QIU Shihua
邱世華born 1940, Sichuan ; died 2025, Guangdong
| 1940 | Born in Zizhong, Sichuan Province, China |
| At Present | lives and works in Beijing and Shenzhen, China |
Selected Solo Exhibition
| 2015 | Aura of Nature, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany |
| 2013 | Qiu Shihua: New Works, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| St. Moritz Art Masters Winter Exhibition, Reformierte Dorfkirche, St. Moritz, Switzerland | |
| 2012 | Qiu Shihua. Landschaft, Licht und Stille, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| Qiu Shihua, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China | |
| Qiu Shihua. White Field, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2010 | QIU SHIHUA, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China |
| 2009 | Qiu Shihua: New Works, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| 2008 | Qiu Shihua, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China |
| 2007 | Qiu Shi-Hua, Galerie Luis Campaña, Cologne, Germany |
| 2006 | Galerie 75 Faubourg, Paris, France |
| 2005 | Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| Qiu Shi-Hua, Galerie Luis Campaña, Cologne, Germany | |
| Insight: Paintings by Qiu Shihua, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA | |
| Vision of Fields by Qiu Shihua, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong | |
| 2004 | Qiu Shihua, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2003 | Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| Galerie Luis Campaña, Cologne, Germany | |
| The New York Kunsthalle, New York, USA | |
| 2002 | White Landscape, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| 2001 | Landscape: Painting on the Edge of Visibility, Galleria OTSO, Espoo, Finland; The New York Kunsthalle, New York, USA |
| 2000 | Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| Landscape: Painting on the Edge of Visibility, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; Galerie Sternberk, Sternberk, Czech Republic | |
| 1999 | Qiu Shi-hua, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
| 1997 | Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 1995 | Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 1991 | Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Joint Exhibition | |
| 2015 | Magical Mountains: Hanart TZ Gallery at Art Basel HK 2015, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong |
| 2014 | “HANART 100: IDIOSYNCRASIES” Celebrating Hanart 30th Years, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong / Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong |
| DIALOGUE5:5, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany | |
| Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada | |
| 2013 | Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, USA |
| Blank to Blank: Inframince Exhibition II, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| Building Bridges: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus China, Wolfsberg, Ermatingen, Switzerland | |
| 2012 | Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum, Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany |
| Duchamp’ Inframince in Painting: First Zhuangzi International Conference Parallel Exhibition, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Landschaft als Weltsicht, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany | |
| Self-essence Naturalism, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2011 | Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany | |
| Shanshui – Poetry Without Sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland | |
| Collectors’ Stage: Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore | |
| 2010 | Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert, Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany |
| 2009 | Linien stiller Schönheit, DKM Museum, Duisburg, Germany |
| Yi Pai – Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Black and White – Qiu Shihua and Yang Liming, Found Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2008 | Accumulation – The new Spirit of the East, Asia Art Center, 798, Beijing, China |
| Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The University of California, Berkeley, USA; Art Museum, Berkeley, USA; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA | |
| RED Aside – Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstract Art, Palma, Barcelona and Madrid, Spain | |
| Qi Yun – The International Travelling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, China Square Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2007 | Mahjong: Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria |
| Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China | |
| Qi Yun – The International Travelling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, OCT Contemporary Art, Terminal of He Xiangnin Museum, Shenzhen, China; Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China; Hong Kong Artist Commune, Hong Kong | |
| Landscape & Memory II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
| Art from China: Collection Uli Sigg, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| The Year of the Golden Pig – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland | |
| Inferno in Paradise: 10 Years Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Berlin, Germany | |
| Idilio I, DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain | |
| White Out, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria; Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany | |
| 2006 | The Sublime is Now, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland |
| Mahjong: Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany | |
| 2005 | Pictorial DNA Made in China, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland | |
| Cina. Prospettive d’Arte Contemporanea / China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists, Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy | |
| What is Realism, Albermarie Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2004 | 5th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China |
| Le Printemps de Chine, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France | |
| 2003 | Einbildung – Das Wahrnehmen in der Kunst, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria |
| New Zone – Chinese Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland | |
| 2002 | China – Tradition und Moderne, Museum Ludwig Galerie Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany |
| Welcome China!, Gallery Soardi, Nice, France | |
| 2001 | Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA | |
| 2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany | |
| Take Part I, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland | |
| 2000 | Our Chinese Friends, ACC Galerie and Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität (in collaboration with Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne), Weimar, Germany |
| 1999 | d’APERTutto, La Biennale di Venezia, 48. Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, Venice, Italy |
| Natural Reality, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany | |
| 1998 | Eight Chinese Artists, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| Asian Fine Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| 1996 | China, Kunst Museum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria; Art Museum Singapore, Singapore; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany |
| Qiu Shihua, The 23rd São Paulo Art Biennial (special guest), São Paulo, Brazil | |
| 1995 | China’s New Art Post – 1989, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Portland, USA |
| 1992 | The First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Hong Kong, China |
| 1986 | Chinese Art Festival, La Defense, Paris, France |
