Zhang Xuerui

Biography

Zhang Xuerui (b. 1979, Shanxi, China) graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2004. She currently lives and works in Beijing, China.

People can see two elements in Zhang Xuerui’s paintings–grids and colors. The formula of Zhang Xuerui’s abstract paintings seem to be discerned at a glance—using an orderly grid and filling each unit with gradually shifting colors. Behind these obvious visual elements (colors and grids) lies the artist’s understanding of the concept of space, and a linear (temporal) experience. Her textile readymade creations are in agreement with her abstract paintings, which together compose her artistic practice.

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2020

River with Three Buoys, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China

2019

The Everyday as Ontology, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

2018

The God of Small Things, Art Basel Miami Beach-Kabinett, Miami, USA

2017

Colours in A Breeze: Zhang Xuerui Solo Exhibition, Leo Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Zhang Xuerui: Recent Works, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China

2015

Zhang Xuerui, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China
Alienated Substance – Zhang Xuerui’s Solo Exhibition, Mao Space, Shanghai, China

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2022

A Descent into the Maelstrom, Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China

2021

SNAPSHOT, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China

2020

Shifting, Pop-up Art Parcours, Galerie Urs Meile, Ardez, Switzerland
The Order of Time, HdM Gallery, Beijing, China

2019

You Are a Goddess, You Are a Demon, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, China
Letters from Beijing, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

2018

The God of Small Things, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2017, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Encounter Asia—Multi-vision of Youth Art, the Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
An Exhibition About Fabric, Program Alchemy in Residential Area, Beijing, China

2017

Soft Power, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China
Degree Zero of Art: the Rational Expression of Abstract Art, Hive Center for ContemporaryArt, Beijing, China
Absoluteness: New Art from China, The Page Gallery, Seoul, Korea
To gaze & To detach, 798 1 House, Beijing, China

2016

The Suggestive Wheel: An Era of Metaphors, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, China It is exactly
as it if had never happened, 798 1 House, Beijing, China
Plural, Gingko Space, Beijing, China

2015

Nonfigurative, Shanghai 21th Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Chinese Abstract Painting Today, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, Essen, Germany

2014

New Abstract: Chapter 1, HDM Gallery, Beijing, China
New Generation of Abstract Art, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China

2013

Stitch – Zhang Xuerui & Cho Sohee, Space Can Beijing, Beijing, China

2012

A Chinese Way of Abstract, SHI FANG Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
The 1st Xinjiang Biennale, Xinjiang Art Center, Urumchi, China

2010

Negotiations – The 2nd Today’ s Documents 2010, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2008

Towards Post – Abstraction, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China

Collections (selection)

White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Cruthers Art Foundation, Perth, Australia
He Art Museum (HEM), Foshan, China

Residencies

2015

Kulturkontaka Austria, Vienna, Austria

Selected works

Exhibitions

Selected articles

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贺潇 | 余生记

November 24th, 2022

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艺术家访谈 | 张雪瑞:一幅画就是我在时空里的“时钟”和“房间”

November 27th, 2022

Selected presses

Press release

A Descent into the Maelstrom

November 5th, 2022