Guan Xiao
GUAN XIAO (b. 1983) lives and works in Beijing. Her practice focuses primarily on sculpture, video, and installation. Combining a wide array of visual references, Guan Xiao continuously reinvents her biographical details such as identity, personal history, geographical background and the experience of her daily life by inscribing them into her exuberant works. Guan Xiao takes her sculpture and installations as virtual characters or 'species' which she imbues with a new, literalized identity. The artist attempts to emphasize the importance of difference by creating purposeful contradictions between the materiality and the concept.
Guan Xiao graduated from the Communication University of China and has exhibited internationally. Relevant exhibitions include TANK, Shanghai (2025); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2024); Start Museum, Shanghai (2024); David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2023, solo); Mudam Luxemburg (2023); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2023); Hua International, Berlin (2023); Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2023); Mercedes Benz Museum, Stuttgart (2022); Kunsthalle Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2022); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021, solo); MUDAM, Luxembourg (2021); the 34th Bienial de São Paulo (2021); Belgrade Biennial (2021); Antenna Space, Shanghai (2020, solo); Skulpturenpark Cologne (2020); X Museum Triennial (2020); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2020); Sharjah Art Foundation (2020); Bonner Kunstverein (2019, solo); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2019, solo); Fellbach Triennial, Fellbach (2019); Honolulu Biennial (2019); Migros Museum, Zürich (2019); Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang (2019); Kunsthalle Winterthur (2018, solo); High Line, New York (2017); the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice (2017); Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2017); M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2017); 9th Berlin Biennale (2016); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2016, solo); the K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai (2016, solo); ICA, London (2016, solo); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2016); Shortlist for Hugo Boss Asia Art Award at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2015); the 13th Biennale de Lyon: La vie modern, Lyon (2015); Antenna Space, Shanghai (2015, solo).
Her work is in the collections of:
Yan Du Collection, London
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
M+ Collection, Hong Kong
Boros Collection, Berlin
Daimler Collection, Stuttgart
DSL Collection, Virtual Museum
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Fosun Foundation, Shanghai
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Kadist Collection, Paris
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Long Museum, Shanghai
New Century Art Foundation, Beijing
Pond Society, Shanghai
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Shanghai Museum of Glass
Start Museum, Shanghai
Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
White Rabbit Collection, Chippendale
X Museum, Changsha
Zabludowicz Collection, London
Fictional Syntheses
LOUIS EISNER, BRETT GINSBURG, GUAN XIAO, BROOK HSU, KATJA NOVITSKOVA, CAROL RHODES, NICOLÁS GARCÍA URIBURU6 July - 17 August 2024Read moreWake up in a house called season
Guan Xiao 13 November 2021 - 29 January 2022Opening Friday, November 12th, 6-9pmRead more
Guan Xiao (b. 1983) lives and works in Beijing. Her practice focuses primarily on sculpture, video, and installation. Combining a wide array of visual references, Guan Xiao continuously reinvents her biographical details such as identity, personal history, geographical background and the experience of her daily life by inscribing them into her exuberant works. Guan Xiao takes her sculpture and installations as virtual characters or “species” which she imbues with a new, literalized identity. The artist attempts to emphasize the importance of difference by creating purposeful contradictions between the materiality and the concept.
Guan Xiao graduated from the Communication University of China and has exhibited internationally. Her work has been featured at MUDAM (2021); the 34th Bienial de Sao Paulo (2021); Belgrade Biennial (2021); Antenna Space, Shanghai (solo; 2020); Skulpturenpark Cologne (2020); X Museum Triennial (2020); Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen (2020); Sharjah Art Foundation (2020); Bonner Kunstverein (solo; 2019); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (solo; 2019); Fellbach Triennial, Fellbach (2019); Honolulu Biennial (2019); Migros Museum, Zürich (2019); Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang (2019); Kunsthalle Winterthur (solo; 2018); High Line, New York (2017); the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice (2017); Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2017); M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2017); 9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2016); Jeu de Paume, Paris (solo; 2016); the K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai (2016, solo); ICA, London (solo; 2016); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2016); Shortlist for Hugo Boss Asia Art Award at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2015); the 13th Biennale de Lyon: La vie modern, Lyon (2015); Antenna Space, Shanghai (solo; 2015); 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York (2015); Daimler Contemporary Berlin (2015); Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2015); M HKA Museum, Antwerp (2014); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (solo; 2014); 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen (2012) and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (2007).
Her work is in the collections of Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Boros Collection, Berlin; Daimler Collection, Stuttgart; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf; Rubell Family Collection, Miami among others.SHOWROOM EXTENDED
GUAN XIAO, ANNA UDDENBERG10 March - 9 May 2020Read moreLIVING SCI-FI UNDER THE RED STARS
GUAN XIAO28 April - 1 July 2017Read moreTHANK YOU
AIDS-3D, FLORIAN AUER, GCC, STURE JOHANNESSON, K-HOLE, DANIEL KELLER, KATJA NOVITSKOVA, AVERY SINGER, SLAVS AND TATARS, GUAN XIAO15 November 2014 - 31 January 2015Read moreSOMETHING HAPPENED LIKE NEVER HAPPENED
GUAN XIAO18 September - 1 November 2014Read more
COVER STROY: From Leaves to Shields
Venus Lau; Zhang Nuoran, Numéro China, 1 July 2023THE WEATHER IS DRY, AND SO ARE THINGS: GUAN XIAO IN CONVERSATION WITH SARAH JOHANNA THEURER
Sarah Johanna Theurer, CURA, 1 May 2021Guan Xiao at Antenna Space
Travis Jeppesen, Artforum Vol. 59, 1 November 2020Now Or Never: Guan Xiao and the Art of Contradiction
Vanessa Thill, Cultured Mag, March 2019, 12 March 2019These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Sculpture Forward
Tess Thackara, artsy online, July 2018, 20 July 2018Top 100
Buhr, Frenzel, Hinrichsen, Hohmann, Jenal, Trebing, Völzke, Monopol Magazine, No. 12, December 2017, 1 December 2017Around Town: Berlin
Frieze Summer 2017, 3 August 2017
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