Chen Qingqing
Imagining herself as a restless ghost, perhaps finding another male ghost seeking companionship, Chen has done battle with her own – and others people’s – interpretation of history, searching for the kind of freedom she has yet to find, either here, in Europe or anywhere else she has travelled in the world.
By: Clare Pennington
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1972-80 |
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1980-86 |
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Present: |
Lives and works in Beijing |
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Solo Exhibitions |
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2019 |
Qing Qing's Language of Materials - Fantasy Museum, Taihe Art Centre, 798 Art Zone, Beijing |
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Qing Qing's Fantasy Museum, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing |
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Cabinet of Curiosities II Fantasy Museum, Duo Yun Xuan Art Center, Shanghai |
2018 |
Silk Whisper on the Sea, Sanya Museum of Contemporary Art, Sanya |
2015 |
Fantasy Museum – Qing Qing 22 Years of Installation, Yuan Art Museum |
2012 |
Retrospective of Qingqing’s Installation Art, Today Art Museum |
2009 |
Dream of Fifteen Years Installation Art, LDX Art Center Beijing, Songzhuang |
2008 |
Enchanted Paradise, Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong |
2006 |
Mirage of 798 --- Secret Light, 798 Dayaolu Zhanchang |
2005 |
Mirage of 798 - Secret Light, 798 / Beijing |
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Qing Qing Installation, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo |
2004 |
Nature-Substance - Substance-Nature, Things in Boxes: Qing Qing’s |
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Installations 2000 - 2004, Red Gate Gallery, 798 |
2003 |
Qing Qing Installation, Today Art Museum |
2002 |
Qing Qing is Back! Red Gate Gallery |
2000 |
Qing Qing, Chinese Contemporary, London |
1999 |
Nomad of the Soul, AAL – Gallery Karl Strobe, Vienna |
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Qing Qing Mixed Media, Red Gate Gallery |
1998 |
City Light, Gallery Wort und Bild, Vienna |
1997 |
City Light– Wish-Want-Desire, Beijing |
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City Light Installation, Beijing Scitech Shopping Center |
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Light Installation, Afro - Asiatische Institute, (AAI), Vienna |
1996 |
Head Sculpture Installation, Studio Fortschnitt, Vienna |
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Home Installation, Modern Art Museum, Vienna |
1995 |
Qing Qing Sculpture, Century Gallery, Beijing |
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Group Exhibitions |
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2019 |
Not as Leaving Nihility - Practice of Liquid and Ink, BNU Jingshi Art Gallery |
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Dialogue and exchange exhibition of Chinese and South African contemporary artists, Durban Gallery, South Africa |
2018 |
798, We are Back, Red Gate Gallery |
2015 |
Temperature – Sculpture, Zizai Scape |
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Qingqing & H. Aeschlimann: Dialogue in Four Seasons, Four Seasons Hotel |
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The Women Artists – Chinese Woman Artists, Songzhuang Zhonghe Art Museum |
2014 |
Taste of Life, Soka Art Center |
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Yao: The Imagination from Land to Homeland, Suzhou Yucun Art Museum Landscape, 37.8 ART LAB |
2013 |
Silent Realm – Renaissance of Eastern Aesthetics, Zero Art Center |
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Inspiration from Nature – Plumoon Female Artists, Time Art Museum |
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We 20 Years, Songzhuang Art Museum |
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Woman in Love - 21 Female Artists, Asian Art Works |
2012 |
Two Generations - 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art Australian Tour: City of Sydney Chinese New Year; Manning Regional Gallery; Damien Minton Gallery; University of Newcastle Gallery; Melbourne International Fine Arts (MiFA); Linton & Kay, Perth |
2011 |
20 Years - Two Generations of Artists at Red Gate, island6 Art Center, Shanghai |
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20 Years - Two Generations of Artists at Red Gate, Red Gate Gallery |
2009 |
Translucence---Female Contemporary Art from China, European Center of Contemporary Art (Electric Center), Belgium |
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Living Chinese Garden, Belgium, Europalia International Art, Belgium |
2008 |
Life in Songzhuang - Female Version, Songzhuang Museum, Beijing |
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Facing China - The Fu Ruide Collection, Museum of Iceland, Austria, Norway, Finland, Sweden |
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Red Gate Stars, Red Gate Gallery |
2007 |
Escape Plan - Salvation from Traditional and Revolutionary Language, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing |
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China Under Construction, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston |
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Floating – New Generation of Art in China, Korea National Modern Art Museum, Korea Digital Soul, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing |
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Power of the Universe – Frontier Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Art Center, Beijing |
2006 |
Red Gate Gallery’s 15th Anniversary |
2005 |
Loft of Language: Female Artists in China, ¾ Gallery, Beijing |
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China - Ireland Art Festival, Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai |
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Untitled, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi |
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Mandarin Century: Outdoor Installation, New Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing |
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Passion and Force, Yan Art Center, Beijing |
2004 |
Dream·Perplexity, Modern Female Identification, China Women Activity |
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Center, Beijing |
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Only the Cat Knows: Works by Chen Qingqing, Yuan Yaomin, LA Gallery, |
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Beijing |
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La France Mandarine, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris |
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Democracy Forever, Plum Blossoms, New York |
2003 |
SHE - Ten Female Artists, China Seasons Art Gallery, Beijing |
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Golden Harvest: Chinese Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Listening to Women Telling His-Story: Conceptual Art, Chongqing |
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From Lausanne to Beijing, 2002 International Tapestry Art Biennale, |
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Qinghua University, Prize for Excellence |
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30 Years with a Future, New Millennium Monument Art Museum |
2002 |
East Asian Women and Her-Stories, Seoul |
2001 |
Hot Pot: Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Norway |
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Documentation of Chinese Avant-Garde Art in 90’s, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan |
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Phenomenon, Gallery FAN, Beijing |
2000 |
Semi Transparent, Shanghai |
1999 |
Womenifesto II, 2nd International Woman’s Art Exchange, Saranron Park, |
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Bangkok |
1998 |
Vivre Life, Wan Fung Gallery, Beijing |
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Forest Textile Installation Festival, Austria, Second Prize |
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Corruptionists, Public Exhibition Space, Beijing |
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Tuition, Experience, Concept, Installation, CAFA, Beijing |
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Der Gross Hallmasch, SUR Gallery, Vienna |
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Social Installation, Thailand |
1996 |
Point and Line, Calligraphy and Installation, Gallery Atrium de Art, Vienna |
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Performance Art
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2003 |
Shine on My Lungs, Special Economic Zone, Beijing |
2001 |
Cry After 9.11, Jiezi Garden, Beijing |
2000 |
The Right to Give Birth, Chinese Contemporary, London |
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Art Circle, Yuangong Art Gallery, Shanghai |
1999 |
Born to be a Woman, 2nd International Woman’s Art Exchange, Bangkok, |
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Ambiguity Summer 1999, Songzhuang Village, Beijing |
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Beijing Clone, Chinese Contemporary |
1998 |
Culture Fish, Vienna |
1997 |
Air Revolution International Art Performance Conference 5, Bangkok |
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Works collected by China National Museum, UChicago Smart Museum of Art, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Beijing Today Art Museum,Yuan Art Museum and New York New Museum and Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle Musee DE L’HOMME in Palais and many collectors around the world.
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"I put my memories in different containers. Sometimes I even take them out and later shift them around."