Yang Shaobin
Born in 1963 in Tangshan, Hebei Province, China. Lives and works in Beijing, China.
EDUCATION
1983
Graduated from the Polytechnic University, Hebei, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
“Yang Shaobin,” ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
“Blue Room,” Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010
“Blue Room,” UCCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Beijing, China
2009
“First Steps-Last Words,” Museu de Arts de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Silence,” ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
2008
“X-Blind Spot,” Long March space, Beijing, China
2007
“Yang Shaobin,” National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
“Yang Shaobin: Immauculata Conception,” Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006
“800 Meters Under,” Long March Space, Beijing, China
“On the Path to Deconstructing Menace,” KWAI HIN ART GALLERY, Hong Kong
“Red Traumata,” ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE BERLIN, Berlin, Germany, St. Matthaeus Church, Berlin, Germany
2005
“Vibrations,” Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2004
“Yang Shaobin,” Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China
2003
“Yang Shaobin,” Prüss & Ochs, Berlin, Germany
“Grey Paintings,” ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
2002
“Yang Shaobin,” Loft Gallery, Paris, France
2001
“Yang Shaobin,” Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, United Kingdom
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
"Disruption: Works from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection," Denver Art Museum, Denver
2019
"They Rise When Vernal Breezes Blow," Make Room, Los Angeles
2018
“The Road of Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art Exhibition," Nanshan Museum, Shenzhen, China
"Praise of the Hand: Contemporary Famous Artists Collections Exhibition," Artcloud, Nanshan, Shenzhen, China
2017
"What's Art," Beijing Qiaoqi Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016
“Sugar spin,” Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
“Scarcity & Supply—The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival,” Baijiahu Art Museum, Nanjing, China
“ALL TIVERS RUN TO THE SEA ONE THOUSAND CLIFFS STAND TALL,” East Region International Modern Art Center, Beijing, China
“RE-PORTRAIT: A FIGURE RESEARCH - ON WHAT IS EXPRESSED OR DEVELOPS TO EXPRESS AT PRESENT,” Songzhuang Museum, Beijing, China
“HARMONY - International Contemporary Art Exhibition,” Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China
2015
“5th Art Changsha Parallel Exhibition - Fragments of narrative,” Changsha Museum, Changsha, China
“PANTHEON - From Yuanmingyuan to Songzhuang,” Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive, Beijing, China
“ART HISTORICAL FLASHBACKS,” Elion Art Gallery, Beijing, China
“The Civil Power,” Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
“CHINA 8-Zeitgenssische Kunst aus China an Rhein und Ruhr,” Duisburg, Germany
2014
“Focus Beijing - The De Heus-Zomer Collection,” Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“1199 People,” Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
“Re-View - Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund,”” Shanghai, China
2013
“We,” Songzhuang Museum, Beijing, China
“Sharjah Biennial 11,” Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, The United Arab Emirates
2012
“Chinese Expressionism,” Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“Chinese Expressionism,” Haw art museum, Wenzhou, China
“Magnanimity-Collection of Atypical Works by 21 Chinese Artists,” White Box Museum of Art, Beijing, China
“RE-CODING - Reconstruction of Rhetorio and Narration,” World Art Museum Cemtiru Hall, Beijing, China
“Examples to Follow! - expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability,” Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
“Face,” MinSheng Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai , China
2011
“I Believe that,” Chinese Contemporary Art in Songzhuang, Beijing, China
“HERIBERT C.OTTERSBACH,YANG SHAOBIN,RADEK SZLAGA,” ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
“New Dream 2011 contemporary art new works,” Guangzhou Press Center, Guangzhou, China “ Coal + Ice,” Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2010
“Reshaping History: China Art 2000-2009,” National Convention Center, Today Art Museum, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
“Chinese contemporary art three years history,” MinSheng Museum of modern Art, Shanghai, China “The Real Thing: Chinese contemporary art,” Tate Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
“Contemporary Chinese society ‘art’ exhibition,” Cardiff national gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009
“6th Asia-Pacific Triennale,” Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
“Real Emergency,” Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
“To the Elements! - Aesthetic Phenomena of Climate Change,” OCA (Pavilhao Lucas Nogueira Garcez), Parque do Ibirapuera, Brazil
“Body,” Shangdong contemporary art center, Nanjing China
“19 Games,” T ART Center, Beijing, China
“THE DOMUS COLLECTION,” WHITE SPACE, BEIJING, China
2008
“Collective Conscience: E-Human Rights Arts and Film Festival,” The Carlton Studio, Melbourne, Australia
“Trans Local Motion-2008 7th Shanghai Biennale,” Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“Writing on the Wall, Chinese New Realism and Avant-garde in the Eighties and Nineties,” Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
“Under The Sky,” White Space Beijing, Beijing, China
“Face to China,” Akureyri Museum, Iceland Art, Houston, TX
“China Gold,” Maillol Museum, Paris, France
“Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon,” F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
“Half-Life,” San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco, CA
“7th Shanghai Biennale,” Shanghai, Beijing “Encounter,” Pace Wildenstein Gallery, Beijing
“Hypallage/The post-modern mode of Chinese Contemporary Art,” The OCT Art and Design Gallery Shenzhen China
"Depth of 800 meters," (part of the video) in November, "Human Rights - Video Art Festival,” Australia
”Navel-gazing,” Sifang gallery, Nanjing, China
“Motion,” Shanghai museum of contemporary art, Shanghai, China
“Black and white ash - is a kind of active cultural choice,” Today art museum, Beijing, China
“The shaka biennale,” shaka, the united Arab emirates
“Ture Feelings and Handle,” Hamburg Art Museum, Germany
2007
“Emotion Aesthetics,” dARTex, Beijing, China
“Inferno in Paradise: 10 Years,” Alexander Ochs Gallery Berlin, Germany
“The Real Thing: Contemporary Art From China,” Tate Liverpool, UK
“ARROGANCE & ROMANCE,” Ordos Art Museum, Ordos, China
“People's history,” the central academy of fine arts exhibition, Beijing, China
“Art in Motion,” Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“BALANCE! KUNST IN HEILIGENDAMM,” Bad Doberan, Germany
2006
“News,” Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
“Jianghu-New Art from China,” Jack Tilton Galley, New York
“Back to the figure,” Munich Modern Art Museum, German
“Hermann Nitsch | Yang Shaobin,” WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China
“CHINA AVANTGARDE,” Wiedergeburt des Mystischen, Museum Klosterneuburg/Sammlung Essl, Wien, Austria
“Zurück zur Figur, Malerei der Gegenwart,” Kunsthalle der Hypo Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany.
“THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE,” ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
“palmbeach³,” ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, Miami, FL
“Building Code Violations,” Long March Space, Beijing, China
“Absolute Image-Chinese Contemporary Arts,” Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
“Mahjong-Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection,” Galerie der Gegenwart- Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
“China Now-Art in Times of Change,” Essl Museum-Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria “CHINA NOW - Kunst in Zeiten des Umbruchs,” Sammlung Essl | Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria
“Zuruck zur Figur, Malerei der Gegenwart,” Cultural mixing foundation gallery, Munich, Germany
2005
“Painting-unrealism,” WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China
“Asia: The Place To Be?,” Alexandre Oche Gallery, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
“Prague Biennale,” Czech Republic
“International Biennale of Contemporary Art Prague,” National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
“Chinese Sculptures,” Museum Beelden aan Zee, Netherlands
“Always to the Front,” Kuseum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, China
“Building Code Violations,” Long March Space, Beijing, China
“Hermann Nitsch and Yang Shaobin,” White Space, Beijing, China
“The Gravity of the Immaterial,” Total Museum, Seoul, South Korea
“Avant-Garde, The Hague Sculpture,” Sculpture Museum of The Hague, The Netherlands
“Landing, reality,” Seoul, Korea art center, Seoul, Korea
2004
“China: Bodies Everywhere,” Musee d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
“Forbidden Senses,” Espace Cultaeel Francois Mitterrand de Perigueux, Acien Eveche de Sarlat, France
“Me! Self-portraits of the 20th Century,” Museum of Luxembourg, Paris, France
“Bridge,” Siemens Forum, Munich, Germany
“Chinesi!-Un ponte tra tradizione e presente,” Pinoteca Provinciale, Potenza, Italy
“The Group,” Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, UK
“Pain,” Michel Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
“China-Cuba,” Macle Movimiento de Arte y Culturad Latino San Jose, California, CA
“24 Living Artists in China,” White Space, Beijing, Germany
2003
“CP Open Biennale,” Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
“Der Rest der Welt,” Pirmasens, Germany
“Die Neue, Kunsthalle 2,” Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
“Under Pressure,” Geneva, Switzerland
2002
“De waan,” Stichting Odapark, Venray, The Netherlands
“First Guangdong Triennale: Reinterpretation,” Ten years of Experimental Chinese Art, Guangdong Museum of Fine Artists, Guangzhou, China
“China with the Football World Cup,” Millennium Monument Museum, Beijing, China
“Chinese Contemporary Art,” Reykjavik, Iceland
“Long March,” Upriver Loft, Kunming, China
2001
“Abbild,” Graz Museum, Graz, Austria
“Art Forum Berlin,” ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
“Dream,” Red Mansion Foundation, London, Unite Kingdom
“Hot Pot,” Chinese Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
“Song Zhuang,” Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany
“First Chengdu Biennale,” Chengdu, China
2000
“Art Cologne,” ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, Cologne, Germany
“Skin & Space,” Contemporanea Arti e Culture, Milan, Italy
“Futuro,” Contemporary Art Center of Macao, Macao ,China
“Basic Needs,” Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany
“Body/Faces/Icons,” Asia Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
“Our Chinese Friends,” Galerie der Bauhaus, University of Weimar Germany
“Portraits of Contemporary China,” Espace Culturel France Mitterrand, Perigueux, France
“Our Chinese friends,” Bauhaus university art museum, Weimar, Germany
“Contemporary China's portrait,” francois, mitterrand national cultural center, perry lattice, France
“The future,” Macao art center, Macau
1999
“48th Venice Biennale,” Venice, Italy
“Passage,” Dongyu Museum, Shenyang, China
“Art China,” Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
“Made in China,” Nikolaus Sonne Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
“Eight Chinese Artists,” Galerie Urs Meile Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
“Personal Touch,” Teda Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China
“First Collection of the Upriver Gallery,” He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China
1997
“8 + 8-1, Selected Paintings by Fifteen Contemporary Artists, Schoeni Art Gallery, Central, Hong Kong
“The History of Chinese Oil Painting: From Realism to Post-Modernism, Galerie Theorems, Brussels, Belgium
“China International Contemporary Art Fair,” Basel, Switzerland
“China!,” Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
“The Elevenses – The Avant Garde,” Taikoo Palace, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
1996
“China!,” And now art museum, Bonn, Germany
“Chinese avant-garde,” Berlin world cultural palace, Berlin, Germany
1995
“5 +5: Voices from Russia and China,” Schoeni Art Gallery, Central, Hong Kong
“Chinese New-Wave Art Exhibition,” Conference Center, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
“Vision of China: Contemporary Chinese Paintings by Chinese Masters,” Pacific City Club, Bangkok, Thailand
“The Magnificent Duo – Recent Works by Yue Minjun and Yang Shaobin,” Schoeni Art Gallery, Central, Hong Kong
“The Beijing 3: A Three Man Show by Zhang Gong, Yue Minjun, Yang Shaobin,” Schoeni Art Gallery, Central, Hong Kong
1994
“8 + 8, Contemporary Russian and Chinese Exhibition,” Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
“Faces Behind the Bamboo Curtain – Works by Yue Minjun and Yang Shaobin,” Schoeni Art Gallery, Central, Hong Kong
“Hong Kong International Art Fair,” Conference Center, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
“Art Asia?,” Convention and Exhibition Center, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
1992
“Contemporary Modern Art Exhibition,” Beijing Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China
“First Chinese Professional Artists Artist Group Exhibition,” Akuna Gallery, Beijing, china