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  • 2022
    • Xu Bing: Gravitational Arena
    • Hawai'i Triennial
    • 10th edition of Manif d'art 10 The Quebec City Biennial
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  • 2021
    • Xu Bing: Found in Translation
    • Xu Bing : Art Beyond the Kármán Line
    • Flying Ink: Hengshan International Calligraphy Art Exhibition
    • Xu Bing: Book from the Ground - Pop-up Book
    • The Met——150th Anniversary Print Portfolio
    • Toward Common Cause
    • 2020 Asia Society Triennial
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  • 2020
    • Exodus II : Unhinging the Great Wall
    • Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists
    • The Allure of Matter: Material Art From China
    • In Real Life
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  • 2019
    • Series of Repetition at the Reopened MoMA
    • Background Story - Landscape after Huang Gongwang
    • World Picture: Xu Bing Dragonfly Eyes
    • One: Xu Bing
    • Xu Bing: Thought and Method
    • The Allure of Matter: Material Art From China
    • Xu Bing: Art for the People
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  • 2018
    • Xu Bing: Thought and Method
    • Sculpture 21st: Xu Bing. Dragonfly Eyes
    • Xu Bing: Language and Nature
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  • 2017
    • Xu Bing
    • Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World
    • Language & the Art of Xu Bing
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  • 2016
    • Xu Bing: Book from the Ground
    • Xu Bing: Book from the Sky
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  • 2015
    • Bird Language
    • Phoenix (2015) -- All the World's Futures
    • Background Story: A New Approach to Landscape Painting
    • Writing Between Heaven and Earth
    • Things Are Not What They First Appear
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  • 2014
    • The Language of Xu Bing
    • Xu Bing: A Retrospective
    • Metamorphosis: The Art of Xu Bing
    • Xu Bing and Children's Forest Project: A Special Exhibition in Taiwan
    • Xu Bing: Phoenix
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  • 2013
    • Traveling to the Wonderland
    • Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript
    • Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project
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  • 2012
    • Xu Bing:Phoenix
    • Book From the Ground: From Point to Point
    • Xu Bing: Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground
    • Forest Project & Book from the Ground
    • Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy
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  • 2011
    • An Installation by Xu Bing: Background Story 7
    • Living Word 3
    • Tobacco Project 3
    • Where Does the Dust Itself Collect
    • Square Word Calligraphy Classroom
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  • 2010
    • Xu Bing Aerial Phoenix Project
    • Phoenix Project
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  • 2009
    • Xu Bing: Forest Project Exhibition
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  • 2008
    • Xu Bing
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  • 2007
    • "Book from the Sky" to "Book from the Ground"–The Book Works of Xu Bing
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  • 2006
    • Xu Bing Special Exhibition
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  • 2005
    • Ghosts Pounding the Wall-Xu Bing's Work
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  • 2004
    • Group Show: Artes Mundi - Wales International Visual Art Prize
    • Xu Bing: El Pozo de la Verdad/The Well of Truth
    • Xu Bing in Berlin
    • Xu Bing Tobacco Project: Shanghai
    • Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake
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  • 2003
    • Landscript: Sydney
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  • 2002
    • Xu Bing: Living World 2
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  • 2001
    • Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing
    • Reading Landscape
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  • 2000
    • The Tobacco Project: A Series of Installations Created by Xu Bing
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  • 1998
    • Xu Bing: Panda Zoo
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  • 1997
    • Xu Bing: Lost Letters
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  • 1991
    • Three Installations by Xu Bing
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Xu Bing

Book From the Sky

Ghost Pounding the Wall

Navigation icons designed for the exhibition

Honor and Splendor

Traveling Down the River (Wuhan version)

Square Word Calligraphy: Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Poems

First Readers

Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?

911 dust

Phoenix — 3D printed models

Background Story:Qiu Shan Xian Yi Tu

Background Story interactive installation

Square Word Calligraphy Classroom

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Exhibition Date: 12/01/2017- 05/08/2018

Exhibition Location: The United Art Museum, Wuhan, China

Exhibited Works: Dragonfly Eyes, Book from the Sky, Book from the Ground, Square Word Calligraphy, Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?, Tobacco Project, Background Story, Landscript, Ghost Pounding the Wall, Phoenix, A Case Study of Transference, The Character of Characters, Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll, Forest Project, Touching without Touchinng, early woodcuts and sketches and more 

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The end of this year marks a decade since I returned back to China. Although I have done countless exhibitions abroad, this is the first solo exhibition of such large scale in China. Looking at my past works gathered here, which acting like mirrors of various dimensions, allowing me to see myself, to see who I am, how I think, how I work and my inadequateness. Then I realise art is honest, and it is destined, not planned.

–– Xu Bing


Over the past three decades, Xu Bing has followed multiple threads of thinking and created a variety of artworks, impressive in quantity and style. Clear in expression and sharp when tackling issues, Xu Bing's work is sui generis among contemporary art and he keeps influencing the landscape of Chinese contemporary art at different levels. This exhibition, for the first time in mainland China, presents a comprehensive and concentrated survey of Xu Bing’s art, featuring Xu Bing’s masterpieces and relevant archives from each stage of his career, including some experimental work that few know about. 


Yet it is not a simple retrospective nor a summary. Instead, through artworks, this exhibition reveals Xu Bing’s artistic method and the core motivation of his constant thinking. We hope that the exhibition itself, like Xu Bing’s art, is able to reward something beyond expectation in an approachable way, and able to invite the audience to understand the artist’s  thinking from various perspectives. Every piece of work has its own reason and ways of being included and having impacts in the exhibition, regardless of its type and previous popularity. The exhibition is designed to give the audience some enlightenment from the connection between Xu Bing’s approach of art and his intellectual contribution to today’s world. 

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World

Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?

Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?

Wu Street

Wu Street

Wu Street

A Case Study of Transference

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Exhibition Date: 10/06/2017 – 01/07/2018

Exhibition Location: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA. 

                                Traveled to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Exhibited Work: Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?, Wu Street, A Case Study of Transference




Language & the Art of Xu Bing

Front: Book from the Sky ; Back: Lost Letters

Book from the Ground

Art For the People

Back: Landscript

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Exhibition Date: 11/18/2017- 03/04/2018

Exhibition Location: Museu de Arte de Macau, Macau, China

Exhibited Works: Book from the Sky, Book from the Ground, The Character of Characters, A Case Study of Transference


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