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Xing Danwen: Prescription for Life

Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/07/2019 - 01/09/2019
11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location
Boers-Li Gallery

Location Address 798 Art Zone, D-06, 2 Jiuxianqiao Rd.N. Chaoyang District

City Beijing

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Boers-Li Gallery is delighted to present Xing Danwen’s solo exhibition, “Prescription for Life”, opening on July 20, 2019.

The exhibition will include the artist’s most recent performance based videowork and installations.

Xing Danwen, born in Xi’an, China, currently lives and works in Beijing. She received her BFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China in 1992, and completed her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2001. Xing Danwen, actively engaged in the international art scene, her works have always been on a cutting edge position in contemporary Chinese art.

As an outstanding photographer and new media female artist, her works are mentioned in renowned academic journals and by respectable art critics, as part of the academic discourse in the international art world. Her works are included in important volumes about contemporary art, and have been shown in various international biennales and triennales, such as the Sydney Biennale, Whitney Biennale, Yokohama Triennale, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, International Center for Photography, J. Getty Art Museum, Centre George Pompidou, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam and etc.

In addition, her works have been collected by these aforementioned institutions, as well as by notable private collections such as the Uli Sigg collection, Swiss Bank, Foundation Nationale Art Collection. In 2017, she successfully held a retrospective at Beijing’s Red Brick Museum. In 2018, she was awarded with the Silver trophy for the Best Artist of the Year by AAC. In the fall of 2019, the acclaimed international publication Prestel plans to publish a catalog comprised of the artist’s 25 years of artistic practice.

dates: 20 July – 01 Sept., 2019
hours: Tues. – Sun. 11am – 6pm

博而励画廊隆重推出邢丹文个展“生命处方”,呈现艺术家最新创作的以行为介入的视频和装置作品。展览将于2019年7月20日正式开幕。

邢丹文出生于中国西安,现在生活并工作于北京。1992年毕业于中央美院获学士学位,并于2001年毕业于纽约视觉艺术学院获硕士学位。邢丹文的作品一直处于中国当代艺术的前沿位置,活跃于国内外的当代艺术舞台上。尤其作为一位突出的摄影和新媒体创作的艺术家以及杰出的女性代表,邢丹文的作品广泛地被国内外众多优秀的学术性杂志出版及艺术评论人反复提及,成为当今国际艺术界的学术话题之一,被编入多本重要的国际书籍,其作品在国内外众多的美术馆和国际性双年展、三年展上展出,诸如悉尼双年展、横滨三年展、纽约惠特尼美术馆、大都会博物馆、国际摄影中心、洛杉矶盖缇美术馆、法国蓬皮杜现代美术馆、伦敦维多利亚美术馆、鹿特丹Boijmans美术馆等等;也被以上美术馆,及许多国际重要私人藏家及艺术机构广泛收藏,诸如:藏家希客、瑞士银行、FNAC法国国家艺术基金收藏。2017年她的个人回顾展在北京红砖美术馆举行。2018,她又获得了AAC中国本年度最佳艺术家提名奖。国际著名艺术出版社Prestel已计划于2019年秋出版发行邢丹文25年艺术实践的个人专辑。

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