Wang Xingwei     王兴伟

1969 born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province
1988-1990 studies at the Shenyang Normal University,
Fine Art Department
1990-1991 teaching at a middle school in Shenyang
Lives and works as indepenedent artist in Beijing
 

2008  

"Community of Tastes", La Exposición Inaugural del Centro de Arte Contemporánea Iberia, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

"RED Aside – Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection", Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain

2007  

"Wang Xingwei – Large Rowboat", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China (Solo)

"Wang Xingwei – Large Rowboat", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland (Solo)

"1997-2007. Awakening From a Ten-Year Long Sleep ", Hejingyuan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China

"Energies – Synergy", Foundation DE 11 LIJNEN, Oudenburg, Belgium

"Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

"The Year of the Golden Pig – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection", Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland

"Strategy on Paper – Works on paper invitational", Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China

2006  

"Double Sound Cracker", Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

"From 'Polar Region' to ‘Tiexi District' – Contemporary Art in Northeastern China 1985-2006", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

"Instants. 1st Exhibition of Left Right Art Zone", Left Right Art Zone, Beijing, China

"Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

"ALLOOKSAME? / TUTTUGUALE? Art from Japan, China, and Korea", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2005  

"Show Me… Catch Me… Sight Unseen – Xie Nanxing and Wang Xingwei", China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China

"The Wall – Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art", The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, USA; Millenium Art Museum, Beijing, China

"Cina. Prospettive d'Arte Contemporanea / China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists", Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy

"PICTORIAL DNA Made in China", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

"Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland

"China – Contemporary Painting", Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Palazzo Saraceni, Bologna, Italy

2004  

"Interlinked Dreams", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland (Solo)

"Persona3", China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China

"Degenerated", Modern Chinese Art Foundation (MCAF), Gent, Belgium

"The Monk and the Demon – Contemporary Chinese Art", Musée d' Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

"Beyond Boundaries", Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

"Silknet – Emerging Chinese Artists", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

"All under Heaven", Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium

2003

"Fostered Art", ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai, China (Solo)

"Junction – Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art", Shanghai Lianyang Architecture Museum, Shanghai, China

Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic

"Open Sky – Contemporary Art Exhibition", Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

"Second Hand Reality – Post-Reality", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2002

The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

"Mirage", Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China

2001

"Still Paint – Wang Xingwei & Chen Danqing", China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China (Solo)

"The Dust of the Romantic History of Male Heroism", Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (Solo)

"Between Earth and Heaven – New Classical Movements in the Art of Today", P.M.M.K Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium

"The First Chengdu Biennale", Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China

2000

"Fuck Off", EastLink Gallery, Shanghai, China

"Unusual & Usual", Yuangong Art Museum, Shanghai, China

"Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups", Modern Chinese Art Foundation, BizArt, Shanghai, China

"Futuro - Chinese Contemporary Art", Contemporary Art Centre (CACOM), Macau

1999

"d'APERTutto", La Biennale di Venezia, 48. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy

"Zeitwenden – Rueckblick und Ausblick", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Kuenstlerhaus & 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria

"Concepts, Colors and Passions", China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China

"Modern China Art Foundation Collection", Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium

"Innovations Part I", China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China

"Changing Views", Kunsthal Hof 88, Almelo, The Netherlands

"China's High Potentials Canvas", Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"Hsin: a Visible Spirit – Contemporary Photography from the People's Republic of China", Cypress College Photography Galleries, Cypress, USA; BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, USA

1998

"It's Me! ", Main Ritual Hall of the former Imperial Ancestral Temple (Workers' Cultural Palace, Forbidden City), Beijing, China

"Confused... Reckoning with the Future", Kunst RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"China Five Thousand Years", Guggenheim Art Museum, Bilbao, Spain

"Opportunists", North Third Ring No. 10, Basement, Beijing, China

1997

"Biennale d'art Contemporain de Lyon", Lyon, France

1996

"The Dust of the Romantic History of Male Heroism", Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (Solo)

"China Now", Littmann Kultur Projekte, Basel, Switzerland; Parco Square and Kirin Art, Tokyo, Japan

"China – Aktuelles aus 15 Ateliers", Artcircolo Kunstprojekt GmbH, Munich, Germany

"Reckoning with the Past – Contemporary Chinese Painting", Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

1994

"Put to Trial", Beijing Central Art College Gallery, Beijing, China