Born in 1974 in Chongqing, China
Lives and works in Beijing, China
The body and portraits have long been important motifs in XIE Qi’s painting, appearing throughout her various creative periods. Drawing on a sweeping imagination and rich perceptions, Xie Qi bestows on these shifting figures the warmth of emotion, the tension of desire, and tones of gloom. She sources her subjects of depiction from friends, everyday objects (portrait-bearing banknotes, plants resembling human organs), candid photographs and classic themes, capturing and depicting them in an approach akin to “psychological profiling”—the artist refines the components of the image through observation and perception, adding or removing details, destroying and reconstituting whole forms, restoring the figure to magnify parts and moments filled with dramatic tension. Xie Qi’s depiction takes place between recollection and creation. The concealed brushstrokes, blurred boundaries and phantom colors of the pictures often radiate with a mysterious air from a past time.
solo shows
2023
- Shame of Intimacy, Perrotin Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Persian Girl, Nan Shan Foundation, Xi’an, China
2021
- Disorder of Yeast,Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
- The Summer Heat Has Been Gone for Years, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
- Silent Theater, Dual exhibition, HdM Gallery, Beijing, China
2019
- Clavicle, BANK Gallery, Shanghai, China
2016
- The Unbearable Weight Of Things, Pekin Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China
- Displacement, Dawan Art, Paris, France
2014
- Xie Qi: New Works, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2011
- Vesus, Li Space, Beijing, China
2010
- The Colorful Frozen Suckers, Vigolo Vattaro, Italy
2005
- After Midday, China Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China
2001
- The playground, Art Scene China Gallery, Hong Kong, China
group shows
2022
- A Place for Concealment (2022), Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
2021
- DISFRUTA, BANK x Objective, Shanghai, China
2020
- Clean, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China
- Casting Votes, CLC Gallery, Beijing, China
2019
- Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
2018
- Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life, Institute for Provocation, Beijing, China
2017
- Extended Ground, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
- A Separation, Gallery Yang, Beijing, China
- The Latch, C-Space+Local, Beijing, China
2016
- Chinese Whispers, Kunst Museum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- The tenth anniversary Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
- Dissensus Agitation - The Painting to Language, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
- Stepping Out of the Peony Pavilion, The Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
2014
- Go Mars, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
2013
- Secret Love, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden
2012
- Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- Narcissism, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
2010
- China: The Contemporary rebirth, Palazzo Reale Milano, Milan, Italy
- Fragments, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China
- Cibo da tigri, Gucang contemporary photography space, Lanzhou, China
2009
- New trends: Fifteen contemporary Chinese artists, Pacific heritage museum, San Francisco, USA
- Subjectivity, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing, China
2005
- 1st Montpellier Biennale of Chinese Contemporary Art, Montpellier, France
- Young Chinese Art, Neue Galerie Landshut, Landshut, Germany
2004
- China’s photographic painting, China Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China
- Chinese Edition, Shenzhen Sculpture Academy, Shenzhen, China
public collections
- The Uli Sigg Contemporary Art Collection Foundation
- Hong Kong M+ Museum
- DSL Collection
- Marlene Dietrich Collection, Switzerland
- Porsche Collection Foundation