Qiu Shihua
Biography
1940 born in Zizhong, Sichuan Province, China
lives and works in Beijing and Shenzhen, China
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Sanctuary, Galerie Urs Meile,, Beijing, China
Qiu Shihua, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
2020
Empty / Not Empty, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Empty / Not Empty, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
2019
Landscapes, Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2018
scheinbar: nichts - Bildwelten von QIU SHIHUA im Dialog, Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Museum unter Tage, Bochum, Germany
2017
Qiu Shihua, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
2015
Aura of Nature, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
2013
Qiu Shihua – New Works, Galerie Urs Meile Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
St. Moritz Art Masters Winter Exhibition, Reformierte Dorfkirche, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2012
Qiu Shihua. Landschaft, Licht und Stille, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Qiu Shihua, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
Qiu Shihua. White Field, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, German
2010
QIU SHIHUA, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
2009
Qiu Shihua – New Works, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2008
Qiu Shihua, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2007
Qiu Shi-Hua, Galerie Luis Campaña, Cologne, Germany
2006
Galerie 75 Faubourg, Paris, France
2005
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Qiu Shi-Hua, Galerie Luis Campaña, Cologne, Germany
Insight: Paintings by Qiu Shihua, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
Vision of Fields by Qiu Shihua, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2004
Qiu Shihua, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
2003
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Galerie Luis Campaña, Cologne, Germany
2002
White Landscape, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2001
Landscape – Painting on the Edge of Visibility, Galleria OTSO, Espoo, Finland
The New York Kunsthalle, New York, USA
2000
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Landscape – Painting on the Edge of Visibility, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; Galerie Sternberk, Sternberk, Czech Republic
1999
Qiu Shi-hua, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1997
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1995
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
1991
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Irreplaceable Human – The Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana, USA
2022
HORIZONS, QIU SHIHUA - LEIKO IKEMURA - KIMSOOJA - EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG -
YU DUAN, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany
2021
SNAPSHOT, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
Minestrone, Galerie Urs Meile, Ardez, Switzerland
2020
Chinese Colours: Eastward Turn To Absoluteness, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Longing for Nature - Reading Landscapes in Chinese Art, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzelrand
Shifting, Pop-up Art Parcours, Galerie Urs Meile, Ardez, Switzerland
THE WHITE Into THE BLANK, Whitebox Art Center, Beijing, China
2018
Lolo’s Entaglements, De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
2016
Ink and the Mind: Ink and Phenomenology. Exhibition No.2, Ink Studio, Beijing, China
M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, ArtisTree, Hong Kong, China
2014
Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
DIALOGUE5:5, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2013
Building Bridges – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus China, Wolfsberg, Ermatingen, Switzerland
Blank to Blank – Inframince Exhibition II Soka Art Center, Beijing, China
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, USA
2012
Duchamp’ Inframince in Painting – First Zhuangzi International Conference Parallel Exhibition, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany
Landschaft als Weltsicht, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Self-essence Naturalism, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2011
Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Shanshui – Poetry Without Sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Collectors’ Stage: Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore
2010
Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert, Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany
2009
Linien stiller Schönheit, DKM Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Yi Pai – Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Black and White – Qiu Shihua and Yang Liming, Found Museum, Beijing, China
2008
Accumulation – The new Spirit of the East, Asia Art Center, 798, Beijing, China Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
RED Aside – Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstract Art, Palma, Barcelona and Madrid, Spain
Qi Yun – The International Travelling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, China Square Gallery, New York, USA
2007
Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Reboot – The Third Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Qi Yun – The International Travelling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangnin Museum, Shenzhen, China; Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China; Hong Kong Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China
Landscape & Memory II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Art from China – Collection Uli Sigg, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Year of the Golden Pig – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland
Inferno in Paradise – 10 Years Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Berlin, Germany
Idilio I, DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
White Out, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria; Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
2006
The Sublime is Now, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2005
Pictorial DNA Made in China, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland
Cina. Prospettive d’Arte Contemporanea / China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists, Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
What is Realism, Albermarie Gallery, London, UK
2004
5th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Le Printemps de Chine, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
2003
Einbildung – Das Wahrnehmen in der Kunst, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
New Zone – Chinese Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2002
China – Tradition und Moderne, Museum Ludwig Galerie Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
Welcome China!, Gallery Soardi, Nice, France
2001
Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA
2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Take Part I, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2000
Our Chinese Friends, ACC Galerie and Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität (in collaboration with Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne), Weimar, Germany
1999
d’APERTutto, La Biennale di Venezia, 48. Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, Venice, Italy
Natural Reality, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
1998
Eight Chinese Artists, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Asian Fine Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1996
China, Kunst Museum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria; Art Museum Singapore, Singapore; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Qiu Shihua, The 23rd São Paulo Art Biennial (special guest), São Paulo, Brazil
1995
China’s New Art Post – 1989, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Portland, USA
1992
The First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Hong Kong, China
1986
Chinese Art Festival, La Defense, Paris, FrancSelected Group Exhibitions