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“Using different ways of expression to discover more in myself, that is the outcome of freedom and getting more mature. I’d like to see myself as a person who keeps developing in compassion, sympathy, loving and intellectual than a craftsman. Art is everywhere. And art leads us to explore the world.”
Zhanhong was born in 1965 in Guangzhou, China. Following her art graduation from Manchester City College (England), she lives and works in the Dutch town of Vlaardingen, and is a member of the Pulchri Studio Society of Artists in The Hague since 1999. Her work, originally consisting of diaries and paintings, shows a rapid development from figuration to a somewhat looser, more abstract approach – if she uses Chinese characters in a painting, these don’t have to be read as language, but moreover they are primarily shapes, elements of the work’s composition. The materials employed by Zhanhong play an increasing part in her diaries and paintings (aside from paint, she also applies materials like fabrics and wire gauze), making the diaries diary objects.
She also works in other media, e.g. performance, video and digitally-based works. At the same time she engages in dialogue with the world around her in other ways: in 2009 she made large-sized digital works based on hundred of collected photos of inhabitants of Vlaardingen. Zhanghong has exhibited solo in Amsterdam and participated in group exhibitions in [amongst others] Saint Petersburg (Russia), Izmir (Turkey), Helsinki (Finand), Kampala (Uganda) and Brescia (Italy). Her projects, lectures and stays as an artist-in-residence take her from China to Tunisia and Germany.
Voorjaarsalon, Pulchri Studio
Contemporary Art Gallery Har Hensgens
Solo, Gallery 44, The Hague
Voorjaarsalon, Pulchri Studio, The Hague
Kunstspoor, Kortgene, Noord-Beverland
Rooting in between, RIB, Schiedam
Najaarsalon, Pulchri Studio
‘t Huis van Zotheid, Rotterdam
Solo, Pulchri Studio, The Hague
Stichting Kunstwerkt, Schiedam
Art Center Remagen, Germany
Gallery de 13e Maand, ‘Reflectie’ (duo), Rotterdam
Gallery De Duig, Vlaardingen
De Windwijzer, (solo) Vlaardingen
‘t Hof Mieszcanskim, ‘Paspoort to Art’, Torun Poland
Pulchri Studio, The Hague
Pand Paulus, ‘Me, Myself and I’, Schiedam
KADE 40, ’Symbiose’, Vlaardingen
Gallery Wies Willems, Amsterdam
Gallery RAR, ‘Grenzeloos’, Spijkenisse
Pulchri Studio, The Hague
Gallery de 13e Maand, Rotterdam
Pand Paulus, Schiedam
Pand Paulus, ‘Dialogen’, Schiedam
Pulchri Studio, The Hague
Pand Paulus, ‘Afscheid’, Schiedam
Gallery Double Trees, Hilton
Hotel Kussadassi, Turkey
Diversity & Art, Amsterdam (solo)
Gallery Myro, Thessaloniki, Greece
pArt 96 e.V., Künstlergemeinschaft Münster, Germany
Selexyz Donner, Rotterdam
‘Naakt vs Bloot’, Pand Paulus, Schiedam
‘East meets West’, Kunst im Schlosskeller, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany
Boyuan Art Gallery, The Hague
The Goethe Institute, Freiburg, Germany
International Exhibition “CULTURES OF COSMOS”, Hall of the Palace of Romanian Parliament, Bucharest
Puchri Studio, The Hague (solo)
Pand Paulus, Schiedam
Galerie Hollandia, Vlaardingen
Izmir International Biennial, Izmir, Turkey
Contemporary ESTeeLIE, PRIMAVERA Ahoy Rotterdam
Muzee, Scheveningen
CBK, Rotterdam
Het Loggerfestival, Vlaardingen
Studio Zi, Rotterdam
Festival Int. des Arts Plastiques de Monastir, Tunisia
Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam (solo)
Open Art Fair, ESTeeLIE Contemporary, Utrecht
Competition’Turbulences’ in Hesse, Germany
International Festival of Experimental Art, ‘Manege’, Sint-Petersburg
Contemporary ESTeeLIE, PRIMAVERA Ahoy Rotterdam
WAD Closer to Delft III, World Art Delft, Delft
Pulchri Studio, The Hague
Zone Zero – Gallikos River, Municipality
Exhibition Space, Kilkis, Greece
‘Agora’, Centro Arto LuPier, Brescia, Italy
Puchri Studio, The Hague (solo)
Beemster Art Centre, Amsterdam (duo)
Hollandia Gallery, Vlaardingen (solo)
Oosterkerk en Mozes en Aaronkerk, Amsterdam
Galerie van B, Vlaardingen
World Art Delft, Delft
Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft
Vele Vlaardingen in Een Huis, Vlaardingen (solo)
General Art & Design, City College of Manchester, U.K. 1991-1995
Member of Pulchri Studio, Artist Association in The Hague
Member of Kunstgebouw of South Holland
Member of Kunstwerkt, Schiedam
Member of EUMAN Finland
Member of Artist Collectief De 13e Maand, Rotterdam
Teaching in painting and Chinese Calligraphic/Gallery Kadan, The Netherlands, 1998-2000
Teacher and team leader for Project Leentjebeur of City Vlaardingen 2000-2001
Member of PR commission of Puchri Studio, The Hague, 2001-2002
Lectors in University of Hua Nan Shi Fang, Guangzhou, China, 2004-2005
Establisher of Stichting Brains & Hearts, 2006
Design and produce ‘Venetiedocument ZMC”, The Netherlands 2007
‘Experience China’, workshop voor Olympic team, Arham, 21 June 2007
Project ‘Trouwen & Houwen’, Vlaardingen, 2007-2008
Project ’Identity’, Schiedam, The Netherlands, 2007
Conservator ‘China Show’, Castle Rhoon, The Netherlands, 2007-2008
Project ‘De Brug naar China’, The Netherlands/China, 2008-2009
Project ‘Made in China’, Vlaardingen, 2009
International Festival of Experimental Art, ‘Manege’, Sint-Petersburg, Russia, 2010
Training course ‘Photography Adventure’, Sremski Karlovci, Serbia, September 2010
Curator-China Tentoonstelling Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2011
Curator ’China’, Stichting Kunstwerkt in Pand Paulus, The Netherlands, 2011
Member of Ballotage Commission, Stichting Kunstwerkt, Schiedam, The Netherlands, 2013-
Art Teacher at Seniorwelzijn, Vlaardingen, The Netherlands, 2013 –
The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Monaghan, Ireland
Invited artist in Resident in Foundation Valparaiso, Spain,
Art symposium in Cappadocia, Turky
Teaching in High Schools in Innsbruck, Austria
Art Colony, Rab island, Croatia
Art symposium in Pune, India
Land Art Symposium, Livadi, Greece
International Painting Symposium, Ayden, Turkey
International Paiting Symposium Malownicza Barbarka, Poland
International Culture Art Dailogues, Kusadasi, Turkey
IKACA International Knidos Arts Festival, Knidos, Turkey
Symbosium 9th Monastir Art Festival, Monastir, Tunesia
The 2nd International Art & Science Festival’, UNESCO, Patras, Greece
Invited artist in “Talking Compounds II’ International Workshop, Uganda
The 1st International Environmental Art Symposium, Thessaloníki, Greece
The 5th WAD International Art Symposium, Delft
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