个人简历
徐震,1977年出生,工作和生活于上海。2013年,没顶公司推出徐震®,将艺术家徐震的个人创造以公司品牌化的方式运营,专注于艺术品创作和新文化研发。徐震®的作品常常将截然不同的符号或状态并置,因此产生视觉歧义和错位感,以一种反讽幽默的方式结构性地介入文化并引发观众对“真实性”的思考。这一思辨性的观念和开创性的模式也对当代艺术语境下关于创作模式、收藏系统、艺术原创性等议题进行了全面挑战,更新了长期固化的标准。
徐震 2004年获得中国当代艺术奖(CCAA)“最佳艺术家”奖项,并作为年轻的中国艺术家参加了第49届威尼斯双年展(2001)主题展,徐震的创作非常广泛,包括装置、摄影、影像和行为等。
他的作品在世界各地的博物馆和双年展均有展出,包括威尼斯双年展(2001,2005)、纽约现代艺术博物馆(2004)、国际摄影中心(2004)、日本森美术馆(2005)、纽约现代艺术博物馆PS1(2006)、英国泰特利物浦美术馆(2007)、英国海沃德画廊(2012)、里昂双年展(2013)、纽约军械库展览(2014)、上海龙美术馆(2015)、卡塔尔Al Riwaq艺术中心(2016)、悉尼双年展(2016)、纽约古根海姆美术馆(2017)、沙迦双年展(2019)、洛杉矶当代艺术博物馆(2019)、澳大利亚堪培拉国立美术馆(2020)等。徐震®的作品被蓬皮杜艺术中心、戴姆勒艺术收藏、路易威登创意基金会、白兔中国当代艺术收藏、ASTRUP FEARNLEY美术馆、瑞银集团、DSL收藏等艺术机构收藏。
在艺术家身份之外,他同时还是策展人和没顶公司创始人。1998年,徐震作为联合发起人创办了上海第一家独立的非营利机构比翼中心。2006年,他与上海艺术家一起创办了网络艺术社区Art-Ba-Ba(www.art-ba-ba.com),至今还是中国最活跃的探讨、评论当代艺术的平台。2009年,徐震创立了当代艺术创作型公司没顶公司(MadeIn Company),以生产艺术创造力为核心,致力于探索当代文化的无限可能。2013年,没顶公司推出徐震®,专注于艺术品创作和新文化研发。2014年,成立没顶画廊,全方位推广艺术家,引领文化浪潮。2016年11月,首家“徐震专卖店”于上海开业,徐震®由此进入全新发展阶段。
Xu Zhen, born in 1977, now lives and works in Shanghai. In 2013, Xu Zhen® was launched, operating the individual’s work as a company brand, commit to art creation, and cutting-edge culture development. Xu Zhen® presents visual ambiguity and the sense of displacement in work due to the juxtaposition of different cultural symbols and states. In an ironic and humorous way, the work becomes a structural cultural intervention and motivates viewers’ thinking about “veracity”. The critical idea and pioneering operation pattern of Xu Zhen® challenge issues of creation pattern, collection system, and originality in the context of contemporary art, renewing the longtime fixed standard.
In 2004, Xu Zhen won the prize for ‘Best Artist’ at the China Contemporary Art Award. His practice covers various media such as installations, video, painting and performance, etc.
Xu Zhen has exhibited internationally, at museums and biennales, such as, Venice Biennale (2001, 2005), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2004), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2005), MoMA PS1 (New York, 2006), Tate Liverpool (2007), Hayward Gallery (London, 2012), Lyon Biennial (2013), Armory Show (New York, 2014), Long Museum (Shanghai 2015), Al Riwaq Art Center (Qatar, 2016), Sydney Biennial (2016), Guggenheim Museum (New York, 2017), Sharjah Biennial (2019), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, 2019), National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, 2020), among others. The works of Xu Zhen® are collected by Centre Pompidou, Daimler Art Collection, Foundation Louis Vuitton pour la Creation, White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum, The UBS Art Collection, and DSL Collection.
Aside from being an artist, Xu Zhen is also a curator. He co-curated together with other artists major exhibitions in Shanghai and was one of the initiators of Art-Ba-Ba (www.art-ba-ba.com), a leading online forum for discussion and critique of contemporary art in Shanghai, in 2006. In 2009, Xu Zhen established ‘MadeIn Company’, a contemporary art creation corporate, focused on the production of creativity, and devoted to the research of contemporary culture’s infinite possibilities. In 2013, MadeIn Company launched XU ZHEN® which is committed to art creation and cutting-edge culture development. In 2014, MadeIn Company established MadeIn Gallery and in November 2016 launched the first “Xu Zhen Store” in Shanghai.