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Bi Rongrong, born in 1982 in Ningbo, currently lives and works in Shanghai. She received her BA in Chinese Traditional Painting at Southwest University in 2005, and received her MA in Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting at Sichuan University in 2008, followed by an MFA in Painting from the Frank Mohr Institute in the Netherlands.

In recent years, Bi Rongrong has been visiting different cities through residencies and trips, observing and recording them from a personal perspective. The main method is to collect and extract “patterns” from local natural landscapes, architecture, street posters, or surfaces of everyday objects. These patterns are like the skin of different cities and cultures that also become fragments of the artist’s personal memory. As creative materials, they reconstruct layers of intertwined space and time and landscapes, as well as the situations, emotions, stories, and imaginations of the artist’s real experiences.

For Bi Rongrong, the process of constructing these materials can be described as “weaving”. Through drawing, painting, traditional hand weaving, machine knitting/weaving, animation, and spatial installations, she is constantly searching for new methods to give different materials new and organic connections, and to incorporate her own understanding of different materials into them. “Weaving” is a creative process, which is both a homogeneous process of treating materials as “threads” and a liberating process of making them reveal possibilities beyond their original meanings. The contradiction between the two involves the artist’s reflection on the relationship between the environment and the self, as well as her exploration of the new extensibilities of fragmented visual information.

Her works have been exhibited in various art institutions and public art projects, including Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile (Hong Kong), Shanghai Museum of Glass, K11, Shanghai Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing), Cass Sculpture Foundation (UK), UCCA Lab, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space (Chengdu), Perrotin (Shanghai), Vanguard Gallery (Shanghai), Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, etc. Bi Rongrong was the winner of the Spirit of Ecstasy Challenge in Muse, the Rolls-Royce Arts Programme.

 

Education Information 

09/2008-07/2010, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, the Netherlands

Program: MFA Painting

Master’s Degree of Fine Arts

2009, exchange program at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, Philadelphia, USA

Program: MFA Painting

09/2005-06/2008, Art College of Sichuan University, Sichuan China

Program: Chinese Landscape Painting

Master’s Degree of Fine Arts

 09/2001-06/2005, College of Fine Arts of Southwest China Normal University, Chongqing, China

Program: Chinese Painting

Bachelor’s Degree in Literature

 

Solo Exhibitions & Projects

2022

Animal in Two Dimensions, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China

2019

 

Pattern XI-A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Jun. 29—Aug. 21, Chengdu, China

 

2018

 

Fiction Landscape, Art Basel Hong Kong Discoveries, March 27–31, Hong Kong, China

 

2017

 

Wave, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Nov.4, 2017–Feb. 28, 2018, Shanghai, China

 

2016

 

Fiction Landscape, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Dec. 17, 2016—Feb. 28, 2017, Chengdu, China

Absolute, Vanguard Galley, March 12-May 21, Shanghai, China

 

2015

 

Tri-Images–A Drawing Being Produced, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, April 18-June 10, Chengdu, China

 

2014

 

Manchester CMYK, a solo project at the Art 021, Vanguard Gallery, November, Shanghai, China

 

2013

 

Converging Energies—Two Solos by Bi Rongrong and Zhang Ruyi, V-Art Center, September 15th—October 4th, Shanghai, China

 

2012

 

Gas Station V–Two Solos by Bi Rongrong and Chen Tianzhuo, Vanguard Gallery, November 17th–December 16th, Shanghai, China

A Mural Project, Art De L’oisivete Pont-Aven, August, Pont-Aven, France

 

2011

 

Ideal & Useless Space, Bazaar Compatible Program #4, XiYiTang, October 26th–November 20th, Shanghai, China

The Landscape is Called Sweet Faith, Museum aan de A7 (Rabobank Drachten), October 23rd, 2010–February 19th, 2011, the Netherlands

 

2010

 

When the Lines Turn into a Silhouette, Stichting WEP, December 15th–January 15th, 2009-2010, Groningen, the Netherlands

  

Public Art Projects

2023

Installation Flash, Flying Birds and Eight Petals, Hui Shi Guang Art Eco Site, Longzhou, Zhejiang, China

2021

Video installation Encounter with Water, Plant and Star, commissioned by the UAP company, Shanghai, China

2019

 

Installations Connection Mode No. V, X, L, C, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, December, Shenzhen, China

Installation Pattern XVII-Flower of Life, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Art, October, Shanghai

Installation Things that flow, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, September, Shanghai, China

Installation Semi-Enclosed Eccentric Circles, UnArt, August, Shanghai, China

Mural Ideal & Useless Space 2, Extreme Mix—Guangzhou Airport Biennale, May, Guangzhou, China

 

2018

 

Installation A Landscape Turning into A Silhouette, a public art project at the Guangzhou K11 subway entrance, March, Guangzhou, China

 

2016

 

Installation As Seen in Nature, ArtReview Asia Xiàn Chǎng section, West Bund Art & Design, November, Shanghai, China

Installation Breathe, Group Exhibition A Beautiful Disorder, Cass Sculpture Foundation, July, West Sussex, UK

 

2014

 

Installation A Tangible Shadow, public art project, building c, Sifang Collective, July, Nanjing, China

 

2013

 

Installation 7:3 Colors, public art project–SWFC 5th Anniversary Art Project, Shanghai World Financial Center, October to November, Shanghai, China

 

 

Award

2022

Winner of the Spirit of Ecstasy Challenge, Muse, the rolls-Royce Arts Programme, Creating artwork Stitched Urban Skin, Exhibited on a global tour

 

Collaboration Projects 

2015

Stage setting “A Transformation of ‘Tri-Image 2/3′” for the dance piece American Finch, stage project cooperated with Contemporary Dance artists Jutta Hell and Dieter Baumann, Uferstudio, September, Berlin, Germany

  

Group Exhibitions

2023

Non-Places, Powerlong Art Center, Shanghai

I Feel The Way You Feel, Perrotin, Shanghai

Universe 25, Gillian Jason Gallery, London

2022

Being Theoria–4th Hangzhou Triennial of Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

2021

Compounded Performance, Up Art Space, Guiyang, China

World of Clothing, Beautiful China–100 years of 100 techniques, Exhibition of traditional Chinese Craftsmanship, Being Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Dating the Genius Mom–Shanghai Fashion Week, UCCA Lab, Shanghai, China

Quartet–Polyphonic Narration of Contemporary Art, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China

2020

 

Works from The Clouds-Celebrating 5th years of “Annealing” Project, Shanghai Museum of Glass Park, November 7, 2020-October 31, 2021, Shanghai, China

El Lissitzky’s Rooms-Fifth Anniversary Special Exhibition, Surplus Space, November 3-December 30, Wuhan, China

XX-The 4th Frontier Fiber Art Exhibition, China Academy of Art, December 1-December 13, Hangzhou, China 

In the Name of Flower, Pearl Art Museum, August 7-December 6, Shanghai, China

Matter Matters, Hangzhou City Art Festival, August 7-September 6, Hangzhou, china

Unconstrained Textiles: Stitching Methods, Crossing Ideas, Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, Hong Kong, China

 

2019

 

Color and Texture—The Case Study of Visual Structure, Shenzhen Ocat, July 20-August 20, Shenzhen, China

 

2018

 

Rolling Snowball, the Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, December 15-January 16, 2019, Nanjing, China

Urban Touch–HongKong-Macao Visual Art Biennale, Zhejiang Art Museum, October 30-November 11, Hangzhou, China

Trances Loo Ming, Qing Art Space, September 16-October 15, Shanghai, China

The Concept of Hot and Cold Hardedges, Ling Nan Museum of Art, July 13-August 12, Dongguan, China

 

2016

 

We, Chi K11 Art Museum, March 4-May 2, Shanghai, China

 

2015

 

IVY ART 2015, Today Art Museum, September 12-21, Beijing, China

Collective Individualism IIAround Space Gallery, May 9–June 21, Shanghai, China

The 2nd ‘CAFAM Future’ Exhibition: Observer-CreatorThe Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art, Central Academy of Fine Art Museum, January 15–March 1, Beijing, China

Creating For The Future: Thinking About The Unthinkable, the gallery exhibition of LEAP’s online & print show, Momentum, February, Berlin, Germany 

 

2014

 

PRESENT-ING RECITAL LOUDER THAN PAINT, Shanghai Gallery of Art, June 28—August 26, Shanghai, China

Collective Individualism IAround Space Gallery, September 5–October 24, Shanghai, China

10th anniversary of Vanguard Gallery, Vanguard Gallery, March 14—April 20, Shanghai, China

 

2013

 

Studio, M50 Art Space, November 2013-March 2014, Shanghai, China

Art That Heels, 2013 Elle 25th Anniversary Special Project, V-Art Center, December, Shanghai, China

Waves, Bund 18 Temporary Art Space, May 2013-April 2014, Shanghai, China

 

2012

 

Zone Autonome Mutualisee, Vivarium, Biennale Off-Rennes, September 12th-October 28th, Rennes, France

Women’s Lines, Pantocrator Gallery / La Pan, January, 2012, Barcelona, Spain

 

2010

 

Present Work, Final Graduation Exhibition, Frank Mohr Institute, June-July, Groningen, the Netherlands

No Surface, Kunstruimte 09, May to July, Groningen, the Netherlands

Open Studio, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, the Netherlands

Once Mohr, Campis, January 14–Febrary 6, Assen, the Netherlands

 

2009

 

Albatross, Meyerson Hall, University of Pennsylvania, November 13–19, Philadelphia, USA

Tomorrow’s Graduates Painting Frank Mohr–Wan Ku, Frank Mohr Institute, Painting Department, July 4-9, Groningen, the Netherlands

Show Master, Academie Minerva, May 20–29, Groningen, the Netherlands

 

2008

 

Sichuan University MFA Graduation Exhibition, June 25–July 5, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

On the Road, March 25–30, Wangjiang Campus, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

 

Residency

Augarten Art Hotel Residency Program, July-August, 2019, Graz, Austria

Laforet Family Art Residency Program, July, 2017, Lago Maggiore, Italy

Breath Residency Programme, July-September, 2014, Manchester, England

Swatch Peace Hotel Art Residency, March 1–August 31, 2013, Shanghai, China

Les Verrieres Residences-ateliers de Pont-Aven, July 2–September 28, 2012, France

Stichting Waddenwerk, August 1–31, 2009, Schiermonnikoog, the Netherlands 

 

       毕蓉蓉, 1982年出生于宁波,现生活工作于上海。2005年于西南大学中国画专业获得学士学位,2008年于四川大学中国画山水画专业获得硕士学位,继而在荷兰获得Frank Mohr学院绘画专业艺术硕士学位。

       近几年,毕蓉蓉通过驻留等方式造访了不同城市,以个人化的视角对它们展开观察与记录。其主要方法就是采集并提取“纹样”,这些纹样来自当地的自然风景,建筑,街头海报,或者日常物体的表面。这些纹样就像不同城市和不同文化的皮肤,也成为艺术家个人的记忆碎片。作为创作素材,它们重新构建出层层交错的时空和风景,也凝聚了艺术家真实经验中的境遇,情感,故事,以及想象。

       对毕蓉蓉来说,构建这些素材的过程可以用“编织”来形容。通过绘画、传统手工编织、机器织造、动画、空间装置等方式,她不断地寻找新的方法,赋予不同素材全新且有机的联系,并将自己对不同素材的理解融入其中。“编织”是一个创造性的过程,它既是将素材处理为“丝线”的同质化过程,也是令它们展现出原有意义之外的可能性的自由化过程。两者的矛盾性包含了艺术家对环境和自我之关系的思考,以及对碎片化的视觉信息的全新延展性的探索。

       她的作品曾在一些重要艺术机构及公共艺术项目中展出,其中包含:香港六厂纺织文化艺术馆、上海玻璃博物馆、K11、上海明珠美术馆、上海多伦美术馆、浙江美术馆、南京四方当代艺术中心、英国卡斯雕塑基金会、UCCA Lab、千高原艺术空间(成都)、贝浩登画廊(上海)、上海Vanguard画廊、杭州纤维艺术三年展、深港建筑双城双年展、上海城市空间艺术季等。毕蓉蓉曾作为全球三位获奖者之一,在劳斯莱斯“缪斯”艺术项目首届飞翔女神挑战赛中获奖。

教育背景

 09/2008-07/2010, Frank Mohr 学院格罗宁根,荷兰

10/2009-12/2009, 交换学习,宾夕法尼亚大学,设计学院,费城,美国

专业:绘画

绘画 硕士学位

09/2005-06/2008, 四川大学艺术学院,成都,中国

专业: 山水画

文学硕士学位

 09/2001-06/2005, 西南师范大学,美术学院,重庆,中国

专业:中国画

文学本科学位

  

信息

 

个人

2022

平面生物,千高原艺术空间,成都

2019

 纹样XI- 千高原艺术空间,2019629–821日,成都

2018 

小说景观 香港巴塞尔艺术展探索发现单元个人项目,2018327–331日,香港

 

2017

 

穹顶二,上海玻璃博物馆,2017114–2018228日,上海

 

2016

 

小说景观,千高原艺术空间,20161217–2017228日,成都

穹顶Vanguard画廊,3月,上海

 

2015

 

三联图--制作中的素描,千高原艺术中心,418日-610日,成都

 

2014

 

曼彻斯特CMYK艺术021Vanguard画廊,11月,上海

 

2013

 

磁场-毕蓉蓉和张如怡双个展,视界艺术空间,915日-104日,上海

 

2012

 

加油站五-毕蓉蓉和陈天灼的双个展Vanguard画廊,1117日-1216日,上海

壁画项目,画廊Art De L’oisivete Pont-Aven8月,Pont-Aven, 法国

 

2011

 

理想 & 无用的空间,兼容的盒子#4, 1026日至1120日,上海

The Landscape is Called Sweet Faith美术馆 aan de A7 (Rabobank Drachten), 1023日至219日,荷兰

 

2010

 

When the Lines Turn into a Silhouette, stichting WEP, 1215-115, 2009-2010, 格罗宁根,荷兰

 

 

公共艺术项

2023

装置“闪光,飞鸟与八朵花瓣”,瀫石光·艺术生态走廊,浙江衢州龙游

2021

视频装置“与水、植物、星辰的相遇” (UAP委托项目),上海雅辰酒店,上海

2019

 

装置“关于连结的第VXLC种方式”,深港建筑双城双年展盐田分展,12月,深圳,2020 

装置 纹样XVII-生命之花”,上海多伦当代艺术馆,10月,上海

装置“流动之物”,上海城市空间艺术季,9月,上海

装置“半围合的离心圆”,UNArt 8月,上海

壁画无用的理想空间(二)混合极限广州空港双年展,5月, 广州

 

2018

 

装置一种风景的生长方式,地铁口公共艺术项目,广州K11, 3月,广州

 

2016

 

装置如自然ArtReview Asia Xiàn Chǎng单元,  西岸艺术博览会,上海

户外装置呼吸群展无序之美卡斯雕塑基金会,7月,奇切斯特,英国

 

2014

 

装置阴影的形状,南京四方当代艺术中心,c号楼公共空间装置,7月,南京,中国

 

2013

 

户外装置7:3 Colors”,展览滤镜 上海环球金融中心五周年庆, 环球金融中心入口,1025日至1110日,上海,中国

 

 

获奖项目

2022

劳斯莱斯缪斯缪斯艺术项目第一届飞翔女神挑战赛获奖,创作作品“缝合的城市皮肤”,全球巡展

 

 

合作

 

2015

 

舞台装置《三联图2/3》的一个空间转换与当代舞《美国小雀》的合作,合作舞蹈艺术家Jutta Hell, Dieter Baumann, Ufer工作室柏林,德国

 

 

群展

2023

Non-Places, 宝龙艺术中心,上海

I Feel The Way You Feel, 贝浩登画廊,上海

Universe 25, Gillian Jason Gallery, 伦敦

2022

缓存在第四届杭州纤维艺术三年展,浙江美术馆,杭州

2021

混合演绎,上空间,贵阳

衣冠天下 大美中国–百年白艺薪火相传中国传统工艺邀请展,金桥碧云美术馆,上海

“约会天才妈妈–兴之所向” 非遗时尚实验艺术项目展,UCCA Lab, 上海

四重奏–当代艺术复调叙事,千高原艺术空间,成都

2020

 

重置-“退火五周年特别展,上海玻璃博物馆,117-1031日,上海

形式的“密谋”,剩余空间,113-1230日,武汉

XX-第四届县委艺术新锐展,中国美术学院,121-1213日,杭州 

以花之名,上海明珠美术馆,87-126日,上海

新物质艺术展,杭州运河文化发布中心,87-96日,杭州

意象连绵:方法的弥合与观念的纵横Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, 321-614日,香港

 

2019

 

色与质视觉结构的研究案例,谷仓当代艺术空间,720-820日,深圳

 

2018

 

滚雪球南京艺术学院美术馆,1215—116日,2019 南京

城市触觉,浙江美术馆,1030—1111日, 杭州

Trances Loo Ming青空间, 916—1015日,上海

冷硬边与热观念, 岭南美术馆,713-812日,东莞

 

2016

 

我们, Chi K11美术馆,33日-52日,上海

 

2015

 

常青藤计划2015中国青年艺术家年展,今日美术馆,912-21日,北京

集体个人主义(二),周围艺术画廊,59日-621日,上海

第二届CAFAM未来展:创客创客中国青年艺术的现实表征,中央美术学院美术馆,115日-31日,北京

为未来而创作——想象不可想象之是Leap Labs线上展览在画廊的呈现,Momentum2月,柏林,德国

 

2014

 

集体个人主义(一),周围艺术画廊,95日-1024日,上海

越界,沪申画廊, 628日-826日,上海

Vanguard画廊10周年庆Vanguard画廊, 314日-420日,上海

 

2013

 

画室, M50艺术空间, 11-20143月,上海

Art That Heels, 2013Elle25周年庆艺术项目,视界艺术中心,12月,上海

,外滩18号临时艺术空间,20135月至20144月,上海

 

2012

 

Zone Autonome Mutualisee, Vivarium, Biennale Off-Rennes, 912日至1028日,Rennes, 法国

Women’s Lines, 1, 2012, 画廊Pantocrator Gallery / La Pan 巴塞罗那,西班牙

 

2010

 

Present Work—FMI 硕士生毕业展  Frank Mohr Institute, 73-8格罗宁根,荷兰

No Surface画廊Kunstruimte 09, 530-74,格罗宁根,荷兰

Open Wall House, Wall House, 530-69格罗宁根,荷兰

Once Mohr, DeFKa Campis, 114-26, Assen, 荷兰

 

2009

 

Albatross, Meyerson Hall, 1113-19宾夕法尼亚大学,费城,美国

Tomorrow’s Graduates Painting Frank Mohr—玩酷, Frank Mohr institute, 64-9,  格罗宁根,荷兰

Show Master, Academie Minerva, 520-29格罗宁根,荷兰

 

2008

 

08届中国画专业硕士毕业生展 四川大学,625-75成都

在路上,四川大学,525-30成都

 

艺术家驻留项

Augarten 艺术酒店驻留项目,7—8月,2019,格拉茨,奥地利

Laforet家族艺术家驻留项目,7月,2017Lago Maggiore,意大利

Breath Residency Programme, 华人艺术中心,7月-9月,2014,曼切斯特,英国

斯沃琪和平饭店艺术家驻留项目,31–831, 2013, 上海中国

Les Verrieres Residences-ateliers de Pont-Aven, 72–928, 2012, Pont-Aven, 法国

Stichting Waddenwerk, 81-31, 2009, Schiermonnikoog, 荷兰