Inga Svala Thorsdottir + WU Shanzhuan
吳山專 + 英格-斯瓦拉·托斯朵蒂爾Inga Svala Thorsdottir (b. 1966, Iceland) works in Hamburg, Shanghai and Reykjavík
Wu Shanzhuan (b. 1960, Zhoushan) works in Hamburg, Shanghai and Reykjavík
Inga Svala Thorsdottir was born in Iceland in 1966. She graduated in 1991 from the Painting Department of the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts, and in 1995 from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. In 1993 she founded Thor’s Daughter’s Pulverization Service, and in 1999 she founded BORG.
Wu Shanzhuan was born in Zhoushan, China in 1960. He graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1986, and from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg in 1995. In 1985, Wu founded Red Humour, and in 1990, he established Red Humour International.
In 1991, Wu began to work with the important Icelandic conceptual artist Inga Svala Thorsdottir. Since then, they have been working and exhibiting collaboratively.
**Image: (From left to right) Inga Svala THORSDOTTIR and WU Shanzhuan
Wu Shanzhuan
| 1960 | Born in Zhoushan, China |
| 1986 | Graduated from Normal Department of the Zejiang Art Academy |
| 1995 | Graduated from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg |
| 1985 | Founded Red Humour |
| 1990 | Founded Red Humour International. |
Inga Svala Thorsdottir
| 1966 | Born in Iceland |
| 1991 | Graduated from Painting Department of the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts |
| 1993 | Founded Thor’s Daughter’s Pulverization Service.1999 founded BORG |
| 1995 | Graduated from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg |
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Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2013 | What A Form: A Reportage, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China |
| 2011 | kuo xuan, Wu Shanzhuan & Inga Svala Thorsdottir, Long March Space, Beijing China |
| 2009 | Thing’s Right(s) 09 The More, Wu Shanzhuan, Red Humour International & Inga Svala Thorsdottir, Thor’s Daughter’s Pulverization Service, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Three on the Bund, Shanghai, China |
| 2008 | Wu Shanzhuan BUT STILL RED, Red Humour International in collaboration with Inga Svala Thorsdottir, Thor’ Daughter’s Pulverization Service, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
| 2001 | Thing’s Right(s) – New York 2001, Making Your Own Nationality, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, N.Y |
| 1999 | Thing’s Right(s)Cuxhaven, Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Cuxhaven, Germany |
| Thing’s Right(s)Hong Kong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong | |
| 1998 | Vege-Pleasure, Ingólfsstræti 8 Galleri, Reykjavík Arts Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland |
| 1996 | Please Don’ t Move, Bahnwarterhaus, Galerien der Stadt, Esslingen, Germany |
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Selected Joint Exhibitions |
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| 2016 | Before the Beginning and after the End II, Long March Space, Beijing, China |
| Memory of Times: Minsheng Collection Exhibition for China Minsheng Bank 20th Anniversary, Beijing Minsheng, Art Museum, Beijing, China (Wu Shanzhuan) | |
| 2014 | Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
| 2013 | Green Box: Remapping – The Space of Media Reality, City’s R&D Center of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China |
| 2012 | Surplus Authors, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands |
| EDIT: Image Fetish and Phobia, ShanghART H – SPACE, Shanghai, China | |
| 2011 | THE COUPLE SHOW! , Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai |
| 2010 | West Heavens, Place – Time – Play: India – China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China |
| 2009 | A Gift to Marco Polo, la Biennale di Venice, Italy |
| 2008 | Bae Bae Iceland, Listasafn Akureyrar, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland |
| 2007 | Metamorphosis, The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art,, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere Finland |
| 2006 | Yellow Box Projects, in Qingpu, Shanghai, China |
| 2004 | On the Edge – Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA |
| 2003 | A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; toured to Art |
| Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki, Finland | |
| 2002 | Paris – Peking, Espace Cardin, Paris, France |
| Made by Chinese #6, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France | |
| 2001 | III Bienal do Mercosul, Various venues, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| 2000 | Continental Shift, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Liege, Liege, Belgium |
| nordicliveart.org, Paletten, Göteborg, Sweden | |
| 1998 | … Es grünt so grün…, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (Publication) |
| NEID 7, Release, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (Publication) | |
| Berlin/Berlin, Platform, Berlin, Germany | |
| 1997 | Other Kind of Communism (part 2), The Cable Gallery, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1996 | The Scream, Borealis 8, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhangen, Denmark |
| Unfrieden. Sabotage von Wirklichkeiten, Hamburger Woche der Bildenden Kunst, Hamburg, Germany | |
| 1995 | Der Abschied von der Ideologie, Kampnagelfabrik K3, Hamburg, Germany |
| Des del Pais del Centre: Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Nordic Wells, Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland | |
| Zwischen den Deichen, Büsum, Germany (Publication) | |
| 1994 | Aus der Eisenzeit, Kampnagelfabrik K3, Hamburg, Germany |
| [no title], Living Art Musuem, Reykavik, Iceland | |
| Festival der Künste, Bad Gleichenberg, Austria | |
| 1993 | Made In Hamburg, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany |
| Fontanelle, Kunst in (x) Zwischenfällen, Kunstspeicher, Potsdam, Germany | |
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