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
Solo Exhibitions & Projects
Upcoming: Nov.2024, BLUM Gallery, 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 LA, Los Angeles, USA
2022 whistling dune, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022 Mauerspechte, HVB 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
2024
2024 Group Exhibition, Alexander Berggruen, NYC, USA
2023
2023 Art Antwerp, GNYP Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 Never the Right Time, COMMUNE, Vienna, Austria
2023 TEN: The First Decade, Unit London, London, UK
2023 Inquiry to the Wall, Soul Art Center x Gallery Weekend Beijing, Beijing, China
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
2020-2021
2021 Crystallized movement, KUB Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2021 I’m an alien, Raum Für Sichtbarkeit Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020 “SHI” Chinese Youth Contemporary Art Exhibition, KUB Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2020 “Defense Mechanisms”, ArtRoom, Berlin, Germany
2018-2019
2019 “Caused BY Hair” Performance Art Group Show, 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: Shanghai Yuz Museum (2023), Seoul Songwon Art Center (2023), Berlin Wilhelm Hallen #3 (2022), Taicang HISMOON (2021), Shanghai Himalaya Museum (2019), Potsdam FLUXUS+ Museum (2019), Inner Mongolia Art Museum (2018)
Awards & Grants
2023 Featured in “Influential 2023: Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists” List (30 Under 43)
2022 HVB KunstCUBEs (One-Year Artist Grant), funded by HypoVereinsbank (UniCredit Bank AG)
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 [Art Magazine] BLAU INTERNATIONAL No. 10, P56-63
2023 [Journal Article] Kaifan Wang (2023) Wall woodpeckers project, Textual Practice, DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2023.2275374
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] Auslandschinesen Kunst Ausstellung, Nei Mongol Kunst Museum, P80
Online Presses
[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