QIU Shihua
QIU Shihua (B.1940)
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
 
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