Gu Dexin                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

1962          born in Beijing

1978-88    participated in the Tactile Sensation Group

1988-95    participated in the New Analysis Group

independent artist in Beijing

 

Exhibitions (selected list)

 

1985        Scrawls Chaoyang Theatre, Beijing

1986        Gu Dexin’s Works International Exhibition Center, Beijing (solo exh.)

China/Avant-Garde National Gallery, Beijing

Les Magiciens de la Terre Centre Pompidou, Paris

1989            Next Phase (New Analysis Group I) London Docks, London

1991                Exceptional Passage (New Analysis Group II) Fukuoka, Japan

1992       Gu Dexin, Huang Yongping, Zhang Peili Galerie Arnaud Lefebre, Paris

1993-94    China Avantgarde Haus der Kulturen de Welt, Berlin; Kunsthal, Rotterdam; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Kunsthallen Brants Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Roemermuseum, Hildesheim, Germany

China’s New Art, Post 1989 Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hongkong; Modern Art Gallery, Sydney; Marlborough Fine Art, Melbourne

Artedomani 1993 – Punti di Vista Incontri internazionali d’arte, Spoleto, Italy

Now Dream of East International Com-Art Show, Gallery of the Beijing Normal University, Beijing

1995          Triennale der Kleinplastik 1995 – Europa – Ostasian Stuttgart,

Germany

Asian Contemporary Art from the Far East Casino, Venice, Italy

Des del Pais del Centre: avantguardes artistiques xineses Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain

                                Uecker – Brief an Peking / Gruppe Xin Kedu – Arbeit III (Uecker - a Letter to Beijing / New Analysis Group -                    Work III) New Berlin Art Society, Berlin

Configura 2 – Dialog der Kulturen (New Analysis Group IV) Erfurt, Germany

1996          In the Name of Art Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai

’96 International COM Art Suwon, Korea

Shelter Fundament Foundation, Breda, Holland

Phenomenon/Image Gallery of the China Academy of Fine arts, Hangzhou, prov. Zhejiang

4 Points de Rencontre, Chine, 1996 Galerie de France, Paris

1997        Another Long March – Chinese Conteptual Art Chasse Kazerne, Breda, Holland

Contemporary Photo Art from the People’s Republic of China Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Staedtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz; Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany

1998        site of desire Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

Trace of Existence – a private showing of China Contemporary Art’98 Art Now Studio, Beijing

The Bridge Construction in Process VI Melbourne, Australia

Beelden Buiten ’98 – I never promised you a rose garden Tielt, Belgium

Inside Out – New Chinese Art with the New Analysis Group, San Francisco Moma; Asia Society Galleries, New York

Corruptionists North Third Ring Basement, Beijing

1999            Innovations Part II CAAW, Beijing

                Modern Chinese Art Foundation Caermersklooster, Gent, Belgium

                Video Circle HKUST Exposition Hall, Hong Kong

                Poly Phenolrene The Bow Gallery, Beijing

                Bird Beast Fruit Flower The Bow Gallery, Beijing; Galerie Martini, Hong Kong

                Asian Artists Installations Mattres Factory, Pittsburgh, USA

                Galerie Martini, Hong Kong

2000        Fuck Off  Xi Suzhouhe 1133, Shanghai

 

about New Measurement Group:

 

Modern Art 1979-1989” Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1992, p. 72, pp. 346-349;

Valerie Doran, et. al. China’s New Art, Post-1989. Hong Kong: Hanart T Z Gallery, 1993.

Des del Pais del Centre: Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses. Barcelona: Centre  dâArt Santa Monica, 1995

Gebrochene Bilder÷Junge Kunst aus China (Broken Pictures÷Young Chinese Art). Hamburg: Drachenbruecke, Horlemann Verlag, Unkel/Rhein and Bad Honnef, 1991. pp. 95-99.

Hou, Hanru. “Beyond the Cynical: China Avant-Garde in the 1990’s.” AAP, vol. 3, no. 1 (1996), pp. 42-51.

Huang Du. “A Few Questions on the Relationship between the Development of

Chinese Contemporary Art and the Development of Contemporary International Art” in The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art. Beijing/Hong Kong (?): Ning Nan Arts Publishing Co., 1996.

London, Barbara. Stir-Fry: A Video Curatorâs Dispatches from China. New York:Mus. of Modern Art, 1997. (Web-site: http://www.adaweb.com/context/stir-fry/

Lu, Sheldon Hsiao-peng. “Global POSTmodernIZATION: The Intellectual, the Artist, and China’s Condition.” boundary 2, vol. 24, no. 3 (Fall 1997), pp. 65-97.

MacRitchie, Lynn. “Precarious Paths on the Mainland.” Art in America, vol. 82

(3/94), pp. 51-53, 55, 57.

Watari, Koichi, comp. Chinese Contemporary Art, 1997. Tokyo: Watari-um, 1997.

Thomas, Bronwyn. “Art and the Critic in Contemporary China” (based on interview with Wang Youshen). Orientations, vol. 23, no. 7 (July, 1992), pp. 59-61.

Tolnay, Alexander, Ueker, and Xin Ke Du. Uecker: Letter from Peiking/Xin Ke Du: Work III. Berlin: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 1995.

XinKeDu: Arbeit der Gruppe ãNeuer Massstabä No. 4. Germany: Configura, 1995.

XinKeDu: Grup Xin Kedu (“Nova Mida”), Obra (5). Italy: 1996.