Exhibition
Li Shurui, Yang Guangnan, Zhang Xuerui A Descent into the Maelstrom
Curator:Fiona He
MANGROVEGALLERY,
Shenzhen 2022.11.5-12.17
Shenzhen 2022.11.5-12.17
Biography
Yang Guangnan (b. 1980, Hebei, China) graduated from the Sculpture Department of the China Academy of Art with B.A in 2006, and the Sculpture Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts with M.A in 2009. She currently lives and works in Beijing.
Taking the traditional language of sculpture as her starting point, Yang Guangnan gradually expands her artistic medium to installation and video. She investigates and elaborates upon personal experience in the everyday life, developing artworks that are charged with an emotional strength. Actively dealing with an individual’ s living condition, identity, affects and temporal experience, the artworks are seemingly spontaneous and casual; also present and pervading in the artworks however, is a distinct, delicate, sharp, unyielding and resilient consciousness, that renders Yang’ s practice utterly and patently singular.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2021
The Garden of Winding Path, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing, China
Yang Guangnan Solo Project – Monet’ s Garden Phase One, Art Basel HK Discoveries Sector, Hong Kong, China
2020
Temporary Building, Mocube, Beijing, China
Monet Garden.96 Dist., Magician Space, Beijing, China
Nothing, C5CNM, Beijing, China
2019
Blind Spot, Fingerprint Gallery, Beijing, China
Cold Expansion, Nanshanshe, Xi’ an, China
2016
Dyspepsia, Taikang space, Beijing, China
Cleaning, Mocube, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2022
A Descent into the Maelstrom, Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China
The Texture of Expression, OCAT Xi’ an, Xi’ an, China
CROSSTALK – Gallery Weekend Beijing 2022 Main Sector Special Exhibition, Beijing, China
Alice in Wonderland, 69 Campus Art Center, Beijing, China
I Used to Be What You Are Looking Like, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing, China
2020
La Belle Noiseuse, Mocube, Beijing, China
Work and Wait in Silence, Mocube, Beijing, China
2019
Cold Expansion, Nanshanshe, Xi’ an, China
2018
Inner-scapes, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2017
NOW: A Dialogue on Female Chinese Contemporary Artists, Centre for Chinese Contemporary
Art, Manchester, UK
Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China 2015 Trace of Existence, UCCA, Beijing, China 2014 Poetics of the Country Side, Fenmichang Space, Beijing, China 2013 Groundwork Community, Taikang space, Beijing, China 2012 Art Sanya, Sanya, China 2011 Be Nature, Be Yourself, FRAC, Nantes, France 2010 “Tri-Pong village” air Taipei open studio, Taipei, Taiwan, China 2009 Building Code Violations, Longmarch Space, Beijing, China 2008 Do It, France Art Center, Melbourne, Australia Origin, Yuelianghe Museum, Beijing, China Intrude, Zhengda Museum, Shanghai, China 2007 Light of Academy, CAFA, Beijing, China 2006 Works of Excellence, Sculpture Department Graduate of CAFA, CAFA, Beijing, China 2005 Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China 2004 “No Safety – Sculpture and Installation by Emerging Young Artists”, Baitaling, Hangzhou, China2016
Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Frieze London 2015, London, UK
Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Niandai Museum, Wenzhou, China
A Room Not of One’ s Own, Space Station, Beijing, China
The Young Generation Visual Rhetoric, Jinjihu Museum, Suzhou, China
Art Sanya: International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2013, Sanya, China
Sans Faute, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Australia
The Memory of Two Cities, Citizen’ s Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Stepping In Nature: MAM Collection of Chinese Conceptual Photography, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China
Impossible Universe, QUT, Australia
Game, White Box Museum of art, Beijing, China
The Third Party, Platform China space, Beijing, China Eurekaaaa—Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ling Gallery, Chongqing, China
Get It Louder – Object Transformer, Sanlitun Soho, Beijing, China
Location—Longquan Bath, Caochangdi Bathhouse, Beijing, China
Youth At Upstairs – Nomination Exhibition By emerging Critics 2010, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
Songzhuang Art Festival, Songzhuang, Beijing, China
798 Art Festival, 798, Beijing, China
Freedom & Open Discussion, Hangzhou, China
Studio of Six Artists, China Academy or Fine Art, Hangzhou, China
Rules and Possibilities, Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, Hangzhou, China
Random Code – Exhibition of Emerging Young Artists, Exhibition hall, Hangzhou, China
The 1st International Architecture Biennial, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Exhibitions