Ce JIAN

Ce Jian’s works deal with pictorial traditions and visual concepts that have their origins in cultural and art history and extend into today’s digital image worlds. She is interested in questions of a technically transformed aesthetic and physicality, and discusses them in her carefully composed paintings with an expressive palette and spontaneous gestures, which serve as a counterbalance to her conceptual framework.
Her art revolves around the tension between rational constructions and their artificiality on one side and human experience, our perception and feeling, on the other. Ce Jian uses painting as a historically influenced manual medium in which both knowledge and emotions are encoded. Her interest in illusionism, camouflage and perspective – whether in a spatial construction, anamorphosis or stage design – stems from this. She plays with the double status of the physical and virtual presence of her paintings, which is why the exhibition space is also included in a fusion of reality and pictorial reality.
Ce Jian was born in 1984 in Shandong Province, China and moved to Germany in 1988. She studied at Goldsmiths College, London from 2006-2007 and graduated in 2008 from the Berlin University of the Arts. She also earned a Magister Artium degree in Art History from the Humboldt-Universität and Freie Unversität Berlin in 2009. She received a PhD in Art and Visual History from Humboldt-Universität of Berlin in 2017. Her recent solo exhibitions include Paradise, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China (2021); Words of Art, Yell Space, Shanghai, China (2019); Armada, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China (2018); Bannermen, Gallery SU, Seoul, Korea (2018); Transeuropa, Whiteconcepts, Berlin, Germany (2017); CAPTCHA, Galerie Philine Cremer, Dusseldorf, Germany (2017); The Grand Illusion, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China (2016); Elephant, NON Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2016). Recent group exhibitions include Painting Unsettled, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China (2023); The Situation is Excellent, GLUE, Berlin, Germany (2022); The Hearing Trumpet, Galerie Marguo, Paris, France (2022); Sonderlage, Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany (2021); El Lissitzky’s Rooms, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China (2020); A World in a Grain of Sand: Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Deometries, Atlantis, Sanya, China (2018); Art Patrons, Qiao Space, Shanghai, China (2018); The Second Self, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany (2017). She currently lives and works in Berlin and Beijing.
SELECTED WORKS
EXHIBITIONS

Persona and Parasite
6.18-8.28, 2022
Shunyi

Paradise
5.15 – 7.3, 2021
Caochangdi

Armada
6.30 – 8.5, 2018
Caochangdi

The Grand Illusion
12.17, 2016 – 1.20, 2017
Caochangdi

PROJECTION
6.14 – 7.30, 2014
Caochangdi

SMILE WITHOUT A FACE
12.15, 2012 – 2.24, 2013
Caochangdi

FACT = FICTION
9.5 – 9.22, 2010
Caochangdi
NEWS

Super Fusion: 2021 Chengdu Biennale
Chengdu Tianfu Art Park
2021.11.6 – 2022.4.6

简策:双色舞台
The Art Room
2021.6.16

创作摘录 | 简策10条创作观点
The Art Room
2021.6.16

Futurism of the Past — Contemplating the Past and Future in Chinese Contemporary Art
Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2021, STORY
2021.6.15 – 8.31

绘画有声|简策:抽象的潜力
Taikang Space
2021.5.13

El Lisstzky’s Rooms
Surplus Space
2020.11.3 – 12.30

#on paper_未命名 简策 & 程昱峥艺术家书项目《锚》
On Paper Studio
2020.9.10

Kunstraum Berlin
German Embassy, Beijing
2019.5.18 – 6.15

Remixing Ground: Deconstructing Damage
La Chapelle de Clairefontaine
2018.10.13 – 2019.1.19
幻影水师
art world
2018.8.23

On Paper One
Zap Beijing
2017.11.25 – 12.10
Jian Ce: La Grand Illusion
LEAP
2017.2.15
5 Exhibitions to see in Beijing in January 2017
Art Radar
2017.1.2

Our Painting
Yang Art Museum
2016.11.12 – 2017.2.25
PROJECTION
LEAP
2014.8.20
IMAGR AND PROJECTION
Art China
2014.7.16
无法测量的经验
I ART
2014.7.10
PROJECTION
ARTFORUM
2014.6.18
每一个别人里面都有你自己,这并不可耻
TimeOut
2013.1.16