Wang Du was instantly startled by the intrusive presence of media images in the public sphere and their permanent meddling of reality and representation.
Wang Du’s practice involves collecting media images and appropriating them into expansive sculptures. His curiosity about the media and what he terms the ‘international landscape’ – advertising hoardings, newstands overflowing with newspapers, bright multicoloured magazines and an endless flood of television – has become the main inspiration for his work. These sculptures are often overwhelming due to their immense stature and their critique on the power of mass media in contemporary society.
Born in Wuhan, China in 1955, Wang Du lives and works in Paris since 1990.
Wang Du’s practice involves collecting media images and appropriating them into expansive sculptures. His curiosity about the media and what he terms the ‘international landscape’ – advertising hoardings, newstands overflowing with newspapers, bright multicoloured magazines and an endless flood of television – has become the main inspiration for his work. These sculptures are often overwhelming due to their immense stature and their critique on the power of mass media in contemporary society.
Born in Wuhan, China in 1955, Wang Du lives and works in Paris since 1990.
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EDUCATION
1997 – 2000
Professor at Université Paris VIII, Art department and at Brest school of fine arts
1986-90
Founder and President of the Artists’ Salon of South China
1985-90
Professor of fine arts, Polytechnic University of South China, Institut of architecture
1981-85
Canton Academy of fine arts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
L’image au temps du négatif / positif, Galerie Baronian Xippas, Brussels (BE)
2018
Paysage. Wang Du & An Xiaotong, Tang Contemporary, Beijing (CN)
2017
Réalité jetable, Le Consortium, Dijon (FR)
2016
Somday, Zoo Zone Art Forum, Roma (IT)
La clinique du monde, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris (FR)
Post – Fetishism, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong (CN)
No Comment III, Church of the Convent of Sant Domingo, Pollença, Mallorca (ES)
2015
Réalité altérée, Albert Baronian, Brussels (BE)
2012
Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (CH)
Armory show, New York (US)
2011
Image absolue, Laurent Godin, Paris (FR)
2010
Images gratuite, BaronianFrancey, Brussels (BE)
Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Pékin (CN)
Mitterand+Cramer/ Fine Art, Genève (CH)
Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen (DE)
2008
2008/8002 Somnambulate Realism, Arario, Beijing (CN)
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing (CN)
Kebap International, Tang Contemporary, Bejing (CN)
La tour d’exercice, commande publique de la Ville de Paris (FR)
Art & Public, Geneva (CH)
Post-Réalité, B.P.S. 22, Charleroi (BE)
Arario, Beijing, People’s Republic of China (CN)
Tang Contemporary, Beijing (CN)
2007
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (DE)
Galerie Arnt&partner, Berlin (DE)
Aksanat, Istanbul (TR)
Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris (FR)
2006
Baltic centre for contemporary art, Gateshead (UK)
Gallery BaronianFrancey, Brussels (BE)
Tous les chemins mènent à Rome ou au contraire, Space Edicola Notte, Roma (IT)
Défilé, Musée de Picardie, Amiens (FR)
2005
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
Lieu Unique, Nantes (FR)
The Yerba Buena center for the arts, San Francisco (US)
Laurent Godin Gallery, Paris (FR)
2004
Tapis volant, Galerie Roger Paihlas, Marseille (FR)
La Criée centre d’art contemporain de la Ville de Rennes (FR)
Le Rectangle centre d’art de la ville de Lyon (FR)
Les Abattoirs espace d’art moderne et contemporain, Toulouse (FR)
Le Palais de Tokyo, site de création contemporaine, Paris (FR)
2003
Arte all’ Arte San Gimignano (IT)
2002
We’re smoking them out, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels (BE)
2001
Défilé, Contemporary art museum of Chicago (US)
Luxe populaire, Rectangle, Centre d’art contemporain, Lyon (FR)
Réalité jetable, Rodin Gallery, Seoul (KR)
No comment, Transpalette, Centre d’art contemporain, Bourges (FR)
Comment, La Box, Bourges (FR)
2000
Réalité jetable, le Consortium, Dijon (FR)
Mon kiosque, FlAC stand ART & Public, Paris (FR)
Défilé, Deitch Projects, New York (US)
1999
Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Marché aux puces, Art & Public Gallery, Geneva (CH)
1997
Gate Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
1994
Relique, Anne de Villepoix Gallery (set by the “Vices & Virtues” association), Paris (FR)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
ceramicarpet, Galerie Baronian Xippas, Brussels (BE)
2019
Le Choix d’Albert, Xippas Genève, Geneva (CH)
2017
« Y he aqui la luz » Collection de CNAP, Meseo de arte miguel urrutia, Bogota (CO)
2016
Art Cologne, Cologne (DE)
EXPO CHGO, Chicago (USA)
FIAC, Paris (FR)
« Je suis pour que tout existe» le consortium, Dijon (FR)
2015
La Chine ardente, Mons 2015, Mons (BE)
10 year anniversary exhibition, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris (FR)
2014
Le surréalisme et ‘objet, Galerie 1, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Made by…Feito por Brazilieros, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo (BR)
2013
Le surrealisme et l’objet, Galerie 1, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
La Biennale di Venezia, Cuban Paviljon (CU)
Electric Fields : surrealism and beyond, Collection du Centre Pompidou, Shanghai Power Station of Art (CH)
2012
Art+Nature, Commissaire d’exposition : Jean-Gabriel Mitterand, Jardin du Hauvel, Le Hauvel (FR)
2011
Gegoten Lood, De markten, Brussels (BE)
Dublin Contemporary 2011, St Stephen’s Green house, Dublin (IE)
Sympathy for the Devil, VanhaerentsArtCollection, Brussels (BE)
French Window : Contemporary French Art Scene / Seen through the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Mori Art Museum Tokyo (JP)
2010
Istanbul Transit, Passage de Retz, Paris (FR)
Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, (TR)
Jardins Empruntés, Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris (FR)
SuperEco, Aranciera del Semenzaio di San Sisto, Rome (IT)
2009
Mécaniques amoureuses, Maison Guerlain, Paris (FR)
Nothing is permanent. Albert Baronian, profession: galeriste, La Centrale Electrique, Centre Européen d’art Contemporain, Brussels (BE)
Force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris (FR)
Hsia-Fei Chang, Henrik Samuelson, Wang Du, Vraoum!, Maison Rouge, Paris (FR)
2008
Guongdong museum (CN)
2007
Nouvelle présentation des collections du musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Best of artist, Sh. Contemporary, Shanghai (CN)
2006
Notre Histoire – une scène artistique française émergente, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
Images Publiques, Liège (BE)
Buste, Museum Liner Appenzell (CH)
TINA B 2006 Contemporary Art Festival, Prague (CZ)
Capolavoro, Palazzo di Primavera, Terni (IT)
Take a walk on the wild side, De Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich (CH)
2005
APAP 2005, Anyang (KR)
Biennale de Lyon (FR)
Städtische Museen Heilbronn (DE)
Kunsthalle in Emden (DE)
Kunstmuseum Bern (CH)
The Contemporary art centre, Vilnius (LT)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (DE)
Femme(s) musée de Carouge, Geneve (CH)
Donna Donne Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (IT)
2004
Espai d’art Contemporani de Castello (ES)
Centre régional d’art contemporain, Sète (FR)
Borusan gallery, Istanbul (TR)
Le monde est partout, Lorraine (FR)
Odyssey, Hu Shen Gallery Shanghai (CN)
La ville en habits rouges, Première exposition de l’art contemporain français , Jinan (CN)
Grotesque, Burlesque, Parodie, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac (FR)
2003
Biennal of Ceramic in contemporary art, Albisola (IT)
ATTACK, Kunsthalle Wien (AT)
Science fictions, Earl lu gallery (SG)
Luxe populaire, Biennale of Valencia (ES)
Les Abattoirs, espace d’art moderne et contemporain, Toulouse (FR)
Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny (FR)
2002
Money and value/The last taboo, Bienne (CH)
No comment, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
Tutto Normale, Academie de France à Rome, villa Medicis (IT)
Oeil pour oeil, Rectangle, Contemporary Art Centre, Lyon (FR)
Animaleries, Département de la Saint-denis conseil général (FR)
Actualités Rectangle, Contemporary Art Centre, Lyon (FR)
Mirage, Suzhou (CN)
Mon lit à L’hôtel de Louisianne, Paris (FR)
2001
Mon kiosque, FRI-ART Fribourg (CH)
Ars 01, Kiasma, Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki (FI)
Tokyo TV, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
2000
Taipei Bienale, Taiwan (TW)
Négociations, Centre régional d’art contemporain, Sète (FR)
Bruit de fond, National Centre of Photography, Paris (FR)
Paris pour escale, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (FR)
1999
Biennale di Venezia, dAPERTutto ( APERTO over ALL), Venice (IT)
Cities on the move 4, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (DK)
Cities on the move 5, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
Expander 1.0, Jousse-Sequin Gallery Il Blocnotes. Paris (FR)
Salon 3 London (UK)
Dial M for… kunstverein, München (DE)
Festival Atlantico, Lisbonne (PT)
1998
Cities on the Move 2, CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux (FR)
Gare de l’Est, Casino Luxembourg (LU)
14eAteliers du FRAC des Pays de Loire, Saint-Nazaire (FR)
Cities on the move 3, P.S.1. NY (US)
Inside out, new Chinese art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (US)
Asia society Galleries, NYC (US)
1997
Uncertain Pleasure-Chinese Artists in the 1990’s, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
Soap, Museum Voor Volkenkunde , Rotterdam (NL)
Cities on the Move, Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT)
1996
Group exhibition, Kulturschmiede, Frankfurt (DE)
1995
L’Art Contemporain Chinois, Palais Bénédictin, Fécamp, and Levallois City (FR)
1989
Chine /Avant-Garde, Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing (CN)
1986
Première exposition expérimentale, Canton (CN) (a turning point in the Nouvelle Vague era)
1981-1985
Exposition annuelle (annual exhibition), Academy of Fine Arts, Canton (CN)
1976
Wuhan Museum, Wuhan (CN)
1997 – 2000
Professor at Université Paris VIII, Art department and at Brest school of fine arts
1986-90
Founder and President of the Artists’ Salon of South China
1985-90
Professor of fine arts, Polytechnic University of South China, Institut of architecture
1981-85
Canton Academy of fine arts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
L’image au temps du négatif / positif, Galerie Baronian Xippas, Brussels (BE)
2018
Paysage. Wang Du & An Xiaotong, Tang Contemporary, Beijing (CN)
2017
Réalité jetable, Le Consortium, Dijon (FR)
2016
Somday, Zoo Zone Art Forum, Roma (IT)
La clinique du monde, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris (FR)
Post – Fetishism, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong (CN)
No Comment III, Church of the Convent of Sant Domingo, Pollença, Mallorca (ES)
2015
Réalité altérée, Albert Baronian, Brussels (BE)
2012
Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (CH)
Armory show, New York (US)
2011
Image absolue, Laurent Godin, Paris (FR)
2010
Images gratuite, BaronianFrancey, Brussels (BE)
Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Pékin (CN)
Mitterand+Cramer/ Fine Art, Genève (CH)
Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen (DE)
2008
2008/8002 Somnambulate Realism, Arario, Beijing (CN)
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing (CN)
Kebap International, Tang Contemporary, Bejing (CN)
La tour d’exercice, commande publique de la Ville de Paris (FR)
Art & Public, Geneva (CH)
Post-Réalité, B.P.S. 22, Charleroi (BE)
Arario, Beijing, People’s Republic of China (CN)
Tang Contemporary, Beijing (CN)
2007
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (DE)
Galerie Arnt&partner, Berlin (DE)
Aksanat, Istanbul (TR)
Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris (FR)
2006
Baltic centre for contemporary art, Gateshead (UK)
Gallery BaronianFrancey, Brussels (BE)
Tous les chemins mènent à Rome ou au contraire, Space Edicola Notte, Roma (IT)
Défilé, Musée de Picardie, Amiens (FR)
2005
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
Lieu Unique, Nantes (FR)
The Yerba Buena center for the arts, San Francisco (US)
Laurent Godin Gallery, Paris (FR)
2004
Tapis volant, Galerie Roger Paihlas, Marseille (FR)
La Criée centre d’art contemporain de la Ville de Rennes (FR)
Le Rectangle centre d’art de la ville de Lyon (FR)
Les Abattoirs espace d’art moderne et contemporain, Toulouse (FR)
Le Palais de Tokyo, site de création contemporaine, Paris (FR)
2003
Arte all’ Arte San Gimignano (IT)
2002
We’re smoking them out, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels (BE)
2001
Défilé, Contemporary art museum of Chicago (US)
Luxe populaire, Rectangle, Centre d’art contemporain, Lyon (FR)
Réalité jetable, Rodin Gallery, Seoul (KR)
No comment, Transpalette, Centre d’art contemporain, Bourges (FR)
Comment, La Box, Bourges (FR)
2000
Réalité jetable, le Consortium, Dijon (FR)
Mon kiosque, FlAC stand ART & Public, Paris (FR)
Défilé, Deitch Projects, New York (US)
1999
Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Marché aux puces, Art & Public Gallery, Geneva (CH)
1997
Gate Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
1994
Relique, Anne de Villepoix Gallery (set by the “Vices & Virtues” association), Paris (FR)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
ceramicarpet, Galerie Baronian Xippas, Brussels (BE)
2019
Le Choix d’Albert, Xippas Genève, Geneva (CH)
2017
« Y he aqui la luz » Collection de CNAP, Meseo de arte miguel urrutia, Bogota (CO)
2016
Art Cologne, Cologne (DE)
EXPO CHGO, Chicago (USA)
FIAC, Paris (FR)
« Je suis pour que tout existe» le consortium, Dijon (FR)
2015
La Chine ardente, Mons 2015, Mons (BE)
10 year anniversary exhibition, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris (FR)
2014
Le surréalisme et ‘objet, Galerie 1, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Made by…Feito por Brazilieros, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo (BR)
2013
Le surrealisme et l’objet, Galerie 1, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
La Biennale di Venezia, Cuban Paviljon (CU)
Electric Fields : surrealism and beyond, Collection du Centre Pompidou, Shanghai Power Station of Art (CH)
2012
Art+Nature, Commissaire d’exposition : Jean-Gabriel Mitterand, Jardin du Hauvel, Le Hauvel (FR)
2011
Gegoten Lood, De markten, Brussels (BE)
Dublin Contemporary 2011, St Stephen’s Green house, Dublin (IE)
Sympathy for the Devil, VanhaerentsArtCollection, Brussels (BE)
French Window : Contemporary French Art Scene / Seen through the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Mori Art Museum Tokyo (JP)
2010
Istanbul Transit, Passage de Retz, Paris (FR)
Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, (TR)
Jardins Empruntés, Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris (FR)
SuperEco, Aranciera del Semenzaio di San Sisto, Rome (IT)
2009
Mécaniques amoureuses, Maison Guerlain, Paris (FR)
Nothing is permanent. Albert Baronian, profession: galeriste, La Centrale Electrique, Centre Européen d’art Contemporain, Brussels (BE)
Force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris (FR)
Hsia-Fei Chang, Henrik Samuelson, Wang Du, Vraoum!, Maison Rouge, Paris (FR)
2008
Guongdong museum (CN)
2007
Nouvelle présentation des collections du musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Best of artist, Sh. Contemporary, Shanghai (CN)
2006
Notre Histoire – une scène artistique française émergente, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
Images Publiques, Liège (BE)
Buste, Museum Liner Appenzell (CH)
TINA B 2006 Contemporary Art Festival, Prague (CZ)
Capolavoro, Palazzo di Primavera, Terni (IT)
Take a walk on the wild side, De Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich (CH)
2005
APAP 2005, Anyang (KR)
Biennale de Lyon (FR)
Städtische Museen Heilbronn (DE)
Kunsthalle in Emden (DE)
Kunstmuseum Bern (CH)
The Contemporary art centre, Vilnius (LT)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (DE)
Femme(s) musée de Carouge, Geneve (CH)
Donna Donne Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (IT)
2004
Espai d’art Contemporani de Castello (ES)
Centre régional d’art contemporain, Sète (FR)
Borusan gallery, Istanbul (TR)
Le monde est partout, Lorraine (FR)
Odyssey, Hu Shen Gallery Shanghai (CN)
La ville en habits rouges, Première exposition de l’art contemporain français , Jinan (CN)
Grotesque, Burlesque, Parodie, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac (FR)
2003
Biennal of Ceramic in contemporary art, Albisola (IT)
ATTACK, Kunsthalle Wien (AT)
Science fictions, Earl lu gallery (SG)
Luxe populaire, Biennale of Valencia (ES)
Les Abattoirs, espace d’art moderne et contemporain, Toulouse (FR)
Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny (FR)
2002
Money and value/The last taboo, Bienne (CH)
No comment, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
Tutto Normale, Academie de France à Rome, villa Medicis (IT)
Oeil pour oeil, Rectangle, Contemporary Art Centre, Lyon (FR)
Animaleries, Département de la Saint-denis conseil général (FR)
Actualités Rectangle, Contemporary Art Centre, Lyon (FR)
Mirage, Suzhou (CN)
Mon lit à L’hôtel de Louisianne, Paris (FR)
2001
Mon kiosque, FRI-ART Fribourg (CH)
Ars 01, Kiasma, Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki (FI)
Tokyo TV, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
2000
Taipei Bienale, Taiwan (TW)
Négociations, Centre régional d’art contemporain, Sète (FR)
Bruit de fond, National Centre of Photography, Paris (FR)
Paris pour escale, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (FR)
1999
Biennale di Venezia, dAPERTutto ( APERTO over ALL), Venice (IT)
Cities on the move 4, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (DK)
Cities on the move 5, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
Expander 1.0, Jousse-Sequin Gallery Il Blocnotes. Paris (FR)
Salon 3 London (UK)
Dial M for… kunstverein, München (DE)
Festival Atlantico, Lisbonne (PT)
1998
Cities on the Move 2, CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux (FR)
Gare de l’Est, Casino Luxembourg (LU)
14eAteliers du FRAC des Pays de Loire, Saint-Nazaire (FR)
Cities on the move 3, P.S.1. NY (US)
Inside out, new Chinese art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (US)
Asia society Galleries, NYC (US)
1997
Uncertain Pleasure-Chinese Artists in the 1990’s, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
Soap, Museum Voor Volkenkunde , Rotterdam (NL)
Cities on the Move, Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT)
1996
Group exhibition, Kulturschmiede, Frankfurt (DE)
1995
L’Art Contemporain Chinois, Palais Bénédictin, Fécamp, and Levallois City (FR)
1989
Chine /Avant-Garde, Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing (CN)
1986
Première exposition expérimentale, Canton (CN) (a turning point in the Nouvelle Vague era)
1981-1985
Exposition annuelle (annual exhibition), Academy of Fine Arts, Canton (CN)
1976
Wuhan Museum, Wuhan (CN)
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