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Chen Zhen
Artist's Name: Chen Zhen
Preferred medium: mixed media
birth year: 1955
Nationality: CN
City: Paris

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Chen Zhen - Profile

Chen Zhen is one of those artists of the Chinese avant-garde in the mid-'80s the reform policies and the political repression in China turned its back. 1986 he emigrated to Paris, where he, after several years of artistic seclusion with the pioneering concept of "open sculpture" achieved international recognition. Chen Zhen has created a work which the utopia of persistent multi-cultural dialogue could take effect. His installations are poetic landscapes - interweaving material unusual alliances, hybrids, the passages and new routes between Far Eastern traditions and Western avant-garde movements produce. The self-chosen exile, his own illness and the traditional Chinese medicine to combine images metaphorical sense, he creates synergies disparate relations, the body of the society and re-measured. Chen Zhen artistic approach is very poetic and conceptual strength, but in person and on their own - after all, every artistic approaches resonance space of one's own biography, the analogy is a place where "cultural homelessness" and "spiritual runaway" merge with Far Eastern thinking. (Source: Kunsthalle Wien )

important exhibitions from Chen Zhen

Exhibition Location City Country Date
53. Biennale Venedig 2009 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 07.06.2009
48. Biennale Venedig 1999 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 13.06.1999
Chen Zhen. Der Körper als Landschaft MART - Museo Trento e Rovereto Rovereto IT 23.02.2008
Der Körper als Landschaft Kunsthalle Wien Wien AT 25.05.2007
In Praise of Doubt Punta della Dogana Venedig IT 10.04.2011
Chen Zhen Der Körper als Landschaft Kunsthalle Wien (project space) Wien AT 25.05.2007
Chen Zhen Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster Münster DE 21.06.2003
TRA. EDGE OF BECOMING PALAZZO FORTUNY Venedig Venedig IT 04.06.2011
11. Triennale Fellbach Kleinplastik 2010 Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach Fellbach DE 12.06.2010

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Galleries representing
Chen Zhen:

Bernier / Eliades Gallery
Dany Keller
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot
Galerie Michel Rein
Galleria Continua
Galleria Continua Beijng
SCAI the Bathhouse

Collections representing
Chen Zhen

Galleria d'Arte Palazzo Forti
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre
Kröller Müller Museum KMM
MART - Museo Trento e Rovereto