Xie Nanxing (b. 1970, Chongqing, China)
Xie Nanxing lives and works in Beijing and Chengdu, China. He has exhibited widely internationally with solo exhibitions at Petzel (2022), Galerie Urs Meile (2020, 2015, 2008); Thomas Dane Gallery (2019); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2018); Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof (2005); Manchester Art Gallery (2003); and Pulitzer Gallery, Amsterdam (1998).
Recent and notable group exhibitions include: Beijing Bienniale (2022); Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China (2021); Song Art Museum, Beijing (2020); Hive Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing (2020); The Warehouse Dallas (2020); Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (2019); MAK Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (2019); Casa Cavazzini, Italy (2017); Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu (2016); Today Art Museum, Beijing (2106); Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (2015); OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT), Shenzhen (2014); Gerhard Richter and the Disappearance of the Image in Contemporary Art, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS), Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2010); Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2002); Documenta XII, Kassel, Germany (2007); and d’APERTutto, La Biennale di Venezia, 48. Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, Venice, Italy (1999).
“To me, the process of painting is more like that of an invention. It may sound funny, but I believe they share common characteristics. A painting is like a sketch for a building. It carries many ideas and intentions of the artist. I think it’s a revolution in the simplest and most direct sense. A painting can never be produced in a factory.”
Xie Nanxing in conversation with Ai Weiwei, Xie Nanxing Works 1992-2008, 2008
Installation view, Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2002
1970 Born Chongqing, China
1999 Included in the 48th Venice Biennale
2000 Begins showing with Galerie Urs Meile
2002 Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2005 Xie Nanxing Paintings, Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
2007 Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
City-net Asia 2007, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2008 Xie Nanxing Works 1992-2008 (catalogue) published by Timezone 8 Ltd
Installation view, Time-Slip, Petzel, 2021
2010 STEPFATHER HAS AN IDEA! – Xie Nanxing, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China & Lucerne, Switzerland
2012 Omen – Chinese New Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2015 Xie Nanxing Works 2009 – 2015 (catalogue) published by Galerie Urs Meile
2017 PARADOXA Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - Casa Cavazzini, Udine, Italy
2018 Spices, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2019 Chinese Whispers - Recent Art from the Si Collection MAK Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
2020 Racket of Cobwebs: Chinese Contemporary Art, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2021 Begins showing with Petzel
Time-Slip, Petzel
2022 Adverb High Command, Petzel
Xie Nanxing
The Dwarfs' Refrain #1
2019
Oil on canvas
118.11 x 86.61 inches
Xie Nanxing
The Dwarfs’ Refrain #3
2019
Oil on canvas
98.43 x 82.68 inches
Xie Nanxing
The Dwarfs’ Refrain #5
2019
Oil on canvas
98.43 x 82.68 inches
Xie Nanxing
Portrait of Big X
2018
Oil on canvas
78.7 x 59 inches
Xie Nanxing
Portrait of N
2018
Oil on canvas
86.6 x 59 inches
Xie Nanxing
Spice No. 1
2016
Oil on canvas
86.6 x 118 inches
Xie Nanxing
Spice No. 2
2016
Oil on canvas
86.6 x 118 inches
Xie Nanxing
Spice No. 3
2016
Oil on canvas
118 x 86.6 inches
Xie Nanxing
Postcard No.9
2015
Oil on canvas
86.6 x 86.6 inches
Xie Nanxing
Untitled (No.1)
2014
Oil on canvas
86.6 x 127.9 inches
Xie Nanxing
Untitled (No.5)
2014
Oil on canvas
86.6 x 86.6 inches
Xie Nanxing
Triangle Relations
2013
Oil on canvas
87 x 59.8 inches
Xie Nanxing
Triangle Relations Gradually Changing No.3
2013
Oil on canvas
74.8 x 74.8 inches
Xie Nanxing
White Asses
2011
Oil on canvas
86.6 x 127.9 inches
Xie Nanxing
The Reality of Simultaneousness
2010
Oil on canvas
59 x 51.1 inches
Xie Nanxing
Untitled (No.2)
2009
Charcoal and oil on canvas
86.6 x 127.9 inches
Xie Nanxing
Untitled (No.1)
2006
Oil on canvas
86.6 x 151.5 inches
Xie Nanxing
Untitled (Flame)
2000
Oil on canvas
86.6 x 149.6 inches
Xie Nanxing
Untitled (No.4)
1999
Oil on canvas
55.1 x 70.8 inches
Xie Nanxing
Untitled (Corridor)
1999
Oil on canvas
86.6 x 149.6 inches
Xie Nanxing
Family (No. 1)
1992
Oil on canvas
59 x 59 inches
Installation view, Mask and Shadow, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, 2021
Installation view, Time-Slip, Petzel, 2021
Installation view, A Roll of the Dice, Galerie Urs Meile, 2020-2021
Installation view, Xie Nanxing: A Gift Like Kung Pao Chicken, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, 2019
Installation view, Xie Nanxing: A Gift Like Kung Pao Chicken, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, 2019
Installation view, Time-Slip, Petzel, 2021
Installation view, Spices, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2018
Exhibition view, The Second Round with a Whip, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China, 2012 –13
Installation view, Stepfather Has an Idea, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China, 2010
Installation view, Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2002
