art paris art fair 16

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ART PARIS ART FAIR 16
VERNISSAGE 30.MAR.2016 • 6—10 P.M
31.MAR.2016 — 03.MAR.2016
PARIS
JU YOUNG BAN
LI CHEVALIER
DAI GUANGYU
GAO BROTHERS
JINHWA JUNG
ZANE MELLUPE
YULIM SONG
BRUSSELS
BELGIUM | GALLERY
rue des renards / vossenstraat 28 • 1000 bruxelles / brussel • belgium
tel. +32 2 502 40 58 • contact@ifa-gallery.com
SHANGHAI
CHINA | PROJECT SPACE
733 wanhangdu road/ 上海市万航渡路733号 • shanghai 200040 邮编 • china
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PRESS RELEASE/ COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE
For this year’s edition of Art Paris, ifa gallery has thought up an exhibition of graphic aspects. The visitor can escape
into a parallel universe in which lines cavort, structures slot into one another, and colours frolic freely.
Three young Korean artists exhibit subtle, conscious pieces. Ju Young Ban (1978), a Brooklyn Pratt Institute
graduate in painting (New-York), constructs structured and celestial forms. The meticulously sewn pieces of
Yulim Song (1983) seem to suspend time. Jinhwa Jung (1986) paints outside of conventions and classic forms.
The de-structuring of their painted subjects result in a daring new compositional approach.
Among the artists working in China, an emblematic figure of the avant-garde, Chinese artist Dai Guangyu
(China, 1955) brings together contemporary art and ancestral tradition. Lithuanian artist Zane Mellupe (Latvia,
1981) conceives her art regrouping installations and photography in mixed technique, an approach of “thinking in
imagery”. Internationally acclaimed, the work of the Gao Brothers (China, 1956 and 1962) has over two decades
questioned the place of humans within society, using the specific case of China whilst producing a universal
understanding. Li Chevalier’s (China, 1961) experimental ink painting style can be identified by her personal way
of incorporating Chinese ink into canvas, blended with pigment, mineral chips, sand and elements of Chinese art
such as rice paper and calligraphy.
Pour cette nouvelle édition à Art Paris, ifa gallery a imaginé une exposition aux dimensions graphiques. Le visiteur
s’évade vers un univers parallèle où les lignes dansent, les structures s’emboitent et les couleurs fleurtent avec
légerté.
Trois jeunes artistes coréens exposent une oeuvre essentiellement maîtrisée et sensible. Junyon Ban (1978),
diplômée en peinture à l’institut de Pratt à Brooklyn, construit des formes structurées et célestes. Les oeuvres
méticuleuses et cousues d’Yulim Song (1983) semblent suspendre le temps. Jinhwa Jung (1986) peint en dehors
des conventions et des formes classiques. La déstructure des sujets peints conduit à de nouvelles compositions
audacieuses.
Du côté de la Chine, Dai Guangyu (Chine, 1955), figure de proue de l’avant-garde chinoise, allie art contemporain et
traditionnel. Zane Mellupe (Lettonie, 1981) conçoit son art regroupant installations et photographies en techniques
mixtes, comme une manière de « penser en images ». Les Gao Brothers (Chine, 1956 et 1962), renommés
internationalement, questionnent la place de l’homme dans la société, partant de l’exemple Chinois pour arriver
à une compréhension universelle. La peinture de Li Chevalier (Chine, 1961) expérimente la relation de l’encre de
ZANE MELLUPE
1982 RIGA, LATVIA / LETONIE
HUMAN EGG – what are we leaving behind 1
pencil on photography on wood cut-out, 40x50cm
2016
contemplation corner 1 2016
pencil on photography on wood ,150x43x43cm
BIOGRAPHY
Zane Mellupe is an artist and Sinologist from Latvia who works on photography since the age of fourteen.
She studied Sinology at the University of Latvia before following Theatre Direction studies in Shanghai Theatre
Academy and completing her Bachelor Degree in Shanghai Teachers University (Bachelor of Arts in Chinese
Language & Literature, 2004). Back in Europe in 2005, Mellupe pursued her education in the London (Master of
Arts in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography, University of the Arts, 2007).
Her installations, or multi-medium photographic works, centre around the hidden interpretations of our emotions.
She employs the photographic medium as a tool that inspires her creative process. As such, her installations are
often composed of everyday objects with an added photographic element, the collision of two universes from
which arise new meanings.
Creative director of Island6 Arts Centre in Shanghai between 2007 and 2010 and founder of a community art
street, “Yongkang Lu Art” with several experimental spaces, her work has been exhibited in China and Europe in
different galleries and museums.
Zane Mellupe lives and works in Shanghai (China).
Zane Mellupe est une artiste et sinologue lettone qui dès l’âge de quatorze ans s’intéresse à la photographie. Elle
étudie la sinologie à l’Université de Lettonie avant de suivre des études de mise en scène à l’Académie de Théâtre
de Shanghai et de littérature chinoise à l’Université de Shanghai. De retour en Europe en 2005, l’artiste obtient un
master en photojournalisme et en photographie documentaire à l’Université des Arts de Londres.
Ses installations, ses photographies en techniques mixtes, révèlent des interprétations cachées de nos
sentiments. Zane Mellupe utilise le médium photographique comme un outil qui alimente son processus créatif.
Ses installations sont ainsi souvent composées d’objets du quotidien auxquels elle mêle la photographie, la
contraction des deux univers faisant jaillir une histoire.
Directrice artistique du Centre Island6 Arts de Shanghai entre 2007 et 2010 et fondatrice d’une communauté de
street art «Yongkang Lu Art » autour de plusieurs espaces expérimentaux, elle expose régulièrement à la fois en
Chine et en Europe dans divers galeries et musées. Depuis 2010, l’artiste est représentée par ifa gallery.
Zane Mellupe vit et travaille à Shanghai.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES
2015 – «Creating Terminology? Entropy?», The Bund Art
Museum, Shanghai, China
2015 – “Another Trilogy”, ifa gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014 - ”Shanghai Lights”. Professional Photography school,
Riga , Latvia
2013 - ”Shanghai Lights”. Kultūras pils (The Castle of
Culture), Viesīte, Latvia
2012 - ”Šanhajas gaismas”. M.Buclera Photographt
Chamber, Lone City, Latvia
2011 - “In memory of the perfect wife”, ifa gallery, Shanghai,
China
2010 - ”Shanghai Lights”. Centre of culture Majori , Latvia
2009 - ”Šanhajas gaismas”. Bibliotēka., Saldus, Latvia
2009 - ” Shanghai Lights”. Museum of Olaine, Latvia
2008 - ”Shanghai Lights”. Latvijas Fotogrāfijas muzejs. Rīga
/ Latvija
2008 - “Shanghai lights”, Photography Museum of Latvia,
Riga, Latvia
2005 - “Also in China”, House of United Nations, Riga, Latvia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2016 – “1000 Apertures & 1 Visage”, ifa gallery, Brussels,
Belgium
2016 - «Babel Me», Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai,
China
2015 - «Unique Editions», ifa gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015 - «Community Hospital», Yuyuan Lu Arts, Shanghai,
China
2015 – “The Stroke of a Pen”, ifa gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015 - Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Liban
2015 – “Territory - Art Paris Art Fair”, ifa gallery booth, Paris,
France
2014 - Photo Shanghai, ifa gallery booth, Shanghai, China
2014 - Art Paris Art Fair, ifa gallery booth, Paris, France
2014 - “ uncovered China”, ifa gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2013 - “Investigation no.3: Mr & Mrs Zhang”, Art Paris, ifa
gallery booth, Paris, France
2013 - “Drawing and what”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2012 - “secret 7”, Chris Gill studio, Shanghai, China
2012 - “my country”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2012- “St-Art Fair”, Galerie Libre Cours booth, Strasbourg,
France
2012 - “secret 7”, YY bar, Shanghai, China
2012- “Red land, yellow stars”, Galerie Libre Cours &ifa
gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2012 - “Cells”, SH Contemporary 12, Shanghai, China
2012- “The left leg of a cat”, Art: Gwangju:12, Gwangju,
Korea
2012 - “closet”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2012 - “Something in Common”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2012 - “investigation no.2: facing distance”, Art Paris, ifa
gallery booth, Paris, France
2012 - “Trace, line, shadow”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2011 - “Ruby, Roxy and the flaming Lamborghini”, Studio
Rouge, Shanghai, China
2011 - “The hell. the heaven. on the way. in between”, ifa
gallery, Shanghai, China
2011 - “15 days without You”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2011 - “Enquête n°1”, Art Paris+guests, ifa gallery booth,
Paris, France
2011 - “The Birth of a myth - part II - Art in a state of
Alertness”, YK Art Space, Shanghai, China
2010 - “The birth of a myth - part I”, YK Art Space, Shanghai,
China
2010 - “Come, take a walk with me”, Yongkang Lu Art,
Shanghai, China
2010 - “Police and Her”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 - “Absolute 0:00”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2010 - “Fakirs”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2009 - “Placebo”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2009 - “30 Degrees”, Island 6 arts center & Studio Rouge,
Shanghai, China
2009 - “Synesthesia”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2009 - “Individual: New Art from Beyond Beijing”, Red Gate
Gallery, Beijing, China
2009 - “LEDs animés”, Gallery Twenty-One, Paris, France
2009 - “Art Paris 09”(Art Fair), Gallery Loft & Gallery TwentyOne Paris, France
2009 - “The Artist Died Yesterday”, Island 6 arts center,
Shanghai, China
2008 - “Shanghai Lights” Solo Exhibition, Photography
Museum of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2008 - “Automata”, Island 6 &ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2008 - “Urban Lust”, Island 6 &ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2008 - “Fernelmont Contemporary Art, second edition”
Festival Fernelmont, Castle of Fenelmont, Belgium
2008 - “Quadrareil Cerchio” (Squaring the Circle), Allegra
Ravizza Art Project, Milano, Italy
2008 - “Clouds of Crowds”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai,
China
2008 - “Roma Contemporary Art Fair”, Manaart Roma, Italy
2008 - “Zero Gravity”, Sun Gallery, Shanghai, China
2007 - “PlugIT”, Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong-Kong
2007 - “Made in Shanghai”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai,
China
2007 - “Festival Art Continu”, Morocco
2007 - “Made in China”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai,
China
2007 - “PlugIT”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2006 - “Life Circle”, LCC, London, UK
2006 - “Cable Street& the art pavilion (70th Anniversary of
the Battle of Cable St)”, London, UK
2005 - “Also in China”, Solo Exhibition, House of United
Nations, Riga, Latvia
高氏兄弟 GAO BROTHERS
GAO QIANG
1962 JINAN, CHINA/ CHINE
GAO ZHEN
1956 JINAN, CHINA/ CHINE
ARRESTING PROSTITUES NO.13 2007
oil on canvas, 250x150cm
The utopia of construction no. 9 2014
c-print, 100x100cm
BIOGRAPHY
The Gao Brothers are two Beijing-based artist brothers. Over the past 20 years and since their internationally
prominent participation in the exhibition « China / Avant-Garde » in 1989 (National Gallery of Beijing), their art has
reached into various mediums including photography, video, painting, sculpture, performance, with them working
also as critical writers and even as exhibition curators. In their work can be seen a questioning of humanity and
fraternity remaining in contemporary reality. Marked by the death of their father under the Maoist regime, engaged
in demonstrations at Tiananmen Square (which cost them their passports for several years), the two brothers
share a critical attitude towards Chinese society.
Their works form part of the collections of the most important contemporary art museums, including: the China
National Museum, the MoMA New York, the Guggenheim Foundation, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Kemper Museum
of Contemporary Art and the Princetown University Art Museum; as well as large private collections including
Steven Cohen, Uli Sigg, Charles Saatchi…
Gao Qiang and Gao Zhen live and work in Beijing, China.
Les Gao Brothers sont deux frères artistes basés à Pékin. Depuis 20 ans et leur participation internationalement
remarquée à l’exposition « China/Avant-Garde » de 1989 (Galerie Nationale de Pékin), leur art se déploie en
photographie, vidéo, théâtre, performance, peinture et sculpture, ainsi que des essais critiques et des commissariats
d’exposition. Ils y questionnent l’humanité et la fraternité restante dans notre monde contemporain. Marqués par
la disparition de leur père sous le régime maoïste, engagés lors des manifestations de la Place Tiananmen (ce qui
leur a valu leurs passeports à plusieurs reprises), les deux frères partagent une même approche critique vis-à-vis
de la société chinoise.
Leurs œuvres figurent dans les collections des plus importants musées d’art contemporain, tels que : Le Musée
National de China, le MoMA de New York, la Fondation Guggenheim, le Musée d’Art Moderne de San Francisco,
le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, le Centre Pompidou, le Victoria and Albert Museum à Londres et d’autres
; ainsi que de larges collections privées comme celles de Steven Cohen, Uli Sigg, Charles Saatchi…
Gao Qiang et Gao Zhen vivent et travaillent à Pékin, Chine.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES
2015 – “Between the Walls of Utopia”, ifa gallery, Brussels,
Belgium
2014 – “The Utopia of Construction”, Museum of New Art,
Detroit, USA
2014 – “The Utopia of 20 minutes Embrace”, RH
Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2014 – “The Gao Brothers – Dissidents abroad”, MONA
Museum, Detroit, USA
2013 – “Between Spiritual and material Spaces: the
photographic World of the Gao Brothers”, Hua Gallery,
London, United Kingdom
2013 – “The Gao Brothers: The Execution of Christ”, Albert
Benamou Gallery, Paris, France
2013 – “The Gao Brothers”, Galerie Post + García,
Maastricht, The Netherlands
2012 – “The Gao Brothers”, Vue Privée Gallery, Art Stage
Singapore, Singapore.
2012 – “The Utopia of 20 Minutes Embrace” Piazza del
Popolo, Rome, Italy
2011 – “The Gao Brothers”, Grandeur and Catharsis, Walsh
Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2010 – “The Gao Brothers”, gallery Adrian David, Knokkezoute (Kustlaan 335), Belgium
2010 – “The Gao Brothers”, Duncan Miller gallery, Los
Angeles. USA
2010 – “Gao Brothers’ Portraits”, China Art Archives and
Warehouse, Beijing
2010 – “The Gao Brothers: Grandeur and Catharsis”,
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
2008 – “Sense of Space”, Galerie Art Mur, Montreal,
Canada
2008 – “Some Space for Humanity: Gao Brothers
Photography Exhibition”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2008 – “The Gao Brothers”, Vallois Gallery, Paris, France
2008 – “The Utopia of Construction”, Gao Brothers Center
For Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007 – “The Gao Brothers”, Ballery, ox Art G, Verona, Italy
2007 – “The High Place: Gao Brothers Photography and
Sculpture Exhibition”, Beijing New Art Projects, Beijing, China
2007 – “The Miserable Prostitutes: Gao Brothers’ Painting
and Sculpture Exhibition”, Gao Brothers Center For
Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007 – “The Gao Brothers”, Albert Benamou gallery, Paris,
France
2007 – “The Gao Brothers”, Limn gallery, San Francisco,
USA
2007 – “The Utopia of 20 Minutes Embrace”, Brandenburg
Gate, Berlin, Germany
2007 – “From China with Love: Gao Brothers Photography
and Sculpture Exhibition”, Walsh gallery, USA
2007 – “Another World: Gao Brothers Photography
Exhibition”, Arles Photo Festival, France
2006 – “Miss Mao: Gao Brothers’ Sculpture and
Photography Exhibition”, Krampf/Pei
Gallery, New York, USA
2006 – “One and Together: Gao Brothers Photography
Exhibition”, Moscow House of Photography Gallery on
Solyanka, Moscow
2006 – “The passage of Time: Gao Brothers Photography
Exhibition”, La Galerie Guislain Etats d’ Art, Paris, France
2006 – “The Utopia of Hugging”, London, Nottingham,
Marseille, France
2006 – “Trope of Body: Gao Brothers’ Photography
Exhibition”, Beijing New Art Projects, Beijing, China
2005 – “One Abandoned Building’s Visual Story”, Beijing
New Art Projects, China
2002 – “A Dinner With The Homeless People” Performance, Jinan, China 2001 – “Embrace: Gao Brothers’
New Works”, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
2000 – “Fuse: Gao Brothers’ Photography”, Eastlink Gallery,
Shanghai, China
1995 – “The End of Mankind: Gao Brothers”, Installations,
Jinan Painting Institute, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2016 – “1000 Apertures & 1 Visage”, ifa gallery, Brussels,
Belgium
2015 – Asian Now Art Fair, ifa gallery, Paris, France
2015 – Beirut Art Fair, ifa gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2015 – “Temporary Boundary: a Survey on China Censured
Videos & Photographs”, Paris-Beijing Gallery, Brussels,
Belgium
2015 – “Secret Love”, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
2015 – “Dead: a Celebration of Morality”, Saatchi Gallery,
London, UK
2014 – “Uncovered China”, ifa gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014 – “Outside the Lines: New Art from China”, RH
Contemporary, New York, USA
2013 – “Sensor Ship 0.46%”, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong
Kong, China
2013 - Like Thunder Out of China, Arsenal Montreal,
Montreal, Canada
2013 - “Investigation no.2: Mr & Mrs Zhang”, Art Paris Art
Fair- ifa gallery, Paris, France
2012 – “my country” ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2012 – “red land, yellow stars” Galerie Libre Cours & ifa
gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2012 – “cells” SH CONTEMPORARY 12 – ifa gallery,
Shanghai, China
2012 – “Un-Forbidden: the Post-Revolution of New Chinese
Art”, Macro Museum, Rome, Italy
2012 – “Secret Love”, Ostasiatiska Museum, Stockholm,
Sweden
2012 – “Death Show studio”, London.UK
2012 – “Bridge Over Trouble, 798 Yi Zhao Space, 798 Art
District, Beijing, China
2012 – “Bore-Fear”, 798 Yi Zhao Space, 798 Art District,
Beijing, China
2011 – “Drapeau rouge/Red Flag, Contemporary Chinese
Art in Montreal Collections”, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
Montreal, Canada
2011 – “Pino Pascali return to Venice / Apulia Contemporary
Art”, Palazzo Bianchi Michiel dal Brusà, Venice, Italy
2011 – “Verboten” Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich,
Switzerland
2011 – “Pino Pascali”. Return to Venice/Apulia
Contemporary Art, Palazzo Michiel dal Brusà, Venice, Italy
2011 – “Middle East”, Middle Kingdom, Etemad Gallery,
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2011 – “In God We Trust Contemporary Chinese Art”, Bard
College, New York, USA
2010 – “Daegu Photo Biennale”, Daegu Culture and Art
Center, Daegu, Korea
2010 – “Intramoenia Extra Art Mirages”, Alfonso’s Castle of
Brindisi, Italy
2010 – “Reshaping History: China Art from 2000 to 2009”,
National Conference Center, Beijing, China
2010 – “State of the Dao: Chinese Contemporary Art”,
Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA
2010 – “Hot Bed: Shandong Contemporary Art”, Sunshine
International Museum, Beijing, China
2009 – “Vancouver Biennale”, Vancouver, Canada
2009 – “Action-Camera, Beijing Performance
Photography”, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver,
Canada
2009 – “Made in China”, the Museum of New Art (MONA),
Detroit, USA
2009 – “The Very Condition”, Wall Art Museum, Beijing,
China
2009 – “Contact Photo Festival”, Drake Hotel, Toronto,
Canada
2009 – “Between the Sexes”, Paris Beijing Photo Gallery,
Beijing, China
2009 – “Xun Dao: Searching for Spirituality in Contemporary
Chinese Art”, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, USA
2008 – “Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg
Collection”, The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
2008 – “Mahjong”, Contemporary Chinese Art from the
Sigg Collection, The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
2008 – “The 2008 Foto Fest, 12th International Photography
Biennial”, Houston, USA
2008 – “China…Forward: China Contemporary Art, TSUM”,
Moscow, Russia
2008 – “Ah! We: Chinese Contemporary Art 1978-2008”,
China National Theatre, Beijing, China
2007 – “The Exhibition Of Chinese Contemporary Social
Art”, The State Tretyakov Museum, Moscow, Russia
2007 – “Chinese Aroma-Huantie Times Chinese Art
Invitation Exhibition, Huan Tie Times Art, Beijing, China
2007 – “Made in Beijing: China Contemporary Art”, Modern
Art Museum of Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
2007 – “China under Construction: Contemporary Art from
the People’s Republic”, Beborah Colton Gallery, Houston,
USA.
2007 – “Dragon’s Evolution”, China Square Art Center, New
York, USA
2007 – “Breathe: Shandong Contemporary Art Exhibition”,
Shandong Museum, Jinan, China
2006 – “Ten Chinese Avant-garde Photographers”, Asia Art
Center, Beijing, China
2006 – “Photography of Gao Brothers, Matteo Basile and
Raimondo Galeano”, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2006 – “Miss Mao”, Black List Projects, London, UK
2006 – “Between Art and Architecture”, 798 Avant Gallery,
New York, USA
2006 – “Beijing-Soldiers at the Gates”, Factory 798,
Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China
2006 – “The First Annual Exhibition Of Chinese
Contemporary Art”, China Century Altar, Beijing, China
2006 – “My Space, Your Space”, Walsh Gallery, Chicago,
USA
2006 – “Brothers”, Xin Dong Chen Space for Contemporary
Art, Beijing, China
2006 – “Ruins”, Inova Art Center, Peckschool of Art,
University of Wisconsion, Milwaukee, USA
2006 – “Field OF VIision: Beijing”, Beijing New Art Projects,
Beijing, China
2006 – “Post Electronic Image”, MUSTBE Contemporary
Art Center, Beijing, China
2006 – “5×7 Frame Decide the Attitude” Exhibition in
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2006 – “Photographing China”, The Circumvallation Site of
Ming Dynasty, Beijing, China
2006 – “Between Past and Future: New Photography and
Video from China”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA
2005 – “The Second Reality: Photographs From China”,
Piazza of Berlaymont building, European Commission,
Brussels, Belgium
2005 – “Field of Vision: Extremes”, The Institute for New
Media, Frankfurt, Germany
2005 – “The Gesture. Visual Library in progress”,
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki,
Greece
2005 – “Tian An Men - Tian An Men - Gate to Heaven”,
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands 2005 – “A UTOPIA OF THE VISIBLE: 13
Outstanding Art Photographers In China”, Beijing New Art
Projects, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2005 – “Placed in China”, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
2005 – “The Flower in the Ruin: Contemporary Image
Exhibition”, Niu Fang Depot, Macau, China
2005 – “Unlimit: Gao Brothers, Huang Yan & Zhang Tiemei’s
Computerized Photography”, Beijing New Art Projects, 798
Art District, Beijing, China
2005 – “The City in 360 Degrees: French and Chinese
Photographers in China”, Beijing New Art, 798 Art District,
Beijing, China
2005 – “China Avant-Garde: Contemporary Chinese Art”,
ARENA, Santa Monica, USA
2005 – “Between Past and Future: New Photography and
Video from China”, Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK
2005 – “China Avant-Garde: Contemporary Chinese Art”,
ARENA, Santa Monica, USA
2005 – “Between Past and Future: New Photography and
Video from China”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2005 – “Between Past and Future: New Photography and
Video from China”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
2005 – “Start to Fly: He Xiangning Art Museum OCAT
Contemporary art Collection”, He Xiangning Art Museum,
Shenzhen, China
2005 – “Vehicle and Mirror Image», Beijing New Art
Projects”, Beijing, China
2005 – “Forge the Fable”, Must Be Contemporary Art
Center, Beijing, China
2005 – “Scratch Or China-Singapore Digital Image Art
Exhibition”, Beijing New Art Projects, 798 Art District, Beijing,
China
2005 – “2005 Pingyao International Photography Exhibition”
Pingyao, China
004 – “Between Past and Future: New Photography and
Video from China”, International Center of Photography and
Asia Society, New York
2004 – “Tiananmen”, Chinese Eyes Gallery, Paris
2004 – “Design the marble – 40 international artists in
Carrara”, Carrara, Italy
2003 – “The 2nd International Photo Festival of Rome”.
L’Officina, Rome, Italy
2003 – “Chinese Art Today”, China Century Altar, Beijing,
China
2003 – “SOHO Contemporary” Art Exhibition, SOHO Street,
Beijing, China
2003 – “Bare Androgyny” - A group show of Contemporary
Art, 798 Art Community, Beijing, China
2002 – “The First Triennial Of Chinese Arts”, Guangzhou Art
Museum. China
2002 – ““2002 Pingyao International Photography
Exhibition”, Pingyao, China
2001 – “The 5th Los Angeles International Biennale”,
Bergamot Station Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA
2001 – “The First Tirana Biennale”, National Gallery &
Chinese Pavilion, Albania
2001 – “Nice International Photography Festival: Chinese
Album”, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice,
France
2001 – “Mao Y’a Pas Photo», the Espace d’ Art
Contemporain of La Rochelle, Paris, France
2001 – “Rotate 360” - Chinese Plan Art Exhibition, Paragold
Int’I Art Centre, Shanghai, China
2000 – “China Avant-garde Artists’ Documents”, Fukuoka
Art Museum, Japan
2000 – “Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups from the
MCAF collection”, Biz’Art, Shanghai, China
2000 – “China Avant-garde Artists Documents”, Fukuoka
Art Museum, Japan
2000 – “Family?” Contemporary Art Project, Yuexing
International Furniture Center, Shanghai, China
2000 – “Man and Animal”, performance show, Beijing,
China.
1999 – “The 2nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary
Sculpture”, Shenzhen, China
1999 – “The Documentary Exhibition of World Chinese
Installation Art”, Hong Kong Art Commune, China
1999 – “The Picture and Writing Exhibition of Chinese
Contemporary Artists, Gallery of Nanjing Teachers
University, China
1999 – “Out Of Control, Design Art Museum, Beijing, China
1999 – The Documentary Exhibition of Chinese
Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China
1992 – “Guangzhou Biennale”, Guangzhou, China
1989 – “China Avant-Garde”, China National Art Museum,
Beijing, China
1985 – “Shandong Modern Art Exhibition”, Jinan, China
PUBLICATIONS
“The Gao Brothers – The Utopia of Construction”, Jef
Bourgeau, Paul Smith, Jessica Hopkins, The Museum of
New Art, Detroit, 2014
“The Gao Brothers – Grandeur & Catharsis”, Arthur Hwang,
Barbara O’Brien, Kemper Museum of contemporary Art,
Kansas City, 2010
“Portraits – Gao Brother’sOil Painting Exhibition”, Achille
Bonito Oliva, Ai Weiwei, China Art Archives and Warehouse,
2010
«Some Space for Humanity -Gao Brothers Solo Exhibition»,
Ifa Gallery, Shanghai, 2008
«Gao Brothers», Vallois Gallery, Paris, France 2008
«Gao Brothers», Albert Benamou Gallery, Paris, France
2007
«Gao Brothers - Another World», Arles Photo Festival, 2007
«Gao Brothers», Boxart Gallery,Verona, 2007
«Gao Brothers’ The High Place», Walsh Gallery, Chicago,
2007
«Gao Brothers - 1985-2005», Hunan Fine Arts Publishing
House, 2006
«Gao Brothers -Miss Mao», Krampf/Pei Gallery, New York,
2006
«Gao Brothers’ One And Together», Moscow House of
Photography, Moscow, 2006
«Gao Brothers - The Passage Of Time», Paris, 2006
«Gao Brothers», The CourtYard Gallery Of Beijing, 2001
«Critical: The Great Crucifix Series & Other Works Dialogue, Critical Discourse and Study on Gao Brothers’
Art», Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House Of China, 1996
戴光郁 DAI GUANGYU
1955 CHENGDU, CHINA/ CHINE
Forbidden characters no. 6 2015
chinese ink on rice paper, 85x85cm
BIOGRAPHY
From an early age, Dai Guangyu received a traditional values and education from his father. It is likely that Dai
Guangyu would have followed a traditional career path had he not found himself a part of the New Wave
Movement in 1985, which was a perfect fit for the development of his creative scope.
In the 90s, Dai Guangyu discovered performance, which employs the body as a key artistic medium. It was during
this time that he showed his penchant for ‘ink games’. Dai Guangyu is recognised as an important and original
figure of the Chinese artistic scene. His interdisciplinary practice is written within a socially engaged trajectory.
While traditional art is waning since the Cultural Revolution, Dai Guangyu tries to make sense of his roots with
contemporary art. Through his performances or paintings, he embodies and reinterprets symbols of Chinese
art – in particular calligraphy - to the limits of possibility while also exploring and addressing their disappearance in
contemporary society.
His works have been collected worldwide. He recently took part in exhibitions including “Coup de foudre chinois”,
at Montréal and Toronto Arsenal, «Voice of the Unseen” for a collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale.
Dai Guangyu lives and works in Beijing (China).
Dès son plus jeune âge, Dai Guangyu est formé par son père qui lui transmet les valeurs de la culture traditionnelle
chinoise. Au début des années 80, il adhère au mouvement de la Nouvelle Vague en Chine et participe à l’exposition
de 1989 « China Avant-Garde » au Palais des Beaux-Arts de Pékin.
Dans les années 90, Dai Guangyu s’initie à l’art de la performance à travers lequel il conçoit le corps comme
médium principal. A la même époque, il s’intéresse à l’encre de Chine et crée la série ‘Ink Games’ (jeux d’encre).
Dai Guangyu est aujourd’hui reconnu comme un acteur important et original de la scène artistique chinoise.
Sa pratique multidisciplinaire s’inscrit dans une démarche engagée socialement. Alors que l’art traditionnel
tend à disparaître depuis la Révolution Culturelle, Dai Guangyu essaye d’en retrouver les racines au moyen
de l’art contemporain. Par ses performances ou ses peintures, il met en scène les symboles de la création
chinoise – en particulier la calligraphie - jusqu’aux limites de leur résistance ou de leur disparition dans la société
contemporaine.
Les œuvres de Dai Guangyu figurent dans nombre de collections internationales et parmi ses dernières
participations on peut noter les expositions « Coup de foudre chinois » à l’Arsenal de Toronto et Montréal ou «
Voice of the Unseen », un événement collatéral de le 55e Biennale de Venise.
Dai Guangyu vit et travaille à Pékin (Chine).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES
2015 – “Endowed with speech from Birth”, Yafeng
Contemporary Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
2014 – “Diluted Shadows”, ifa gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2012 - “Wei Ji – Still Crossing”, Art HK 12 ,ifa gallery booth,
Hong Kong
2011 - “Dai Guangyu solo exhibition”, officinal, Rome, Italy
2010- “Dai Guangyu– Recent Works”, Galerie Adler, Paris,
France
2010 - “Memory Loss, Flexible Type
Printing”,(Performances), ifa Gallery at Art Paris, Grand
Palais, Paris, France
2008 - “Ink Games”, ifa Gallery, Shanghai, China
2007- “Wang Yang Bu Lao A Sheep’s Lecture on Chinese
Contemporary Art”, South Gate Gallery,798 Factory Beijing
2007 -“When the Waters recede, the Rocks appear”, Red
Star Gallery, 798, Beijing, China
2002- “Food and Words”, Performance, Chengdu, China
2000- “Shooting at myself, Installation and Performance,
Duisburg University, Germany
1997- “How a Frog in a Well Sees the Sky”, Open
Exhibit,152B Studio, Chengdu, China
1996- “Resurrection in Chengdu ‘96”, Installation, Sichuan
University, China
1995 - “Scenery Inside and Outside a Red Room”,
Installation, Chengdu, China
1994- “Chinese Landscape”, Installation, Chengdu, China
1993- “Dai Guangyu «Exhibition of Paintings», Lallouz
Waterson Gallery, Montreal, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2016 – “1000 Apertures & 1 Visage”, ifa gallery, Brussels,
Belgium
2015 – Asian Now Art Fair, ifa gallery booth, Paris, France
2015 – Beirut Art Fair, ifa gallery booth, Beirut, Lebanon
2015 – “Territory”, Art Paris Art Fair, ifa gallery booth, Paris,
France
2015 – “The Stroke of a Pen”, ifa gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014 – “Black & White”, Art Paris Art Fair, ifa gallery booth,
Paris, France
2014 – “Uncovered China”, ifa gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014 – “Recovered”, ifa gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014 – “The Scroll of (Lounging, High up by the Northern
Window)”, Ostrale’14, Dresden, Germany
2014 – “Beyond Photography Limits”, Photo Shanghai, ifa
gallery booth, Shanghai, China
2013 - «Forms of the Formless – Exhibition of Chinese
Contemporary Art”, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
2013 - «Voice of the Unseen”, collateral exhibition at 55th
Venice Biennale, Italy
2013 - “Insightful Charisma”, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai,
China
2013 - “Sensor Ship 0.46%”, Art Basel Hong Kong, ifa gallery
booth, Hong Kong
2013 - “Investigation no.2: Mr & Mrs Zhang”, Art Paris Art
Fair, Paris, France
2013 - “drawing and what”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2012 - “my country”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2012 - “cells”, SH contemporary, Shanghai, China
2012- “The way of writing», Himalayas Art Museum,
Shanghai, China
2012 - “Undoing Shuimo”, Duolun MoMA, Shanghai, China
2012 - “red land, yellow stars”, Galerie Libre Cours & ifa
gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2012 -“cells”, SH CONTEMPORARY 12, ifa gallery booth,
Shanghai, China
2012 - “the left leg of a cat”, ART:GWANGJU:12, ifa gallery
booth, Gwangju, Korea
2012 - “something in common”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2012 - “trace, line, shadow”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2012 - “enquête n°2”, Art Paris, ifa gallery booth, Paris,
France
2012 - “The Fourth Guangzhou Triennial project exhibition”,
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2011 - “right eye – left leg”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2011- “the hell. the heaven. on the way. in between”, ifa
gallery, Shanghai
2011 - “enquête n°1”, Art Paris, ifa gallery booth, Paris,
France
2010 - “Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, Yellow Dragon, White
Tiger, Black Tortoise”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2009- “Ink Storm, transformer”, Washington DC, USA
2009 - “The Hand that Draws by Itself”, 18 Gallery, Shanghai,
China
2009- “In the 1980s- Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese AvantGarde Art Exhibition”, Dolun Museum of Modern Art,
Shanghai, China
2009 - “Ink Society”, Sunshine Museum, Beijing, China
2009- “OPEN Realization”, Contemporary Art Center 798
Art Zone, Beijing, China
2009- “13 No KAOs”, Duffy Gallery, Kunming, China
2009- “Ink-Not-Ink, China”, Drexel University, Phoenix, USA,
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2008- “Action-Camera: Beijing Performance Photography”,
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008 - “Play Ink & Ink Play – The Art of Chinese Opera
Painting”, Liu Haishu Museum, Shanghai, China
2008 - “Pause”, Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China
2006- “Vital - International Chinese Live Art Festival”,
Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
2006 - “October”, Rain Gallery, Beijing, China
2006- “Red Star, Red Star, Red Star”, Red Star Gallery, 798
Factory, Beijing, China
2005- “Artists in Action - Performance Art Project”, Hong
Kong
2005- “Inward Gazes - Performance Art in China Exhibition by Invitation”, Macau Art Museum, Macau
2005 - “In Honour of ‘85”, Duolun Modern Art Museum,
Shanghai, China
2005- “The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art”,
China Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, China
2005- “Transborder Language: Performance Art /
Language Art”, Tokyo Art Projects, 798 Factory, Beijing,
China
2004- “Double Happiness Festival”, Tokyo Art Projects, 798
Factory, Beijing, China
2004- “Matchmaking”, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
2004- “Transborder Language 2004 - Volume Control
- First Dashanzi International Art Festival”, 798 Factory,
Beijing, China
2004 - “2004 in Chengdu”, Chengdu Blueroof Art Gallery,
Chengdu, China
2003- “NIPAF: Asia Central Europe, Performance Art
Meeting 2003”, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland
2003 - “Media Center Project”, Longmarch Space, Beijing,
China
2003- “Chinese Ink in Contemporary Art”, National Gallery,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2003- “Live International Performance Art”, 798 Factory,
Beijing, China
2003- “China - Japan Performance Art Exchange
Project/2003”, Chengdu, Xian, Chongqing, China
2002- “Fruitfulness - Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Beijing
Agriculture Hall, Beijing, China
2002- “First Chinese Art Triennial”, Guangzhou Art Museum,
Guangzhou, China
2002- “7th Platform of Asian Performance Art (PAPA)”
– Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF),
Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Nagano, Japan
2002 - “Mask vs Face”, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2008- “Oriental Imagination - Third Asian International
Art Exhibition”, Wall Art Museum, Beijing and Guangzhou
Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, 798Factory, Beijing,
China
2007- “China under Construction”, Deborag Colton Gallery,
Houston, USA
2007- “Made in China”, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek,
Denmark
2007 - “The 3rd China – Japan Performance Art Exchange
Project”, Rain Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 - “Echoes – Chengdu New Visual Art Documentary
Exhibition”, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu,
China
2007 - “Rejected Collection”, Ke Center of the
Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
2007 - “Starting from the Southwest - Exhibition of
Contemporary Art in South west China”, Guangdong
Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2007 - “China’s Performance Art Photography”, Intel Art
Center, Beijing, China
2007 - “CAPP China Art Performance Platform”, South Gate
Space, Beijing, China
2002 - “Mushroom, or Utopia”, The Bund Museum,
Shanghai, China
2002 - “Daydream”, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
2001- “Physical Resources and Objects”, Hong Kong Art
Commune, Hong Kong
2001- “Dialogo”, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition,
Mantova Museum, Mantova, Italy
2001- “Dialogo–Other”, Chinese Contemporary Art
Exhibition, Chiesa Santa Teresa Dei Maschi, Bari, Italy
2001 - “Reshuffle – Contemporary Chinese Art Show”,
Shenzhen Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen, China
2001- “Chinese Festival- Touring Art Exhibition”, Faust
Museum, Hannover, Germany
2001- “Virtual Future”, Guangdong Art Gallery, Guangzhou,
China
2001- “Chinese Glamour - Conceptual Images”, Bangkok,
Thailand
2001- “Open Festival of International Performance Art”,
Chengdu, Pengshan, Leshan, China
2001- “Holding White”, Chengdu Imperial Academy,
Chengdu, China
2001 - “First Chengdu Biennale”, Chengdu Museum of
Modern Art, Chengdu, China
2000 - “Heaven Stonehenge”, Hannover, Duisburg,
Düsseldorf, Germany
2000- “Home? Contemporary Art Project Exhibition”,
Yuexing Furniture Warehouse, Shanghai, China
2000- “Chinese Glamour - Conceptual Images”, East Link
Gallery, Shanghai, China2000- “Turn of the Century - 1979 -
1999 - Chinese Contemporary Art”, Museum of Modern Art,
Chengdu, China
2000- “Cultural Landscape”, Landscape Art Exhibition,
Langdao, Guilin, China
2000- “People and Animals”, Performance Art Exhibition,
Chengdu, China
1999- “Chinese Artists in the World - Installation and
Documentary”, Hong Kong Art Commune, Hong Kong
1999- “Unusual Ways of Writing”, Art Museum of the
Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
1998- “Preserving Memory”, Sichuan Library, Chengdu,
China
1997- “In the Wild”, Simultaneous Performance Project,
Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, China
1996- “China!”, Museum of Modern Art, Bonn, Germany
1996- “Water Protectors - Outdoor Art Performances”,
Lhasa, China
1995- “Water Protectors - Outdoor Art Performances”,
Chengdu, China
1993- “Inside - Outside: New Chinese Art”, Toronto, Ottawa,
Canada, Hong Kong, China
1993- “Dream of China”, Exhibition of Paintings, City Hall,
Hong Kong
1992- “First Biennale of Chinese Art in the 90’s”, Central
Hotel, Guangzhou, China
1991- “Dai Guangyu, Wang Falin, Li Jixiang Joint Exhibition of
Paintings”, Chengdu Art Salon, Chengdu, China
1990- “000’90 Exhibition of Modern Art”, Chengdu Art
Salon, Chengdu, China
1989- “China Avant-Garde Art Exhibition”, Chinese National
Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1987- “Itinerary Exhibition of Modern Chinese Art”, Bonn,
Bremen, Frankfurt, Germany
1986- “Red–Yellow–Blue: Young Artists of Sichuan”, Sichuan
Art Gallery, China
반 주 영 JU YOUNG BAN
1978 SOUTH KOREA/ COREE DU SUD
DREAMING 2015
colored pencil, gouache on paper, 76x57.5cm
UNTITLED 2012
colored pencil, thread on graph paper, 54.5x39cm
BIOGRAPHY
Ju Young Ban studied painting at Hong-ik University in Seoul and obtained her master degree in Painting at the
Pratt Institute in New York in 2006. Using drawing, painting and mixed media as the most fragile and delicate
gesture, she invents her own visual language. Ju Young Ban’s universe is strongly inspired by nature. The images
and shapes she creates represent the growth of living creatures as a natural phenomenon; and the process of
developing ideas she goes through comes from her own experiences. Her work stands as a constant search for
fundamental truth and beauty in life. Including 5 solo exhibitions between Korea and the United States, she has
been nationally and internationally exhibited along with her artistic contemporaries. In 2008, she did a residency
program at Vermont Studio Center.
Ju Young Ban lives et works in Il-San (South Korea).
Après avoir étudié à l’Université de Hongik à Séoul, Ju Young Ban obtient en 2006 un master en peinture à la
Pratt Institute à New-York. D’un geste souple et délicat, ses dessins, ses peintures et ses installations dévoilent
un langage visuel qui lui est propre. L’univers de Ju Young Ban est étroitement lié à la nature. Les formes et les
images représentent la naissance de nouvelles créatures qui rappellent des phénomènes naturels. Son travail
essentiellement inspiré dans son expérience personnelle, se présente comme une quête perpétuelle de la vérité
fondamentale et de la beauté de la vie. Exposée au niveau national et international, Ju Young Ban participe à
plusieurs expositions en solo entre la Corée et les Etats-Unis. En 2008, elle était en résidence au Vermont Studio
Center.
Ju Young Ban vit et travaille à Il-San (Corée du Sud).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES
2015 – “Vanishing Point”, Artspace O, Seoul, Korea
2014 – “Seen, Unseen”, Shinhan Gallery Gwangwhamun,
Seoul, Korea
2011 – “Ban, Ju Young – solo exhibition”, Gallery Mano,
Seoul, Korea
2008 – “Somewhere Inside”, Earlville Opera House Gallery,
New York, USA
2005 – “Growth in Life”, Steuben West Gallery, New York,
USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2016 – “Cre8tive Report”, OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015 – “Soma Drawing”, Soma Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015 – “Drawing Wing Wing Wing II”, Seoul, Korea
2015 – “Unknown”, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2013 - “UNHINGED”, Pierogi Gallery, New York, USA
2013 – “Pre-Drawing Biennale”, Adamas253 Gallery, Paju,
Korea
2012 – “SMART EYE”, Superior Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 – “Painting is that I”, KiMi Art, Seoul, Korea
2012 – “2012 KIAF”, Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
2012 – “Bloom”, Shinhan Gallery, Yeoksam, Seoul, Korea
2010 – “2010 Korea Tomorrow”, SETEC, Seoul, Korea
2009 – “Ban, Ju Young & Lee, Kang Wook, Two-Person
Exhibition”, Hphrp Gallery, New York, USA
2009 – “Yes, we are Connected !”, Space World Gallery,
New York, USA
2009 – “NURTUREart’s 2009 Annual Benefit”, Claire Olivier
Gallery, New York, USA
2009 – “Forever Summer”, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York,
USA
2008 – “The Clay Projects”, Private Exhibition, New York,
USA
2008 – “Serial Meditations”, NURTUREart, New York, USA
2007 – “Reprised Reality”, Gallery Korea, New York, USA
2007 – “Seoul-Paris emerging artists”, Space World Gallery,
New York, USA
2007 – “The Secret Garden”, Primo Piano LivinGallery,
Lecce, Italy
2007 – “Wonderful Ephemeral”, Primo Piano LivinGallery,
Lecce, Italy
2006 – “Northbound”, Gallery boreas, Pittsfield, USA
2006 – “Small Work Show”, Brooklyn Artist Gym, New York,
USA
2006 – “Art for Healing”, Open Center, New York, USA
2005 – “How Close Are We”, Endless International Gallery,
Shanghai, China
2005 – “Strudy Axis”, Hpgrp Gallery, New York, USA
2005 – “19 Artists”, McCaig Wells Gallery, New York, USA
2005 – “Solstice at Boreas”, Gallery Boreas, New York, USA
2005 – “2nd Cutting Edge”, Seoul Auction, Seoul, Korea
2005 – “Contemporary in New Jersey”, FGS Gallery, New
Jersey, USA
2005 – “Underneath”, McCaig Wells Gallery, New York, USA
2005 – “Neighborhood Gallery Project”, New York, USA
정진화 JINHWA JUNG
1986 SOUTH KOREA/ COREE DU SUD
KISS 2 2013
ink stick on Korean paper, 59.5x69.5cm
FROM A SIGNIFICANT BED 5 2013
ink stick on Korean paper, 61x70cm
BIOGRAPHY
Jinhwa Jung studied Oriental Painting at Chung-Ang University in Anseong (South Korea) and obtained his
master degree in 2013. Using traditional tools to depict his subjects, his painting style is off the wall and beyond
the classical forms. Using water as his main medium, Jinhwa Jung dilutes the ink stick – traditionally used for
writing and painting in Asia - and the drawing is revealed bold and without outlines. His deconstructed lines create
empty spaces that seem to be entrances for the light, which bring life to the artist’s characters. Free of borders,
he catches and translates daily life instants.
Jinhwa Jung lives and works in South Korea.
Jinhwa Jung obtient son master en peinture orientale à l’université Chung-Ang de Anseong (Corée du Sud) en
2013.
Entre outils traditionnels et sujets contemporains, il peint en dehors des conventions et des formes classiques.
Utilisant l’eau comme principal médium, Jinhwa Jung dilue le bâton d’encre de Chine-utilisé originellement pour
l’écriture et la peinture en Asie-et comme une aquarelle, son dessin apparaît, audacieux et sans délimitations
imposées. Sa peinture déstructurée laisse place à des zones vides qui semblent être une entrée pour la lumière
donnant ainsi vie aux personnages de l’artiste. C’est libre de toute frontière qu’il capture et traduit ainsi des
moments de vie, des instants du quotidien.
Jinhwa Jung vit et travaille en Corée du Sud.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2016 – “Jinhwa Jung in Collaboration with Hanyful Limited
Edition”, AMORE PACIFIC, Korea
2015 – “The Orphan of Zhao”, Dongsoong Art Hall,
Dongsoong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2014 – Movie “The Treacherous” directed by Min Kyu-Dong:
Art department, Korea
2014 – Movie “Also Known As” directed by Min Kyu-Dong:
Art department, Korea
2014 - “Jinhwa Jung in Collaboration with Hanyful Limited
Edition”, AMORE PACIFIC, Korea
2014 – “Greeting cards Project”, AMORE PACIFIC, Korea
2013 – “Jinhwa Jung in Collaboration with HEREN & Le
Creuset”, Seoul, Korea
2013 – Musical “A Spring Rain: Art department”, CJ Culture
Foundation, Korea
2013 – “JungwonJeon”, KEPCO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2013 – “Autofiction”, GalleryIS, Seoul, Korea
2013 – “Swatch”, Gallery Soek, Tokyo, Japan
2012 – “Hanji Project Metamorphoses”, Rubin Museum of
Art, New York, USA
2010 – Movie “Blades of Blood” directed by Lee Joon-Ik, Art
department, Korea
2009 – “Dragon Scale”, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul Korea
2009 – “Message from Young Artist”, SUDOH Museum,
Tokyo, Japan
2005 – Movie “King and the Clown” directed by Lee KoonIk, Art departm
宋有林 YULIM SONG
1983 SOUTH KOREA/ COREE DU SUD
No.20 2015
acrylic on carven wooden panel, 17.2x20.4cm
No.5 2015
acrylic on carven wooden panel, 20x30cm
No.25 2015
acrylic on carven wooden panel, 10.2x14.8cm
BIOGRAPHY
Yulim Song studied painting at Hong-ik University and obtained her master degree in Art and Space at Kingston
University. Yulim Song makes installations using mainly silk and cotton thread. She embroiders alphabets and
images, usually on silk fabric, to tell her own stories. The colorful threads in translucent silk background within a
simple white frame create dreamlike atmosphere, in which the artist’s thoughts or memories seem to be floating
around. In opposition, the titles of such works are extremely descriptive about the intricate details of each piece.
Her early works mostly showed words or word-like images in monochromatic threads. However, her recent works
evoke more specific images or forms. These images and forms are emphasized by and against a background
of colorful threads. Including 3 solo exhibitions, she has been nationally and internationally exhibited along with
her artistic contemporaries. From 2010 to 2012, she joined the residency program by Kumho Museum in Korea.
More recently, she took the Lee Ungno Residence in Paris, France.
Yulim Song lives and works in South Korea.
Yulim Song étudie la peinture à l’université Hongik (Seoul, Corée du Sud) et poursuit son parcours à l’université
Kingston (Londres, Royaume-Unis) où l’artiste obtient un diplôme en “Art et Espace”. Contrairement à ces
premiers travaux aux fils monochromatiques qui évoquaient des mots, ces œuvres récentes représentent des
images et des formes spécifiques. Ses installations cousues de fils colorés et brodées sur de la soie ou du cotton,
racontent des histoires singulières et créent une atmosphère onirique, dans lequel les pensées et les souvenirs
de l’artiste semblent flotter. Inversement, les titres de ces œuvres s’éloignent de cet univers imaginaire, en
énonçant avec précision les détails complexes de chaqu’une des pièces. Yulim Song expose au niveau national
et international. En résidence entre 2010 à 2012 au musée de Kumho en Corée, récemment elle participa à une
résidence d’artistes au musée de Lee Ungno à Paris (France).
Yulim Song vit et travaille en Corée du Sud.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES
2015 – “Play in Childhood”, JJ Joongjung Gallery, Seoul,
Korea
2012 – “The Isolated Scenes”, Jinsun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 – “The Slender Song”, B’one Gallery, Seoul, Korea
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2015 – “Un Certain Regard”, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
2014 – “open studio_ paris”, Lee Ungno Residence, Vauxsur-seine, France
2014 – “A Tamed Night”, Wumin Art Center, Cheongju,
Korea
2014 – “Young Revolution”, Ion Art Gallery, Singapore
2013 – “The Home of Ten”, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 – “Spring”, Fnart Space, Seoul, Korea
2012 – “Project 72-1: School as Laboratory”, Honk-ik
Elementary School, Seoul, Korea
2012 – “Untold Stories by Tea for Three”, Ram Studios, Milan,
Italy
2012 – “Reflection of my Life”, Art Company GIG, Seoul,
Korea
2012 – “Distancing”, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
2012 – “Studi Aperti 2012 by Asilo Bianco”, Museum Tornielli,
Ameno, Italy
2012 – “The Figure of Softness”, JJ Joongjung Gallery,
Seoul, Korea
2012 – “Project Hansuniung”, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2011 – “White Block Now/The Veiled Thing”, White Block
Gallery, Paju, Korea
2011 – “Song of December”, JJ Joongjung Gallery, Seoul,
Korea
2011 – “Far East”, Zonca & Zonca, Milan, Italy
2011 – “The Simple Life”, Kring, Seoul, Korea
2011 – “The Last Letter From HUYNH MAI_A Fiction For
Korean Of Multicultural Society”, KT&G Sangsang Madang,
Seoul, Korea
2010 – “L Drawing Breathing House Project”, Kimi Art, Seoul,
Korea
2009 – “Bridge_project.4”, Chang Art, Beijing, China
2009 – “You are so Precious”, Grimson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 – Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival, Seoul,
Korea
2009 – “Stiches Stiched”, Space 15th, Seoul, Korea
2008 – Homo Ludens Festival, Warsaw Academy of Fine
Arts, Warsaw, Poland
2008 – “4482”, Bargehouse, London, UK
2008 – “Dude, wake up! Seriously wake the f*ck up!”,
Bargehouse, London, UK
LI CHEVALIER
1961 BEJING, CHINA/ PEKIN, CHINE
TRANSCENDANCE 2014
ink on canvas, 150x70cm
BIOGRAPHY
Li Chevalier is a Chinese born French artist who graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design
(London).
Working at the crossroad of Europe and Asia for the past two decades, she is most known for her «Euro-Asian» art
language born out of blending western media and elements of eastern traditional art. Li Chevalier’s experimental
ink painting style can be identified by her personal way of incorporating Chinese ink into canvas, blended with
pigment, mineral chips, sand and elements of Chinese art such as rice paper and calligraphy. By using such
mixed media, she transcends the classical ink-on-paper model.
Four major retrospective exhibitions of Li Chevalier have been presented by the National Art Museum of China
(2010), the Today Art Museum in Beijing (2010), the Shanghai Art Museum (2011), the National Opera China
(2013) .Her work became part of the permanent collection of the National Art Museum of China and the National
Opera of China, as well as part of the French Embassy’s art collection. Her works appeared also in some major
international art fairs and exhibitions, such as the Art Salon of the French National Fine Art Society at Carrousel du
Louvre (2003), l’Art en Capital at the Grand Palais (2007,2011), London Art Fair (2007), Glasgow Art Fair (2008),
Northern Art Fair (2008), Shanghai Art Fair (2008), Beijing International Art Fair (2011), the Doha National Art Gallery
Al Bida.
Li Chevalier lives and works in her two art studios in Beijing and Paris.
Li Chevalier est une artiste franco-chinoise diplômée de Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design
(Londres).
Ayant évolué au croisement de l’Europe et de l’Asie durant les deux dernières décennies, elle est reconnue
pour son langage artistique euro-asiatique né de la rencontre des medias occidentaux et d’éléments de l’art
traditionnel oriental. Le style expérimental de sa peinture à l’encre de chine peut être identifié grâce à sa méthode
d’incorporation de l’encre sur la toile, mélangée à divers pigments, minéraux, sables et incorporant d’autres
éléments de l’art chinois tels que la feuille de riz et la calligraphie. En utilisant cette large diversité de mediums, elle
propose des oeuvres qui vont au-delà du modèle classique de l’encre sur papier.
Quatre expositions rétrospectives de son oeuvre ont été successivement présentées par Le Musée National
des Beaux-Arts de Chine (2010), le Musée d’Art Contemporain de Pékin (2010), le Musée d’Art Contemporain de
Shanghai et l’Opéra National de Chine (2013). Son travail fait parti des collections du Musée National des BeauxArts de Chine et de l’Ambassade Française en Chine. Il a également été présenté à diverses foires et expositions
internationales d’art telles que, le Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts Française au Carrousel du Louvre
(2009), l’Art en Capital au Grand Palais (2007,2011), la Foire d’Art Internationale de Londres (2007), la Foire d’Art
Internationale de Glasgow (2008), la Foire d’Art Internationale du Nord UK (2008), la Foire d’Art Internationale de
Shanghai (2008), la Foire d’Art Internationale de Londres (2007) et la Galerie Nationale de Qatar Al Bida (2003).
Li Chevalier vit et travaille entre ses deux ateliers de Pékin et de Paris.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES
2015 – “Destin”, Gallerie Jean-François Cazeau, Paris,
France
2014 – “L’Art du Croisement”, Centre d’Art de la base sousmarine, Bordeaux, France
2014 – La Semaine Française – invitée de China Radio
International
2014 – “Les Stèles poétiques”, Château du Haut Bailly,
Bordeaux, France
2014 – Pavillon d’Art Joy Club, Beijing, Chine
2013 – “Symphonie Visuelle” – Coproduction visuelle et
musicale avec l’Orchestre National Symphonique de Chinedirection Philippe Jordan, Opéra National de Chine, Pékin,
Chine
2012 – “Les Stèles de Lumière”, Bibliothèque Nationale de
Chine, Pékin, Chine
2011 – “L’Orient poétique”, Musée National des Beaux-Arts
de Shanghai, Chine
2010 – “L’Orient poétique”, Musée National des Beaux-Arts
de Chine, Pékin, Chine
2010 – “Symphonie de la vie”, Alliance Française de Pékin,
Chine
2010 – “Contempler l’Orient”, Musée d’Art Contemporain de
Pékin, Chine
2007 – Galerie de Byam Shaw Art, Central St Martins
College of Art and Design, Londres, UK
2007 – Galerie Celadon, Londres, UK
2006 – “Festival des Sens”, Hôtel Ritz Carlton, Doha, Qatar
2006 – “Peindre la musique”, Hôtel Intercontinental Abu
Dhabi-Alliance Française Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Emirats Arabes
Unis
2005 – “Peindre la musique”, Concert-exposition avec le
Quatuor de L’Opéra de Paris, Paris Opéra de Paris, France
2004 – “Silence voilé”, Galerie du Virginia Commonwealth
University-School Of the Arts, Doha, Qatar
2004 – “L’année France-Chine”, Centre Culturel Français,
Doha, Qatar
2003 – “La Porte”, Centre Culturel Français, Doha, Qatar
2002 – Exposition pour la cérémonie de remise des prix au
concours «page couverture» du magazine anglais «Qatar
Happenings», Doha, Qatar
2001 – “Le Pont vers l’Orient”, Doha Golf Club, Doha, Qatar
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2015 – “Artiste femme”, Bernard Magrez Institute, Bordeaux,
France
2015 – “Vide et Plein”, Maison Bleue Studio, Paris, France
2015 – So Art & Design, Megève, France
2015 – “New Face of the East”, Art Museum of the University
of Saint Petersburg, Russia
2015 – “Never Give up”, Institute Bernard Magrez,
Bordeaux, France
2015 – “Spirit of a Nation”, 798 Saint – Arts Space, Beijing,
China
2014 – “Harmonious and different”, Carrousel du Louvre
Paris Art Salon SNBA, Paris, France
2014 – “On top of the Yellow Mountain”, Renmin University
of China, Beijing, China
2013 – “New Oriental Spirit”, Peking University, Beijing, China
2012 – “Ink Unstructured”, Museum of Modern Art, Beijing,
China
2012 – “Ink Unstructured”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of
Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2012 – Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2012 – “The New Oriental Spirit”, Gallery Feng Huang,
Ningbo, China
2011 – Beijing International Art Fair, Beijing, China
2011 – “L’Art en Capital”, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2010 – National Museum of China, Wuhan, China
2010 – Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010 – The Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing,
China
2010 – “Meeting”, Dragon Pace Gallery, Beijing, China
2010 – “Focus”, Korean Cultural Center, Beijing, China
2009 – Art Salon of the French National Fine Art Society,
Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2009 – “L’Art en Capital”, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2009 – Great Elephant Gallery, Beijing, China
2009 – “The Expression on Paper”, University of Missouri,
Columbia, USA
2009 – “Contemplating the East”, New Age Gallery, Beijing,
China
2009 – “Reinvention of Artistic Language of the East Edition
I”, Huantie Times International Gallery, Beijing, China
2009 – “Reinvention of Artistic Language of the East Edition
II”, Huantie Times International Gallery, Beijing, China
2009 – “Western Rationalism and Eastern Abstraction”, Red
Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2008 – “Vision and Image”, Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China
2008 – Poly Gallery, Beijing, China
2008 – Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow, UK
2008 – Great North Art Show, Ripon Cathedral, Ripon, UK
2008 – International London Art Fair, London, UK
2008 – Shanghai International Art Fair, Shanghai, China
2007 – Summer Exhibition, the Royal Academy of Arts,
London, UK
2007 – “L’Art en Capital”, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2007 – International London Art Fair, London, UK
2007 – “The Rising Stars of Fine Arts in London”, Gallery
Coomber Devon, UK
2007 – The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2007 – “Cosmopolitan Patchwork”, Asiem Gallery, Paris,
France
2007 – “Degree Show”, Byam Shaw School of Art, London,
UK
2007 – Kingsgate Gallery, London, UK
2007 – Vauxhall Gallery, London, UK
2007 – “Contest Show”, Byam Shaw School of Art, London,
UK
2006 – One Four One Gallery, London, UK
2005 – Qatar National Art Society Salon, Doha Art Gallery,
Doha, Qatar
2004 - Art Salon of the French National Fine Art Society,
Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2004 – “Work in Printmaking”, Scuola Internazionale di
Grafica, Venice, Italy
2004 – “Salon des Indépendents”, Espace d’Auteuil, Paris,
France
2004 – “Women Artists in the Gulf”, Virginia Commonwealth
University - School of the Arts, Doha, Qatar
2004 - Qatar National Art Society Salon, Al Bida National
Gallery, Doha, Qatar
2003 – Art Salon of the French National Fine Art Society,
Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2003 – Adam and Eve, Paris, France
2003 – International Art Fair, Niort, France
2001 – French Cultural Center, Doha, Qatar
IFA GALLERY
ifa gallery is established by Alexis Kouzmine-Karavaïeff in 2006-2007 in a 700sqm converted textile factory
space in Moganshan Road – M50 Creative Centre – Shanghai’s contemporary art district. With a quality exhibition
programme of principally Chinese contemporary art, and a supporting line-up of performances the gallery
contributes to the dynamism of the area. Major exhibitions during that time include the solo shows of Park SungTae (Korea) and sought-after young artist Liu Bolin (China). From summer 2008 to summer 2013, ifa occupies a
charming residence built in 1923 for an official of the British Customs House, located in Shanghai at 621 Changde
Road (Jing’An district). The gallery offers an innovative and artistic angle to the central part of the city and acted as
an artistic meeting point for contemporary art in Shanghai.
Fall 2013, ifa gallery moves its premises to the heart and capital of Europe, Brussels. Located in the old central
district of Marolles, the gallery offers a dynamic programme with its main artists from China and new artists from
the region. At the meantime, a new exhibition space opens in March 2014 in the district of Jing’An in Shanghai,
where ifa gallery continues to showcase some local artists.
ifa gallery exhibits contemporary art from China and Beyond, regardless of artists origin. We represent both
established artists such as Dai Guangyu, a leading figure of China’s avant-garde, the Gao Brothers and Wu
Junyong; as well as emerging artists, including recent graduates of the fine arts schools in Beijing and Hangzhou
such as Fan Jiupeng and Li Rui, or foreigners based in China, such as Zane Mellupe from Latvia or Christophe
Demaître from Belgium.
ifa gallery a été créé par Alexis Kouzmine-Karavaïeff en 2006 à Shanghai, dans le quartier des galeries d’art
contemporain. En visitant assidûment les ateliers d’artistes, la galerie a travaillé à sélectionner les artistes les plus
promoteurs, ceux qui déployaient un langage et des moyens d’expression singuliers, loin des clichés et des
conventions, ceux qui offrent des visions artistiques et des concepts forts. Au fil des années, ifa gallery a organisé
de nombreuses expositions marquantes, toujours originales, montrant les œuvres d’un artiste sur une période
donnée ou organisant autour d’un commissariat réfléchi des expositions collectives. Plusieurs expositions
majeures ont ainsi été organisées notamment de l’artiste coréen Park Sung-Tae ou bien du jeune artiste chinois
aujourd’hui très recherché Liu Bolin. La galerie a acquis une reconnaissance internationale en participant
activement aux foires telles Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Paris, Art Stage Singapore ou encore Photo Shanghai.
En décembre 2013, ifa gallery a déménagé pour le cœur et la capitale de l’Europe, Bruxelles. Située dans le
quartier historique des Marolles, la galerie offre une programmation dynamique avec les principaux artistes qu’elle
a découverts en Chine ainsi que de nouveaux artistes de la région.
Nous représentons des artistes établis tels que Dai Guangyu, une figure de proue de l’avant-garde chinoise, les
Gao Brothers ou Wu Junyong ; mais aussi des artistes émergents tels que Fan Jiupeng et Li Rui, ou encore des
artistes étrangers basés en Chine tels que Christophe Demaître ou Zane Mellupe.
Dans sa volonté d’être un trait d’union entre l’Europe et la Chine, un nouvel espace d’exposition a ouvert en mars
2014 dans le quartier de Jing’An à Shanghai.
CONTACTS
Alexis Kouzmine-Karavaïeff
director
alexis@ifa-gallery.com
+32 485 71 98 51
Angélique Demur
associate director brussels
angelique@ifa-gallery.com
+32 475 86 36 60
ifa gallery • brussels
rue des renards / vossenstraat 28
1000 brussels, belgium
contact@ifa-gallery.com
+32 2 502 40 58
Jessica Quarato
gallery manager brussels
jessica@ifa-gallery.com
+32 474 43 80 15
open from thursday to sunday • from 10 am to 6 pm
ifa gallery • shanghai
733 wanhangdu road
shanghai 200040, china
contact@ifa-gallery.com
+86 187 2193 0368
open by appointment
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Effie Sui
gallery manager shanghai
effie@ifa-gallery.com