Wang Keping was born in Beijing
in 1949. In 1979, he took part in the Beijing Spring Democracy Movement. He is
a founder of the Stars Group (Xing Xing 星星),
China’s first avant garde art group following the Cultural Revolution. In
September 1979, the The Stars Group (Xing Xing 星星)
organized the first non-conformist art exhibition on the gates of the National
Art Museum of China in Beijing. It had a great impact in China. He has been
living and working in Paris since 1984. HISTORICAL
EXHIBITIONS 1979 First
STARS (XING XING 星星)
Exhibition, an unauthorized exhibition hung on the gates of the National Art Museum
of China, Beijing. Exhibition outlawed after 2 days. 1980 Second
STARS (XING XING 星星)
Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 Wang Keping, Ullens Centre for
Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing 2010 La
Chair des Forêts, Musée Zadkine, Paris 2008 He
Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen 1994 Museum
fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt 1993 Chinese
Modern Art Center, Osaka
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Figures, Musée national d’Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris M+ Sigg Collection:
Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, M+Museum, Hong-Kong An/other avant-garde – China-Japan-Korea,
Busan Biennale 2016, Busan Arts et Nature 2016, Domaine régional de Chaumont sur Loire 2015 The Civil
Power, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing 2013 Light
before Dawn, Unofficial Chinese Art 1974-1985, Asia Society, Hong-Kong 2011 Artistes
Chinois à Paris, Musée Cernushi, Paris Blooming in the Shadows, Unofficial Chinese
Art, 1974-1985, China Institute, New York 2008 China Gold, Art Contemporain Chinois,
Musée Maillol, Paris Go China – Writing on the Wall, Chinese Art
from the Eighties and Nineties, Groninger Museum, Groningen Origin Point, The Stars 30 years, Today
Museum, Beijing, China 2007 China Contemporary
Art : the long march of the Avant-Garde, Contemporary Art Museum, Geneva China Onward, The Estella Collection,
Chinese Contemporary Art 1966-2006, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
Copenhagen 2005 Chinese Contemporary Art from the Sigg
Collection, Kunstmuseum, Bern 2004 Chine, le corps partout ?, Musée d’Art
Contemporain, Marseille 2001 Modern
Chinese Art, The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, Ashmoleum Museum, Oxford 2000 Le corps morcelé, Fondation d’art
contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Les Mesnuls At the New Century, 1979-1999 China
Contemporary Art’s Works, Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu
1999 Les Champs
de la Sculpture, Champs-Elysées, Paris The Buyeo Gudurae Sculpture Park, Buyeo 1998 Vision
2000, Chinesische Gemälde und Skulpturen der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart 1992 Sculptures
- Frédéric Bleuet, Peter Briggs, Wang Keping, Salle Saint-Jean, Hôtel de Ville de Paris 1989 Tian An
Men, je me souviens, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1983 Painting
the Chinese Dream, Chinese Art 30 Years after the Revolution, Brooklyn Museum, New York SELECTED COLLECTIONS Musée National d’Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Musée Cernuschi, Paris Domaine régional de Chaumont
sur Loire M+ Uli Sigg Collection, M+ the
New Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong Aidekman Art Center, Boston Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Collection de la Ville de
Paris, Paris Buyeo Gudurae International
Sculpture Park, Buyeo He Xiangning Art Museum,
Shenzhen Fukuoka Asian Art Museum,
Fukuoka Museum of Modern Art, Taizhong The Olympic Sculpture Park,
Seoul AWARDS Chevalier
de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2015)
