In her classical drawings and paintings, as well as videos and performances, Evelyn Taocheng Wang (China, 1981, lives and works in Rotterdam) combines a straightforward and at times confrontational tone with emotional, poetic and often autobiographical undercurrents. Through her diverse practice, she addresses ostensible fixed notions of identity, ethnicity and socioeconomic backgrounds. In the past years, Wang’s main interest has been in ‘image presentation’, researching different (art) histories of the body from a personal perspective. Her work emerges from an interest in what constitutes identity and how one’s own body is culturally relative to—and intertwined with—autobiographical structures. Autobiographical experiences are mixed with fictional fabrications, appropriating texts from novels herewith weaving cultures together.
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‘Het bloemblaadje, dat tijdens het ochtendkrieken was gevallen, paktte ik op in de avondschemering.’
Evelyn Taocheng Wang ABN AMRO Art Prize exhibtion at Hermitage Amsterdam 2020
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Allegory of Transience
Exhibition Allegory of Transience starts from her fascination for Dutch painting from the Golden Age. During her youth in China, that Dutch art functioned as a pars pro toto for the entire Western art history. Once arrived in Europe, that image appeared to collide with reality. In the two new installations Wang made for Allegory of Transience, the artist connects personal observations and experiences with her interest in the representation of gender and sexuality in European art history. Based on research into the collection of old art from the Frans Hals Museum and historical locations in Haarlem, such as the beguinage, Wang created a tulip garden, and a video installation in which the idea of classic beauty is being scrutinized.
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Evelyn Taocheng Wang (1981, Chengdu, China) lives and works in Rotterdam. She studied classical painting in China, continued her education at the Städelschule, Frankfurt and was resident artist at De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2012-2014). She has won the ABN AMRO Art Award (2019); Dolf Henkes Prize (2018); De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs (2016) as well as the Dorothea von Stetten Art Award (2016). Wang's work was part of important exhibitions such as Manifesta 11, Zurich (CH); The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (CN) and the public program of Documenta 13. Wangs work is part of the renowned collections such as: Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
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Education:
2012-2014 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2010-2012 Städelschule, Frankfurt
2002-2006 Nanjing Normail University, Fine Art Department, Chinese traditional art, Chinese Classical Literature & Visual Communication
Awards:
2019 ABN AMRO Art Award
2018 Dolf Henkes Award
2016 De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs
2016 Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis
Solo exhibitions:
2020 Reflection Paper, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, De
‘Als ich sie entlang des Flusses suchte, stand sie mitten im Wasser (When I sought her along the river, she stood in the
middle of the water)’ KevinSpace, Vienna, AT
'Het bloemblaadje, dat tijdens het ochtendkrieken was gevallen, paktte ik op in de avondschemering' (ABN AMRO Art
Award), Hermitage Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2019 'Spreading Elegance', FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR
'Sensitive Attitude', Friends of the S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
'No Blood in the Afternoon', Carlos Ishikawa, London, UK
2018 'What is he afraid of?', Company Gallery, New York, USA
'What is he afraid of?', KW institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2017 Four Season of Women Tragedy, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frieze London, United Kingdom (duo with Jennifer Tee)
'Embarrassed Person is Always Difficult to Avoid Embarrassed Things', Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
'A Home made Travel MV Series', Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands
'Heatweave Wrinkle', Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, USA
'Allegory of Transience', Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands
2015 'Massage Near Me', Company Gallery, New York, USA
‘A Home Made Travel MV Series’, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Performance 'Two Sights of the Elegant Mysterious Unearthly Princess Kaguya & Her Beggarly Nurtured Aristocratic
Life Before She Flies Away With a Shining Ship', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Forest, A Man, A Baby & Aristocratic Life’, Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014 ‘Someone who lives in great comfort is completely enjoying it but still prays for even more fortune’, Johan Berggren
Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
2013 ‘Action...Cut!’ Jakarta Yuz Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
2012 ‘What is Revealed by the Tide’, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 ‘Sensitive Attitude’, Platform China, Beijing, China
2008 ‘Intervention’, Kunsterverein Göttingen, Germany
‘Private Party’, Vierterstock-Berlin. Berlin, Germany
Group exhibitions
2020 'Risquons-Tout', WIELS, Brussels, BE
'Beating around the bush #6', Bonnefanten, Maastricht, NL
'In the Presence of Absense, Proposal for the Museum Collection', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
'Globale Resistance', Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
'Other.Worldly', Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
2019 'Jahresgabe', Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf' ,De
'Jahresgabe', Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, De
'Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation des Bonner Kunstvereins, Kölnischen Kunstvereins und des Kunstverein für die
Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf' DE
'Neither Black/Red/Yellow nor Woman', Times Art Center, Berlin, DE
Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN
'Top Floor. Artists choose from the collection', Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, NL
'Longan', House of Egorn, Berlin, DE
2018 'Dolf Henkes Prize', TENT Rotterdam, NL
'Department of Love', SAFA Art Gallery, Shanghai, CN
'Transpersonal, instructions', Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila, PH
'Hollandse Nieuwe', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, NL
'Nothing is Permanent', Manifesta In House Exhibition, Amsterdam, NL
'Who Are We Again?', Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, IT
'Show Personality, Not Personal Items', Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
2017 'It's Get Better V', ICA, London, UK
'Humble', Garage, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Public program, Documenta14, Kassel, Germany
''What "Everybody Knows"', Jenny's, Los Angeles, Unites States
'Barbaren & Wijsgeren: Het beeld van China in de Gouden Eeuw', Frans Hals Museum, The Netherlands
2016 'De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2016', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands
30: Untitled 1989', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Food / Body', Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands
'Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis', Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
'Manifesta 11', Zurich, Switzerland
'On Limits: Estrangement in the Everyday', curated by Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, The Kitchen, New York, USA
'Performing Time', Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
'Un certain regard', Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, The Netherlands
'Preview', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015 'Affinities #2', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Greene Naftali', New York, USA
‘Other Sights’, OCCII, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Up Close and Personal’, De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands
2014 ‘It's Get Better’, curated by Stewart Uoo, Artists Space, New York, USA
‘Reflections’, Model Project Space, Vancouver, Canada
‘Conversation’, with Luca Francesconi at Gallery Fluxia, Milan, Italy
‘Offspring 2014’, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Finissage - An evening in three acts’, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eric Sidner & Taocheng Wang – ‘Old Oxen Chew Young Grass’, Duck, Berlin, Germany
‘I love you, Me either’, Project Native Informant, London, UK
2013 ‘Reading’, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
‘Living Room’, Shanghai Goethe Institute, Shanghai, China
‘AMNUA Drawing Show Series’, Art Museum of Nanjing, China, University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
‘How are you otherwise’, Rongwrong, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘I will be your mirror’, OV gallery, Shanghai, China
Max Brand+Taocheng Wang at Library+, London, UK
‘Winter Screening’, Almanac Projects, London, UK
2012 ‘Limbodrome’, Capital A, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Tender Buttons’, September Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Art Taipei 2012, Taiwan
Frieze London 2012, Azpcgallery, London, UK
‘Reactivation’ - The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
‘Art Stage Singapore 2012’, Singapore
2011 ‘Städelschule Rundgang 2011’, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
‘Learning from the Literati 2’, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 ‘Absolute Distance’, White Space Gallery Beijing, China
2008 ‘Anonymous Drawings N°9.’, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
‘Jahresgaben 2008’, Halle fuer Kunst,Lüneburg, Germany
2007 ‘Fremd Gehen’, Shanghai Goethe Institut. Shanghai, China
Collections
ABN AMRO collection, The Netherlands
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
NOG Collection/Stichting Beheer SNS REAAL, The Netherlands
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands
2012-2014 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2010-2012 Städelschule, Frankfurt
2002-2006 Nanjing Normail University, Fine Art Department, Chinese traditional art, Chinese Classical Literature & Visual Communication
Awards:
2019 ABN AMRO Art Award
2018 Dolf Henkes Award
2016 De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs
2016 Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis
Solo exhibitions:
2020 Reflection Paper, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, De
‘Als ich sie entlang des Flusses suchte, stand sie mitten im Wasser (When I sought her along the river, she stood in the
middle of the water)’ KevinSpace, Vienna, AT
'Het bloemblaadje, dat tijdens het ochtendkrieken was gevallen, paktte ik op in de avondschemering' (ABN AMRO Art
Award), Hermitage Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2019 'Spreading Elegance', FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR
'Sensitive Attitude', Friends of the S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
'No Blood in the Afternoon', Carlos Ishikawa, London, UK
2018 'What is he afraid of?', Company Gallery, New York, USA
'What is he afraid of?', KW institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2017 Four Season of Women Tragedy, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frieze London, United Kingdom (duo with Jennifer Tee)
'Embarrassed Person is Always Difficult to Avoid Embarrassed Things', Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
'A Home made Travel MV Series', Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands
'Heatweave Wrinkle', Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, USA
'Allegory of Transience', Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands
2015 'Massage Near Me', Company Gallery, New York, USA
‘A Home Made Travel MV Series’, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Performance 'Two Sights of the Elegant Mysterious Unearthly Princess Kaguya & Her Beggarly Nurtured Aristocratic
Life Before She Flies Away With a Shining Ship', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Forest, A Man, A Baby & Aristocratic Life’, Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014 ‘Someone who lives in great comfort is completely enjoying it but still prays for even more fortune’, Johan Berggren
Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
2013 ‘Action...Cut!’ Jakarta Yuz Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
2012 ‘What is Revealed by the Tide’, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 ‘Sensitive Attitude’, Platform China, Beijing, China
2008 ‘Intervention’, Kunsterverein Göttingen, Germany
‘Private Party’, Vierterstock-Berlin. Berlin, Germany
Group exhibitions
2020 'Risquons-Tout', WIELS, Brussels, BE
'Beating around the bush #6', Bonnefanten, Maastricht, NL
'In the Presence of Absense, Proposal for the Museum Collection', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
'Globale Resistance', Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
'Other.Worldly', Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
2019 'Jahresgabe', Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf' ,De
'Jahresgabe', Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, De
'Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation des Bonner Kunstvereins, Kölnischen Kunstvereins und des Kunstverein für die
Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf' DE
'Neither Black/Red/Yellow nor Woman', Times Art Center, Berlin, DE
Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN
'Top Floor. Artists choose from the collection', Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, NL
'Longan', House of Egorn, Berlin, DE
2018 'Dolf Henkes Prize', TENT Rotterdam, NL
'Department of Love', SAFA Art Gallery, Shanghai, CN
'Transpersonal, instructions', Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila, PH
'Hollandse Nieuwe', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, NL
'Nothing is Permanent', Manifesta In House Exhibition, Amsterdam, NL
'Who Are We Again?', Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, IT
'Show Personality, Not Personal Items', Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
2017 'It's Get Better V', ICA, London, UK
'Humble', Garage, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Public program, Documenta14, Kassel, Germany
''What "Everybody Knows"', Jenny's, Los Angeles, Unites States
'Barbaren & Wijsgeren: Het beeld van China in de Gouden Eeuw', Frans Hals Museum, The Netherlands
2016 'De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2016', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands
30: Untitled 1989', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Food / Body', Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands
'Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis', Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
'Manifesta 11', Zurich, Switzerland
'On Limits: Estrangement in the Everyday', curated by Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, The Kitchen, New York, USA
'Performing Time', Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
'Un certain regard', Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, The Netherlands
'Preview', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015 'Affinities #2', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Greene Naftali', New York, USA
‘Other Sights’, OCCII, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Up Close and Personal’, De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands
2014 ‘It's Get Better’, curated by Stewart Uoo, Artists Space, New York, USA
‘Reflections’, Model Project Space, Vancouver, Canada
‘Conversation’, with Luca Francesconi at Gallery Fluxia, Milan, Italy
‘Offspring 2014’, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Finissage - An evening in three acts’, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eric Sidner & Taocheng Wang – ‘Old Oxen Chew Young Grass’, Duck, Berlin, Germany
‘I love you, Me either’, Project Native Informant, London, UK
2013 ‘Reading’, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
‘Living Room’, Shanghai Goethe Institute, Shanghai, China
‘AMNUA Drawing Show Series’, Art Museum of Nanjing, China, University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
‘How are you otherwise’, Rongwrong, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘I will be your mirror’, OV gallery, Shanghai, China
Max Brand+Taocheng Wang at Library+, London, UK
‘Winter Screening’, Almanac Projects, London, UK
2012 ‘Limbodrome’, Capital A, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Tender Buttons’, September Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Art Taipei 2012, Taiwan
Frieze London 2012, Azpcgallery, London, UK
‘Reactivation’ - The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
‘Art Stage Singapore 2012’, Singapore
2011 ‘Städelschule Rundgang 2011’, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
‘Learning from the Literati 2’, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 ‘Absolute Distance’, White Space Gallery Beijing, China
2008 ‘Anonymous Drawings N°9.’, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
‘Jahresgaben 2008’, Halle fuer Kunst,Lüneburg, Germany
2007 ‘Fremd Gehen’, Shanghai Goethe Institut. Shanghai, China
Collections
ABN AMRO collection, The Netherlands
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
NOG Collection/Stichting Beheer SNS REAAL, The Netherlands
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands
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