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| Birthdate: | 1989 |
| Birthplace: | China | |
| Gender: | Female |
| Lives and Works in: | China | Beijing |
| About: | |
Chen Zhe (b.1989, Beijing) received her BFA in Photography and Imaging from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Her works has be featured in exhibitions at the Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2020); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (2019); The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Australia (2018); Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan (2018); Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong (2018); Guangzhou Photo Triennial, Guangzhou (2017); CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (2017); The 11th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai (2016); Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2016); Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2016); The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013); and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing (2011). Chen is the recipient of the Foam Talent (2018), Xitek New Talent Award (2015), Lianzhou Festival Photographer of the Year Award (2012), Three Shadows Award (2011) and the Inge Morath Award from the Magnum Foundation (2011). She is also subject of TV documentary films Chinese Viewfinder produced by ARTE, France (2013) and China Through the Lens of Youth produced by NHK, Japan (2014). Her latest publication Bees & The Bearable was awarded the Best Photobook of the Year by Kassel Fotobookfestival in 2016. |
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-2011
Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, USA
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CHEN ZHE
1989, Born in Beijing
2011 BFA Photography and Imaging, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, USA
Currently lives and works in Beijing
www.zheis.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 "A Slow Remembering of A Long Forgetting", BANK, Shanghai
2020 “Towards Evenings：891 Dusks, an Encyclopedia of Psychological Experiences”, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2018 “The Only Question is How to Endure - Works from ‘Towards Evenings: Six Chapters’”, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, China
2017 “Flown Away Is the Gold of Days - Works from ‘Towards Evenings: Six Chapters’”, BANK, Shanghai, China
2011 “Bees”, Beaugeste Gallery, Shanghai, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Yokohama Triennale 2020, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Participation Mystique, McaM, Shanghai, China
2019 “Peer to Peer”, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China
“The Dark and Bright Room of CAMERAer”, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
“Long Day”, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China
“Peer to Peer”, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
“Symbiosis: The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry, OCAT Shen Zhen, Shen Zhen, China
“Foam Talent 2019”, Deutsche Börse AG, Eschborn, Germany
“Hot Blood”, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
“Psyche and Politics”, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
2018 The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
“I Know Something About Love: Asian Contemporary Photography”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Insights: The Same But Also Changed”, Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography”, OCAT Shen Zhen, Shen Zhen, China
“Crush”, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
“on paper 2”, White Space, Beijing, China
“Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the TSPA”, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Frieze New York, New York, US
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
“Prix Yishu 8 China: 2018 Finalists' Exhibition”, YISHU 8 Maison des Arts, Beijing, China
2017 Guangzhou Photo Triennial: Simultaneous Eidos, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“Indoors Universe: The 5th Huayu Youth Award”, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China
“A Future That Never Returns”, Anren Biennale: Today’s Yesterday, Chengdu, China
“Zhongguo 2185”, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
“40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography”, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
“Without Leaving Any Traces”, MOCUBE, Beijing, China
“The Modern Look”, Modern Media Base, Shanghai, China
“Anyball”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016 “Dragon Liver Phoenix Brain: Eight Emerging Artists”, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“Profound Silence”, Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
The 11th Shanghai Biennale: Why Not Ask Again, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
“LEAP Pavilion: The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist”, ASIA NOW Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, France
“Insights: New Approaches to Photography Since 2000”, Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“Snacks”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
“Scripts of the Bodies”, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
“Xitek New Talent Award Exhibition”, Artemis Space, Shanghai, China
“Linguistic Pavilion”, Shanghai Minsheng Art Musuem, Shanghai, China
2015 “Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Beyond, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
“Leap Pavilion: Coming Image”, Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“Three Shadows Collection”, Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, Niigata, Japan
2014 “Staging Encounters: Ten Years of Contemporary Photography in China”, Lianzhou Photography Festival, Lianzhou, China
Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Close”, Het Nutshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
“Through the Body: Lens-based Works by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists”, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
2013 “From New Photography to Rookie Award: Three Shadows Collection ", Beijing Photo Biennial, Beijing, China
“ON|OFF: China's Young Artists in Concept and Practice”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
“Flash Forward 2012 Emerging Photographers”, Flash Forward Festival, Boston, USA
2012 “Flash Forward 2012 Emerging Photographers”, Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
“Sui Generis: Chinese Contemporary Photography”, Tokyo Photo, Tokyo, Japan
“CAFAM Future: Report on the State of Chinese Young Art”, Arts Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
“Why Don't You Love Me Anymore?”, stageBACK Art Space, Shanghai, China
“The Inge Morath Award Exhibition”, Atterseehalle, Attersee, Austria
“The Inge Morath Award Exhibition”, Fotohof Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
2011 Lianzhou Photography Festival: Toward the Social Landscape, Lianzhou, China
“Bees”, Luoca Gallery, Xiamen, China
“One Man Theater: Works by Post-80s Artists”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
“WON’T: Contemporary Woman Artists in China”, J Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Recurrent Shadows”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
“Myriad Visions: Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition”, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2010 Lianzhou Photography Festival: Is the World Real?, Lianzhou, China
COLLECTIONS
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
White Rabbit Museum, Sydney, Australia
Wemhöner Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Zimmermann Collection, Cologne, Germany
Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Taikang Collection, Beijing, China
Light Society, Beijing, China
SELECTED AWARDS
2018 Foam Talent Award
2016 Best Photobooks Kassel, Fotobookfestival
2016 Xitek New Talent Award
2012 Flash Forward Emerging Photographer (U.S.)
2011 Photographer of the Year, Lianzhou Photography Festival
2011 Inge Morath Award, Magnum Foundation
2011 Three Shadows Photography Award
FILM FEATURING
2017 Laboratory for Chinese Contemporary Photography, produced by Mori Art Museum, Japan
2014 Asia Insight: China Through the Lens of Youth, directed by Makishima Shoji, produced by NHK WORLD, Japan
2013 La Chine dans L'objectif (Chinese Viewfinders), directed by Emma Tassy, produced by Artline Films, France/Germany
2013 ON|OFF: Young Artists in China, directed by Xie Meng, produced by Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, China
| Artists: | Chen Zhe, Sun Yitian , Tim Crowley , Geng Yini, Nik Kosmas, Lin Ke, Michael Lin, Austin Lee, Xiaobo Shi, Heidi Voet |
| Opening: | Nov 13, 2020 17:00 Friday |
| Artist: | Chen Zhe |
| Artists: | Michael Lin, Lin Ke, Chen Zhe, Jin Shan, Chen Tianzhuo, Yanyan Huang, Michael Najjar |
| Opening: | Jan 1, 2018 Monday |
| Artists: | Xu Bing, Zeng Fanzhi, Kendell Geers, yahon Chang, Lebbeus Woods , Lore Vanelslande, Yanyan Huang, Chen Zhe, Marc Horowitz, Sun Yitian |
| Opening: | Sep 9, 2017 18:00 Saturday |
| Artist: | Chen Zhe |
| Artists: | Patty Chang, Chen Yujun, Chen Zhe, Geng Yini, Jin Shan, Austin Lee, Lin Ke, Polit-Sheer-Form Office, The Estate of Maryn Varbanov , Xu Bing, Zheng Haozhong, Lore Vanelslande |
| Artists: | Daido Moriyama, Chen Zhe, Marc Lafia, Robert Mapplethorpe |
An Expansion of Kobo Abe’s “The Red Cocoon”, Experiment 2 | Chen Zhe | Multi-Version
Photography
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archival pigmented inkjet prints
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70 × 100 × 4 cm
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2101 - 2016
Me You Us 3 | Chen Zhe | Multi-Version
Photography
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160 × 106 cm
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2020
Eternal Ephemera: Sea Girl | Chen Zhe
Photography
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archival pigmented inkjet prints
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56 × 42 cm
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2020
Eternal Ephemera: Body-Mind2 | Chen Zhe
Photography
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archival pigmented inkjet prints
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56 × 42 cm
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2020
Entre Chien et Loup (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf) - Emptiness / Presence | Chen Zhe
Other
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terrazzo
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60 × 360 × 3 cm
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2017
Entre Chien et Loup (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf) - Light / Twilight | Chen Zhe
Other
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terrazzo
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60 × 326 × 3 cm
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2017
Entre Chien et Loup (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf) - Unknown Known | Chen Zhe
Other
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terrazzo
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60 × 333 × 3 cm
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2017
The Only Question is How to Endure - Understanding Eternity | Chen Zhe | Multi-Version
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metal shelf, archival pigmented inkjet prints mounted on diabond and glass
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180 × 180 × 10 cm
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2017
The Only Question is How to Endure - Seizing the Moment | Chen Zhe | Multi-Version
Other
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metal shelf, archival pigmented inkjet prints mounted on diabond and glass
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180 × 180 × 10 cm
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2017
The Only Question is How to Endure - Resisting | Chen Zhe | Multi-Version
Other
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metal shelf, archival pigmented inkjet prints mounted on diabond and glass
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180 × 180 × 10 cm
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2017
| Birthdate: | 1989 |
| Birthplace: | China | |
| Gender: | Female |
| Lives and Works in: | China | Beijing |
| About: | |
Chen Zhe (b.1989, Beijing) received her BFA in Photography and Imaging from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Her works has be featured in exhibitions at the Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2020); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (2019); The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Australia (2018); Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan (2018); Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong (2018); Guangzhou Photo Triennial, Guangzhou (2017); CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (2017); The 11th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai (2016); Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2016); Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2016); The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013); and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing (2011). Chen is the recipient of the Foam Talent (2018), Xitek New Talent Award (2015), Lianzhou Festival Photographer of the Year Award (2012), Three Shadows Award (2011) and the Inge Morath Award from the Magnum Foundation (2011). She is also subject of TV documentary films Chinese Viewfinder produced by ARTE, France (2013) and China Through the Lens of Youth produced by NHK, Japan (2014). Her latest publication Bees & The Bearable was awarded the Best Photobook of the Year by Kassel Fotobookfestival in 2016. |
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| Education: | |
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-2011
Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, USA
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CHEN ZHE
1989, Born in Beijing
2011 BFA Photography and Imaging, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, USA
Currently lives and works in Beijing
www.zheis.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 "A Slow Remembering of A Long Forgetting", BANK, Shanghai
2020 “Towards Evenings：891 Dusks, an Encyclopedia of Psychological Experiences”, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2018 “The Only Question is How to Endure - Works from ‘Towards Evenings: Six Chapters’”, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, China
2017 “Flown Away Is the Gold of Days - Works from ‘Towards Evenings: Six Chapters’”, BANK, Shanghai, China
2011 “Bees”, Beaugeste Gallery, Shanghai, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Yokohama Triennale 2020, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Participation Mystique, McaM, Shanghai, China
2019 “Peer to Peer”, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China
“The Dark and Bright Room of CAMERAer”, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
“Long Day”, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China
“Peer to Peer”, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
“Symbiosis: The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry, OCAT Shen Zhen, Shen Zhen, China
“Foam Talent 2019”, Deutsche Börse AG, Eschborn, Germany
“Hot Blood”, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
“Psyche and Politics”, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
2018 The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
“I Know Something About Love: Asian Contemporary Photography”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Insights: The Same But Also Changed”, Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography”, OCAT Shen Zhen, Shen Zhen, China
“Crush”, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
“on paper 2”, White Space, Beijing, China
“Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the TSPA”, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Frieze New York, New York, US
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
“Prix Yishu 8 China: 2018 Finalists' Exhibition”, YISHU 8 Maison des Arts, Beijing, China
2017 Guangzhou Photo Triennial: Simultaneous Eidos, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“Indoors Universe: The 5th Huayu Youth Award”, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China
“A Future That Never Returns”, Anren Biennale: Today’s Yesterday, Chengdu, China
“Zhongguo 2185”, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
“40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography”, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
“Without Leaving Any Traces”, MOCUBE, Beijing, China
“The Modern Look”, Modern Media Base, Shanghai, China
“Anyball”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016 “Dragon Liver Phoenix Brain: Eight Emerging Artists”, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“Profound Silence”, Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
The 11th Shanghai Biennale: Why Not Ask Again, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
“LEAP Pavilion: The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist”, ASIA NOW Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, France
“Insights: New Approaches to Photography Since 2000”, Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“Snacks”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
“Scripts of the Bodies”, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
“Xitek New Talent Award Exhibition”, Artemis Space, Shanghai, China
“Linguistic Pavilion”, Shanghai Minsheng Art Musuem, Shanghai, China
2015 “Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Beyond, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
“Leap Pavilion: Coming Image”, Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“Three Shadows Collection”, Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, Niigata, Japan
2014 “Staging Encounters: Ten Years of Contemporary Photography in China”, Lianzhou Photography Festival, Lianzhou, China
Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Close”, Het Nutshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
“Through the Body: Lens-based Works by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists”, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
2013 “From New Photography to Rookie Award: Three Shadows Collection ", Beijing Photo Biennial, Beijing, China
“ON|OFF: China's Young Artists in Concept and Practice”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
“Flash Forward 2012 Emerging Photographers”, Flash Forward Festival, Boston, USA
2012 “Flash Forward 2012 Emerging Photographers”, Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
“Sui Generis: Chinese Contemporary Photography”, Tokyo Photo, Tokyo, Japan
“CAFAM Future: Report on the State of Chinese Young Art”, Arts Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
“Why Don't You Love Me Anymore?”, stageBACK Art Space, Shanghai, China
“The Inge Morath Award Exhibition”, Atterseehalle, Attersee, Austria
“The Inge Morath Award Exhibition”, Fotohof Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
2011 Lianzhou Photography Festival: Toward the Social Landscape, Lianzhou, China
“Bees”, Luoca Gallery, Xiamen, China
“One Man Theater: Works by Post-80s Artists”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
“WON’T: Contemporary Woman Artists in China”, J Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Recurrent Shadows”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
“Myriad Visions: Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition”, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2010 Lianzhou Photography Festival: Is the World Real?, Lianzhou, China
COLLECTIONS
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
White Rabbit Museum, Sydney, Australia
Wemhöner Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Zimmermann Collection, Cologne, Germany
Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Taikang Collection, Beijing, China
Light Society, Beijing, China
SELECTED AWARDS
2018 Foam Talent Award
2016 Best Photobooks Kassel, Fotobookfestival
2016 Xitek New Talent Award
2012 Flash Forward Emerging Photographer (U.S.)
2011 Photographer of the Year, Lianzhou Photography Festival
2011 Inge Morath Award, Magnum Foundation
2011 Three Shadows Photography Award
FILM FEATURING
2017 Laboratory for Chinese Contemporary Photography, produced by Mori Art Museum, Japan
2014 Asia Insight: China Through the Lens of Youth, directed by Makishima Shoji, produced by NHK WORLD, Japan
2013 La Chine dans L'objectif (Chinese Viewfinders), directed by Emma Tassy, produced by Artline Films, France/Germany
2013 ON|OFF: Young Artists in China, directed by Xie Meng, produced by Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, China
| Artists: | Chen Zhe, Sun Yitian , Tim Crowley , Geng Yini, Nik Kosmas, Lin Ke, Michael Lin, Austin Lee, Xiaobo Shi, Heidi Voet |
| Opening: | Nov 13, 2020 17:00 Friday |
| Artist: | Chen Zhe |
| Artists: | Michael Lin, Lin Ke, Chen Zhe, Jin Shan, Chen Tianzhuo, Yanyan Huang, Michael Najjar |
| Opening: | Jan 1, 2018 Monday |
| Artists: | Xu Bing, Zeng Fanzhi, Kendell Geers, yahon Chang, Lebbeus Woods , Lore Vanelslande, Yanyan Huang, Chen Zhe, Marc Horowitz, Sun Yitian |
| Opening: | Sep 9, 2017 18:00 Saturday |
| Artist: | Chen Zhe |
| Artists: | Patty Chang, Chen Yujun, Chen Zhe, Geng Yini, Jin Shan, Austin Lee, Lin Ke, Polit-Sheer-Form Office, The Estate of Maryn Varbanov , Xu Bing, Zheng Haozhong, Lore Vanelslande |
| Artists: | Daido Moriyama, Chen Zhe, Marc Lafia, Robert Mapplethorpe |
An Expansion of Kobo Abe’s “The Red Cocoon”, Experiment 2 | Chen Zhe | Multi-Version
Photography
|
archival pigmented inkjet prints
|
70 × 100 × 4 cm
|
2101 - 2016
Me You Us 3 | Chen Zhe | Multi-Version
Photography
|
160 × 106 cm
|
2020
Eternal Ephemera: Sea Girl | Chen Zhe
Photography
|
archival pigmented inkjet prints
|
56 × 42 cm
|
2020
Eternal Ephemera: Body-Mind2 | Chen Zhe
Photography
|
archival pigmented inkjet prints
|
56 × 42 cm
|
2020
Entre Chien et Loup (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf) - Emptiness / Presence | Chen Zhe
Other
|
terrazzo
|
60 × 360 × 3 cm
|
2017
Entre Chien et Loup (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf) - Light / Twilight | Chen Zhe
Other
|
terrazzo
|
60 × 326 × 3 cm
|
2017
Entre Chien et Loup (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf) - Unknown Known | Chen Zhe
Other
|
terrazzo
|
60 × 333 × 3 cm
|
2017
The Only Question is How to Endure - Understanding Eternity | Chen Zhe | Multi-Version
|
metal shelf, archival pigmented inkjet prints mounted on diabond and glass
|
180 × 180 × 10 cm
|
2017
The Only Question is How to Endure - Seizing the Moment | Chen Zhe | Multi-Version
Other
|
metal shelf, archival pigmented inkjet prints mounted on diabond and glass
|
180 × 180 × 10 cm
|
2017
The Only Question is How to Endure - Resisting | Chen Zhe | Multi-Version
Other
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metal shelf, archival pigmented inkjet prints mounted on diabond and glass
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180 × 180 × 10 cm
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2017
