Wu Shanzhuan is an artist based in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

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Wu was born in Zhoushan

Zhoushan

Zhoushan or Zhoushan Archipelago New Area; formerly transliterated as Chusan, is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Zhejiang province of Eastern China. The only prefecture-level city of the People's Republic of China consisting solely of islands, it lies across the mouth of the Hangzhou Bay,...

. His art is Conceptual

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...

 in nature, often dealing with issues surrounding language

Language

Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...

. His work includes painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

, drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

, installation

Installation art

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...

, photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

 and performance

Performance art

In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...

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He attended the Chinese Academy of Fine Art in Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...

 and Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

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Selected exhibitions

2003

A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic

2002

Made By Chinese, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris

Chicago Art Fair, Chicago

2001

Today No Water, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York

2000

Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Walker Art Center

1999

Thing’s Right(s), Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Germany

1998

Inside Out – New Chinese Art, New York, P.S 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

Vege-Pleasure, Ingolfsstraeti 8 Gallery, The Reykjavik Art Festival 1998, Iceland

1996

Please Don’t Move, Bahnwärterhaus, Gallery der Stadt, Esslingen

1995

Xineses, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona

1994

Maos Ungezähmte Kinder, Römer Museum Hildesheim

External links

• Ursula Panhans-Buhler on Wu Shanzhuan from CCC-HS.net
• Images, biography and texts from the Saatchi Gallery
• Wu Shanzhuan on ArtFacts.net
• Further information from Hanart TZ Gallery
• Wu Shanzhuan on ArtNet.com
• Wu Shanzhuan Archive Asia Art Archive