1972年出生于中国安徽省宣城,现工作在北京和阿姆斯特丹。

阚萱的录像和装置作品经常结合静态物体和持久的风景。她有兴趣探索个人主体性与外部世界之间的关系,这些关系是如何形成和化解的,以及艺术创作是否可以提供创造新关系的方法。她的艺术语言简单而深刻,智慧而感性,寻求叙事和诗学之间的张力和平衡。阚萱将真诚和好奇的自我应用于她的实践中,无论是通过研究日常生活的平淡细节还是参与复杂的历史主题,她都会花很长时间与她的主题在一起,这种方法使她的作品在不断加速的当代生活中具有独特而专注的节奏。

 

 

教育背景

1993-1997

China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

 

 

 

 

个展节选
 

2019

 

2016

 

 

2012

Racing Gravels, Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany

 

Light, Galleria Continua Les Moulins, France

 

Kan Xuan, IKON, Birmingham, UK

 

Millet Mounds, UCCA, Beijing, China

 

2009

Light, Arrow factory, Beijing, China

 

2008

Kanxuan! Ai!, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

Yes, No & Other Options, Yorkshire ArtSpace, Sheffield, England

 

2006

Kanxuan at Buerofriedrich, Buerofriedrich, Berlin, Germany

Protected by colors, BizArt, Shanghai, China

 

2002

Video art, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China

 

2001

Or Emptiness, BizArt, Shanghai, China

 

群展节选

 

2023

Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Buddha10: A fragmented display on Buddhist visual evolution, MAO museum, Torino, Italy

M+ Sigg Collection: Another Story, M+museum, Hong Kong

 

2022

We Borrow Dreams From Others, Like Debt, Made in Museum, Shanghai, China

 

2021

M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+museum, Hong Kong

Italian Renaissance Drawings: A Dialogue with ChinaBritish Museum and M WOODS Museum, Beijing, China

The Artist is Present: The 15 years of Award of Art China, Shenzhen Artron Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

The Circular Impact, OCAT museum, Shanghai, China

 

2020

DURATION: Chinese Art in Transfer Motion, MINSHENG Art Museum, Beijing, China

 

2019

Free Prism Video WaveBoxes Art Museum, FoShan, China

 

2018

Arte y China después de 1989: El Teatro del Mundo, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

 

Walk Strangely, Stay Strangely. Sora Kim vs Kan Xuan: A Double One Woman Show, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

 

2017

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

 

2016

Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Tales of Our Time, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Cuarteto, Galleria Continua, Habana, Cuba

 

2015

The World is Made of Stories, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway

Follia Continua!, Le Centquatre, Paris, France

Jingshen, the Act of Painting in Contemporary China, PAC -Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

The M+ Sigg Collection: Chinese art from the 1970s to now, The Whitwort, Manchester, UK

China 8, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany

Inventing Ritual, First Edition of PIMO Contemporary Art Festival, Shanghai, China

 

2014

Asia Triennial Manchester, Manchester, UK

Right Is Wrong: Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg

Collection, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden

Now You See, White Box, New York City, USA

The 8 of Paths: Art in Beijing, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany

The Making of a Museum, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China

Jane - Migrating Forms and Migrating Gods, The Kochi- Muziris

Biennale, Kochi, Kerala, India

 

2013

Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

The Garden of Diversion, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China

Re:emerge - Towards a new cultural cartography, 11th Sharjah

Biennial, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Clutch, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China

Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsuhe, Germany

 

2012

Yellow Signal: New Media in China, Centre A – Vancouver

International Center for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada

The Unseen, The Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art,Guangzhou, China

Rolling Snowball/3 - Redtory Art & Design Factory, Guangzhou,China

Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, Sherman Contemporary Art

Foundation, SCAF, Sydney, Australia

Uninkable, TOP Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China

 

2011

Face to Time, Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain

Moveing image in China 1988-2011, Mingsheng art museum, Shanghai, China

Poster Exhibition, TaoPu art center, Shanghai, China

 

2010

10,000 Lives, 8th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju,Korea

Commit / the 2nd stall keeper show, C5art Space, Beijing, China

China Power Station, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy

NEGOTIATIONS / The second today’s documents, Today art museum, Beijing, China

Out!, Art in Public Spaces, Córdoba, Argentina

The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium

The Red Snowball, CEAC (chinese european art center), Xiamen University Art College Xiamen city, China

L'evento immobile, Asolo Art Film Festival XXIX, Asolo, Italy

Personal Frontier, IA32 Space, Beijing, China

DIALOGUE 2010, Dutch Culture Centre, world expo 2010 Shanghai, Shanghai, China.

 

2009

Video programme, III Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

The Sky Within My House, Córdoba, Spain

The State of Things _The Contemporary Art from China and Belgium, Centre of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Everyday Miracles (Extended), Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, US

Everyday Miracles (Extended), REDCAT, Los Angeles, US

Bourgeoisified proletariat, Songjiang Creative studio, Shanghai, China

China China China, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England

G.D. Tecnologie ed arte, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, Italy

Caos, Piazza La Guardiola- Belvedere, Piraino, Italy

El Patio de mi Casa, Arte Contemporaneo en 16 Patios de Còrdoba, Cordoba, Spain

 

2008

Resilience, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France

OUR FUTURE: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collectioncureted by Jérôme Sans, Guo Xiaoyan, Kate Fowle, UCCA, Beijing, China

L’evento immobile, Incantamenti, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy

UNMOVED, Galleria Continua / Beijing, China

China Power Station: Part III, Mudam Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Cina Cina Cina!!!, CCCS – Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Firenze, Italy

Museum Underworld, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria

Winter Group Show, Universal Studios - Beijing, Beijing, China

L’evento immobile, Incantamenti, MAN, Nuoro, Italy

AGORAZEIN, Antiche Cisterne Romane, Todi, Italy

 

2007

10° Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey

52° Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway

A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

 

2006

China Power Station: Part I, Serpentine Gallery, London, England

9th Havana Biennial 2006, Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba

ALLLOOKSAME? TUTTTUGUALE?, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

Its all right!, BizArt, Shanghai, China

The Twelve - Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

Chaos City, Universal Studios - Beijing, Beijing, China

Everybody Dance Now, EFA Gallery - The Elizabeth Foundation, New York City, USA

20 Desarreglos - Arte Contemporáneo de Brasil, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile

Exploding Television - Satelite of Love, Screening International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Never go out without my DV Cam-Video art from China, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain

A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

 

2005

3rd Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania

Out of sight, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Close Reading, Galerie Julitte Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, GuangDong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Prix de Rome 2005, De Apple, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Focus, China Museum of Art, Beijing, China

I Still Believe in Miracles, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

Double Happiness, BizArt, Shanghai, China

Unspeakable Happiness, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

A poetics of Place, site-specific work, Utrechtse Voormalige, Gerechtsgebhouw Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

2004

Cycle Tracks will abound in Utopia, Australia Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia

Dial 62761232, BizArt, Shanghai, China

A l'est du sud de l'ouest / A l'ouest du sud de l'est, Villa Arson, Nice, France

Epiphytes, Classic Botanical Garden, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Object System: Doing Nothing, ARCO2004, Madrid, Spain

A Molecular History of Everything, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia

CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France

China - Video Generation, Maison Europ√©ene de la Photographie, Paris, France

 

2003

Panorama Da Art Brasileira 2003, Sao Paulo Modern Art Museum, Brazil

Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

New Zone, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

One Move, Apeldoorn Contemporary Art Museum, The Netherlands

Everyday, Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark

Under Construction, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

2002

C'est pas du cinema, Le Fresony studio national, France

Fan zhengzhu and Fan mingzhu, BizArt, Shanghai, China

The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Fantasia-2, Yuanyang atr Center Beijing, China

《新中产阶级》New Middle Class,2018,视频,3分钟27秒,摄影:Studio Abbruzzese

《新中产阶级》New Middle Class,2018,视频,3分钟27秒,摄影:Studio Abbruzzese

《亦或所有-Part2》Or everything-Part2,2005-2009,视频装置 - 9个视频

《亦或所有-Part2》Or everything-Part2,2025,展览现场,常青画廊|北京,拍摄:董林

《一个僧人》A monk,2005,视频,15分钟

《一个快乐的女孩》A happy girl,2002,视频,1分钟18秒

《一个快乐的女孩》A happy girl,2002,视频,1分钟18秒

《逐一》One by One,2003,视频,3分钟

《阚萱!哎!》1999,视频,1分钟22秒

《岛屿》2006-2009,视频装置 - 4个视频(《2元!2元!》/《1镑!1镑!》/《1欧元!1欧元!》/《1美元!1美元!》)

《寻找……》Looking looking looking for…,2001,视频,2分钟42秒

《寻找……》Looking looking looking for…,2001,视频,2分钟42秒

《乱石赛跑》Racing Gravels,2018,视频,17分钟

《乱石赛跑》Racing Gravels,2018,视频,17分钟

《物体》Object,2003,视频,6分钟

《物体》Object,2003,视频,6分钟

“我‘的风景”,装置现场,2018,常青画廊,北京,摄影:Yang Hao

“我‘的风景”,装置现场,2018,常青画廊,北京,摄影:Yang Hao

《100次》2003,视频,11分钟

《100次》2003,视频,11分钟

《什么都没有!》Nothing!,2003,视频,1分钟56秒

《什么都没有!》Nothing!,2003,视频,1分钟56秒

《Meng huang yu》2010,视频,声音,6分钟

《合唱》2001,视频,1分钟50秒

 

 

阚萱:用深思记录存在

 

阚萱出生中国安徽省宣城,现工作在北京和阿姆斯特丹。

阚萱的录像和装置作品经常结合静态物体和持久的风景。她有兴趣探索个人主体性与外部世界之间的关系,这些关系是如何形成和化解的,以及艺术创作是否可以提供创造新关系的方法。她的艺术语言简单而深刻,智慧而感性,寻求叙事和诗学之间的张力和平衡。阚萱将真诚和好奇的自我应用于她的实践中,无论是通过研究日常生活的平淡细节还是参与复杂的历史主题,她都会花很长时间与她的主题在一起,这种方法使她的作品在不断加速的当代生活中具有独特而专注的节奏。