Introduction
artist
XU ZHEN®
Artist
Artist, Curator, MadeIn Company Founder.Xu Zhen was born in 1977, and lives and works in Shanghai.
Xu Zhen has been considered as an iconic figure in Chinese contemporary art. In 2004, Xu won the prize for ‘Best Artist’ at the China Contemporary Art Award. His practice covers various media such as installations, video, painting and performance, etc.
Xu Zhen has exhibited internationally, at museums and biennales, such as, Venice Biennale (2001, 2005), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2004), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2005), MoMA PS1 (New York, 2006), Tate Liverpool (2007), Hayward Gallery (London, 2012), Lyon Biennial (2013), Armory Show (New York, 2014), Long Museum (Shanghai 2015), Al Riwaq Art Center (Qatar, 2016), Sydney Biennial (2016), Guggenheim Museum (New York, 2017), Sharjah Biennial (2019), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, 2019), National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, 2020), among others.
Aside from being an artist, Xu Zhen is also a curator. He co-curated together with other artists major exhibitions in Shanghai and was one of the initiators of Art-Ba-Ba (www.art-ba-ba.com), a leading online forum for discussion and critique of contemporary art in Shanghai, in 2006. In 2009, Xu Zhen established ‘MadeIn Company’, a contemporary art creation corporate, focused on the production of creativity, and devoted to the research of contemporary culture’s infinite possibilities. In 2013, MadeIn Company launched XU ZHEN® which is committed to art creation and cutting-edge culture development. In 2014, MadeIn Company established MadeIn Gallery and in November 2016 launched the first “Xu Zhen Store” in Shanghai.
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Eternity-Tang Dynasty Bodhisattva of the Hebei Province Museum, Northern Qi Losana Buddha of the Longxing Temple, Bodhisattva of the Xiude Temple, West Pediment of the Temple of Aphaia
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Eternity- Naxian Sphinx, Sleeping Muse
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Eternity-Northern Qi Dynasty painted Bodhisattva, Belvedere Torso
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Eternity- New 40403 Stone Statue, Aphrodite Holding Her Drapery
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Evolution-Standing Female Attendant, Bwa Bobo Mask
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Evolution - Standing Female Attendant, Bini Mask
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Tools
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Passion (16.70 kg)
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Passion (16.75 kg)
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Passion (17.50 kg)
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Passion (18.10 kg)
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Passion (23.05 kg)
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Passion (25.85 kg)
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Passion (26.35 kg)
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Passion (35.55 kg)
Lu Mingjun
Curator
PhD in history, young researcher of Philosophy School of Fudan University, Curator, Art Director of surplus Space.
In recent years, he has planned exhibitions such as "Territory: Geographical Topology" (2017-2018), "Rivers Without Navigational Markers, 1979" (2019), "Street Corners, Squares and Montage" (2019), "Evil Is" (2020), "Muse, Yu Gong and Compass" (2020). His papers are published in literature and Art Studies, Fine Arts Studies, twenty-first Century and other publications. His recent works include The Poetics of Vision: Perception -- Politics -- Time (Shanghe Zhuoyuan Culture · Henan University Press, 2019) and The Transformation of Fine Arts and Modern China: Radical Roots of Chinese Contemporary Art (2020).
In 2015, he received the H.N. Ho Family Foundation China Research Grant. In 2016, he won the YiShu Award for Writing Chinese Contemporary Art. In 2017, she received an ACC Grant. In the same year, he won the 6th Chinese Contemporary Art Criticism Award (CCAA). In 2019, he won the Curator of the Year Award of China Contemporary Art Award (AAC).
