Qiu Zhijie
Qiu Zhijie is born in Fujian Province in China in 1969. In 1992 he graduated from The National Academy Of Fine Art and he works in the printmaking department. But now he lives in Beijing as a full-time artist. As well as an art critic and curator.
Works
Where the storm shift the signs
QIU ZHIJIE / FINE SERIE N°1-A
ONE THOUSAND-TIME COPY OF LANGTINGXU
ALLEGORY – ROUND DOOR
NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 16TH
Allegory Bridge
Tatoo I
Tattoo II
Biography
Qiu Zhijie is born in Fujian Province in China in 1969. In 1992 he graduated from The National Academy Of Fine Art and he works in the printmaking department. But now he lives in Beijing as a full-time artist. As well as an art critic and curator.
Qiu Zhijie is born in Fujian Province in China in 1969. In 1992 he graduated from The National Academy Of Fine Art and he works in the printmaking department. But now he lives in Beijing as a full-time artist. As well as an art critic and curator.
Qiu is known for his calligraphy, photography and video installation works. He had shown his works all over the world. Like Inside Out: New Chinese Art at P.S.I Museum at New York. Also at the San Francisco Museum of modern art. In 1998 it shows it in Beijing, in London or at ICA in London. In 1999 he did Power of the Word at the Faulconer Gallery and other exhibition at Grinnell College, Iowa or U.S.A.2000. He works on Haus Der Kulturen der Welt at berlin. Then the Queens Museum in New York in 2001 and the 25th San Polo Biennial in Brazil.
In the middle of the 1990s, Qiu also wrote a lot about Chinese conceptual art and performance art, which lead to the so-called controversy of signification —–the most important debate in art theory in the Chinese art world.
EXHIBITION
In 1996, Qiu Zhijie was the co-organizer of the first video art exhibition PHENONMENA & IMAGE in the China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. He also edited two books that include almost all the important documents in worldwide video art history. So he became one of the most important propellents in the field of new medial art in China.
In 1999, Qiu curated an exhibition Post-sense Sensibility: Alien Bodies & Delusion in the basement of a residential building in Beijing. It showed the radical experimental works of the young generation artist who used the human flesh as the artistic material, bringing a great dispute in the art circle. From then on Qiu was regarded as the leader and prolocutor of the young generation artist.
In 2001, Qiu was the one of chief director of the important art magazine NEXTWAVE, then in 2002, he becomes the co-curator of the Long March project.
Exhibitions
Art In The Skin - Historical Photography Exhibition - ART PARIS ART FAIR 2014
Qiu Zhijie
27/03/2014 - 30/03/2014
Career
Solo exhibitions
2024
Eco-Lab, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2020
Lectures, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Solo exhibitions
2024
Eco-Lab, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2020
Lectures, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2018
Qiu Zhijie Living Writing, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa , Japan
2016
Racing Against Time , Galerie Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2015
Qiu Notes on the Lantern Festival Project , Museum of Contemporary Art of CAA, Hangzhou, China
2014
Qiu Notes on the Lantern Festival Project , Museum of Contemporary Art of CAA, Hangzhou, China
2013
Bird eye, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
The Universe of Naming, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
Unicorn & Dragon, Foundation Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
SATIRE, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
TEXT-URE, Tian Ren He Yi Art Center, Hangzhou, China
2012
Bi-Cities Exhibitions of Chinese new painting : Qiu Zhijie-Tathagata, Tian
Ren He Yi Art Center, Hangzhou, China
Blueprints, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2011
Qiu Zhijie : DEJA VU, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Energy, Times Square, Hong Kong
Cell, Pace Beijing, China
2010
Brainstorming: Qiu Zhijie and Total Art Studio, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2009
Grand Sight, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
A Suicidology of the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge 4 – Twilight of the Idols, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
A Suicidology of The Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge 3 – Breaking through the Ice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2008
A Suicidology of the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge 1 – Ataraxic of Zhuang Zi, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
A Suicidology of the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge 2 – The Bridge, Nanjing, Under the Heaven, The Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
Mochou, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
The Bridge, Nanjing, Under the Heaven, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong
Nanjing : A Bridge, A City, Guanxiang Art Center, Taibei, China
2007
The Shape of Time, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
Cryptogram, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong
Archeology of Memory, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2006
Let there be Light, Grace Li Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Personal Space: New Perspectives from China, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA
Reinventing Books in Chinese Contemporary Art, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA
2005
Light and Words, HanArt TZ Gallery, Hongkong, China
Melancholy Man, Galerie LOFT, Paris, France
QIU Zhijie, Biennale 2005 de la Photo de Guangzhou, Musée d’Art de Guangdong, China
Black and White Zoo, Gallery of Dartington Art academy, UK
2004
Social Portraits, QIU Zhijie, CourtYard Gallery, Beijing, China
2003-2004
Asian Parallel Times, Shenzhen Art Institute, Shenzhen – Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong, China – Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
2003
UFO – QIU Zhijie, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2001
Qiu Zhijie Exhibition, Gallery Gen, Koshigaya, Japon.
Invisibility: Qiu Zhijie, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
2000
Koshigaya Artist in Residence, Gallery Gen, Koshigaya, Japon
Touch, Orient Foundation, Macao, PRC
1999
Innate Forces: Mixed Media Works by Qiu Zhijie, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1998
Calendar 1998, Galerie de l’Académie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Beijing, China
1997
Logic: Five Video Installations, Galerie de l’Académie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Beijing, China
1992
Concern to the New Life, Musée de l’Académie nationale des Beaux-Arts, Hangzhou, China
Group exhibitions
2025
Sélection d’automne, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Sur Papier, Galleria Continua, Paris, France
Time Knows the Answer To Art, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2021
Voyage dans le temps, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2016
Linguistic Pavilion , Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Echo of Civilization: Crossing Dunhuang, the Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing, China
Architecture of Life , BAMPFA, Berkeley, USA
Bentu : Chinese artists in a time of turbulence and transformation, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Art Basel, Hong Kong
Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Cooperation: Contemporary Art Exhibition to Celebrate the 35 th Anniversary of the Tasmania-Fujian Sister State Relationship, Fujian Museum, China
Post-Intellecturalism , Springs Center of Art, Coral Springs, Etats-Unis
The Shadow Never Lies , Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Somewhere only We Know , UCCA, Beijing, China
Being and Inking – Documenting Contemporary InkArt (2001-2016),
Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
Cartografía de los caminos: Dunhuang y el Románico en la Península Ibérica, Instituto Cervantes, Beijing, China
Sketch works of the teacher Han Likun and his eight students, Art Museum of CAA , Hangzhou, China
That elsewhere herein , Installation Art Exhibition, Tournée Internationale
Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition, CAFA, Beijing, China
Collecting the Past, Towards the Present: A Conversation between Now and Then, Shanghai BA Arts Center, Shanghai, China
Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
Shan Shui Within, MoCA Shanghai, China
Interantional Academic Pritmaking Alliance, The Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Beijing Media Art Biennale, Beijing, China
Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
The End of the World, Centro Pecci , Prato, Italy
Singapore Biennale, Singapore
Somewhere only We Know , Jindu Art Center, Beijing, China
Post-sense-sensibility: Trepidation and Will , Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Another Long March of Arts , The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Art Contemporain Chinois— Loft Selection, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Cuarteto, Habana
2015
Ancient Heritage New Scenery a contemporary historical path by the west lake, SanshangArt, Hangzhou, China
Sudden Change of Idea – An Exhibition on Comparative Study between Chinese and German Conceptual Art , United Art Museum , Hubei , China
Art Basel -Hong Kong , Hong Kong , China
Zhangzhou 100 Artists Beijing Exhibition , National Art Museum of China , Beijing , China
First Exhibition of ANTNEST Art Museum , ANTNEST Art Museum , Fujian , China
Revolution in Tradition: China ‘s post-ink painting era ,Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris-Brussels, France
The Venice Biennale , Venice
So, we’ll go on more a-roving , Caffe Florian, Venice
GlassTress Gotika 2015, Palazzo Franchetti , Venice
Writing Non-Writing Document Exhibition, Hangzhou International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition , Museum of Contemporary Art of CAA, Hangzhou
The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum
Power of Education – Shanghai Himalayas Museum
Fervent China – Contemporary monumental sculptures, Les Anciens Abattoirs de Mons, Belgium
Copyleft Appropriation Art in China, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
The 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art , Moscow
“Voyage & Rêves”— La photographie contemporaine chinoise, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2014
The 31th Sao Paulo Art Biennal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Memory, Biennale China-Italia, Beijing – Singapore
Hanart 100 : Idiosyncrasies, Hanart Square
Armory Arts Week, New York, USA
Extensive Records Compiled in the Peace and Tranquility Years, Red Brick Museum, China
Qiu Zhijie’s solo Exhibition : 2014 Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Opening Exhibition of Our Gallery, Our Gallery, Shanghai, China
Advance through Retreat, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
On site : Cross Contextual Ink Art Experience, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
The 12th National Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
“L’Art dans la Peau— Exposition historique des photographie”—Art Paris Art Fair 2014
2013
2013 Beyond Tradition – Chinese Contemporary Ink, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong – Christie ‘ s New York Private Sales Gallery, New York, USA
AAC Award for the Most Influential Participants of Chinese Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Contemporary art and Process of the society, Organizer circle art center, Shenzhen, China
Inaugural Exhibition of Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
The origin of Dao : New Dimensions in Chinese Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
The Grand Cannal : La Biennale di Venezia, Museo Diocesano d’art scra, Venice, Italy
Chinese Contemporary Ink, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong
Reflex – Depiction of Others, 99 Art Center Fine Arts College of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Woods and Spring, Museum of West Lake Expo, Hangzhou, China
Hangzhou Triennal of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2012
798 Sculpture Exhibition, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China
Beppu Art Month 2012, Beppu, Japan
Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The First Xinjiang Biennial, Xinjiang International Exhibition Center, China
Blueprints, Qiu Zhijie and Shanghai Binnale Curatorial Summit, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Holland
Ink Painting Exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2011
Guanxi, Contemporary Chinese Art Guangdong Museum of Art, China
How to Become an Empty Man, Hanart Square, Hong Kong
The Fourth Guangdong Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
XUAN ETC, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Hanart TZ Gallery at ART STAGE SINGAPORE, Singapore
The 2nd Chinese Characters Festival Between Taiwan and Mainlaind, Taipei, Taiwan
Kaza Ana/Air Hole : Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2010
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, China
Brainstorming : Qiu Zhijie and Total Art Studio, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Reshaping History – Chinart from 2000 to 2009, National Convention Center
2009
Art in Use : Sculpture objects, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
Media Art China 2009 : Timelapse, A Swiss-China Media Art Exhibition, NAMOC, Beijing
BREAKING FORECAST, 8 key figures of China’s New Generation Artists, UCCA, Beijing
Qiu Zhijie and Tadashi Kawamata, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2009, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Future Together, Arario, Beijing, China
Fukutake House, Echigo Tsumari Triennial, Nigata Prefecture, Japan
Chinese Pavilion, The 53rd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Christian Dior and Chinese Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2008
A Suicidology of The Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge 1 -Ataraxic of Zhuang Zi, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
A Suicidology of The Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge 1The Bridge, Nanjing, Under the Heaven, The Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
Mochou, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
The Bridge, Nanjing, Under the Heaven, Hanart Gallery, Hongkong, China
Crosscurrents: New Media Art, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong; Osage Gallery, Singapore
A Question of Evidence, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Time-lag: the New Force of Chinese Contemporary Art, Magee Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Farewell to Post-Colonialism: the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
We Are Your Future, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Where Are We?, Beijing Center for Arts, Beijing, China
Dream of Reality – Chinese Art Today, Chambers Fine Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
55 día en Valencia. Encuentro de arte chino (55 Days in Valencia. An Encounter with Chinese Art), IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing, China
01SJ Festival (presented by ZERO1), San Jose, USA
Community of Tastes, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Building Code Violations II, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2007
The Shape of Time, Chambers Fine Art , New York , USA
Cryptogram, Hanart Gallery, Hongkong, China
Archeology of Memory, Long March Space, Beijing , China
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Why Go to Tibet – Survey of Tibetan Subject Matter in Painting, Long March Space, Beijing, China
1st Polar Biennale, Ushuaia, Argentina
Collective Identity, Chinese Art Centre, Manchester, UK
Moscow Biennale: I am Your Future, Moscow, Russia
Post Socialism, National Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006
China Time 2006, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
Yellow Box, Qingpu Village, Shanghai, China
The Maze of Conundrum: A mix-media live performance, Mingyuan Art Center, Shanghai, China
We—Zhang Peili and Qiu Zhijie, CCC Art Space, Hangzhou, China
2005-2006
Monuments for the ETATS-UNIS, White Columns, New York, USA
The Second Guangzhou Triennial, Musée d’Art de Guangdong, Guangzhou, Chine, Guangzhou, China
2005
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from Chine, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres, UK
Expo.05 – Photo Chinoise, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
The Noorderlicht Photofestival 2005 – Traces and Omens, Stichting
Fotografie Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands.
La Cina, Spazio Oberdan, Milano, Italy
A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese photography, Tennis Palace. City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finlande
Contemporary Art from Greater Chine Goedhuis Contemporary, NewYork, USA
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From Chine, The Venice Biennale, Venezia, Italy
Regeneration – Contemporary Chinese Art from Chine and the US, University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, California, USA
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from Chine, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
Monuments for the ETATS-UNIS, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, California College of Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
Trading Place: Contemporary Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Taipei
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Text Me – An Exploration of Body Language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australie
Living in Interesting Times – A Decade of New Chinese Photography, The Open Museum of Photography at Tel Hai, Tel-Hai Industrial Park, Tel-Hai, Israël
2004
Hua Jia Di, Art Seasons, Beijing, China
Chinese Eyes: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Goedhuis Contemporary, NewYork, USA
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From Chine, ICP International Center of Photography, NY, USA
Shanghai Biennale 2004, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From Chine and the US, Jean Paul
Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Michigan, ETATS-UNIS – Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
The Longbook – An Art-Project about Communication and Cultural
Exchange Longmarchfoundation, Beijing, China
Space anew, Film and Video installations, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
On the Edge – Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, NewYork, USA
LIGHT AS FUCK. Shanghai Assemblage 2000 – 2004, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
Chinese Maximalism, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, NewYork, USA
Accrochage de groupe, Galerie LOFT, Paris, France
Me, Me, Me! – Part I, CourtYard Gallery, Beijing, China
Nouvel Art Chinois, Galerie LOFT, Paris, France
2003
A Strange Heaven – Made by Chinese // Photo, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha, Czech Republic
The Minority Is Subordinate to the Majority, Bizart, Shanghai, China
Tower of Babel, Mainz City Museum, Allemagne
Left Hand, Right Hand, Dashanzi Art Zone, Beijing, China
Trojan horse Project, Shenghua Art Center, Nanjing, China
Experimentual Realty Show, Di Tan Park, Beijing, China
Lijang International Art Workshop, Lijing, China
Two Fold Time: Asian art Exhibition, Museum of Chine Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Distance, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Alors la Chine, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Leftside, Leftbank art Gallery, Beijing, China
2002
The 1st Guangzhou Triennial.A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art,
Guangdong Museum of Art Er-Sha Island,Guangzhou., China
Paris-Pékin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
2000
Daily Touch, Orient Foundation, Macao
1999
Transcience – Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, U.S.A.; toured in University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, ETATS-UNIS; and The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Fast Forward: New Chinese Video Art, Orient Foundation, Macao
Beijing in London, Institute of Contemporary Art, Londres, UK
Food for Thought: An Insight into Chinese Contemporary Art, Canvas Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Power of the Word, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taizhong, Taiwan
The 14th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
“Love” Chinese Contemporary Photography and Video, Tachikawa. International Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japon
Innate Forces-mixed media works, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Post-Sense, Sensibility, Alien Bodies & Delusion, Beijing, China
1998-1999
Calendar 1998, Gallery of central Academy of fine arts, Beijing, China
1998
Transmediale’ 98, 11ème Festival Vidéo , Podewil, Berlin, Allemagne
Esperanto’ 98, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
Per Video, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Videonale 8, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
MuuMedia Festival’ 98, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finlande
It’s Me !, Tai Miao, Cité interdite, Beijing, China
Inside Out, New Chinese Art, Asia Society Galleries, Contemporary Art Center, New York, U.S, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S; Contemporary Art Museum of Mexico, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, U.S; National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong until 2000
1997
Video Art’97 Chine, Central academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
New Photography, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
1996
In the Name of Art, Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, China
1995
DEL Pais del Centre, Contemporary Art from Chine, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain
Out of the National Ideology, Kanpnagel, Hamburg, Germany
Art Nouveau en Chine Post-1989, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
1993
Chine’s New Art Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Festival 1993, Hong Kong, China
Mao Goes Pop, Sydney Contemporary Museum, Sydney, Australie
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