Zhao Zhao 趙趙
Zhao Zhao’s work is often associated with anti-authoritarian or non-conformist tendencies, renowned for confronting existing ideological structures and exercising the power of individual free will in his work. Zhao works in various mediums, including but not limited to video, photography, performance, and installations incorporating found objects; this refusal of material limitations demonstrates his reflexive intensification of a dialogue with and within the medium.
1982 Born in Xinjiang, China
2003 Xinjiang Institute of Arts, BFA in Painting, Xinjiang, China
Lives and works in Beijing
■ Solo Exhibitions
2013 “Nothing Inside II”, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin,
Germany
“Constellations”, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2012 “Nothing Inside”, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Beijing, China
2011 “According to Zhao Zhao”, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
“Concept works””, Galerie zanderkasten, Dresden, Germany
“Walking Naked”, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
2009 “5113, 1# 51 Square meters Project”, TaiKang Space, Beijing, China
2008 “Da Quan Gou”, CAAW, Beijing, China
■ Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 Spiel der Throne | Game of Thrones, Humboldt Lab Dahlem, Museum für Asiatische Kunst
der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Germany
China China, Individuality Collective, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Duchamp and\or\in China, UCCA– Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Sense of Security: Zhao Zhao Project, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing,
China
Passive or resist? Taikang Space, Beijing, China
ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, UCCA – Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2012 Based In China, Ernst Barlach Museum Wedel, Germany
2011 1+1: A Cross-strait Four-Regions Artistic Exchange Project, He Xiangning Art Museum,
Shenzhen, China
2010 Reflection of Minds-MoCA Shanghai Envisage III, Shanghai, China
Conception as Enzyme, A4 Gallery, Chengdu, China
Charism, Get it Louder 2010, Beijing/ Shanghai, China
3+X, CAAW, Beijing, China
No-Name Station-China/Australia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Iberia
Interpret Out of Context, T Space, Beijing, China
Moving!, Li Space, Beijing, China
The Burden of Representation, Osage Gallery, Hongkong
Also Space, C Space, Beijing, China
Archives, Osage Gallery, Hongkong
2009 Art Economies Beyond Pattern Recognition, Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China
Personal Space, 24 HR Art-Northern Territory Contemporary Art Centre, Darwin, Australia
Work in Progress – How Do Artists Work, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing,
China
2008 Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
Insomnia, Bizart Art Center, Shanghai, China
Landscape Topology, Magee Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Chinese Freedom, T Space. Beijing, China
Interposition 366, Zendai Moma, Shanghai, China