XIE Qun

Xie Qun, born in Hebei in 1991, graduated from the Third Studio of the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 2018, and currently lives and works in Beijing.

Xie Qun’s art practice is presented in a variety of media, including installation, sculpture, video, and painting, focusing on religious anthropology, geography, and folk witchcraft. Based on  field research to explore the relationship between ancient tradition and modern society. Through the construction of semi-closed space rituals, Sakuin explores the extension of the current “psychic” matter and body sympathies with divine will, and attempts to invent multiple narratives of the body  mythological beyond the sight of history.

Main exhibitions include: Xie Qun – TUO YUE Perpetual motion machine, Hunsand Space, Beijing (2022); Xie Qun – Planting Life, M’s Room, Beijing (2023); The Treasure Trove of the Goddess, Aimer Art Museum, Beijing (2024); Egress of Spirit, Ox Warehouse, Macau (2024); Jumping Frogs, Easternization movement & Hunsand Space, Beijing (2023); Cloud Sculpture/Growing River-Walking Nujiang Cloudsculpture, Song Art Museum, Beijing (2023); Pulse, Cai Jin Space, Beijing (2021); Water Falling Stones, Tao Xi Chuan Museum of Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (2020); Imaginary Warehouse, CHAO Art Center, Beijing (2019); Desktop Art Fair, Mumu Art Museum  & Tong Gallery+project Cooperation Project, Beijing (2018).