Gu Dexin     顾德鑫

1962 born in Beijing
Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Guangdong Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
1978-88 participated in the Tactile Sensation Group
1988-95 participated in the New Analysis Group
independent artist in Beijing; works and lives in Beijing
 

2007
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Plato and His Seven Spirits, OCT-Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Idylls and Visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
2006
China Power Station: Part I, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

Gu Dexin 04.03.2006, Gallery Urs Meile Lucerme, Switzerland (Solo)
2005

Gu Dexin , Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China (Solo)
Emergency Biennale, Chechnya
Matrix art Project Brussels, Belgium
Majiang, Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
To Each his Own, Contemporary Art Zero Fleld, Beijing, China
Ten Thousands Years, Contemporary Art Beijing, Beijin, China
Contemporary Art + Conceptual Real Estate, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Musuem of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
2004
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", ICP International Center of Photography, New York, USA

All Under Heaven, MuHKA, Antwerpen, Belgium
Is It Art ? - Black Show, Noanoa Center, Xian, China
Is It Art ? - White Show, Shanxi Provincial Art Museum, Xian, China
On the Edge - Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Dialogues, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Chinese Maximalism, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Silknet, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucern, Switzerland
2003
The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Dreams and Conflicts:The Dictatorship of the Viewer, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2000
Fuck Off , Xi Suzhouhe 1133, Shanghai, China

Gu Dexin, Loft, Beijing, China (Solo)
1999
Innovations Part II, CAAW, Beijing, China
Modern Chinese Art Foundation , Caermersklooster, Gent, Belgium
Video Circle , HKUST Exposition Hall, Hong Kong
Poly Phenomene, The Bow Gallery, Beijing, China
Bird Beast Fruit Flower, The Bow Gallery, Beijing, China; Galerie Martini, Hong Kong
Asian Artists Installations, Mattres Factory, Pittsburgh, USA
Galerie Martini, Hong Kong
1998
Site of Desire, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Trace of Existence - a Private showing of China Contemporary Art'98 , Art Now Studio, Beijing, China
The Bridge Construction in Process VI , Melbourne, Australia
Beelden Buiten '98 - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Tielt, Belgium
Inside Out - New Chinese Art with the New Analysis Group, San Francisco Moma; Asia Society Galleries, New York, USA
Corruptionists, North Third Ring Basement, Beijing, China
1997
Another Long March - Chinese Conceptual Art, Chasse Kazerne, Breda, Holland
Contemporary Photo Art from the People's Republic of China , Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Staedtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz; Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
1996
In the Name of Art Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
'96 International COM Art Suwon, Korea
Shelter Fundament Foundation, Breda, Holland
Phenomenon/Image Gallery of the China Academy of Fine arts, Hangzhou, China
4 Points de Rencontre - Chine, 1996 , Galerie de France, Paris, France
1995
Triennale der Kleinplastik 1995 - Europa - Ostasian , Stuttgart, Germany
Asian Contemporary Art from the Far East Casino, Venice, Italy
Des del Pais del Centre: avantguardes artistiques xineses, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Uecker - Brief an Peking / Gruppe Xin Kedu - Arbeit III (Uecker - a Letter to Beijing / New Analysis Group - Work III) , New Berlin Art Society, Berlin, Germany
Configura 2 - Dialog der Kulturen (New Analysis Group IV), Erfurt, Germany
1993-94
China Avantgarde , Haus der Kulturen de Welt, Berlin; Kunsthal, Rotterdam; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Kunsthallen Brants Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Roemermuseum, Hildesheim, Germany
China's New Art, Post 1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hongkong; Modern Art Gallery, Sydney; Marlborough Fine Art, Melbourne, Australia
Artedomani 1993 - Punti di Vista Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, Spoleto, Italy
Now Dream of East International Com-Art Show, Gallery of the Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
1992
Gu Dexin, Huang Yongping, Zhang Peili, Galerie Arnaud Lefebre, Paris, France
1991
Exceptional Passage (New Analysis Group II), Fukuoka, Japan
1989
Next Phase (New Analysis Group I), London Docks, London, UK
1986
Gu Dexin's Works, International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
China/Avant-Garde, National Gallery, Beijing, China
Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1985
Scrawls , Chaoyang Theatre, Beijing, China

about New Measurement Group:

Modern Art 1979-1989" Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1992, p. 72, pp. 346-349;
Valerie Doran, et. al. China's New Art, Post-1989. Hong Kong: Hanart T Z Gallery, 1993.
Des del Pais del Centre: Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses. Barcelona: Centre dâArt Santa Monica, 1995
Gebrochene Bilder÷Junge Kunst aus China (Broken Pictures÷Young Chinese Art). Hamburg: Drachenbruecke, Horlemann Verlag, Unkel/Rhein and Bad Honnef, 1991. pp. 95-99.
Hou, Hanru. "Beyond the Cynical: China Avant-Garde in the 1990's." AAP, vol. 3, no. 1 (1996), pp. 42-51.
Huang Du. "A Few Questions on the Relationship between the Development of
Chinese Contemporary Art and the Development of Contemporary International Art" in The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art. Beijing/Hong Kong (?): Ning Nan Arts Publishing Co., 1996.
London, Barbara. Stir-Fry: A Video Curatorâs Dispatches from China. New York:Mus. of Modern Art, 1997. (Web-site: http://www.adaweb.com/context/stir-fry/
Lu, Sheldon Hsiao-peng. "Global POSTmodernIZATION: The Intellectual, the Artist, and China's Condition." boundary 2, vol. 24, no. 3 (Fall 1997), pp. 65-97.
MacRitchie, Lynn. "Precarious Paths on the Mainland." Art in America, vol. 82
(3/94), pp. 51-53, 55, 57.
Watari, Koichi, comp. Chinese Contemporary Art, 1997. Tokyo: Watari-um, 1997.
Thomas, Bronwyn. "Art and the Critic in Contemporary China" (based on interview with Wang Youshen). Orientations, vol. 23, no. 7 (July, 1992), pp. 59-61.
Tolnay, Alexander, Ueker, and Xin Ke Du. Uecker: Letter from Peiking/Xin Ke Du: Work III. Berlin: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 1995.
XinKeDu: Arbeit der Gruppe ãer Massstabä No. 4. Germany: Configura, 1995.
XinKeDu: Grup Xin Kedu ("Nova Mida"), Obra (5). Italy: 1996.