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ZHENG GUOGU

1970 Geboren in Yangjiang, Provinz Guangdong, China Born in Yangjiang, Guangdong province, China Lebt und arbeitet in Yangjiang, Provinz Guangdong, China Lives and works in Yangjiang, Guangdong province, China

Preise und Auszeichnungen / Awards and Distinctions

2006 Chinese Contemporary Art Award, Chinese Contemporary Art Award Foundation

Einzelausstellungen / Solo Exhibitions

2019 Zheng Guogu: Visionary Transformation, PS1 MoMA, New York, USA 2017 The Winding Path to Trueness, Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou, China 2015 Zheng Guogu: Visionary Transformation, VW(VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin, Germany 2015 Ubiquitous Plasma, OCAT Xi'an, Xi’an, China 2014 Images of Magnetic Resonance, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2013 Fuck off the Rules: Yangjiang Group (in cooperation with Yangjiang Group), Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2012 Zheng Guogu: Spirit Linger with Dust, Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing, China 2011 Zheng Guogu, The Pavilion/Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing, China 2010 Garden of Pine - Also Fierce Than Tiger II (in cooperation with Yangjiang Group) , Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2008 Zheng Guogu: A Hundred Year Old Tree Blooms Again, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Zheng Guogu - Factory, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2007 Zhen Guogu - New Paintings, Grace Li Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Zhen Guogu, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany 2006 Zheng Guogu, ShanghART, China 2005 Puzzle - It is from Yangjiang, Grace Alexander Contemporary Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2004 Zheng Guogu. My Home Is Your Museum, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China 2003 Photo works 1997-2000, ShanghART, Shanghai, China 2002 Are You Going to Enjoy Calligraphy or Measure Blood Pressure? (together with Sha Yeya, Chen Zaiyan, Sun Qinglin), ShanghART, Shanghai, China 2001 Zheng Guogu—The Compressing World, Yangjiang Guangdong, China 2000 Zheng Guogu – More Dimensional Caaw, Beijing, China Zheng Guogu – More Dimensional in Shanghai, BizArt Space, Shanghai, China

Gruppenausstellungen / Group Exhibitions

2019 Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA Chinese Whispers: New Art from the Sigg Collection, MAK, Vienna, Austria B A R B A R A G R O S S G A L E R I E

2018 Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain 2018 Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA The 9th Asia Paci!c Triennial of Contemporary Art, The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Australia 2017 Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics, OCAT Shanghai, China Canton Express: Art of the Pearl River Delta, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong, China 2016 Digging a Hole in China, OCAT Shanghai, China Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China 2015 The System of Objects, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Non!gurative, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Actions for Tomorrow, in cooperation with Yangjiang Group, 4A Centre for Conteporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia From a Poem to the Sunset, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin, Germany On Curbstone jewels and Cobblestones, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin, Germany Back Home, Run Away: A Sample of Artistic Geography, Taikang Space, Beijing 2014 “Social Factory” - 10th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China 2014 Landscape: the Virtual, the Actual, the Possible?, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (ybca), San Francisco, USA 2014 Hans van Dijk - 5000 Names, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2014 Harmonious Society at Manchester Cathedral, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK 2013 New Framework: Chinese Avantgarde Photography 1980s-90s, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, China Zizhiqu - Autonomous Regions (in cooperation with Yangjiang Group), , Times Museum, Guangzhou, China Eastern Promises - Contemporary Architecture and Spatial Practices in East Asia, MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria 2012 Suspicion, Night breezes, Neverending Voyage, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes. a hong kong spring, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China 2011 CREDIT SUISSE TODAY ART AWARD 2011 FINALISTS EXHIBITION, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 4th Guangzhou Triennial: Back to Basics - The Museum Per Se, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China Shanshui, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland Museum on Paper: 12 Chinese Artists, Iberia Art Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2010 Micro-Intervention / Celsius 36.5, Magician Space, Beijing, China Back to the Future?, Osage Soho, Hong Kong, China The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing, National Art Museum of China - NAMOC, Beijing, China Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Seconde main, Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, MAM/ART, Paris, France 2009 Cina - Renascita Contemporanea, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy 2009 Images Recalled - Bilder auf Abruf, 3. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg, Kunsthalle Mannheim / Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany The State of Things, BOZAR, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium B A R B A R A G R O S S G A L E R I E

In the Mood for paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China 2008 The Revolution Continues: New Art from China, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Art Focus Jerusalem 2008, Art Focus Jerusalem, Israel Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon - Works on paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China Farewell to Post-Colonialism, 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, China 2007 Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany What About Sculpture?, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA New Photo - Ten Years, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China China Welcomes You, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria Mahjong, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany 2006 Take Down, Beijing, China Through Popular Expression, The University of Central England in Birmingham, Great Britain Popular Expression, Het Domein Museum, Sittard, The Netherlands Guangzhou – Cantones Artists in the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland 2005 Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China Black Extreme Vigorous Figurative, Shenzhen, China Out of Sight, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Follow me! Chinese art at the threshold of the new millennium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Living in Interesting Times— A Decade of New Chinese Photography, Israel Museum of Photography Tel Hai, Israel 2004 Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA The Exhibition of Express Mail Service, Shanghai, China ALL UNDER HEAVEN, Ancient and contemporary Chinese art, The Collection of the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium A l’ouest du sud de l’est, Center of Contemporary Art Sète/Villa Arson in Nice, France Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, ICP International Center of Photography, New York, USA 2003 The Fifth System: Public Art in the Age of ‘Post – Planning’, Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen, China Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis Centre of Contemporary Art, France Zooming into Focus - Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Hauenschild, Zooming into Focus , Contemporary Chinese photography from the Haudenschild Collection - San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography , Galerie Rudol"num, Prag, Czech Republc 50th Biennale di Venezia, (Canton Express), Venice, Italy 2002 Fan Mingzhen & Fan Mingzhu (Twin exhibition) - Glad to meet, Jin Sha Jiang Rd., Shanghai, China Urban Creation, 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Paris-Peking, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France Too Much Flavour, 3H Art Center, Shanghai, China Asianvible: Asian Contemporary Art, Espai D'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain To See The Calligraphy or to Measure the Blood Pressure, Yang Jiang Guangju Biennual, Korea B A R B A R A G R O S S G A L E R I E

2001 Hot Pot Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway Photo Festival Naarden, Naarden City, The Netherlands City Slang, He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Next Generation / Art Contemporain D’asie, Passage de Retz, Paris, France Cross Pessures, Oulu Art Museum; Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland HangZhou New Media Art Festival, China Fine Art Academy, Hang Zhou, China Living in time- 29 Contemporary Artists from China, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Germany Chengdu Biennual, Cheng Du, China 2000 Clash! 100 Artists Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Individual and Society in Art - A Collection of Works of Art By Eleven Chinese Artists, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Cities of the 21st Century: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany The Sun Rises in the East – the current atistic scene in Asia, Rencontres internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France Post Material - Interpretatians of Everyday Life by Contemporary Chinese Artists, Red Gate Watch Tower, Beijing, China Fuck Off, Xi Suzhouhe 1133, Shanghai, China Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups from the Mcaf Foundation, BizArt, Shanghai, China 1999 Post-Sense Sensibility Alien Bodies & Delusion, Basement, Third Ring Road, Beijing, China Innovations Part I, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China Changing Views, Kunsthal Hof 88 Almelo, The Netherlands Art For Sale, Huaihai Zhonglu, Shanghai, China International Photography Biennale, Centre de la Imagen, Mexico city, Mexico The Other X/Change, Galerie Objektiv und Edition, Cologne, Germany Concepts, Colors and Passions, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China Unveiled Reality – Contemporary Photography, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Intimate Moments, Hanart Gallery, Honkong, China Hsin: a Visible Spirit – Contemporary Photography from the People’s Republic of China, Cypress College Photography Galleries, CA, USA Cities on the Move 4, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Love: Chinese Contemporary Photography & Video, International Arts Festival Tachikawa, Japan Cities on the Move 5, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Modern Chinese Art, Foundation Caermerklooster, Gent, Belgium 1998 Biennale de l'imago, Centre national de la photographie, Paris, France Site art project, Walking Museum in Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan Cities on the Move 2, capcMusee, Bordeaux, France Taipei Biennal, Taiwan Confused... Kunst Rai 98, Art Amsterdam, The Netherlands Photography as Concept , 4. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen Esslingen, Germany The Corruptionists Basement, third ring road, Beijing, China Cities on the Move 3, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA B A R B A R A G R O S S G A L E R I E

1997 Contemporary Photo Art from P. R. China, Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Berlin, Germany Cities on the Move 2, Secession, Vienna, Austria

Sammlungen / Collections

Initial Access Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany Long March Space, Beijing, China