Cai Dongdong
Biography
1978 born in Tianshui, Gansu Province, China
lives and works in Beijing, China
2002 Studied at Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China
Solo Exhibition
2026
Mount of Time, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
CAI DONG DONG, OstLicht. Gallery for Photography, Vienna, Austria
2024
Material Memory, PARIS PHOTO 2024, GRAND PALAIS, Paris, France
2023
A Game of Photos, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
A Game of Photos, Galerie Urs Meile, Zurich, Switzerland
Miss the Target, Co-presented by Galerie Urs Meile and Light Society, Exhibition Venue: Light Society, Beijing, China
Obstacles, Villaheike.berlin, Berlin, Germany
2019
Photography Reforged, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2017
Photography Autocracy, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, USA
2016
Fountain, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, USA
Let It Be, Gallery 100, Taipei
2015
Rebirth, Three Shadows +3 Gallery, Beijing, China
Following Stone, Tong Gallery + Projects, Beijing, China
2013
Image Uterus Production Power, Gallery 55, Shanghai, China
2012
Pulling to The Left, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
2011
Tea Garden, UNIDEE Art Foundation, Biella, Italy
2010
51m2: 6# Cai Dongdong, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Passants parmi les Pierres, fjk3 – Contemporary Art Space, Vienna, Austria
2025
Ecologyof Sensitivity: Guangzhou Image Triennial 2025, Section II Strata of Sensi-Visibilities, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Surrender to the Dreamers, EMOP Berlin (the European Month of Photography), Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany
2024
1+1, Met Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Nothing to See Here, Hangzhou Central Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Redefining — Portrait Photography Exhibition, Shanghai X-SPACE, Shanghai, China
Place and Narrative — The First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Image Art, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2023
Ripple – Contemporary Japanese and Chinese Artists Relay Exhibition, ARTiX³, Tokyo, Japan
ABBILD, NADAN Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Practice of Vision, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, China
A Theatre of Waiting, The Cloud Collection, Nanjing, China
2022
Golden Panda Photography Award Exhibition, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China
40 years of Chinese photography, KCCA, Xiamen, China
RENEW, A Recent Survey in Chinese Photography, Eli KLEIN Gallery, New York, USA
2022 Beijing Biennial, Beijing, China
Unnamed River, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
More Than Meets The Eye, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2021
Top 20 2021 Chinese Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
China in Depth, Imperial Palace of Goslar, Goslar, Germany
2020
About Us, Young Photography from China, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung , Munich, Germany
Stratification and Synthesis: Two Actions and Practices in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, China
A Tree, Stieglitz 19, Antwerp, Belgium
2019
180 Years of Photography in China, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
2018
16.52 Square Meters of Open Sea, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong, China
New Historical Drama, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Beijing New Language, N3 Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of The Three Shadows Photography, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
Go Live, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
Negative: Positive, Wanying Art Museum, Shijiazhuang, China
2017
Évidences du réel: La photographie face à ses facunes, Musée d’art de Pully, Pully, Switzerland
Working on History — Contemporary Chinese Photography and the Cultural Revolution, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Photosynthesis, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
Simultaneous Eidos Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2016
Ghost in Flash: After Photography, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
Daegu Photo Biennale 2016, Daegu, South Korea
Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Shanghi Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
New Capital Huang Yu Collection Exhibition (2007–2016), Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Silk Road International AMNUA International Project II, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
2015
Editing the Spectacle: the Individual and Working Methods Post-Mediatization, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
China 8, Museum Folkwang Essen, Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, NRW Forum Düsseldorf, Germany
Links — Local and Nomadic, Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
Unfamiliar Asia: The Second Beijing Photo Biennial, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Beyond, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Fat Choi, A307, Beijing, China
Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Niigata, Japan
The 2nd Three Shadows Experimental Image Open Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Re-exposure, Poly Art Space, Hong Kong, China
Consciousness and Reconstruction — From Yan’an Woodcut to the Practice of Nameless, Xi’an Museum, Xi’an, China
2014
Unlived by What is Seen, Galleria Continua, Galleria Continua, Pace Beijing, and Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
The Unfathomable, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Future is the Past — Transitional Chinese Portrait, Les Amis de Nouvelles D’Europe, Vienna, Austria
Civilization Round 2: Yu Lin, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Xi’an, Xi’an, China
Pull Left: Not Always Right, Urban Arts Space, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio [itinerary: Hillstrom Museum of Art, St. Peter, Minnesota; The Trout Gallery, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; The Art Museum of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania]
Get It Louder, Sanlitun, Beijing, China
Uneasy Trip in Asia 2014, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
From New Photography to Rookie Award — Three Shadows’ Collection, He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
The Joy of Fiction, BV Space, Shanghai, China
2013
‘‘Civilization’’ Round I — Lin Lv, White Box Art Center, Beijing, China
Run Deli Market, Sayijeng II, Beijing, China
From New Photography to Rookie Award, This exhibition is a part of the first Beijing Photo Bennial, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
Here and Now, From Boredom to Endless Delays, Li Space, Beijing, China
2012
(+150) Visione: Origine a Potere: Energia Attraverso Le Generazioni, Terna Prize Contemporary Art Exhibition, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
Carnival — Hei Qiao Artist Community, Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China
Conceptual Renewal , A Brief History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical Art, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China
A Kite, C Space, Beijing, China
2011
51m2: 16 Emerging Chinese Artists, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
Image - History - Existence: Taikang Life 15th Anniversary Art Collection Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The Third Party — Act 3, Platform China, Beijing, China
Duet — Chongqing International Invitation Exhibition of Contemporary Photography, Yuao International Arts Center, Chongqing, China
Friday in FRAC, FRAC Gallery, Turin, Italy
2010
The Market: I’m, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China
2009
Lead Up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
YOUTH, China Square, New York, USA
2008
China’s Contemporary Photography in the New Century, Art Gate Gallery, New York, USA
See Through, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
Fabricating lmages from History, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China
Outward lmages, Three Shadows Photography Center, Beijing, China
2007
Attitude, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
2006
China and Taiwan Contemporary Photography, Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol-gun, South Korea
2005
Re-viewing: Guangzhou International Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Selected Public Collections
Museum of Photography, Berlin, Germany
M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
German-Chinese Cultural Exchange Foundation, Berlin, Germany
White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
UNIDEE Art Foundation, Italy
Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Taikang Space, Beijing, China
Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
CAFA Museum, Beijing, China
Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
Blue Mountain Contemporary Art, Israel
Publications
Passing By Beijing (2024)
Photo Games (2022)
Left Right (2022)
History of Life (2021)
Spring (2015)
Cai Dongdong 2006–2012 (2012)