Xiyao Wang

Xiyao Wang was born in 1992 in Chongqing, China.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

EDUCATION
2018–2020 – MFA, HFBK, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (DE)
2018–2019 – MFA, State University of New York at Purchase, New York (US)
2015–2018 – BA, HFBK, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (DE)
2010–2014 – BA, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing (CN)

The Berlin-based Chinese artist creates large-scale, immersive paintings in which gestural lines evoke echoes of landscapes, bodies, movements, thoughts. In the process, she develops a kind of hybrid abstract painting that combines various influences and inspirations: Taoism and post-structuralism, ancient Chinese pictorial traditions, bodywork, dance, martial arts, and the canon of Western art history. In her work, mythologies and the lyrical, hermetic painting of Cy Twombly merge with global mass culture, electronic music, with the networked, media-influenced thinking of millennials and Gen Z. Xiyao’s paintings explore inner visions, bodily perceptions, sensations, feelings, interrogating her East-West biography.

SOLO SHOWS
2024 – Do you hear the waterfall?, Perrotin, New York (US)
– Before the Sun Goes Down, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok (THA)
– The Blue Hour – 阳春召我以烟景, Massimo de Carlo, Milano (IT)
2023 – Allongé – Out of Reach, Perrotin, Seoul (KR)
– On the way to Penglai island, König, Berlin (DE)
– A Carnival in the Forest, MASSIMODECARLO, London (UK)
– Liang Xiao Yin, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (CHN)
– A Long Reach: Touching the Unseen, Song Art Museum, Beijing (CHN)
2022 – The Crystalline Moon Palace, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (FR)
– The Endless Dream, Arndt Collection, Cape Schanck (AUS)
2021 – Castle in the air, Geber Stauffer Fine Arts, Zurich (CH)
– A dance to fly in the blossoming trees, A Thousand Plateaus Gallery, Chengdu (CN)
2019 – Peach Blossom Spring Story, Soy Capitán Gallery, Berlin (DE)