王凯凡
WANG Kaifan
1996 born in Hohhot, China
lives and works in Berlin, Germany
2022 Meisterschüler, Berlin University of the Arts (Fine Arts)
2016-2022 Diplom (B.A. and M.A. equivalent, very good with distinction), Berlin University of the Arts (Fine Arts)
Supervisors: Prof. Robert Lucander (Painting, Graphic), Prof. Ursula Neugebauer (Sculpture, Space)
2019 Studio Arts College International (SACI) Art Exchange, Florence, Italy
2019 East China Normal University Exchange Program, Shanghai, China
Invited Guest Artist (Workshop/Art Forum/Artist Talk): King’s College London (2023), Shanghai JiaoTong Uni (2023), Shanghai Yuz Museum (2023)
Exhibitions & Projects
Current & Upcoming:
Opening: September 2025, TBD, GNYP Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (Solo)
December 3, 2024 – March 2, 2025, Out of Silence: A Yuz Foundation Collection (Chapter 2), Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China (Group)
December 3, 2024 – February 28, 2025, Alien (curated by Yesiyu Zhao), David Castillo Gallery x Miami Art Week, Miami, USA (Group)
January 9, 2025 – March 1, 2025, The Cloud Catcher (curated by Evonne Jiawei Yuan), Perrotin, Shanghai, China (Group)
February 18, 2025 – March 30, 2025, Visions of the World – The Wigam Collection, Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic (Group)
April 10, 2025 – April 13, 2025, Dallas Art Fair, Alexander Berggruen, Dallas, USA (Art Fair)
Solo Exhibitions & Projects
2024 One Piece, BLUM, Los Angeles, USA
2024 Wade Through Until the Waters Blue, GNYP Gallery x Gallery Weekend Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2024 Bull Washer (Stierwascher), COMMUNE, Vienna, Austria
2023 Cross Ventilation (curated by Junyao Chen), Gene Gallery x Shanghai Art Week, Shanghai, China
2023 Is the spot on the neck bitten by mosquitoes?, GNYP Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 Lunar Fountains, Long Story Short, Los Angeles, USA
2022 Whistling Dune, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022 Mauerspechte, HypoVereinsbank KunstCUBE B2, Berlin, Germany
Art Residency
2023 GNYP Gallery Artist Studio, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 Mahler & LeWitt Studios (former studios of Anna Mahler and Sol LeWitt), Spoleto, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
2025 Visions of the World – The Wigam Collection, Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic
2025 The Cloud Catcher (curated by Evonne Jiawei Yuan), Perrotin, Shanghai, China
2024
2024 Art Antwerp, GNYP Gallery (Booth A16), Antwerp, Belgium (Art Fair)
2024 Art Basel Miami Beach, BLUM (Booth H23), Miami, USA (Art Fair)
2024 Alien (curated by Yesiyu Zhao), David Castillo Gallery x Miami Art Week, Miami, USA
2024 Out of Silence: A Yuz Foundation Collection (Chapter 2), Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
2024 Supercrowds/Supercommunity (curated by Junyao Chen), TANK Shanghai (TANK Q), Shanghai, China
2024 Group Exhibition, Alexander Berggruen, New York City, USA
2023
2023 Art Antwerp, GNYP Gallery (Booth A14), Antwerp, Belgium (Art Fair)
2023 Never the Right Time, COMMUNE, Vienna, Austria
2023 TEN: The First Decade, Unit London, London, UK
2018-2022
2022 Hallen #3 – Temporary Chapter, Wilhelm Hallen x Berlin Art Week, Berlin, Germany
2022 Poppy and Recollection, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin, Germany
2022 A Light And A Heavy Body, Bonian Space x CaoChangDi Art District, Beijing, China
2022 Sleeping Promises, feldfünf Metropolenhaus, Berlin, Germany
2021 Kristallisierte Bewegung, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany
2020 SHI, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany
2020 Abwehrmechanismen, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin, Germany
2019 “Caused BY Hair” Performance Art, Himalaya Museum, Shanghai, China
2019 “In Contatto/In Kontakt” SACI Exchange Exhibition, Palazzo Jules Maidoff, Florence, Italy
2019 Vielfalt durch Bildung, LernLaden Pankow, Berlin, Germany
2019 “Farbe, Ausdruck und Experiment”, DIE LINKE am Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
2019 museumFLUXUS+studis, Fluxus+ Museum, Potsdam, Germany
2018 Biennale of Overseas Chinese Artists, Inner Mongolia Art Museum, Hohhot, China
Museum and Institutional exhibitions include: TANK Shanghai (2024), Shanghai Yuz Museum (2023, 2024-2025), Seoul Songwon Art Center (2023), Berlin Wilhelm Hallen #3 (2022), Taicang HISMOON (2021), Leipzig Galerie KUB (2021, 2020), Shanghai Himalaya Museum (2019), Potsdam FLUXUS+ Museum (2019), Inner Mongolia Art Museum (2018)
Collections include: Yuz Foundation Collection Shanghai/Jakarta, Pond Society Shanghai, the Wigam Collection Paris/Dublin/Prague, Hanwha Foundation of Culture Seoul, Louis Vuitton Paris, and many more
Awards & Grants
2023 Featured in “Influential 2023: Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists” List (30 Under 43)
2021 DAAD Scholarship, Berlin University of the Arts
2021 Schulz-Stübner Prize (nominated), funded by the Schulz-Stübner Foundation and Berlin University of the Arts
Presses & Catalogues
2024 [Artist Monograph] Kaifan Wang (essays by Xiaoyu Weng, Martin Herbert and Marta Gnyp) ISBN 978-3-00-080387-1 [press] [inquiry EU] [inquiry US]
2024 [Art Magazine] Art Magazine COLLECT, Nummer 535 zomer 2024, P64
2024 [Art Magazine] 10th Antwerp Art Weekend, May 2024, P38
2024 [Art Magazine] BLAU INTERNATIONAL No. 10, Crossing Time (essay by Benjamin Barlow), P56-63 [print]
2023 [Journal Article] Kaifan Wang (2023) Wall woodpeckers project, Textual Practice, DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2023.2275374 [print]
2023 [News] STAD en Rand, Gazet Van Antwerpen, 6.September 2023, P15
2022 [Art Magazine] Hallen #3 Wilhelm Hallen Magazin, P80
2022 [Art Magazine] Omniscient, Eigenart magazine 96, ISSN 1869-8956, P47-52
2022 [News] HVB KunstCUBE Berlin Förderung junger und aufstrebender Künstler:innen
2021 [Catalogue] KUNSTRAUM studierendenWERK Berlin, ISBN 978-3-9822487-1-1
2020 [Catalogue] Abwehrmechanismen, ISBN 978-3-89462-356-2
2019 [Catalogue] museumFLUXUS+studis Dokumentation, P18/19
2019 [Catalogue] Caused BY Hair, ISBN 978-3-89462-344-9
2019 [Art Magazine] Journal 7, Verlag der Universität der Künste Berlin, ISSN 2569-2534, P5
2019 [News] L03 Prenzlauer Berg, Berliner Woche, 11. September 2019, P3
2019 [Catalogue] GAMMA Young Artist Competition SPECIAL ISSUE 2019, ISSN 2383-6644, ACCESS 52-55
2018 [Catalogue] Biennale of Overseas Chinese Artists, Inner Mongolia Art Museum, P80
Online Presses
[GNYP] Kaifan Wang: Wade Through Until The Waters Blue, English, April 26, 2024
[在艺APP] Wang Kaifan: The Wind Through The Body Is Rolling Again, Chinese, Dec.07.2023
[VOGUE MAN] The creator of bravely in a different place | Interview with artist Kaifan in Berlin and fashion designer Yentsé in Antwerp to express the inner story with abstraction, Chinese, Sep.15.2023
[Gallery View] The Colours of the Wind by Kaifan Wang, English, Sep.01.2023
[ELLE] Mode en Kunst komen samen in de Antwerpse expo van Kaifan Wang, Dutch, Aug.30.2023
[GNYP] Kaifan Wang: Is the spot on the neck bitten by mosquitoes?, English, Aug.26.2023
[Forbes] Influential 2023: Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists, Chinese, Jul.21.2023
[artnet] Emerging Chinese Young Artists in Europe | Kaifan Wang, Chinese, Mar.05.2023
[ADF Magazine] Kaifan Wang, debut solo show at GNYP Gallery Berlin “Whistling Dune”, Japanese, Jan.22.2023
[Mahler & LeWitt Studios] Mahler & LeWitt Studios workshop hosts Kaifan Wang (Visual Art, 2022), Spoleto, Italy, English, Jan.2023
[GNYP] KAIFAN WANG in conversation with Dominic Eichler, whistling dune, English/Chinese, Nov.21.2022
[Ivan Juritz Prize] Winner for image: Kaifan Wang, Ivan Juritz Prize, King’s College London, English, 2022
[HypoVereinsbank] Kaifan Wang with the Installation “Mauerspechte” at HVB KunstCUBE “B2”, HypoVereinsbank (Unicredit Bank), German, 2022
A Light And A Heavy Body | WANG Kaifan, BONIAN SPACE, Chinese, Apr.01.2022
WANG Kaifan, Inner Mongolia Youth Art League, Chinese, Feb.03.2022
WANG Kaifan’s reason and emotion, Bovy Art, Chinese, Jun.15.2021