秦 风
QIN Feng

Selected Works

Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink 50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink 50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink 50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink 50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink 50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink 50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink 50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink 50×50cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
75×60cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
75×60cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
75×60cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
35×75cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
35×75cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
35×75cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
75×53cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
75×53cm
2015~2022
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
Round Sky and Square Earth (series)
xuan paper, acrylic, ink
75×53cm
2015~2022

Bio

Qin Feng is a leading international artist and one of the foremost representatives of China’s avant-garde movement.

He studied mural painting at the Shandong University of Art and Design in the early 1980s. He founded the Museum of Contemporary Art in Beijing in 2007 and began teaching at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 2008, Qin became a Harvard University research associate at the Fairbank Centre for Chinese Studies.

Qin focuses on calligraphy and traditional ink painting, merging Chinese calligraphic techniques with gestures from Western expressionism. For Qin, calligraphy is a motif to engage in broader dialogues, allowing him to question the past and the present, the conflict and concession of civilization, human desire, and to search for self-expression. Qin adopts the traditional mediums of ink and paper, adding elements such as coffee and tea to transform his self-produced linen paper into a golden tone that gives the effect of visual depth and serves as a metaphor for the fusion of the East and West. The thin red lines of paint that encircle the powerful black brushstrokes evoke arteries connecting the past and present and represent the interconnectivity of different cultures.

Qinfu’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In addition, it is in the collections of the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Asia and Pacific Museum, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, and the Yale University Art Museum.

  • 1961  Born in Xinjiang, China
    1985 BA, Shandong University of Art and Design, Jinan, China
    1996-1999 Moved to Berlin, Germany and Taught at the Berlin University of Art
    2007 Founded the Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art
    2008 Nominated and selected as research associate in the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
    Present Lives and works in Beijing, China and Boston, USA
  • Solo Exhibition

    2021 West Wind East Water Art, Beijing, China 
    2020 “God’s Death” Grand Palazzo Museum, Milano, Italy
    2019 Blain Southern Gallery, London, UK 
    2018 “Zero World”, Stanford University Art Center, California, USA
    2017 “Angel”,St. Catherine’s Cathedral, Hamburg, German
    2016 Michael Goedhuis, London, UK
    2015 St. Urban Museum of Contemporary Art, Switzerland
    2014 Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong
    2013 Goedhuis Contemporary Art Museum, London, UK
  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2019  “Forms of Ink”, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong
    2018 NordArt, German Northern Art Center, Germany
    2017 Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong Pace Prints, New York, USA Crossing Art,New York, USA
    2016 “British Museum Collection Exhibition”,London, UK
    2015 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
    2014 Bologna Fiere Shanghai International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
    2013 “Ink – The Art of China”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
    2012 “Ink: The Art of China”, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
    2011 Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
    2010 “With the ancients”, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA