Wang Qingsong
15/02/2010 - 18/04/2010
Centro Andaluz de la Fotogrfía. C/. Pintor Díaz Molina, 9. 04002-Almería
Mañanas de 11 a 14 horas y tardes de 17.30 a 21.30 horas.
Consejería de Cultura. Junta de Andalucía
Wang Qingsong es un artista que piensa a lo grande: grandes ideas, grandes conceptos y, por tanto, producciones muy grandes. La ingente cantidad de personas involucradas en sus instantáneas y las dimensiones de los platós son tan espectaculares como las producciones de Hollywood.
En palabras de sus comisarios, Tamar Arnon y Eli Zagury, las fotografías de Wang so historias que permiten a los espectadores cuestionarse actitudes ante los fenómenos sociales del momento y, al mismo tiempo, se esfuerza en proporcionar una plataforma para reflexionar en profundidad sobre la sociedad contemporánea en el siglo XXI.1966 Born in Heilongjiang Province, China
1991 Graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan, China
Lives and works in Beijing
Solo Exhibitions
2009 "Wang Qingsong", Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2008 "Wang Qingsong", Albion Gallery, London, UK
"Caution", PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
"Phantom China", Kunsthalle Nexus, Saalfelden, Austria
"Wang Qingsong – Temporary Ward", Baltic Contemporary Art Center, Gateshead, UK
“Wang Qingsong Solo Show – Panic, Fear and Violence”, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China.
"Unparalleled Madness", Madhouse Contemporary, Hong Kong
2007 "China: Past, Present & Future“, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
"Thinker – Wang Qingsong Solo Exhibition", Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China
"Wang Qingsong“, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
"Wang Qingsong: Between Nostalgia and Cynicism", Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo (ECCO), Brasilia,
Brazil
2006 "Wang Qingsong", Albion Gallery, London, UK
2005 "Wang Qingsong in Arras", City Hall, Art Academy and Public Library, Arras, France
2004 "Wang Qingsong – Romantique", Salon 94, New York, USA
"Wang Qingsong – Romantique", Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
2003 "Wang Qingsong: Present-day Epics", Saidye Bronfman Contemporary Art Center, Montreal, Canada
2002 "Wang Qingsong Photography", Foundation Oriente, Macau
"Golden Future – Photography by Wang Qingsong", Galerie Loft, Paris, France
"Wang Qingsong", Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
"Satirizing the times", 2nd Pingyao Photo-Festival, Pingyao, China
2000 "Glorious Life – The Photographs of Wang Qingsong", Wan Fung Gallery, Beijing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 "Action – Camera: Beijing Performance Photography", Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
"Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection", Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
“China: Contemporary Art”, Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura, 10th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
The 3rd Guangzhou International Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
The Simple Art of Parody, Taipei MOCA, Taiwan
Gextophoto 2009 International Photography Festival, Gexto, Spain.
The V VentoSul Biennial: Large Water: Maps Altered, Brazil.
The Dark Science of Five Continents, Gallery BMB, Mumbai, India
Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Mise-en-Scene, Officina, Beijing, China
2008 "CINA XXI Secolo. Arte fra Identita’ e Trasformazione", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
"Fabricating Images from History", Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China
"Body Language: Contemporary Chinese Photography", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,
Australia
"55 Days in Valencia – Chinese Art Meeting", Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia,
Spain
"China Gold, L’Art Contemporain Chinois", Musee Maillol, Paris, France
"Adidas Sport in Art Exhibition", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Go Game, Beijing!", German Embassy, Beijing, China
"Translocalmotion: 7th Shanghai Biennale", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"Expenditure", Busan Biennale 2008, Busan, Korea
"21: Selections of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum", Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
“Christian Dior and Chinese Artists”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
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“China: Construction and Deconstruction”, MASP, San Paolo, Brazil
2007 “Zhu Yi! Chinese Contemporary Photography”, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo
(ARTIUM), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
“Timer – Intimita/Intimacy”, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
“Thermocline of Art, New Asian Waves”, ZKM – Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Timeline: Human Speed & Technology Speed”, Korea Center, Beijing, China
“Beyond Icons – Chinese Contemporary Art”, Miami Design District, Miami, USA
“Mirror Image of Diversity – Six Person Exhibition of Contemporary Art”, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects,
Beijing, China
2006 Moscow International Photo Biennale, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2nd Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest, Romania
“Public Image”, public project in the city of Liege, Belgium
“Acting the Part – Photography as Theatre”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Vancouver
Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The 37th Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
“C on Cities – The 10th International Venice Architecture Exhibition”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Ecotopia – The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video”, International Center of Photography,
New York City, USA
“Intersections – Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin,
USA
2005 “Re-viewing the City – the First Guangdong International Photo Biennale”, Guangdong Museum of Art,
Guangzhou, China
“Over One Billion Served”, Singapore Civilizations Museum, Singapore
1st Biennale Internationale d’Art Contemporain Chinois de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
“Follow Me! Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Die Chinesen – Contemporary Photography and Video from China”, Museum Het Kruithuis,
Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
“Beyond Delirious: Architecture in Selected Photographs form the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection,
Miami, USA
“Baroque and Neo Baroque – The Hell of Beauty”, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
“Always to the Front – Chinese Contemporary Art”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
“Grounding Reality – Chinese Contemporary Art”, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2004 “Over One Billion Served”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
“Photosynkyria 2004 – Photography as Narrative Art”, Photography Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece
“Officina Asia (Asian Workshop)”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
“Image of History”, Photo España, Madrid, Spain.
“Between Past and Future – New Photography and Video from China”, International Center of
Photography, New York, USA
“Die Chinesen – Contemporary Photography and Video from China”, Wolfsburg Museum, Wolfsburg,
Germany.
“Exposure”, Hereford Photo Festival, Hereford, UK.
“Past in Reverse – Contemporary Art of East Asia”, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
2003 First Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic。
“Fashion and Style ”, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia.
“A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese Photography”, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech
Republic
Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, the Netherlands
2002 “Run, Jump, Climb, Walk”, Yuanyang Art Center, Beijing, China
“Money and Value – The Last Taboo”, exhibition in the framework of Expo 02, Biel, Switzerland
“Special Projects”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
“Chinese Modernity”, Museum of the Foundation Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), São Paulo,
Brazil
The 2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
“Paris-Pekin”, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
“CHINART – Contemporary Art from China”, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany (touring to
Rome, Budapest, Poland, Palma de Mallorca)
2001 "Constructed Reality – Beijing/Hong Kong Conceptual Photography", Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong,
China
“Next Generation – Art Contemporain d’Asie”, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
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“Promenade in Asia – CUTE”, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo, Japan
“Chinese Album”, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice, France
“Cross Pressures”, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2000 “Man and Space – 3rd Gwangju Biennale 2000”, Gwangju, Korea
“Big Torino 2000 – Biennale Arte Emergente”, Turin, Italy
“China Avant-garde Artists Documents”, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
"Unusual & Usual", Yuangong Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1999 “Ouh La La, Kitsch!”, TEDA Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China
“SYNERGI: Fourteen Danish and Foreign Artists Exhibition”, Udviklings Center Odsherred,
Copenhagen, Denmark
1998 “Site of Desire: Taipei Biennial”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1996 “China!”, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (travelling exhibition)
“Gaudy Life”, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Awards
2006 Outreach Award from Renocontres de le Photographie, Arles, France