1990 Born in Yulin, Shanxi Province

2013 Graduated from the Sculpture Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree

2014 Studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Prof.Gregor

Schneider, München, Germany

2016 Studied at the Düsseldorf Kunst Akademie,Düsseldorf, Prof.Gregor

Schneider, Düsseldorf, Germany

Currently works and lives in Germany Düsseldorf and Beijing

GROUP EXHIBITION

2018

2018 Art Nova 100, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China
Nachtaktiv, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach, Germany
The Poetics of space,Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2017

PostPOST Final, Postpost Grand Central, Düsseldorf, Germany

Zimmer Frei, Hotel Mariandl, München, Germany

Syntony, GalerieParisHorizon, Paris, France

2016

The 3rd CAFAM Biennial - Negotiating Space: I never thought you were like that, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China

Threshold Frequency, NUA Museum, Nanjing, China

Zhang Xiaoyue’s works demonstrate profound humanistic concerns with a calm and dignified gesture, and her reflections on the current era and history. The exhibited work is her new The Death of John Doe 2017: pieces of hard objects (stone), seemingly isolated, are supported by green, so that hardness becomes soft and the sense of isolation spills into the mysterious distance. With different sentiments given by different materials, the artist constructs a complex relationship which is both extremely antagonistic and harmonious. In the stone model, the artist fills the stone gap with books of art history, reconstructs nature (a real stone body) and humanity (a prosthesis made from pages of a book). In this way he manifests the creator’s macroscopic historical imagination, his detailed pondering of humanity, and his ambition to build personal, historical and realistic relationships: to recreate the epitaph of life that has been destroyed and forgotten in the course of human civilization.