Artist

SHEN HAN
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Shen Han was born in Hangzhou in 1988. He now lives and works in Berlin. Shen pursues the relationship between instincts and body movements in the process of marks making, connecting gestures to perceptions in the dominance of rather abstract images. His work usually does not have a planned subject matter, but initiates from the fluid consciousness in actions, creating an ambiguous tension onto the pictorial plane with basic painterly elements such as random shapes and broken lines. While working on his canvas, the pictorial assembly of laboring process will either diligently become loaded in favor of or against a visual comprehension through beholding, connecting the brain’s memory in the attempt of reading the seemingly half-way completed imageries, hence to depict and explore the human desires in a chaos of visual ecstasy. His solo exhibitions include: West Lake, PARIS-B, Paris, 2023; Intimate Morphology, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2019; and The Trajectory of Dream, PB PROJECT, Paris. Group exhibitions include: Atlas of Affinities: Vol. 2, Scores for Movement, Hua International, Berlin/Beijing, 2023; Through Frozen Soil, Desert and Glacier, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, 2022; Boundless, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, 2022; On Behalf Of, QIAO SPACE, Shanghai, 2021; and Magnet: Fleeting Forces in Forms, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2020.
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Shen Han, Pry, 2018
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Solo Exhibitions

2024    Desires are already memories, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE
2023    West Lake, PARIS-B, Paris, FR
2019    Intimate Morphology, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2019    The Trajectory of Dream, PB PROJECT, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, FR
2016    Open Up, Edmond Gallery, Berlin, DE


Group Exhibitions

2024   [12 Rooms], Kewenig, Berlin, DE
2023    A voice answering a voice, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE
2023    More News, Spoiler, Berlin, DE
2023    Atlas of Affinities: Vol. 2, Scores for Movement, Hua International, Berlin, DE; Beijing, CN
2022    Through Frozen Soil, Desert and Glacier, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, CN
2022    Boundless, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, CN
2021    On Behalf Of, QIAO SPACE, Shanghai, CN
2020    Magnet: Fleeting Forces in Forms, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2020    Painting and Existence: Chinese, Japanese and Korean Abstract Painting Travelling Exhibition, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing CN
2020    MESSE IN ST. AGNES, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, DE
2019    Condo Shanghai 2019, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2019    Yellow Reflection, Galerie Luisa Wang, Paris, FR
2017    Gestus und Zeichen, Galerie Anette Müller, Düsseldorf, DE
2017    All the Single Ladies, J: GALLERY, Shanghai, CN
2017    World History, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, TH
2017    Partial Archive, Yellspace, Shanghai, CN
2016    On Drawing: Apperceive of Liberation, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, CN
2016    11.11 Der Elfte November, Colonia Nova, Berlin, DE
2016    Ping Pong, Atelierhaus, Recklinghausen, DE
2016    Berlin School of Painting, Art Supermarket Project, Berlin, DE
2016    Aurum, LEE Galerie, Berlin, DE
2016    Berlin School of Painting, Basel Project, Villa Renata, Basel, CH
2016    Shen Han, Clara Thorbecke Duo Project, Atelierhaus, Recklinghausen, DE
2015    In Out, Qin Zhe Art Center, Hangzhou, CN
2014    LUXUS+, Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, DE
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