Guan Xiao
Guan Xiao (b. 1983) lives and works in Beijing. The question of the individual is a central subject matter in Guan Xiao’s art, particularly the challenges of how one should, not only navigate, but harness the logic of time and speed and influx of technology while changing understandings of materiality and the burden of history. The complex and vivid aesthetic of her works in various media, including sculpture and video, could be considered as deliberations on these conditions, where instant knowledge about the world can provide a myriad of inspirations and influences. Looking to represent the artist’s own liminal space as being locally rooted and globally connected, Guan Xiao’s highly experimental work functions as an abstraction, formed by synthesizing numerous reference across time and geographies.
Guan Xiao graduated from the Communication University of China and has exhibited internationally. Her work has been featured at Skulpturpark Köln (2020); Antenna Space, Shanghai (solo; 2020); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2020); Bonner Kunstverein (solo; 2019); Honolulu Biennial (2019); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (solo; 2019); Migros Museum, Zürich (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 (solo; 2016); ICA, London (solo; 2016); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2016); Zabludowicz Collection, London (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 Boros Collection, Berlin; Daimler Collection, Stuttgart; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Tel Aviv among others.
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Lulubird slowly dipped her tongue into the ice cream, waited until it started buzzing., 2020
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Documentary of Agriculture: Gathering, 2019
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Pond, 2019
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The Daughter of Tree, 2019
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Things I couldn't forget No. 6, 2019
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Tulip Model, 2019
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Flying Fox, 2018
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Bamboo, 2017
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Bungee, 2017
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Callimico, 2017
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Cockatoo, 2017
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Enjoyable relationship, 2017
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Wild dirt, 2017
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Amazone Gold, 2016
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4S Prequel, 2015
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Sunrise, 2015
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One to Another, 2014
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Rolling Beating, 2014
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Slight Dizzy, 2014
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The Documentary: Geocentric Puncture, 2014
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Atlas, 2013
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The Sunset, 2012
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GUAN XIAO
exhibition view, Skulturpark Köln, 2020
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GUAN XIAO
exhibition view, Metamorphosis Overdrive, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 2020
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exhibition view, Metamorphosis Overdrive, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 2020
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exhibition view, HybrID, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2019
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exhibition view, Producing Futures: An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminisms, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, 2019
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exhibition view, Products Farming, Bonner Kunstverein, 2019
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exhibition view, Products Farming, Bonner Kunstverein, 2019 -
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exhibition view, Products Farming, Bonner Kunstverein, 2019 -
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exhibition view, Fiction Archive Project, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2019
Weather Forecast, 2016
single-channel video, 3 screens, colour, sound, 12’48”
12:48 min.
edition of 5 (+1AP)
GX/I 16-01/API
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Jaguars and Electric Eels, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin 2017
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exhibition view, Individuality has completely vanished–only traces become memories that linger in the
recesses of consciousness, Kunsthalle Winterthur, 2018
Weather Forecast, 2016
single-channel video, 3 screens, colour, sound, 12’48”
12:48 min.
edition of 5 (+1AP)
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exhibition view, 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, The Feuerle Collection, Berlin, 2016
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exhibition view, 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, The Feuerle Collection, Berlin, 2016 -
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exhibition view, Guan Xiao — Living Sci-Fi: under the red stars, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler,
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exhibition view, Guan Xiao — Living Sci-Fi: under the red stars, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler,
Berlin, 2017
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exhibition view, Guan Xiao — Living Sci-Fi: under the red stars, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler,
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exhibition view, Guan Xiao — Living Sci-Fi: under the red stars, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler,
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exhibition view, Guan Xiao: Flattened Metal in association with K11 Art Foundation, ICA, London (UK), 2016
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exhibition view, Guan Xiao: Flattened Metal in association with K11 Art Foundation, ICA, London (UK), 2016
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exhibition view, Guan Xiao: Flattened Metal in association with K11 Art Foundation, ICA, London (UK), 2016
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exhibition view, Something Always Happens Keeps Happening, abc – art berlin contemporary, 2014Action, 2014
single channel HD video, 3 screens, color, sound
10:00 min.
edition of 5 (+1AP)
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exhibition view, Something Happened Like Never Happened, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2014 -
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exhibition view, Something Happened Like Never Happened, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2014 -
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exhibition view, Something Happened Like Never Happened, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2014
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SHOWROOM EXTENDED
GUAN XIAO, ANNA UDDENBERG 10 March - 9 May 2020 -
LIVING SCI-FI UNDER THE RED STARS
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THANK YOU
AIDS-3D, FLORIAN AUER, GCC, STURE JOHANNESSON, K-HOLE, DANIEL KELLER, KATJA NOVITSKOVA, AVERY SINGER, SLAVS AND TATARS, GUAN XIAO 15 November 2014 - 31 January 2015 -
SOMETHING HAPPENED LIKE NEVER HAPPENED
GUAN XIAO 18 September - 1 November 2014
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Top 100
Buhr, Frenzel, Hinrichsen, Hohmann, Jenal, Trebing, Völzke, Monopol Magazine, No. 12, December 2017 -
Around Town: Berlin
Frieze Summer 2017 -
These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Sculpture Forward
Tess Thackara, artsy online, July 2018 -
Now Or Never: Guan Xiao and the Art of Contradiction
Vanessa Thill, Cultured Mag, March 2019
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Artissima
Turin (IT) 31 October - 3 November 2019 -
Art Basel
Basel (CH) 11 - 16 June 2019 -
Art Cologne
Cologne (DE) 11 - 14 April 2019 -
Art Basel Hong Kong
Hong Kong (CN) 29 - 31 March 2018 -
Art Basel
Basel (CH) 15 - 18 June 2017 -
FIAC | Lafyette
Paris (FR) 22 - 23 October 2016 -
Frieze | Focus
New York (US) 5 - 8 May 2016 -
Art Cologne
Cologne (DE) 14 - 17 April 2016in collaboration with KOW BerlinRead more -
FIAC
Paris (FR) 22 - 25 October 2015 -
Fieze | Focus
New York (US) 14 - 17 May 2015 -
abc – Art Berlin Contemporary
Berlin (DE) 18 - 21 September 2014