Xinjun Zhang | Akademie Schloss Solitude: Schlosspost

Xinjun Zhang

Bejing/China — Visual Arts, Solitude fellow 2016

Xinjun Zhang was born in 1983 in Zhengzhou, China. He received his master’s degree from the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, China. In his works, he focuses on object and performance art, often using multimedia devices. Since 2012, Xinjun Zhang has hosted exhibitions and performances utilizing »unstable spaces« near his residence, including I am Close with Your Husband, boat. In 2016 he was awarded a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany.

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Articles with and by Xinjun Zhang:

Studio Bejing

Sunburns and Sleeping Bags

with Xinjun Zhang by Meta Marina Beeck

Xinjun Zhang in a conversation about the influences of performance art in China and its role for his work dealing with the country's transition.

Performance

Black Square

With Xinjun Zhang, Nina Støttrup Larsen, Li Lorian, Jean-Lorin Sterian, Antoni Rayzhekov, Katharina Köller & Martin Theis

Seven perspectives by seven performers on »Black Square«, a performative intervention on the grassland in front of Schloss Solitude

Hillside. Ten Stills from a Single-channel Video (2016)

by Xinjun Zhang

Film

Boat

by Xinjun Zhang

In the short film »Boat,« Beijing-based artist Xinjun Zhang documented his experiment to make the social disparities in the population of Beijing visible.