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| Birthdate: | 1981 |
| Birthplace: | China | Zhejiang |
| Gender: | Female |
| Lives and Works in: | Germany | |
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Born 1981 in Zhejiang, China Currently works and lives in Berlin, Germany Wang Zhibo's works explore the tangibility, complexity and distortion of time and space. Wang challenges the possibilities of these concepts not only within the two-dimensional space, but also with the viewer's perception and participation with the work. Tropical sceneries finely coated by a delicate layer of dewy snow; glass cabinets housing an array of anthropological items; the blurred vision of a seated mother and child; each are running explorations in Wang's practice that surveys the absurd spectrum of what is real - geographically, historically, ethnographically, architecturally. A graduate from the China Academy of Art Oil Painting Department, currently living and working in Berlin, Wang creates oil on canvas paintings that confound our notions of time and space. Transcending traditionalism through the subject matter depicted, which is both curious and challenging, Wang channels her painting to represent the variances of our visual experiences, similar to the reflection on the surface of water: capable of capturing the multiple manifolds of a subject. A highly regarded Chinese painter, Wang was awarded the prestigious Luo Zhongli Scholarship in 2008. Selected solo exhibitions include "Porous", Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2025); "Wang Zhibo", Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao (2024); "He No Longer Looks Human", Edouard Malingue Gallery, Shanghai (2018); "There is a place with four suns in the sky – red, white, blue and yellow", Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (2016); "Standing Wave", Armory Show, New York (2013). Her works have also been exhibited at ChertLüdde, Berlin (2024); Frieze London (2020); Times Art Center, Berlin (2019); Villa Vassilieff, Paris (2017); Times Art Center, Guangdong (2017); Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing (2015); Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Sydney (2014); Today Art Museum, Beijing (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2008); Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (2007). Furthermore Luise Guest selected Wang to feature in her publication on female Chinese artists 'Half the Sky' (2016). Wang was included in Great Women Painters published by Phaidon (2022). |
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| Opening: | Nov 11, 2025 Tuesday |
| Curator: | Kaimei Wang |
| Artists: | Wei Chen, Zhou Chen, Zhixuan Feng, Bailin Fu, Qizhen · Tin Gao, Shan Gao, Han Jin, Yangping Jin, Lin Ke, Jianfeng Ma, Shuang Sha, Yitian Sun, Yiyao Tang, Zhibo Wang, Molin Xie, Xuanxuan Xie, Qingmei Yao, Kaiyang Xiang, Yixin Shang, Ye Linghan, Yong You, Tian Zhu, Michael Ho |
| Birthdate: | 1981 |
| Birthplace: | China | Zhejiang |
| Gender: | Female |
| Lives and Works in: | Germany | |
| About: | |
Born 1981 in Zhejiang, China Currently works and lives in Berlin, Germany Wang Zhibo's works explore the tangibility, complexity and distortion of time and space. Wang challenges the possibilities of these concepts not only within the two-dimensional space, but also with the viewer's perception and participation with the work. Tropical sceneries finely coated by a delicate layer of dewy snow; glass cabinets housing an array of anthropological items; the blurred vision of a seated mother and child; each are running explorations in Wang's practice that surveys the absurd spectrum of what is real - geographically, historically, ethnographically, architecturally. A graduate from the China Academy of Art Oil Painting Department, currently living and working in Berlin, Wang creates oil on canvas paintings that confound our notions of time and space. Transcending traditionalism through the subject matter depicted, which is both curious and challenging, Wang channels her painting to represent the variances of our visual experiences, similar to the reflection on the surface of water: capable of capturing the multiple manifolds of a subject. A highly regarded Chinese painter, Wang was awarded the prestigious Luo Zhongli Scholarship in 2008. Selected solo exhibitions include "Porous", Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2025); "Wang Zhibo", Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao (2024); "He No Longer Looks Human", Edouard Malingue Gallery, Shanghai (2018); "There is a place with four suns in the sky – red, white, blue and yellow", Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (2016); "Standing Wave", Armory Show, New York (2013). Her works have also been exhibited at ChertLüdde, Berlin (2024); Frieze London (2020); Times Art Center, Berlin (2019); Villa Vassilieff, Paris (2017); Times Art Center, Guangdong (2017); Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing (2015); Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Sydney (2014); Today Art Museum, Beijing (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2008); Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (2007). Furthermore Luise Guest selected Wang to feature in her publication on female Chinese artists 'Half the Sky' (2016). Wang was included in Great Women Painters published by Phaidon (2022). |
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| Opening: | Nov 11, 2025 Tuesday |
| Curator: | Kaimei Wang |
| Artists: | Wei Chen, Zhou Chen, Zhixuan Feng, Bailin Fu, Qizhen · Tin Gao, Shan Gao, Han Jin, Yangping Jin, Lin Ke, Jianfeng Ma, Shuang Sha, Yitian Sun, Yiyao Tang, Zhibo Wang, Molin Xie, Xuanxuan Xie, Qingmei Yao, Kaiyang Xiang, Yixin Shang, Ye Linghan, Yong You, Tian Zhu, Michael Ho |
