Born in 1978 in Beijing, China
Lives and works in Dresden, Germany
Dresden is traditionally a city of painters. Rao Fu is the only one among them with Chinese roots. What he has implanted in Saxon Neo-expressionism is tantamount to a live cell treatment. His experimentation with painting materials and his all-encompassing range - from Chinese landscape painting to the magical triangle Munch-Doig-Daniel Richter - owes itself to pure colour experiences, and has been achieving monumental formats since 2019. Rao Fu follows the Chinese technique of using colour to reinforce the atmospheric. The influences of traditional calligraphy combine with colourenergetic aspects and figure painting that progressively takes up the entire image space; it reveals a style, a wish to fashion something with the aim of harnessing the widest variety of pictorial categories and interlinking a great deal with a great many. Rao Fu shows us that whatever is yonder is not far from us, but completely local and present. It is no longer about what is foreign and what is ours. This is because there no longer exists, or rather there never has been a pure, i.e. hermetic culture that, having arisen sealed off and isolated from others, can be sure of its unchangeable identity. Rao Fu's pictures do not speak so much to a cultural difference, but rather to the current discourse on cultural hybridity – being on the offensive within variables; and roaring in a great voyage across the seas of colours.
education
1999-2001 Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2002-2008 Diploma, Painting Studies, Class of Prof. Ralf Kerbach, Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden (HfBK),
Germany
2008–2010 Meisterschülerstudium with Prof. Ralf Kerbach, Academy of Fine Arts Dresden (HfBK)
2010-2012 Diploma, Art Therapy, Academy of Fine Arts Dresden (HfBK), Germany
solo shows
2024 The Bystander, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, Germany
2023 Flaming Images, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
Night Feast at Art Basel Hong Kong, Mind Set Art Center,
2022 Night Knight, Marina Bay Sands Singapore, Galeie Vazieux
Rao Fu: Dresden, Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, New York
Solo Show "Rao Fu" at Art Paris Art Fair, Paris, France
2021 Solo Show at Art 021, Shanghai, China
COMBUSTION, Galerie Vazieux Paris Paris, France
Immensity, Galerie Vazieux Paris Paris, France
2019 Night fishing, Gallery EIGENHEIM Berlin (salon), Berlin, Germany
Infinitrace, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (KdMoFA), Taipei
2018 Paysages Intérieurs, Gallery ARTSCAPE Contemporary S.à,r.I.-S, Luxembourg
CENTURY, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
group shows
2024 "DISSONANCE-Platform Germany #2 " City Museum of Kiel,
2024 50 paintings at Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
2023 NOCTURNAL BALLADS, Group Show at Perrotin Shanghai, China
2023 Ursula Walter Kommt, Pavillon am Milchhof in Berlin, Germany
2023 Gruppe Show, Gallery Fergus Mccaffrey , USA
2023 Ursula Walter Kommt, KV FAK,Germany
2022 Dissonance-Platform Germany, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Germany
2022 Bitterer Frühling, Galerie Eigenheim Berlin, Germany
2022 Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
2021 The landscapes of soul, Asian ART Museum of Nice Galerie Vazieux Paris Paris, France
2020 PRISMA-Group exhibition, Gallery EIGENHEIM, Berlin, Germany.
2018 Chaos, Rao FU, JHONG Jiang-Ze, TANG Jo-Hung, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
2017 1443, Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden
2015 Das muss man gesehen haben, 10 Jahre Städtische Galerie Dresden - Erwerbungen und Schenkungen, Dresden City Art Museum , Germany
public collections
National Museum for History and Art Luxembourg (MNHA), Luxembourg
Arts Foundations of Dresden State Art Collections, Dresden
Dresden City Art Museum (SKD)
awards
2020 Project funding -"Denkzeit", The Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2016 Heimspiel - Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, schol- arship of The Cultural Foundation of the Free State of
Saxony, Spielerei Leipzig scholarship
2014 Project funding, The Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2008-2012 Scholarship of the Heinrich-Böll-Fondation
2009 DAAD-Award for Oustanding Achievemente (Foreign Students)
2006 DAAD Prize