ZHOU SONG

Zhou explores the enigmatic realms of "New Nature", a world that encapsulates the present and future existential challenges of humanity. The artist builds on traditional Chinese philosophy, presenting a new interpretation of its key tenets through deconstruction, reconstruction, and innovation. Zhou depicts a "New Natural Landscape" of the contemporary world, aiming to explore and reflect on the existential challenges humanity faces and will continue to confront.

Graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2006, Zhou’s paintings thrive in a state of contradiction and openness questioning the potential outcomes of contemporary sciences, or the impact of the constant expansion of the universe on human desire and destiny,

Zhou’s paintings, combining passages of intense realism with forms that manifest in the cognitive or non-physical world, are executed in a style that obscures the use of the artist’s tools, paint, paintbrush, and pencil.

A person with a bush covering their upper body and head, wearing green pants and black shoes, stands in a room with a plug and cord on the floor. The bush has colored pencils stuck into it.
Contemporary artwork by Chinese artist Zhou Song installed at ROBINEAU ART Gallery in Moscow
A surreal painting depicting a cluster of intertwined, elongated white candles with black wicks, some of which are burning with flames that resemble yellow and orange flames. The candles are growing from a brown, textured ground, with a soft pastel p
A pair of shoes painted to resemble a businessman with glasses, a shirt, and a tie, surrounded by greenery and a butterfly, with a glossy dark blue finish.
A surreal painting of a man's body with multiple arms, each wearing a suit and white gloves, extending in different directions. The head is replaced with a large, black, pointed shoe, and the body is twisted into a spiral shape. The background featur
Surreal artwork depicting a person with a body covered in black fur, standing on two legs, with a head shaped like a goat's head made of fur and plant-like hairs. The person's head is covered by a white mask and they hold a paintbrush. Several white
A painting of a person's arms in a business suit, with hands holding a green apple on the left and a slice of watermelon on the right. The person's face is not visible.
A surreal landscape with a tree that has pencils as its trunk and large foliage. The pencils intertwine and form the trunk, with one pencil tip touching the ground. The background features distant mountains, a blue sky, and a couple of small, cylindr

BIOGRAPHY

Zhou Song is a Chinese contemporary artist whose practice draws on traditional Chinese philosophy to reimagine notions of nature and humanity’s future. He graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2006, where he completed his BFA with first-class honours.

ARTISTIC CAREER

In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions at the Powerlong Museum in Shanghai, Osthaus Museum in Hagen, the Kunstraum Villa Friede in Bonn, the Guardian Art Center in Beijing, the How Art Museum and the Today Art Museum. His work has also been exhibited in group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including at NordArt 2024 and NordArt2022 in Budelsdorf, the European Cultural Centre Art Biennale in Venice, the 13th Havana Biennale, the 3rd International Robo-Philosophy 2018. Conference in Vienna, the 11th Florence Biennale in Italy, Museum of

Modern Art in Barcelona, the Grand Palace in France, the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, the University of Vienna, the European Art Center in Venice, the YBL Creative House in Budapest, Sotheby's in Los Angeles, the Toronto Center for the Arts, Palacio Schacht in Chile, the Inga Garcilaso Culture Center in Peru, the Panama Contemporary Art Gallery, the Costa Rica National Gallery, the National Art Museum of China.

Zhou has received many important awards, graduating with the first place BFA thesis from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (2006) and placing bronze at the National Art Academy’s Excellent Work exhibition (2006), as well as receiving the "Painting Award" at the 5th May 4th International Youth Art Festival (2012) and the "Lorenzo International Installation Art Award” at the 11th Florence Biennale (2017).

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