Xing Xin

Chengdu, China

The artist Xing Xin became famous at home and abroad for his "Black Box" series exhibited at the 2009 Venice Biennale. This time, in the art project "Meditation on Floating Ice", with his attention to the humanities and the environment, he personally intervened and changed the circulation of the Yangtze River water. Xing Xin and his team started driving from Chengdu, passing Danba, Daofu, Yushu, Hoh Xil and other places to the foot of Gradan East Snow Mountain, taking the ice at the source of the Yangtze River, then driving straight to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and melting this ice into the sea.


Meditation on Floating Ice (documentary photos)
Xing Xin

Meditation on Floating Ice No.3
Xing Xin

Meditation on Floating Ice No.2
Xing Xin

Meditation on Floating Ice No.1
Xing Xin

The Black Box 4-1
Xing Xin
BORN

1981 in Chongqing, China

EDUCATION

BFA, Sculpture Department, Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts, Chengdu

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Meditation on Floating Ice, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2009
Venice on the other side – the third scene of "The Black Box", 53rd Venice Biennale Exhibition, Venice, Italy/ A4 Gallery, Chengdu, China

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Personal Structures, the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy

2010
PERSONAL STRUCTURES TIME-SPACE-EXISTENCE, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria

2009
Artists Community Exhibition, 2009 The Fifth Cultural & Art Festival of SongZhuang China, Beijing
The First Chongqing Biennale, Chongqing
The 10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, OPEN Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
Glasstress, Collateral Event of the 53rd Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Venice
Macau Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Venice
Inward Gazes: Exhibition of Documentaries of Chinese Performance Arts 2008, Macau Museum of Art, Macau

2008
The 4th China Songzhuang Culture & Art Festival, The Progress of Songzhuang, Songzhuang Original Art Center, Beijing
UP-ON International Live Art Festival, Beicun Art Center, Chengdu

2007
The 3rd China-Japan Performance Art Exchange Project 2007, Sanshengxiang Art Village Start from Southwest, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangdong
Vital International Chinese Live Art Festival, 501 Contemporary Art Warehouse, Chongqing
"New Power, Nominated Exhibition 2007, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

2006
The 7th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, 798 Art Center, Beijing
New Generation in Chengdu, Contemporary Art Exhibition in Macau, OX Warehouse, Macau

2005
Rights of the Body, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Blue Space Gallary, Chengdu
MIPAF05 Macao International Performance Art Exhibition, OX Warehouse, Macau

2004
Fei Fei Fei, Contemporarty Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

2003
Making Objects, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Painting and Calligraphy Institute of Chengdu, Chengdu

AWARDS

2008
Merit Award of Inward Gazes: Exhibition of Documentaries of Chinese Performance Arts 2008, Macau Museum of Art