Yu Xingze

Life Yu was born in the Liaoning Province, in northern China, in 1976. From 1996 to 2000 he completed his bachelor's degree at the Lu Xun Fine Arts Academy, in Shenyang, around 250 km north of his hometown Xiuyan. In 2001, at the age of 25, he moved to Europe to study at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Art under the German artist Jörg Immendorff. Fearing that the influence of the strong willed master would have suppressed his individual style and seeking for academic experience in more than only one establishment, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Art in Kassel in 2002. In 2006, he earned his master's degree in painting at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany, under Professor Jurgen Meyer. In 2013 he had his PhD from the School of Architecture of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. He is now an associate professor at School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Tongji University in Shanghai and works between there, Beijing and Bochum.

Artistic work When studying abroad in Germany, Yu has found a transparent chemical fabric, solid and with closely, woven meshes, which could be seen through from front to back. This kid of fabric, after slightly processing, can be a painting medium. Its transparency implicates the creation of a hybrid dimension that consists of both the virtual space created through the artist's brush strokes and the physical space in front and behind the canvas. The painted net between the subject and the observer, the incisiveness of the chiaroscuro and the round thicker layers of colour tidily painted by the artist at regular distance collaborate to intensify this effect. The "spatialisation" and "sensitisation" of painting have already become a new trend of this era, and this group of transparent paintings by Yu just corresponds to this new indication, being of great inspiration for the development of painting methods.

Solo exhibitions His selected solo exhibitions include: X City, Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Centre, China, 2017 Yu Xingze 2013-2015 Painting Exhibition, Chun Art Museum in Shanghai, China, 2016 Animal Brain, Schiller Gallery in Heidelberg, Germany, 2015 The self is not a reference, Chun Art Museum Shanghai, China, 2015 Visual Paradise – Three Worlds About Yu Xingze, Sishang Art Museum in Beijing, China, 2014 All Promising Phenomena, Meta Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2014 The Transparent of Reflection, Modern Art Space, Shanghai Himalaya Museum, Shanghai, China, 2013 Free Toys, Huayi Gallery, Guangzhou, China, 2010 Free Toys, M Art space, Shanghai, China, 2010 Bubbles, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Kassel, Germany, 2006 Tower, Stellerk Gallery, Kassel, Germany, 2004 Color-Feeling, Sparkasse, Bochum, Germany, 2002

Group exhibitions His selected group exhibitions include: Art & Antique Vienna Hofburg, Vienna, Austria Schütz Fine Art-Chinese Department, 2018 Fair for Art Vienna, Vienna, Austria Schütz Fine Art-Chinese Department, 2018 Art & Antique Residenz Salzburg (March and August), Salzburg, Austria, Schütz Fine Art-Chinese Department Art & Antique, 2018 Art & Antique Vienna Hofburg, Vienna, Austria Schütz Fine Art-Chinese Department, 2017 Mutual Supplementary and Conformity, Chinese contemporary art invitational exhibition, Ludwig Art Museum, Koblenz, Germany, 2016 Another Germany, Duisburg Art Hall, Duisburg, Germany, 2016 Portrait Now! National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015 New Family, Chun Museum Shanghai, China, 2015 Remember, Shuangcheng, Art Exhibit, Duolun Museum, Shanghai, China, 2015 Five Chinese Artists, Bremen city Hall, Bremen, Germany, 2014 Portrait Time Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2014 Naive - Opening Exhibition, Eleven Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2014 Thawing and Sink, Opening Exhibition, Museum of New Art, Hangzhou, China, 2014 Images Pingshan - Exhibition of famous works of Chinese and foreign sculpture, Shenzhen, China, 2014 Seoul Guanghua Gate International Art Festival, Sejong cultural center, Seoul, South Korea, 2014 Yuan Shitao: a case study of non sociology, modern Art Space of Zendai Himalaya Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2014 TALK ON THE HORSE, XI Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2014 Perpetual Motion, Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Global port Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2014 Seoul World Open Art Exhibition, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2014 The Media & Method in the Contemporary Painting, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2013 China Youth Art Exhibition, SAP Exhibition Centre, Heidelberg, Germany, 2012 Pulse of Asia, China contemporary art exhibition, Bangkok Contemporary Art Museum, Bangkok, Thailand, 2011 Super Organism – The 1st CAFAM Biennale, Beijing, China, 2011 Time and Space Survey, 21 Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2010 The Opening Exhibition of Shangshagn Museum, ShangShang Museum, Beijing, China, 2009 Leaving the Spotlights, New York Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States, 2008 The New Art from China - First Art Fair of Washington, Chinese Art Section, International Conference Center, Washington, D.C., United States, 2007 EXAMEN 06, Kassel Train Station Right Wing, Kassel, Germany, 2006 NORD ART 2006 - the 10th International Art Exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany, 2006 Dongbei 20 Years Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China, 2006 NORD ART 2005 - Mysterious Art - the 9th International Art Exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany, 2005 NORD ART 2004 - Unlimited - the 8th International Art Exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany, 2004 Six Young Artists from Kassel, Aachen Museum, Aachen, Germany, 2004

Selected works Dalai Lama, oil on transparent canvas, 130 x 90 cm, 2013, Schütz Fine Art - Chinese Department Golden Gun, oil on transparent canvas, 60 x 90 cm, 2013, Schütz Fine Art - Chinese Department Hi Flower-Irises, oil on transparent canvas, radius: 50 cm, 2013, Schütz Fine Art - Chinese Department Hi Flower-Poppy, oil on transparent canvas, radius: 50 cm, 2013 Hi Flower-Rosa Chinensis, oil on transparent canvas, radius: 50 cm, 2013 The Gorilla Looking Far Into The Distance 5, oil on transparent canvas, 100 x 70 cm, 2013 The Gorilla Looking Far Into The Distance 2, oil on transparent canvas, 100 x 70 cm 2013 The Gorilla Looking Far Into The Distance 4, oil on transparent canvas, 100 x 70 cm, 2013