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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 II, Around Space Gallery, May 9–June 21, Shanghai, China
The 2nd ‘CAFAM Future’ Exhibition: Observer-Creator•The 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 I, Around 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
展览信息
个人项目
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,2019年6月29日–8月21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,2018年3月27日–3月31日,香港
2017
穹顶二,上海玻璃博物馆,2017年11月4日–2018年2月28日,上海
2016
小说景观,千高原艺术空间,2016年12月17日–2017年2月28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,4月18日-6月10日,成都
2014
曼彻斯特CMYK, 艺术021,Vanguard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,9月15日-10月4日,上海
2012
加油站五-毕蓉蓉和陈天灼的双个展,Vanguard画廊,11月17日-12月16日,上海
壁画项目,画廊Art De L’oisivete Pont-Aven,8月,Pont-Aven, 法国
2011
理想 & 无用的空间,兼容的盒子#4, 10月26日至11月20日,上海
The Landscape is Called Sweet Faith, 美术馆 aan de A7 (Rabobank Drachten), 10月23日至2月19日,荷兰
2010
When the Lines Turn into a Silhouette, stichting WEP, 12月15日-1月15日, 2009-2010, 格罗宁根,荷兰
公共艺术项目
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V,X,L,C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,10月25日至11月10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
合作项目
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,11月7日-10月31日,上海
形式的“密谋”,剩余空间,11月3日-12月30日,武汉
XX-第四届县委艺术新锐展,中国美术学院,12月1日-12月13日,杭州
以花之名,上海明珠美术馆,8月7日-12月6日,上海
新物质艺术展,杭州运河文化发布中心,8月7日-9月6日,杭州
意象连绵:方法的弥合与观念的纵横,Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, 3月21日-6月14日,香港
2019
色与质—视觉结构的研究案例,谷仓当代艺术空间,7月20日-8月20日,深圳
2018
滚雪球, 南京艺术学院美术馆,12月15日—1月16日,2019, 南京
城市触觉,浙江美术馆,10月30日—11月11日, 杭州
Trances Loo Ming, 青空间, 9月16日—10月15日,上海
冷硬边与热观念, 岭南美术馆,7月13日-8月12日,东莞
2016
我们, Chi K11美术馆,3月3日-5月2日,上海
2015
常青藤计划2015中国青年艺术家年展,今日美术馆,9月12-21日,北京
集体个人主义(二),周围艺术画廊,5月9日-6月21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,1月15日-3月1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,Momentum,2月,柏林,德国
2014
集体个人主义(一),周围艺术画廊,9月5日-10月24日,上海
越界,沪申画廊, 6月28日-8月26日,上海
Vanguard画廊10周年庆,Vanguard画廊, 3月14日-4月20日,上海
2013
画室, M50艺术空间, 11月-2014年3月,上海
Art That Heels, 2013年Elle25周年庆艺术项目,视界艺术中心,12月,上海
潮,外滩18号临时艺术空间,2013年5月至2014年4月,上海
2012
Zone Autonome Mutualisee, Vivarium, Biennale Off-Rennes, 9月12日至10月28日,Rennes, 法国
Women’s Lines, 1月, 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, 7月3日-8日, 格罗宁根,荷兰
No Surface, 画廊Kunstruimte 09, 5月30日-7月4日,格罗宁根,荷兰
Open Wall House, Wall House, 5月30日-6月9日, 格罗宁根,荷兰
Once Mohr, DeFKa Campis, 1月14日-2月6日, Assen, 荷兰
2009
Albatross, Meyerson Hall, 11月13日-19日, 宾夕法尼亚大学,费城,美国
Tomorrow’s Graduates Painting Frank Mohr—玩酷, Frank Mohr institute, 6月4日-9日, 格罗宁根,荷兰
Show Master, Academie Minerva, 5月20日-29日, 格罗宁根,荷兰
2008
08届中国画专业硕士毕业生展, 四川大学,6月25日-7月5日, 成都
在路上,四川大学,5月25日-30日,成都
艺术家驻留项目
Augarten 艺术酒店驻留项目,7月—8月,2019,格拉茨,奥地利
Laforet家族艺术家驻留项目,7月,2017,Lago 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,3月1日–8月31日, 2013, 上海, 中国
Les Verrieres Residences-ateliers de Pont-Aven, 7月2日–9月28日, 2012, Pont-Aven, 法国
Stichting Waddenwerk, 8月1日-31日, 2009, Schiermonnikoog, 荷兰