HE Xiangyu
He Xiangyu (1986, China) is an artist and documentary filmmaker who lives and works in Berlin and Beijing. Emerging from a generation of artists who have experienced the radical changes in China’s society reverberated within the economy and international relations, He Xiangyu’s art practice is based on his unique cultural experience. Using a diverse range of media from painting, sculpture, installation, video to publication, his work contemplates and echoes the macro geopolitical and historical turbulence, and the micro conflicts they manifest in the fates of individuals through a series of projects with immense timespans and physical volumes. In He’s works, the deliberate dislocation of materials, intimate perception of physical and mental experience, and the dispassionate historical perspective are brought into play; this very dynamic balance reflects the self-cognitive dilemma of a generation born from the historical fault line. He unveils and analyzes the collision and dissolution of cultures in complex contexts with a non-linear structure.
He Xiangyu’s works have been shown in CAFA Art Museum, Beijing; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; TANK Shanghai; Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai; OCAT Institute, Shanghai; Para Site, Hong Kong; TOP Museum, Tokyo; The Drawing Center, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Kadist Foundation, San Franciso; LACMA, Los Angeles; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin; MAXXI L’Aquila, L’Aquila; SONGEUN, Seoul among others. He Xiangyu’s works were also presented at the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (Yekaterinburg, 2019); 58th La Biennale di Venezia, China Pavilion (2019); 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015); 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014); 5th Yokohama Triennale (2014); 8th Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art (2014). He Xiangyu was named as a finalist for the “Mario Merz Prize” (2021) and the “Future Generation Art Prize” (2014), won the 10th CCAA “Best Young Artist” Award (2016) and the “ARTNET Emerging Artist Prize” (2016). His interdisciplinary publication <Yellow Book> (published by Hatje Cantz, 2019) won the prize for “The Most Beautiful German Books” in 2020.
SELECTED WORKS
EXHIBITIONS
Persona and Parasite
6.18-8.28, 2022
Shunyi
Hard Palate
9.24, 2020 – 1.31, 2021
Caochangdi
HE Xiangyu
2.18 – 3.30, 2017
Caochangdi
DOTTED LINE II
10.24 – 12.06, 2015
Caochangdi
DOTTED LINE
10.26 – 12.07, 2014
Caochangdi
HE XIANG YU
9.1 – 11.11. 2012
Caochangdi
MAN ON THE CHAIRS
4.3 – 5.18, 2011
Caochangdi
NEWS
Documentary film of He Xiangyu`s Mia & Elephant
Afterimage
MAXXI
2022.7.6 – 2023.2.19
The Finalists’ Exhibition of Mario Merz Prize
Fondazione Merz
2022.6.9 – 9.25
ARTFORUM Critics’ picks | He Xiangyu
CCA BERLIN – CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
2022.4.29 – 5.28
“PENUMBRA” Presented by Fondazione In Between Art Film Presents
Fondazione In Between Art Film
2022.4.20 – 2022.11.27
From Antung to Dandong: Rafts, Broken Bridges and Passers-by on the Yalu River
Wind H Art Center
2022.3.13 – 6.5
ON | OFF 2021: Carousel of Progress
He Art Museum
2022.2.4 – 4.17
Super Fusion: 2021 Chengdu Biennale
Chengdu Tianfu Art Park
2021.11.6 – 2022.4.6
A chair,
ZHI Art Museum
2021.10.1 – 2022.4.10
To Be the Better One —The Methodology of the New Generation New Work, New Identity, New Life, New Direction
Wind H Art Center
2021.6.20 – 9.7
Pavilion of the P. R. China at the 58th International Art Exhibition
He Art Museum
2021.4.11 – 6.6
巴塞尔艺术展春季影院 |《游》
Art Basel
2021.4.9
Reconnecting
Surplus Space
2021.3.27 – 6.20
Cover: Enclave Contemporary Opening Exhibition
Enclave Contemporary
2021.3.20 – 5.23
HE Xiangyu: Soft Dilemma
Andrew Kreps Gallery
2021.1.15 – 2.20
何翔宇：硬腭三章
Ocula Insight
2020.11.19
In aller Munde Von Pieter Bruegel bis Cindy Sherman
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
2020.10.31 – 2021.4.5
100 Drawings from Now
The Drawing Center, New York
2020.10.7 – 2021.1.17
Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation
Beijing Minsheng Art Museum
2020.9.25 – 2025.9.25
Studio Berlin: artworks replace dancing bodies in the legendary Berghain club
Financial Times
2020.9.16
Studio Berlin
Berghain, Berlin, Germany
2020.9.9 – 2021.6.27
The C: Digital interactive Art Experiment
TANK Shanghai
2020.7.1 – 9.30
Étude
Aranya Art Center
2020.5.23 – 8.23
Re-睿: Pavilion of the P.R.China at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale Di Venezia
Guardian Art Center
2019.12.22 – 2020.3.8
Cosmopolis #2
Centre Pompidou
2019.10.23 – 12.23
Encounter
Shanghai Urban Space Art Season
2019.9.29 – 11.30
The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art: Immortality
The Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant
2019.9.12 – 12.1
The Infinite Mix – 2019 Airport Biennale
Guangzhou
2019.6.1 – 8.31
Kunstraum Berlin
German Embassy, Beijing
2019.5.18 – 6.15
The 58th La Biennale di Venezia-China Pavilion
The 58th Venice Biennale Chinese Pavilion
2019.5.11 – 11.24
Roots
A4 Art Museum
2019.4.27 – 7.28
Now Is the Time: 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition
Wuzhen
2019.3.31 – 6.30
Remapping Reality: Selected Video Collection from Wang Bing
OCAT Shanghai
2019.3.23 – 6.16
Under Construction
Tank Shanghai
2019.3.23 – 8.24
HE Xiangyu-10 Must-See Works at Art Basel Unlimited
Artsy
2018.6.12
Assembling
chi K11 Art Space
2018.5.27 – 8.25
A conversation with He Xiangyu
Ocula
2018.3.8
Bunker #3
Boros Collection
2017.4.30 – 2021.4
HE Xiangyu
yuntoo
2017.3.15
HE Xiangyu
Artforum
2017.3.15
HE Xiangyu
Artifeng
2017.3.13
Our Painting
Yang Art Museum
2016.11.12 – 2017.2.25
Yinchuan Biennale: For an Image, Faster Than Light
MOCA Yinchuan
2016.9.9 – 12.18
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs
MCAD
2016.9.6 – 12.4
HE Xiangyu
Art and Design
2015.7.23
New Directions: He Xiangyu
UCCA
2015.6.11 – 8.9
The System of Objects
Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum
2015.3.29 – 6.28
The effervescence of artist He Xiangyu
The Japan Times
2015.3.22
He Xiangyu, article by Venus Lau
ARTFORUM
2015.1.25
玩物有志
Hi艺术
2014.12.13
10th Shanghai Biennale: Social Factory
Power Station of Art
2014.11.23 – 2015.3.31
HE Xiangyu_article by Philip Tinari
ARTINVESTOR
2014.7.1
THE 8 OF PATHS: ART IN BEIJING
LEAP
2014.6.25
HE XIANGYU: CROSSED BELIEFS
LEAP
2014.1.25
28 Chinese: Rubell Family Collection
RUBELL FAMILY COLLECTION/CONTEMPORARY ARTS FOUNDATION
2013.12.4 – 2014.8.1
HE Xiangyu
100% CREATIVE ICONS
2013.1.10
Chinese Art Through 28 Artists
THE ART NEWSPAPER
2012.12.21
何翔宇、杨健：反观“自我”与现代文明
ARTCO
2012.12.7
HE Xiangyu
Lifestyle
2012.10.27
HE Xiangyu
Randian
2012.10.25
HE Xiangyu
LEAP
2012.10.17
何翔宇：诗意的政治美学
Xu Fang
2012.10.16
Neue Tendenzen in der chinesischen Gegenwartkunst
Neue Bürcher Beitung
2012.9.16
HE XIANGYU THE PRIMACY OF PROCESS
LEAP
2012.5.1
COLA PROJECT
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
2012.3.16 – 5.5