 2001
   
Articles:
  "Compelling Images of a Distant Life. Video as Expansion of Reality.", by Martina Köppel-Yang

1977   

生于上海

1996   

毕业于上海工艺美校

主 要 个 展 和 联 展:

   
2004 过去与未来之间-来自中国的新摄影及录像,美国纽约国际摄影艺术中心
  轻而易举!上海拼图2000-2004艺术展,国立当代美术馆,奥斯陆,挪威
  A l'est du sud de l'ouest, 法国尼斯国家当代艺术中心
  今日中国,纽约现代艺术博物馆
2003 第五系统:后规划时代的公共艺术,深圳何香凝美术馆
  打开天空-上海多伦现代美术馆当代艺术展,上海多伦现代美术馆
  自制天堂,Le Parvis当代艺术中心,法国Ibos
  聚焦:来自Haudenschild收藏机构的中国当代录像和摄影,美国圣地亚哥州立大学与艺术馆,中国上海美术馆
  大家-从当代艺术看设计,复旦大学博物馆,上海
  Control-Z, 顶层空间,北京,中国
  多制式,2002-2003世界短片录像节,比翼艺术中心
  少数服从多数,比翼艺术中心,上海
2002 小心,别弄脏, 柏林Waldburger画廊
  范明珍和范明珠(双胞胎展览-你好你好),上海金沙江路1508号2楼
  VideoROM, 世界屋顶-现代文化跨学科中心,瑞士韦维
  VideoROM 2.0, 意大利米兰Giancarla Zanutti画廊
  Art in General's, 纽约第4届录像马拉松
  趣味过剩, 3H艺术中心, 上海
  24:30 当代艺术交流展, 比翼画廊, 上海
  一个年轻人, 比翼画廊, 上海

2001   

第49届威尼斯双年展,意大利,威尼斯

  第1届巴伦西亚双年展,西班牙巴伦西亚
  生活在此时:中国当代艺术展,柏林汉堡火车站当代美术馆

   

进行时,上海

   

附体:摄影录像展,杭州,上海,北京

   

第1届马德里当代艺术博览会,西班牙

  亚洲派对,全球游戏,ARCO基金会,西班牙马德里

2000   

有效期,上海

   

不合作方式,上海

   

惰性与伪装纸上作品展,上海

   

Big Torino都林双年展,意大利

   

通道,Chisenhale画廊, 英国, 伦敦

   

圈,香港,柏林

1999   

-中国当代摄影和录象立川国际艺术节,日本

   

精神食粮,MU艺术基金会荷兰 

   

物是人非摄影展, 上海

   

观念概念上 海

   

玛雅双年展, 葡萄牙

   

交换 法国巴黎,法国

   

超市上 海

1998   

晋元路310号上海

 

主要作品:
1998 息 录像装置
  电视机两台(21″,14″),录像机VHS,光控感应器一台,风扇一台,木柜(200×70×80),音响。
柜中的显示器出现把手上的液体吹干的影像,观众在看的同时能感觉到与影像同步的风和声音。每吹完一口气图像消失。在地上的显示器约30秒出现一段关于液体的影像,现场无光。
“我发现我是在消失的过程中。”
  彩虹 录像 3′59″
  用手打击背部,直至皮肤变红。
打击背部的手在录像中被抽帧剪去,只留下身体在令人惊颤的拍打声下本能地阵阵抽搐,同时皮肤逐渐产生细微色彩变化。
  喊 录像 4′
  在人群中大喊一声拍下他们回头的镜头
1999 来自身体内部 录像装置
  左边电视机播放男人闻体味的录像。同时右边电视机播放女人闻体味的录像。中间电视机的录像中沙发上空无一人。数分钟后,两人同时走入中间电视画面,互闻对方的体味。
  而我不需要什么 录像
  阴沟 380×30cm 2000
  照片拼贴
2000 其实我也很模糊
  留言贴上打印
  有颜色的困难 摄影 13张
  我在这里变化 表演、录像装置
  两间相对的房间,一间房间被刷成白色,一个巨大的白色不透明塑料袋缓缓的蠕动,并发出嗞啦嗞啦的声响,塑料袋里面有五个穿着短裤的男人在慢慢的活动,其中一个人手提摄像机拍摄四个人身体的运动
另一间房间被刷成黑色,连接着摄像机的信号的投影机与音响播放着摄像机所拍摄的五个人在塑料袋内部的即兴表演。
2001 无题 表演(2小时)
  在一堵墙上挂了8个手臂,观众进入现场后,所有的手忽然全部抬起,指着他,一动不动,直到他离开。
表演者躲在墙后。只是伸出一只手挂在墙外,通过监视器看到观众进入现场后,把手指向观众。
  只有毛是黑的 装置