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current Zheng Bo: Wanwu Council 萬物社 Gropius Bau, Berlin 21.6 - 23.8.2021 ⇀ visit in Berlin ⇀ online documentation botanical films daily practice living slogans Life Is Hard Why Do We Make It So Easy weedy gardens workshops A Chinese Communist Garden in Paris download texts Conversation with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens research SEACHINA Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China Contemporary Art and Ecology in East Asia ZHENG Bo grew up in Beijing and now lives on Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Committed to more-than-human vibrancy, he investigates the past and imagines the future from the perspectives of marginalized communities and marginalized plants. He creates weedy gardens, living slogans, eco-queer films, and wanwu workshops to cultivate ecological wisdom beyond the Anthropocene extinction. Recent solo exhibitions include: Wanwu Council, Gropius Bau, Berlin (2021); You are the 0.01%, Schering Stiftung, Berlin (2021); Life is hard. Why do we make it so easy?, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Hong Kong (2021); The Soft and Weak Are Companions of Life, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2020); Goldenrod, Institute of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (2019); Dao is in Weeds, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto (2019); and Weed Party III, Parco Arte Vivente, Turin (2018). He participated in Liverpool Biennial 2021, Yokohama Triennale 2020, Manifesta 12 (2018), the 11th Taipei Biennial (2018), and the 11th Shanghai Biennial (2016). His works are in the collection of Power Station of Art in Shanghai, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Singapore Art Museum, and Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Zheng Bo received his PhD from the Visual and Cultural Studies Program, University of Rochester. He taught at China Academy of Art from 2010 to 2013, and currently teaches at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, where he leads the Wanwu Practice Group. |