MAY EXHIBITIONS LIST - BEIJING
Zhou Xiaohu 周啸虎
Zhou Xiaohu is a new media artist born in 1960 in Changzhou, graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in Chengdu, China in 1989. He participated to various international exhibitions such as the Shanghai Biennale, the Chengdu Biennale, "Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China" at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Smart Museum (Chicago) and the International Center of Photography (New York), “the Real Thing, Contemporary Art from China”, Tate Liverpool. He lives and works in Shanghai, China.
Zhou Xiaohu’s works mainly consist in videos and installations focusing on social-related issues: mass media, politics, rights, economy, etc. with a certain satirical point of view. He is mainly known for his works “Utopian Machine” 2002 and “Crowd around” 2003, where animation films (among the earliest ones in the Chinese contemporary art scene) present various social and political scenes with characters made of clay.
Biography
1960 Born in Changzhou
1989 Graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chengdu
Solo shows
2009 Concentration Training Camp, Long March Space, Beijing
2008 Zhou Xiaohu - Walsh Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Renown - BizArt, Shanghai
Group shows
2008 Insomnia. photographs exhibition - BizArt, Shanghai
2008 Multiple Realities - 多重现实 - F2 Gallery, Beijing
2008 Geopolitics of the Animation - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
2007 IN MY SOLITUDE - AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Brussels
2007 Geopolíticas de la animación - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla
2007 Neue Asiatische Kunst. Thermocline of Art - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
2007 Against the Wall, Contemporary Chinese Artists - Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON
2007 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow
2006 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2006 What War? - White Box, New York City, NY
2006 The Twelve - Chinese Contemporary Art Awards - Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2006 China Contemporary - Architecture, Art and Visual Culture - NAI - Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
2006 China Contemporary, Architecture, Art and Visual Culture - Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2006 Building Code Violations - Long March Foundation, Beijing
2006 Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
2005 Regeneration - Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the U.S. - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2005 Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
2005 The New Long March Space Inaugural Exhibition - Long March Foundation, Beijing
2005 Pseudo Hackers' Art in Parallel Zones - MOCA Taipei, Taipei
2004 shanghai surprise - Lothringer13 - Städtische Kunsthalle München, Munich
2004 Regeneration - Contemporary Chinese Art - David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
2004 1 Bienal Internacionál de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla - BIACS - Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla,
Sevilla
2004 Dial 62761232 - BizArt, Shanghai
2004 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
2004 Le printemps de chine - Crac Alsace, Altkirch
2004 Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US - Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA
2003 Made By Chinese - Photo #1&2 - Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris
2003 In the Shadow of Summer Bliss - Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Chinart15 - MACRO Future, Rome
2002 Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art / 1st Guangzhou Triennial - The Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Guangdong
2002 4th Video Marathon - Art in General, New York City,
Zhou Xiaohu is a new media artist born in 1960 in Changzhou, graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in Chengdu, China in 1989. He participated to various international exhibitions such as the Shanghai Biennale, the Chengdu Biennale, "Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China" at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Smart Museum (Chicago) and the International Center of Photography (New York), “the Real Thing, Contemporary Art from China”, Tate Liverpool. He lives and works in Shanghai, China.
Zhou Xiaohu’s works mainly consist in videos and installations focusing on social-related issues: mass media, politics, rights, economy, etc. with a certain satirical point of view. He is mainly known for his works “Utopian Machine” 2002 and “Crowd around” 2003, where animation films (among the earliest ones in the Chinese contemporary art scene) present various social and political scenes with characters made of clay.
Biography
1960 Born in Changzhou
1989 Graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chengdu
Solo shows
2009 Concentration Training Camp, Long March Space, Beijing
2008 Zhou Xiaohu - Walsh Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Renown - BizArt, Shanghai
Group shows
2008 Insomnia. photographs exhibition - BizArt, Shanghai
2008 Multiple Realities - 多重现实 - F2 Gallery, Beijing
2008 Geopolitics of the Animation - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
2007 IN MY SOLITUDE - AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Brussels
2007 Geopolíticas de la animación - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla
2007 Neue Asiatische Kunst. Thermocline of Art - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
2007 Against the Wall, Contemporary Chinese Artists - Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON
2007 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow
2006 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2006 What War? - White Box, New York City, NY
2006 The Twelve - Chinese Contemporary Art Awards - Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2006 China Contemporary - Architecture, Art and Visual Culture - NAI - Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
2006 China Contemporary, Architecture, Art and Visual Culture - Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2006 Building Code Violations - Long March Foundation, Beijing
2006 Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
2005 Regeneration - Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the U.S. - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2005 Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
2005 The New Long March Space Inaugural Exhibition - Long March Foundation, Beijing
2005 Pseudo Hackers' Art in Parallel Zones - MOCA Taipei, Taipei
2004 shanghai surprise - Lothringer13 - Städtische Kunsthalle München, Munich
2004 Regeneration - Contemporary Chinese Art - David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
2004 1 Bienal Internacionál de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla - BIACS - Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla,
Sevilla
2004 Dial 62761232 - BizArt, Shanghai
2004 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
2004 Le printemps de chine - Crac Alsace, Altkirch
2004 Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US - Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA
2003 Made By Chinese - Photo #1&2 - Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris
2003 In the Shadow of Summer Bliss - Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Chinart15 - MACRO Future, Rome
2002 Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art / 1st Guangzhou Triennial - The Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Guangdong
2002 4th Video Marathon - Art in General, New York City,
1995 - 1997 Installation works
Face-lifting-Arch-Veranda, video installation, 1997
Face-lifting-Arch-Veranda, video installation, 1997
Maze, multi-media interactive work, 1998
Closely Guard A Secret, video 6', 1998
Closely Guard A Secret, video 6', 1998
No Evil Idea, video installation, 1999
Shui Diao Ge Tou, video 2', 1999
Talk Show, video, 1999
The Journey of Men and Lust, animation video, 1999
Pictures and writings exhibition for consumption
multi-media interactive work, 1999
B's Diary, internet game, animation, 2000
multi-media interactive work, 1999
B's Diary, internet game, animation, 2000
Maze of Mind Abyss, video recording device, 2000
Beautiful Cloud, animation film, 4'40", 2001
Parasitism, video 3', 2001
The gooey gentleman
Animation video
4min40sec
2002
The whole animation film is drawn on bodies. Drawings move together with the body, fighting, hurting each other. This work reflects issues on body and images, as well as space's paradox.
Animation video
4min40sec
2002
The whole animation film is drawn on bodies. Drawings move together with the body, fighting, hurting each other. This work reflects issues on body and images, as well as space's paradox.
Utopian Machine
Animation video 8min
2002
This animation film focuses plays with the "manipulation" and "anti-manipulation" of clay people. The content is inspired from a selection of news, referring to economy and cultural life.
Animation video 8min
2002
This animation film focuses plays with the "manipulation" and "anti-manipulation" of clay people. The content is inspired from a selection of news, referring to economy and cultural life.
Crowd around
Animation video 11min
2003-2005
"Crowd around" present different scenes made of clay inspired from the News. Each scenes, repeatdly played and emphasized, appears to the specators more and more absurd.
Animation video 11min
2003-2005
"Crowd around" present different scenes made of clay inspired from the News. Each scenes, repeatdly played and emphasized, appears to the specators more and more absurd.
Channels of Socket live, video 5', 2003
Maiiling, interactive installation, 2003
Obsession--Century Celebration
Fictile Sculpture 45cm (H) X 882cm (L) X 220cm (W)
Animation video 7min 32sec 2003
Fictile Sculpture 45cm (H) X 882cm (L) X 220cm (W)
Animation video 7min 32sec 2003
Peak Meeting
Video Projecter Installation 2003
Video Projecter Installation 2003
Conspiracy
Double screens Video projection Installation
6min12sec
2004
New Chinatown Plan, 2003
Large wallet, video installation, 2006
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Video part
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Video part
Utopian Theater
Sculpture,Video
2005
Sculpture,Video
2005
Waistcoat 2006
Installation Performance Projection
Installation Performance Projection
Renown-1
video installation
2007.6
“周啸虎个展” 2007年6月8日 实施,作品分两个部分
Zhou Xiaohu's solo exhibition, "Renown" presented in Shanghai is composed of two parts:
1/ video installation "Zhou Xiaohu's solo exhibition press conference"
A video of Zhou Xiaohu, is projected on a life size sculpture realized after his image. He talks about his life, creates a legend on his works, and declares that a new communication technology has been used in the exhibition. Several main media's journalists (CCTV, BBC) record the interview of this tridimensional virtual image. These journalists are made of silica gel.
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Video 1
2/ At a certain point in the exhibition, all the mobile phones of the spectators ring, a pre-recorded message from the artist saying that phone will also all rings during the opening of the Venice Biennale and Documenta, he also announces that certain things will happen then.
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Video 2
video installation
2007.6
“周啸虎个展” 2007年6月8日 实施,作品分两个部分
Zhou Xiaohu's solo exhibition, "Renown" presented in Shanghai is composed of two parts:
1/ video installation "Zhou Xiaohu's solo exhibition press conference"
A video of Zhou Xiaohu, is projected on a life size sculpture realized after his image. He talks about his life, creates a legend on his works, and declares that a new communication technology has been used in the exhibition. Several main media's journalists (CCTV, BBC) record the interview of this tridimensional virtual image. These journalists are made of silica gel.
[wmv=314,256,0]http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/22372323/v.swf[/wmv]
Video 1
2/ At a certain point in the exhibition, all the mobile phones of the spectators ring, a pre-recorded message from the artist saying that phone will also all rings during the opening of the Venice Biennale and Documenta, he also announces that certain things will happen then.
[wmv=350,256,0]http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/22369501/v.swf[/wmv]
Video 2
Self-defence
Animation video 9min20sec
2007
Various social scenes where actors sexually harass female puppets. The puppets knock down attacker on the ground again and again until they die.
Even in fear
Installation
2008
Installation
2008
Detective project
photograph 2008
photograph 2008
Concentration Training Camp
video
2008
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Exhibition view
more on this work, please click here: Concentration Training Camp - Long March Space
video
2008
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Exhibition view
more on this work, please click here: Concentration Training Camp - Long March Space