Zhang Xin

Climate No.15, 2020, Installation Synthetic, Triangular, 12 m on the side

Zhang Xin, born in Shanghai in 1967, graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University in 1900. She entered the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Academy after graduating and had been engaged in full-time art creation for 34 years. In 2012, she won the title of Chinese first-class national artist.

In the 1990s, she engaged in important avant-garde art exhibitions and activities through installation, performance, concept and other media. She also participated in domestic and foreign exhibitions as a Chinese female artist. She was one of the most important representatives of Chinese feminist artists in the 1990s.

She has participated in many exhibitions in museums and art galleries at home and abroad. Her important exhibitions include: “In the Name of Art”, “Protection of Water”, “Portugal Maya Biennale”, “Text & Text – Asian Women Exhibition”, “Women of the Century Exhibition”, “Shanghai Biennale”, ” Half the Sky – Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Female Artists”, “HOT – POT – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition” and various historical retrospective exhibitions such as “Portraits of the Times – 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition”, “Avant-garde·Shanghai Contemporary Art 30 Years Exhibition”, “Exhibition in Exhibition”, “Shanghai 1973 – 2009, Shanghai Artist Cases”, “Facing the Scene” – Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art Criticism Literature in the 1990s, etc.

In 2012, she created and planned the “167 Square Meter Limit” project, using the concept of limit to critically think about the “origin” issue and explore the various possibilities of art ecology, functionality and linguistic games after the year 2000. From the concepts of “carving” and “shaping”, “sculpturing” as an art concept is subversively and experimentally deconstructed in the traditional sense.