QIU SHIHUA

1940 born in Zizhong, Sichuan Province, China
lives and works in Beijing and Shenzhen, China


Selected Solo Exhibitions


2012
“Qiu Shihua. Transitions, Landschaft, Licht und Stille”, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
"Qiu Shihua", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
“Qiu Shihua. Weisses Feld/White Field”, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

2010
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China

2009
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

2008
“Qiu Shihua”, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

2007
“Qiu Shi-Hua”, Galerie Luis Campaña, Cologne, Germany

2006
Galerie 75 Faubourg, Paris, France

2005
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
“Qiu Shi-Hua”, Galerie Luis Campaña, Cologne, Germany
“Insight: Paintings by Qiu Shihua”, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
“Vision of Fields by Qiu Shihua”, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2004
“Qiu Shihua”, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany

2003
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Galerie Luis Campaña, Cologne, Switzerland

2002
“White Landscape”, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2001
“Landscape – Painting on the Edge of Visibility”, Galleria OTSO, Espoo, Finland
The New York Kunsthalle, New York, USA

2000
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
“Landscape – Painting on the Edge of Visibility”, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; Galerie Sternberk, Sternberk, Czech Republic

1999
“Qiu Shi-hua”, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland

1997
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1995
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China

1991
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan


Selected Group Exhibitions


2012
“Self-essence Naturalism”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2011
“Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert”, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
“Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert”, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
“Shanshui” – Poetry Without Sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
“Collectors’ Stage: Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections”, Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore

2010
“Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert”, Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany

2009 
“Linien stiller Schönheit”, DKM Museum, Duisburg, Germany
“Yi Pai – Century Thinking”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
“Black and White – Qiu Shihua and Yang Liming”, Found Museum, Beijing, China

2008
“Accumulation – The new Spirit of the East”, Asia Art Center, 798, Beijing, China
“Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection”, The University of California,
Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
“RED Aside – Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection”, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
“Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstract Art”, Palma, Barcelona and Madrid, Spain
“Qi Yun – The International Travelling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art”, China Square Gallery, New York, USA

2007
“Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg”, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
“Reboot – The Third Chengdu Biennial”, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
“Qi Yun – The International Travelling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art”, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangnin Museum, Shenzhen, China; Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China; Hong Kong Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China
“Landscape & Memory II”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
“Art from China – Collection Uli Sigg”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“The Year of the Golden Pig – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection”, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland
“Inferno in Paradise – 10 Years Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing”, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Berlin, Germany
“Idilio I”, DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
“White Out”, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria; Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany

2006
“The Sublime is Now”, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
“Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg”, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

2005
“Pictorial DNA Made in China”, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
“Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg”, Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland
“Cina. Prospettive d’Arte Contemporanea / China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists”, Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
“What is Realism”, Albermarie Gallery, London, UK

2004
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
“Le Printemps de Chine”, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France

2003
“Einbildung - Das Wahrnehmen in der Kunst”, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
“New Zone – Chinese Art”, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

2002
“China – Tradition und Moderne”, Museum Ludwig Galerie Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
“Welcome China!”, Gallery Soardi, Nice, France

2001
“Take Part II”, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
“The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art”, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA
2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
“Take Part I”, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

2000
“Our Chinese Friends”, ACC Galerie and Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität (in collaboration with Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne), Weimar, Germany

1999
“d’APERTutto”, La Biennale di Venezia, 48. Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, Venice, Italy
“Natural Reality”, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany

1998
“Eight Chinese Artists”, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Asian Fine Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany

1996
“China”, Kunst Museum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria; Art Museum Singapore, Singapore; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
“Qiu Shihua”, The 23rd São Paulo Art Biennial (special guest), São Paulo, Brazil

1995
“China’s New Art Post – 1989”, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Portland, USA

1992
The First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Hong Kong, China

1986
“Chinese Art Festival”, La Defense, Paris, France