2021
Oil on canvas, modeling paste, glass beads, luminous color
220×140cm
2015. Oil on canvas, material collage. 220×140cm.
Appeal to the Infinite Within
2022.7.23-2022.8.23
Myth of Figures
2022.3.19-2022.5.4
Morphing in-between
2020.12.5-2021.1.26
Being of Evils
2020.4.11-2020.5.13
ASURA SUKHAVATI: Song Kun Solo Exhibition
2015.12.31-2016.3.2
Song Kun
Song Kun’s works have always contained important concepts: “streaming narrative of consciousness” and “unconsciousness of the subconscious”. These are important features in her creation, in addition to this, she uses aspects of Chinese oriental aesthetics. She never tries to provide any fixed symbols or concepts but proposes a sample of China’s independence at this stage for the proposition “How to Feel the Experience Cognition and Rich Emotions Given by Life”. Her firmness and self-confidence have enabled her paintings to borrow language from music, sound, and images to give painting special narrative energy. In recent years, Song Kun’s artistic creation has entered a new stage, experimentally integrating contemporary subcultures and religious elements with her creative system, forming a unique sample that is closer to her personal temperament.
1996 Fine Arts School Affiliated to China Central Academy of Fine Arts
2002 BA, Third Studio, Oil Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts
2006 MA, Third Studio, Oil Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts
Currently lives and works in Beijing as a professional artist
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Pure Land·Tear of Seamaid, Qiao Space & Perrotin, Shanghai, China
2019 IMBODY-Feeling Real · Nude, SSSSART, Shanghai, China
2018 SUKHAVATI 。o 0, Cc Foundation & Art Center, Shanghai, China
2017 ASURA SUKHAVATI, Kiyoshi Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2015 ASURA SUKHAVATI, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2013 Visual Stream of Consciousness, Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2012 A Thousand Kisses Deep, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2009 Seeking the Recluse but not Meeting, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2008 Xi Jia – River Lethe, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 Song Kun, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2006 It’s My Life, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2023
Dream Video-Art and Design Exposition of West Bund, West Bund, Shanghai, China
The Axis: The Artistic Revolution from the Millennium, Shanxi Contemporary Art Museum, Taiyuan, China
2022
Beijing Biennial, Friendship Art Community, Beijing, China
Myth of Figures, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Being in the World: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum, Shanghai, China Song of Soul, Soul Art, Beijing, China
REGARDE-MOI, Perrotin, Paris, France
LOVELOVELOVE Biennale of Moving Images, U2 by UCCA, Beijing, China
Future Home Imagination, NEXGENE Urban
Dream Video-Art and Design Exposition of West Bund,West Bund,Shanghai,China
Living Laboratory, Beijing, China
2021
Futurism of the Past,Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Art as Living Organism, MADEIN Gallery, Shanghai, China
Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Cover, Enclave Contemporary, Shenzhen, China
2020
Painting: Macro, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Being of Evils, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Morphing in-between, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
CLEAN, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China
2019
I Love Beijing New Wave, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Epithet Portrayed, Don Gallery, Shanghai, China
2018
The Fiftieth Exhibition: Five Years in Qikeshu, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
N.A.I.C Project XArt Depot, Commune by The Great Wall, Beijing, China
Collage, C5Art Space, Beijing, China
Portrait of Time, The Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China
2017
KUNST GEMEINSAM GESTALTEN, Goethe-Institute, Beijing, China
Magic Sampling, Fruity Space, Beijing, China
Lines of Unthought, Edmond Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Art Basel in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2016
SHE: International Women Artists Exhibition, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Unrealities in the Reality, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, China
Exotic Stranger, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
Art Paris, Paris, France
Prison Lab, China & Germany Cultural Exchange Year Art Project, Berlin, Germany
2015
Up-Youth, Beijing Times Art Museum, Beijing, ChinaArt Basel in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Fiction, OWSpace, Beijing, China
CHINA 8, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Germany
The Temperature of History, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Film, Art Basel in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2014
The World III in the Third World, The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Cosmos, M21 Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Hazing Kyoto, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Island, Modern Sky Lab, Beijing, China
Uneasy Trip in Asia, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Summer 2014: Friends, Pool and Waves, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China
Landscape of Man, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, China
N12 – No.6, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, China
My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, USA
Art Basel in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
N12 – No.5, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
2013
Criss-Cross, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Being Entangled with Paper, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Atypical, Gallery Beijing Space, Beijing, China
Uneasy Trip in Asia IV, Poly Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
Being Is Not Being, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Frieze New York, New York, USA
Uneasy Trip in Asia, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Art13 London, London, UK
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
The Food in the World, Linda Art Center, Beijing, China
2012
Narcissism, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Stranger, HdAArt Salon, Berlin, GermanyParadise in the East, C5Art Center, Beijing, China
Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Lust and Love of the Young and Liberated, 798 Space, Beijing, China
Sleep in Spring, C5Art Center, Beijing, China
2011
DAYBREAK, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
Half the Sky: Women in the New Art of China, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
In A Perfect World, Meulensteen Gallery, New York, USA
Art Basel in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2010
Do You See What I Mean?, Fabien Fryns Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Armory Show, New York, USA
The Mirror of This Time, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, China
Art Basel in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2009
Kyoka Suigetsu — Female Contemporary Art, Power Center Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Touch, A4 Gallery, Chengdu, China
Pick up All the Winter Branches, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, China
NOTCH09 Art Festival, The VILLAGE, Beijing, China
Hello Sadness, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
2008
Looking for Me, Minsheng Contemporary Arts Center, Shanghai, China
Art Premiere, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2007
The Second Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Hubei Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2006
Body-Boundary, Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.
Chaos City, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China
N12 – No. 4, C5Art Center, Beijing, China2005
Naughty Kids, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
N12 – No. 3, CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China
The Second Chinese Art Triennial, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
2004
New Wave, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China, and Singapore
N12 – No. 2, CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China
Mode of Sensibility, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China, and Singapore
Made in China, Design in France, Paul Ricard Gallery, Paris, France
Beijing-Dezoned-Paris, Le Cube, Issy les Moulineaux, France
2003
SHE, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China
N12 – No. 1, CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China
Beyond the Face and Surface, Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore
2000
Water: First Show of Exo-Site Art Program, Huanyi Warehouse, Beijing, China
Age of Er Chang, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Live
2020
Sonic Fall Beijing, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China
Pure Land -Tusumi Forest, Tokyo, Japan
2018
SUKHAVATI 。o 0, Cc Foundation & Art Center, Shanghai, China
Collage, C5Art Center and C5 Youth Retreat, Beijing, China
2017
RAW-Wave, BLG Lab, Beijing, China
Spook in Hot Pot, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Magic Sampling, fRUITYSPACE, Beijing, China2016
Summer Art Night, BLG Lab and M Woods Museum, Beijing, China
Sound of Silence, China Film Archive, Beijing, China
Sound of Silence, KINO KROKODI, Berlin, Germany
2015
Sound of Silence, THEATER SAMSA, Tokyo, Japan
ININ Cosmos, M21 Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Fiction, OWSpace, Beijing, China
2014
Don’t Worry Garden, Houyuan, Beijing, China
Island, Modern Sky Lab, Beijing, China
2013
Being Is Not Being, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Lull&Noise in Dog Night No.2, Temple Bar, Beijing, China
2012
This Is Not a Party, 798 AKRYL space, Beijing, China
Sleep in Spring, C5Art Center, Beijing, China
Lull&Noise in Dog Night No.1, School, Beijing, China
Paradise in the East, C5 Art Center, Beijing, China
Stranger, HdAArt Salon, Berlin, Germany
Artist-in-Residence Programs
2016
Big Whale, Berlin, Germany
KUNST GEMEINSAM GESTALTEN, Berlin Germany
2014
Island, Modernsky Lab Art Program, Phuket, Thailand
2008
Leipzig International Art Program, Leipzig, Germany
Major Collections
CAFAArt Museum, China
M+ Museum, Hongkong
Long Museum, China
Minsheng Art Museum, China
New Century Art Foundation, China
Start Museum, Shanghai, China
Cc Foundation & Art Center, China
Zhi Art Museum, China
Qiao Zhibing, China
He Juxing, China
Giraud Pissarro Segalot, USA
Francois Pinault, France
Uli Sigg, Switzerland