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Zhou Tiehai, Shanghai. Photo: Chang W. LeeZhou Tiehai, Shanghai. Photo: Chang W. Lee (detail)
Zhou Tiehai, Shanghai. Photo: Chang W. Lee (detail)

The oeuvre of the Chinese artist Zhou Tiehai focuses on the clash of the Chinese and Western worlds. A large proportion of his works show fragments of plants, figures, fish or rocks. These are typical elements of traditional Chinese paintings, but Zhou Tiehai uses an airbrush to depict them in a completely unconventional way. This technique does not allow the artist to create precise lines but enables him to achieve almost imperceptible colour passages. The non-traditional means of artistic realisation is another crucial point of Zhou Tiehai’s art. Much like the proponents of Western Concept Art, he questions the role of the artist as the individual who must personally create an artwork: most of his airbrush paintings are produced by assistants in his workshop.

Zhou Tiehai was born 1966 in Shanghai. His work has been exhibited at renowned international institutions such as The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Additionally, he participated in the 48th Venice Biennale, the 5th Shanghai Biennale and the 4th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea). From 2010-2013 Zhou Tiehai was the director of the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai, a leading private art museum in China. Zhou Tiehai lives and works in Shanghai.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
2008
Zhou Tiehai

PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2006
Zhou Tiehai. An Other History

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2006
Zhou Tiehai. Day in the Castle

Yuanda City, Changsha, Hunan, China

2004
Zhou Tiehai. Works 1989-2003

Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai, China

2004
Zhou Tiehai. Tonic +

Shanghart H-Space, Shanghai, China

2003
Zhou Tieha

Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2001
Zhou Tiehai. The artist isn't here

Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai & Ise Foundation, New York, NY, USA

2000
Zhou Tiehai. Placebo Swiss

Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2000
Zhou Tiehai. 3 Scrolls

Statements, ART BASEL, Basel, Switzerland

2000
Zhou Tiehai. Met in Shanghai

Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

2000
Zhou Tiehai. Will

Gallery Quadrum, Lisbon, Portugal

1999
Zhou Tiehai. Don't be Afraid to Make Mistakes

Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai, China

1998
Zhou Tiehai. Un/Limited Space (4). The Shower

German Consulate, Shanghai, China

1998
Zhou Tiehai. Beyond the Borderline

Galerie Bernhard Schindler, Bern, Switzerland

1998
Two Contemporary Artists from China. Geng Jianyi, Zhou Tiehai

Vancouver, Canada

1998
Zhou Tiehai

Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1996
Zhou Tiehai. Too Materialistic. Too Spiritualized

CIFA Gallery, Beijing, China

Group exhibitions
2013
China Contemporary

Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland

2008
Selected

Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai, China

2007
All About Laughter. Humor in Contemporary Art

Mori Art Museum Tokyo, Japan

2007
Open Space

Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

2007
The Real Thing. Contemporary Art from China

Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

2007
The Year of the Golden Pig

UCC University College Cork, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

2007
Rockers Island Olbricht Collection

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

2007
ShContemporary 2007

Shanghai Contemporary, Shanghai, China

2007
Reboot

The Third Chengdu Biennal, Chengdu, China

2006
Para todos los publicos

Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain

2006
Infinite Painting. Contemporary Painting and Global Realism

Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art Passariano, Codroipo (Udine), Italy

2006
Contemporary China

PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2006
The 5th AsiaPacific Triennal of Contemporary Art (APT5)

), Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia

2006
Contemporary Chinese Art: Ding Yi, Pu Jie, Shen Fan, Wu Yiming, Zhou Tiehai

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2006
Art in Motion

MoCA Shanghai, China

2005
China. Contemporary Painting

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna, Italy

2005
On the Edge. Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West

Stanford University, Stanfort, CA, USA

2005
Follow Me! Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millenium

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2005
Prague Biennale

Prague, Czech Republic

2005
Montpellier/Chine

MC1 Biennale, Montpellier, France

2005
Study Practice

Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

2005
In Their 40’s

Shanghart H-Space, Shanghai, China

2005
Mahong. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection

Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany & Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria

2004
5th Shanghai Biennale

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2004
Shanghai Modern

Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany

2004
Shanghai Surprise

Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany

2004
Rogue Nations. Cuban & Chinese Artists

MACLA (Movimiento de Arte Cultura Latino Americana), San Jose, CA, USA

2004
All under Heaven – China now!

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium

2003
Alors la Chine?

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

2003
urbanart 2003

City of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2003
The American Effect

Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA

2003
Open Sky

Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

2003
Fabricated Paradises

Le Parvis Centre d'Art Contemporain, Pau, France

2003
Out of Focus. A Dimension for Painting

25000 Cultural Transmission Center, Beijing, China

2003
Out of the Red. La Generation Emergente

Trevi Flash Art Museum, Milan, Italy

2003
Different Choice

Bandao Gallery, Shanghai, China

2002
Korean and Chinese Painting. 2002 New Expression

Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea

2002
24:30

Bizart, Shanghai, China

2002
The 4th Gwanju Biennal

Gwangju, South Korea

2002
Take Part II

Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Switzerland

2002
Art and Economy

Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

2002
Paris – Peking

Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France

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