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  • 2024
    • Xu Bing: Where There Is a Question, There Is …
    • Xu Bing: Art Satellite
    • Xu Bing: Word Alchemy
    • A Moment in Time: Xu Bing in Rome
    • 【Now exhibiting】The Contemporary Logic of "Streams, Mountains and Qingyuan" : Contemporary Ink Lecture Series
    • 【Now exhibiting】Illusive Masks
    • Thirty years of Contemporary Art in China and Singapore
    • Universal / Remote
    • Inside & outside of a book
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  • 2023
    • 【Now exhibiting】Mythical Creatures: China and the World
    • Opening Ceremony of Hangzhou Center
    • Motion is Action
    • MMAF Shanghai
    • Beijing City Library "Exhibition Season" Public Art Exhibition
    • Art Encounters with Jay
    • White Holes: The Mysteries and Modern Perceptions of Oracle Bone Script
    • “1 Tree 1 World ”ANOBO World Children's Science and Technology Art Tour
    • A Journey
    • Time Gravity 2023 Cheng Du Biennale
    • Opening Ceremony of National Museum of World Writing Systems
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  • 2022
    • Communication Through Art -- Wuhan Biennale 2022
    • Transmutation: The 7th Guangzhou Triennale
    • Accumulation -- Print Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art Masters
    • The Grand Canal As Epic on Earth
    • Body Cosmos: the Art of Living Together
    • Louis&Vuitton Exhibition
    • The World of Study
    • 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
    • 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
    • A Special Exhibition in Taiwan: Children's Forest Project
    • Xu Bing: Phoenix
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  • 2013
    • Traveling to the Wonderland
    • Xu Bing: 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
    • 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
    • Xu Bing's Literary Creations: From Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground
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  • 2006
    • Xu Bing: Special Exhibition
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  • 2005
    • Xu Bing: Ghosts Pounding the Wall
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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 in Shanghai
    • Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake
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  • 2002
    • Xu Bing: Living Word 2
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  • 2001
    • Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing
    • Reading Landscape
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  • 2000
    • Landscript: Sydney
    • 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
    • The Second Johannesburg Biennale
    • Xu Bing: Lost Letters
    ......
  • 1991
    • Three Installations by Xu Bing
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Group Show: Artes Mundi - Wales International Visual Art Prize

Xu Bing wins the first Artes Mundi 2004

Installation view of "Where The Dust Itself Collects?"

Detail

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Location: The National Museum Cardiff,Wales

Work exhibited: Where the Dust Itself Collects?

As the winner of the first Artes Mundi Prize, 2004.

Xu Bing: El Pozo de la Verdad/The Well of Truth

The Well of Truth

The Well of Truth

The Well of Truth

The Well of Truth

The Well of Truth

The Well of Truth

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Duration: May 5, 2004 — June 30, 2004

Location: Sala La Gallera, Valencia, Spain

Exhibited Works: The Well of Truth

Xu Bing in Berlin

Xu Bing in Berlin, 2004

Exhibition entrance, Xu Bing in Berlin, 2004

Exhibition entrance, Xu Bing in Berlin, 2004

Book from the Sky

Background Story

Background Story

Background Story

Landscript

Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy

Square Word Calligraphy: Computer Font Project

Art for the People

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Duration: May 27, 2004 — August 1, 2004

Location: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany

Exhibited Works: Book from the Sky, A Case Study of Transference, Square Word Calligraphy, An Introduction to New English Calligraphy, Art for the People, Landscripts, Bird Language, Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?, Background Story

Xu Bing: Tobacco Project in Shanghai

Honor and Splendor

Honor and Splendor

Notebook

Tobacco Project

Match Flower

Tobacco Book

Tobacco Project

Tobacco Project

Pipe

Tobacco Project

Untitled Small Work,Tobacco Project

Traveling Down the River

Tobacco Project

Tobacco Project

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Duration: August 21, 2004 — September 22, 2004

Location: Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

Exhibited Work: Tobacco Project

Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake

The Glassy Surface of a Lake

The Glassy Surface of a Lake

The Glassy Surface of a Lake

The Glassy Surface of a Lake

The Glassy Surface of a Lake

The Glassy Surface of a Lake

The Glassy Surface of a Lake

The Glassy Surface of a Lake

The Glassy Surface of a Lake

The Glassy Surface of a Lake

Square Word Calligraphy Classroom

Landscripts

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Duration: March 27, 2004 - May 23, 2004

Location: Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Exhibited Work: The Glassy Surface of a Lake