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Zhang Peili

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  • Zhang Peili
  • Birthdate: 1957
    Birthplace: China | Zhejiang
    Gender: Male
    About:
    Born in 1957 in Hangzhou, Zhang Peili graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) in 1984, where he now teaches. He is also the executive director of OCAT Shanghai.

    In 1985 and 1986, Zhang Peili organized and participated in the "'85 Xin Kong Jian" ('85 New Space) exhibition and artist collective "Chi She" (Pond Society). His work "30x30" (1988) is considered the earliest video artwork in China. In 2003, he established the new media department at China Academy of Art and thus started the earliest new media art education in China.

    Zhang Peili has participated in the Venice Biennale, la Biennale de Lyon, the Sydney Biennial, the Gwangju Biennial, the Busan Biennale, etc. Zhang has held solo exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; and the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent. His works have been collected by prominent institutions such as Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Art Institute of Chicago; Asia Society; Singapore Art Museum; Queensland Art Gallery; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; Centre national des arts plastiques; Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum; Daimler Art Collection; DSL Collection, K11 Art Foundation, and Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing.
    Education:
    1984    Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art)
  • Biography
  • Solo Exhibitions 

    2019 

    The Annual Report of OCD, Ren Space, Shanghai, China 

    2018 

    Now That, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China 

    Uplifting, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium 

    The Flickering Uncertain - Jim Campbell & ZHANG Peili joint solo, Chronus Art Center (CAC), 

    Shanghai, China 

    2017 

    Record. Repeat., The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US 

    No Network, The Bunker, Beijing, China 

    2016 

    From Painting to Video, CIW Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 

    2014 

    Not Only | But Also, Ren Space, Shanghai, China 

    Because…Therefore, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China 

    2013 

    Zhang Peili, ACAF Art Space, Melbourne, Australia 

    2012 

    Zhang Peili, MAAP (Media Art Asia Pacific, Brisbane, Australia 

    Zhang Peili, "Art Feature", Art/43/Basel, Switzerland 

    Zhang Peili, Moving Image New York, the Contemporary Video Art Fair, New York 

    2011 

    Certain Pleasures/Zhang Peili Retrospective, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 

    2010 

    38# Jianchang Hutong, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China 

    2009 

    Zhang Peili, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 

    2008 

    Zhang Peili, Tilton Gallery, New York, USA Gust of Wind, BOERS-LI Gallery, Beijing, China 

    Mute, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China 

    2007 

    Zhang Peili, "Best Artist" (Tilton Gallery, New York), 07 Shanghai Art Fair International 

    Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, China 

    2006 

    Phrase, Currents/Art & Music, Beijing, China 

    2000 

    Zhang Peili, Artist Project Rooms (Art & Public, Switzerland) Arco2000, Madrid, Spain 

    1999 

    Zhang Peili, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA 

    1998 

    Eating, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 

    1997 

    Zhang Peili, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria 

    Zhang Peili, The Art Center, Centers of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, 

    Bangkok, Thailand 

    1996 

    Uncertain Pleasure, Video Forum / Art27'96, (Art & Public)Basel, Switzerland 

    1993 

    Zhang Peili, Maison des Cultures du Monde, Galerie du Rond Point, Paris Galerie Crousel- 

    Robelin, Paris 

    Zhang Peili, Crousel-Robelen Gallery, Paris 

    Group Exhibitions 

    2020 

    Topologies of the Real, CAFAM, Beijing, China 

    2019 

    Move on China, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China 

    The Gaze of History - Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited, Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, 

    China 

    China Landscape, Taikang Collection, Beijing, China 

    River flowing without a Beacon, 1979, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China 

    ✧Slow Hand Movements✧* Gentle Whispers * Water * Salt * Tingles *, Boers-Li Gallery, New 

    York, USA 

    2018 

    Thailand Biennale "Edge of the Wonderland", Krabi, Thailand 

    Institute of Asian Performance Art: Tokyo, Tokyo Art and Space, Tokyo, Japan 

    This is Shanghai, Cunard Building, Tate Exchange Liverpool, Museum of Liverpool, Mann Island 

    Devided We Stand, Busan Biennale, Busan, KoreaArt in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media, ZKM(Center for Art and Media), 

    Karlsruhe, Germany 

    Open, ZHI Art Museum, Chengdu, China 

    Shanghai Galaxy II, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China 

    Art Patron, Qiao Space, Tank Shanghai Project Space, Shanghai, China 

    2017 

    Shanghai Galaxy II, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China 

    Simultaneous Eidos, Guangzhou Image Triennal 2017,Guangdong Museum of Art, 

    Guangzhou, China 

    Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 

    USA 

    A Decade within 293 mins: Retrospective of Moving Image Collections in GDMoA (2000-2010), 

    Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 

    2016 

    Slaying Monsters- Kuandu Biennal 2016, Taipei, Taiwan 

    Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, 

    Guangzhou, China 

    Hybridizing Earth - Discussing Multitude: Busan Biennale 2016, Busan, Korea 

    Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China 

    New Capital: Huang Yu Collection Exhibition, MOCA Chengdu, Chengdu, China 

    The Shadow Never Lies, Shanghai 21 Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 

    Wrap Around the Time: Remembrance Exhibiton for Nam Jun Paik's 10th Anniversary, Nam 

    Jun Paik Art center, Korea 

    WE - A Community of Chinese Contemporary Artists, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China 

    M+Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, ArtisTree, Hong Kong, China 

    2015 

    The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2014, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, 

    Beijing, China 

    Nonfigurative, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 

    Stereognosis Zone, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China 

    CHINA 8 - Contemporary Art from China on the Rhine and Ruhr, Skulpturenmuseum 

    Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany 

    From a Poem to the Sunset, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany 

    Breaking The Image - Methods in the Treatment of Imagery by Contemporary artists from 

    China, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China 

    Essential Matters: Moving Images from China, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey 

    Mobile M+ - Moving Images, Midtown POP, Hong Kong, China 

    A Hundred Years of Shame - Songs of Resistance and Scenarios for Chinese Nations, PARA 

    SITE, Hong Kong, China 

    2014 

    Harmonious Society: Asia Triennial Manchester 14, the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art 

    (CFCCA), Manchester, UK 

    Translated Concussion - Chinese New Media Art Techniques and Practice since 2000, MoCA 

    Chengdu, Chengdu, China 

    Right is Wrong / Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg Collection, Bildmuseet Umeå 

    University, Umeå, Sweden 

    Thingworld - International Triennial of New Media Art 2014, The National Art Museum of China, 

    Beijing, ChinaHans van Dijk: 5000 Names, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; Witte de With 

    Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

    15 Years Chinese Contemporary Art Award, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China 

    2013 

    Point at A Deer, Call it A Horse, Cul De Sac Gallery, London, UK 

    West Bund 2013/A Biennial of Architecture & Contemporary Art/Resolution Power: A 

    Performative Video, Shanghai, China 

    Portrait of the Times/30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station, Shanghai, China 

    Passage to History: 20 Years of La Biennale di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art, 

    Biennial Arte 2013, Venice, Italy 

    Pure Views, Centro d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain 

    2012 

    Reactivation -9th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China 

    The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, 2012, Shenzhen, China 

    Yellow Signal: New Media in China - Huang Ran, Geng Jianyi, Zhang Peili, MORRIS AND HELEN 

    BELKIN ART GALLERY, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 

    Moving Image in China: 1988-2011,Centro per l'Art Contemporaeal Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy 

    Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai 

    Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie/Contemporary Visions on China, Yi & C Contemporary Art 

    & Artrans Fine Services Opening, Taipei, Taiwan 

    2011 

    Survival Techniques: narratives of resistance, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 

    One World Exposition, City University of Hong Kong/Videotage, Hong Kong, China 

    Moving Image in China: 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 

    Light from Light, National Library, Beijing, China 

    2010 

    Artistic Impression of Chinese, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 

    Light from Light/ Multimedia Art Asia Pacific2010, the State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, 

    Australia; Shanghai Library, China 

    Not Only Time: Zhang Peili and Zhu Jia, REDCAT, Los Angeles, US 

    Jungle- A Close-up on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China Contemporary Art 

    Institute, Beijing, China 

    Looking Through Film: Traces of Cinema and Self-Constructs in Contemporary Art, OCAT, 

    Shenzhen, China 

    2009 

    Intramoenia Extra art, Casties of Puglia, Italy 

    Bourgeoisified Proletariat, Songjiang Creative Studio, Shanghai, China 

    Yi Pai – Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 

    Timelapse, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 

    Avant-Garde China: 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, the National Museum of Art, 

    Osaka; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan 

    A Gift to Marco Polo, A Collateral Event for the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice International 

    University, Island of San Servolo, Venice, Italy 

    Blackboard, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China 

    eARTS BEYOND, 2009 Shanghai eArts Festival, Shanghai, China 

    2008 

    Insomnia, Bizart, Shanghai, ChinaWhere Are We? Beijing Center for the Art, Beijing, China 

    Beijing-Athens/Contemporary Art from China, Technopolis of the City of Athens, Greece 

    Homesickness, T Space, Beijing, China 

    Writing on the Wall/Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and Nineties, 

    Groninger Museum, Holland 

    Avant-Garde China: 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, the National Art Center, Tokyo, 

    Japan 

    2007 

    We are your future (Video Box), 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia 

    Interact or Die! Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Netherland 

    Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria 

    China on Ward/ the Estella Collection/ Chinese Contemporary Art, 1966-2006, Louisiana 

    Museum of Modern Art Humlebæ k, Denmark 

    85 New Wave, The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 

    Beijing, China 

    Forms of Concepts, 2nd Documentary Exhibition of Arts, Wuhan, China 

    Rejected Collection, Kespace, Shanghai, China 

    2006 

    European Media Art Festival 2006, Osnabrueck, Germany 

    China Power Station Part 1, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK 

    Create History: Commemoration of Chinese Modern Art in 1980s OCT-Contemporary Art 

    Terminal, Shenzhen, China 

    2005 

    L'ART DE PRODUIRE L'ART, Le Fresnoy-Studio National, France 

    Le invasioni barbariche, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy 

    Shaun Gladwell / Tracey Moffatt / Zhang Peili, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia 

    Archaeology of the future/ The Second Triennial of Chinese Art, The Nanjing Museum, China 

    2004 

    Techniques of the Visible/ Shanghai Biennale 2004, Shanghai Art Museum, China 

    Light as Fuck/ Shanghai Assemblage, the National Museum of Art, Norway 

    BEYOND BOUNDARIES, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China 

    Zooming into Focus/ Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video from the Haudenschild 

    Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, China 

    China, Video Generation, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France 

    Dialogues …/ Gu Dexin, Wang Gongxin, Zhang Peili, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China 

    2003 

    Z.O.U-Zone of Urgency - La Biennale di Venezia (50a Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte), 

    Venice, Italy 

    Happiness: a survival guide for art and life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 

    10th Biennial of the Moving Image, Geneva 

    Alors, la Chine? , Centre Pompidou, Pairs, France 

    The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, China 

    OPEN SKY, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China 

    2002 

    PAUSE /Gwanju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, Korea 

    MOIST /4th Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival, Beijing, ChinaThe Third Space in the Fourth World, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China 

    2001 

    TELEVISIONS, Kunst Hall, Wien 

    Living in Time, Nationlgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fÜr Gegenwart, Berlin, 

    Germany 

    China Art Now Singapore Art Museum, National Heritage Board, Singapore 

    Compound Eyes/ Contemporary Video Art from China, Eart Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College 

    of the Arts, Singapore 

    2000 

    Open Ends /Art at the MOMA Sine 1980, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, US 

    Media-city Seoul 2000, Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Seoul, Korea 

    Shanghai Biennale 2000, Shanghai Art Museum, China 

    Passe-murailles Nouvelles- scenes de l'art contemporain chinois, Musee de Picardie, Amiens, 

    France 

    1999 

    APERTO over ALL - La Biennale di Venezia (48a Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte), Venice, Italy 

    ZEITWENDEN ausblick/ Global Art Rheinland 2000, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany 

    Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s –1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, US 

    Skin-Deep/ Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem 

    Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 

    The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 1999, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan 

    Cities on the Move 4, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark 

    Cities on the Move 5, Hayward Gallery, London 

    Inside Out: New Chinese Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, US 

    1998 

    Every day/ 11th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 

    Zhang Peili and Gu Wenda, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (U.B.C) Vancouver, Canada 

    Cities on the Move 2, Cape Mussee d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, 

    France Inside Out: New Chinese Art, P.S.I Contemporary Art Center, New 

    York, US 

    1997 

    La 4e Biennial d' Art Contemporainl de Lyon, Lyon, France 

    Cities on the Move 1, Group Exhibition of Contemporary Asian Art. Vienna Secession, Austria. 

    Immutability and Fashion/ Chinese Contemporary Art in the Midst of Changing Surroundings, 

    Kirin Art 

    Space Harajuku, Tokyo; Kirin Plaza, Osaka; Altium, Fukuoka, Japan 

    Uncertain Pleasure, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 

    Another Long March/ Chinese Conceptual and Installation Art in the Nineties, Chasse 

    Kazerne, Breda, the Netherlands 

    W2.Z2 –Multi medium Slide Show, The Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China 

    New China, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, US 

    Chinese Photograph and Video Art, Max Protetch, New York, US 

    1996 

    4 Points de Rencontre, Chine, 1996, Galerie de France, Paris, France 

    OE uvres Choisies, Art & Public, Geneva, SwitzerlandImage and Phenomena, the Gallery of Zhejiang Academy of fine Arts, Hangzhou, 

    China China - Aktuelles aus 15 Ateliers, Perfomances Installationen, Munich, Germany 

    1995 

    Open Your Mouth, Close Your Eyes/ Beijing-Berlin Art Communication, The Art Museum of 

    Capital Normal University, Beijing, China 

    Configura 2, Dialog Der Kulturen, Galerrie am Fischmarkt, Erfur, Germany 

    PIER SHOW 3", Red Hook, New York, US 

    China, Artistic Avant-garde Movements, Centro d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain 

    1994 

    Out of the Center, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland 

    Gaze - L'lmpossible Transparence, Parc Floral de Paris, Carre Arts, Paris 

    1993 

    Passaggio a Oriente- La Biennale di Venezia ( 45a Esposizione Internazionale d'Art"), Venice, 

    Italy 

    China Avant-garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin-Kunsthal, Rotterdam-Museum of 

    Modern Art, 

    Oxford-Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense 

    China's New Art, post-89, City Hall, Hong Kong 

    Mao goes Pop, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia 

    Artedomani- Punti di Vista, Installations in the former 18th Century San Matteo hospital, 

    Incontri 

    Internazionali d'arte, Spoleto, Italy 

    Gran Delubro-I'Arte, ex Convento di San Carlo, Erice, Italy 

    1992 

    Gu Dexin,Huang Yangping, Zhang Peili, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France 

    Recent Works -Art Show by Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi Since1991, Diplomatic Missions 

    Restaurant, Beijing, China 

    1991 

    I don't want play cards with Cezanne and other works, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, 

    U.S.A 

    Garage Show, Education Congress Hall, Shanghai, China 

    1989 

    Documentary Exhibition on Chinese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Gallery, Japan 

    China Avant-garde, China National Gallery, Beijing, China 

    1988 

    Chinese Oil Painting, Shanghai Exhibition Hall, China 

    1987 

    Beyond the open door, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, U.S.A 

    1986 

    Performances and street installations with the "Pool Society", Hangzhou, China 

    1985 

    New Space 85, Exhibition hall of the Zhejiang Academy of fine Arts, Hangzhou, ChinaCollections 

    Art Institute of Chicago, US 

    Annie Leung Art Foundation, Hong Kong 

    Asia Society, New York, US 

    Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France 

    Guggenheim Museum, New York, US 

    Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi 

    Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 

    DSL Collection, Paris, France 

    Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany 

    Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan 

    Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland 

    La Fudación Helga de Alvear, Spain 

    Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 

    M+, Hongkong, China 

    Mercedes-Benz Arena, Shanghai, China 

    Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 

    Singapore Art Museum, Singapore 

    Sammlung Goetz, Germany 

    The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US 

    Tate, UK 

    Ullens Center for the Arts 

    Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland 

    White Rabbit Gallery, Australia 

    Publications 

    2005 

    Nine Lives/ The Birth of Avant-garde Art in New China" by Karen Smith, Published by SCALO, 

    P358-403 

    "MIRADAS Y CONCEPTOS"/ EN LA COLECCIÓN HELGA DE ALVEAR 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "Archaeology of the future"/ The Second 

    Triennial of Chinese Art, The Nanjing Museum, China 

    2004 

    Pictures of the exhibition, "Techniques of the Visible"/ Shanghai Biennale 2004,Shanghai Art 

    Museum 

    Pictures of the exhibition "Light as Fuck"/ Shanghai Assemblage,The National Museum of Art, 

    Norway 

    Pictures of the exhibition "BEYOND BOUNDARIES", Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai"China Art Now" by Michel Nuridsany, Published by Flammarion, P130-137 

    Pictures of the exhibition, "Zooming into Focus"/ Contemporay Chinese Photography & 

    Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Shanghai Art Museum 

    2003 

    "Video Art" by Michael Rush, Published by Thames & Hudson, P142 

    "MODERNITÉS CHINOISES" BY Jean-Marc Decrop/ Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Published by 

    SKIRA 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "Alors, la Chine?" Centre Pompidou, Pairs 

    Internazionale d'Arte), Venice 

    Pictures of the exhibition "Happiness: a survival guide for art and life", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 

    Pictures of the exhibition "The First Guangzhou Triennial", Guangzhou Museum of Art, China 

    2002 

    Pictures of the exhibition "PAUSE" / Gwanju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, Korea 

    Pictures of the exhibition "MOIST" /4th Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival, Beijing 

    2001 

    Pictures of the exhibition"TELEVISIONS" Kunst Hall, Wien 

    Pictures of the exhibition "Living in Time" Nationlgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fÜr 

    Gegenwart, Berlin 

    Pictures of the exhibition "China Art Now" Singapore Art Museum, National Heritage Board, 

    Singapore 

    Pictures of the exhibition "Compound Eyes"/ Contemporary Video Art from China, Eart Lu 

    Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore 

    1998 

    Pictures of the work, "90s Art China" by Lu Peng, Published by Hunan Arts Publishing House, 

    p28, 29, 158,181,281 

    Picture of the work, ARTEiN (Italian art magazine), Ottobre/ November 2000 

    Picture of the work, Flash Art, Ottobre/ November 2000 

    Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "ARCO 2000", p 475 

    Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "media-city seoul 2000", p147 

    Picture of the work and article "Zhang Peili" by Mathieu Borysevicz, ART Asia Pacific, p95 

    Picture of the work, ART Asia Pacific, Issue 27, p56 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "Shanghai Biennale 2000", Shanghai Art 

    Museum, p 259,260,261 

    1999 

    Pictures of the work and article "Zhang Peili" by Lydia Yee, Catalogue of the exhibition "La 

    Biennale di Venezia-48a Esposizione Internazional d'art, p138,139 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "ZEITWENDEN ausblick"- Global Art 

    Rheinland 2000, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, p 294, 295, 296 

    Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "Skin-Deep"- Surface and Appearance inContemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, p12 

    Pictures of the work and article "Zhang Peili-Endless dancing and other works" by Clair 

    Roberts, Catalogue of the exhibition "Beyond the Future" -Third Asia -Pacific Triennial of 

    Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, p44, 45 

    Pictures of the work and article "Zhang Peili" by Jin Yuqing, Catalogue of the exhibition 

    "Fukuoka Triennial", Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, p40, 41, 42, 43 

    "Zhang Peili" by Holland Cotter, The New York Times (Friday, May 14, E37, Art in Review) 

    1998 

    Pictures of the work and article "Zhang Peili" by Hou Hanru, "Cream"- contemporary art in 

    culture, Published by PHAIDON, p440, 441, 442, 443. 

    Pictures of the work and article "Zhang Peili" by Huan Du, Catalogue of the exhibition 

    "Every day"- 11th Biennial of Sydney, p 232,233 

    Picture of the work, ART Asia Pacific (Issue 20), p29 

    Picture of the work, Flash Art (international edition, November- December 1998), p58 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "Inside Out: New Chinese Art", San 

    Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Asia Society Gallery, New York, p18, 33,159 

    1997 

    Pictures of the work and article "Zhang Peili and His Work" by Sheng Tian Zheng, Catalogue 

    of the exhibition "Zhang Peili ". 

    Pictures of the work and article "Zhang Peili" by Harald Szeemann, Catalogue of the 

    Exhibition (La 4e Biennial d' Art Contemporainl de Lyon France), p130, 131 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "Immutability and Fashion"- Chinese 

    Contemporary Art in the Midst of Changing 

    Surroundings, Kirin Art Space, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan, p 28, 29, 40 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "Another Long March"- Chinese 

    Conceptual and Installation Art in the Nineties, Fundament Foundation, Breda, the 

    Netherlands, p49, 81, 116, 117, 120, 121 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "Uncertain Pleasure-Chinese Artists in the 

    1990's ", Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 

    1996 

    Pictures of the work and article: "Zhang Peili" by Juliane Noth; "Mit dem Western Im Krieg? " 

    (In War with the West?) by Zhang Peili, catalogue of the exhibition "China- Aktuelles aus 15 

    Ateliers", Munich, Germany, p92, 93, 133, 134, 135 

    1995 

    "Zhang Peili - Le Monde est un chaos" by Kim Bo, Technikart, Mai-Juin. 

    "A Studio Visit with Zhang Peili" by Joan Lebold Cohen, Asia-Pasific Sculpture News; Volume1 

    Number 4 Autumn, 1995 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition (Des del Pais del Centre: avantguardes 

    artistiques xineses, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona), p11, 571993 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "Out of the Centre", Pori Art Museum, 

    Finland 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "Gaze, L'lmpossible Transparence"-Carre 

    des Arts, Paris 

    1993 

    Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition (La Biennale di Venezia-45a Esposizione 

    Internazional d'arte), p546 Pictures of the work and article "Zhang Peili" by Hans van Dijk, 

    Catalogue of the exhibition ("China Avant-Garde", Oxford University Press), p210, 211,212, 

    213,214,215. 

    Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "China's New Art Post-1989" (Hanart TZ 

    Galley, Hong Kong), p145,146, 147 

    "Zhang Peili" by Francesca Dal Lago; "Comme un gaut" by Olivier Kaeppelin, catalogue of 

    the exhibition ("Zhang Peili Chine", Galerie du Rond-Point, Paris) 

    Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition ("Gran Delubro, L'Arte" Erice, Edizioni Carte 

    Segrete, Italy), p58 

    "Zhang Peili: La China, si proche", by Michel Nuridsany, La Figaro, 19/1/1993, France 

    "Zhang Peili" by Philippe Piguet, Le Monde, 2/15/1993 

    "Zhang Peili- Galerie du Rond Point" by Ami Barak, Art Press, no.178, Mach, France 

    Picture of the work, Flash Art (Italian edition), no.175, May 

    "Zhang Peili at Crousel-Robelin Bama," by Guy Brett, Art in America, no.11, November 

    1992 

    Pictures of the work, "The History of China Modern Art" by Lu Peng, Published by Hunan Arts 

    Publishing House, 

    "Zhang Peili-The Modern Hurger Artist", by Fred Martin, Fine Art Magazine (U.S.A.) No, 2, 1991 

    November 

    1988 

    Picture of the work, Catalogue "Chinese Oil Painting 1900-1985, Fine Arts in China", 

    Published by Jiangsu Arts Publishing House, no35, 

    Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition "Beyond the Open Door" Asia Pacific Art 

    Museum, Pasadena, U.S.A


  • Exhibitions
    • You as Me, Hold the Gaze
      Feb 17, 2023 - Oct 12, 2023
      Curator: Xu Tianyi
      Artists: Markus Lüpertz, aaajiao, LLND, Oreet Ashery, Darren Almond, Hu Yun, Carsten Nicolai, Li Binyuan, Lee Yongbaek, Lin Ke, Lin Tianmiao, Liu Wei, Shi Yong, Lu Lei, Tong Wenmin, Tobias Rehberger, Yang Jiecang, Ye Linghan, Yu Ji, Zhang Peili, Zhou Xiaohu, Li Liao, Lee Bul
      • Group Exhibition, How Art Museum
  • Artworks
  • Articles
    • You as Me, Hold the Gaze

      My age, my beast, who will ever

      Look into your eyes.

      And with his own blood glue together

      The backbones of two centuries?

      Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) wrote down the poem The Age (1923) at the beginning of the 20th century. While expressing his visions and hopes for the age, it also shed light on the conflicts between "poet and his time". In another poem he wrote later, it read: "No, I am no one's contemporary". (1924)

      The Age as quoted in Giorgio Agamben's What Is the Contemporary? and Alain Badiou's The Century . In What Is the Contemporary?, Agamben explained "The contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness. All eras, for those who experience contemporariness, are obscure." Badiou, when quoting the poem at the end of the 20th century, pointed out that Mandelstam's "beast" as a newborn and fragile presence was doomed to be transient. What Badiou was trying to break was exactly this "backbone". 

      It is widely acknowledged that the 20th century was a century of division. And to gain insights into such "division" takes not only knowledge of what happened in this century, but also of what the people of this century were thinking. If we merely label things that happened without probing into what the people of the century were thinking, we can neither get to truly know the present nor prevent things from repeating themselves. In this same logic, this century would have nothing to with the "future" since its very beginning. 

      You and I as people of some experience of the contemporary are the minimum unit to constitute the complex and multi-layered veins of time of contemporaneity. Hence we shall not follow linear time to describe the nature of things. The exhibition on view, as celebration of the fifth anniversary of the HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), features over 30 pieces of installations and videos by more than 20 artists both at home and from abroad including Lee Bul, Liu Wei, Zhang Peili, Lin Tianmiao, Markus Lüpertz and Carsten Nicolai. Different from the usual curatorial approach that follows a linear timeline to present the works within museum collection, the exhibition follows the principle of "contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time". Under the title "You as Me", "you" and "I" are the core of the dialogue with the space, to fill up the absence of subject and scene, reflect upon the tragedies of the century, build connections between contemporary events and past reference, define time from a sociological perspective, treat the "contemporary" as a dividing point between the past and the future, disrupt and reverse language on the cultural level through social installation, rethink of the cultural representations beyond the physical body to confront the fragmented digital world, and morph into an organic life form that cannot be written off in this digital world. 

      However, the attempt to construct non-linear histories through creative reassemblages of time is in itself trapped in the modern view of history. The underlying narratives among different works are merely judgements based on information fed to us from the outside. You and I need to firmly hold our gaze so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.

    [Synopsis] You as Me, Hold the Gaze

    By Xu Tianyi 2023-06-13

    My age, my beast, who will ever

    Look into your eyes.

    And with his own blood glue together

    The backbones of two centuries?

    Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) wrote down the poem The Age (1923) at the beginning of the 20th century. While expressing his visions and hopes for the age, it also shed light on the conflicts between "poet and his time". In another poem he wrote later, it read: "No, I am no one's contemporary". (1924)

    The Age as quoted in Giorgio Agamben's What Is the Contemporary? and Alain Badiou's The Century . In What Is the Contemporary?, Agamben explained "The contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness. All eras, for those who experience contemporariness, are obscure." Badiou, when quoting the poem at the end of the 20th century, pointed out that Mandelstam's "beast" as a newborn and fragile presence was doomed to be transient. What Badiou was trying to break was exactly this "backbone". 

    It is widely acknowledged that the 20th century was a century of division. And to gain insights into such "division" takes not only knowledge of what happened in this century, but also of what the people of this century were thinking. If we merely label things that happened without probing into what the people of the century were thinking, we can neither get to truly know the present nor prevent things from repeating themselves. In this same logic, this century would have nothing to with the "future" since its very beginning. 

    You and I as people of some experience of the contemporary are the minimum unit to constitute the complex and multi-layered veins of time of contemporaneity. Hence we shall not follow linear time to describe the nature of things. The exhibition on view, as celebration of the fifth anniversary of the HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), features over 30 pieces of installations and videos by more than 20 artists both at home and from abroad including Lee Bul, Liu Wei, Zhang Peili, Lin Tianmiao, Markus Lüpertz and Carsten Nicolai. Different from the usual curatorial approach that follows a linear timeline to present the works within museum collection, the exhibition follows the principle of "contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time". Under the title "You as Me", "you" and "I" are the core of the dialogue with the space, to fill up the absence of subject and scene, reflect upon the tragedies of the century, build connections between contemporary events and past reference, define time from a sociological perspective, treat the "contemporary" as a dividing point between the past and the future, disrupt and reverse language on the cultural level through social installation, rethink of the cultural representations beyond the physical body to confront the fragmented digital world, and morph into an organic life form that cannot be written off in this digital world. 

    However, the attempt to construct non-linear histories through creative reassemblages of time is in itself trapped in the modern view of history. The underlying narratives among different works are merely judgements based on information fed to us from the outside. You and I need to firmly hold our gaze so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.

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