Chen Ruo Bing, born in 1970 in China, currently lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) in the Chinese Painting Department from 1988 to 1991. Subsequently, from 1992 to 1998, he studied and graduated from the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. In 1993, he received Advancement Award of Hedwig und Robert Samuel Foundation in Düsseldorf, Germany. In 2000, he was awarded the Josef und Anni Albers Foundation Artist Residency Grant in the United States. In 2013, he had a residency at the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art in Gwangju-si, South Korea. In 2014, he stayed at the Irish residence of Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll. In the summer of 2016, he had a residency at the Laforêt family estate on Lake Maggiore, Italy. In 2020, he completed a Healing Art Project for the COVID-19 ward at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2023, he collaborated on a Creative Identity Art Project with Tiffany & Co. His works are held in public institutions such as the Shanghai Art Museum (now the China Art Palace), Beijing Today Art Museum, Hubei Art Museum, Bochum Museum in Germany, Düsseldorf Art Palace Museum in Germany, Middelburg University Art Museum in the United States, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art in South Korea, and the Tottori Prefectural Museum in Japan.
EDUCATION
1988-1991 Studied Chinese Landscape painting at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou
1992 Exchange Studies at the Universität Kassel
1992-1998 Studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. Gotthard Graubner
1993 Advancement Award of Hedwig und Robert Samuel Foundation Düsseldorf
2000 Artist in Residence Program at the Josef und Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Connecticut
2013 Artist in Residence at the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art in Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do
2014 Artist in Residence at the Heinrich Böll Cottage in Achill Island
2016 Laforêt Summer Vacation Project, Lake Maggiore
2020 Healing Art Project for the Covid-Station of Robert-Bosch-Hospital in Stuttgart
2023 Creative Identity Art Project with Tiffany & Co.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 World of Reflection, Ginkgo Space, Shenzhen
2023 Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2023 The Serene Quest, Ginkgo Space, Shanghai
2023 Chen Ruo Bing, Chabot Fine Art, The Hague
2022 Chinese Abstract Painting Today, K.O.N.G Gallery, Seoul
2022 Floating, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin
2022 First Sight: the here and the now, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2022 Space is the Place, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2021 A body of light in space, Chabot Fine Art, The Hague
2020 Neue Bilder, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2020 Sky Light, DEER and ALL, Shenyang
2020 What We Cannot Speak About, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin
2019 Blues, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2019 Chen Ruo Bing 2010-2019, YIBO/M Gallery, Shanghai
2019 Chen Ruo Bing, Chabot Fine Art, The Hague
2018 der Maler Chen Ruo Bing, Kunstmuseum Bochum
2018 Flowing: Space-Light-Time, Gallery K.O.N.G, Seoul
2017 River of Light, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2017 Defined Spaces in Ambiguous Worlds, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin
2016 Squaring the Circle, Colour.21, Cologne
2016 der Maler Chen Ruo Bing, Kunstmuseum Bochum
2016 der Maler Chen Ruo Bing, St.-Georg, Hattingen
2016 New Painting, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2016 New Painting, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2016 Chen Ruo Bing, Stefan Vogdt/Galerie der Moderne, Munich
2015 Chinese Contemporary Abstract Art, Gallery K.O.N.G, Seoul
2015 Looking for Now, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2014 The Trace of Origin, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2013 Minimalism+, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju-Si
2012 Malerei, Galerie Frank Schlag & CIE., Essen
2012 Image of Time, Wellside Gallery, Seoul
2012 Image of Time, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2011 Looking back, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2010 Body of Light, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2010 Body of Light, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2009 Works on paper, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2009 De Stilte van het Light, Galerie De Rijk, The Hague
2008 Thinking in color, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2008 Licht+Farbe, Kunstraum Falkenstein/Elke Dröscher, Hamburg
2008 The Silence of Light, Wellside Gallery, Shanghai/Seoul
2008 Chen Ruo Bing, Gallery K.O.N.G, Seoul
2007 The Process of Responding, onemoon, Beijing
2006 Into the Light, Fuhrwerkswaage Kunstraum, Cologne
2006 Chen Ruo Bing, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2005 Into the Light, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2004 Into the Light, Galerie Fesel, Düsseldorf
2004 Chen Ruo Bing, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
2003 Chen Ruo Bing, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken
2003 Malerei, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2002 Chen Ruo Bing, Kunstverein Lippstadt
2002 Malerei, Kunstraum Falkenstein/Elke Dröscher, Hamburg
2001 Color walked in, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris
2000 Open House, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany
1999 Winterrot, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris
1998 Malerei und Zeichnung, Kunstkabinett Konrad Mönter, Meerbusch
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 THE SEA OF TIME, Gravity Art Museum, Beijing
2023 Landscape, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2023 Ausblick-Die Landschaft auf der Brücke/Ausstellung von Werken Chinesischer Künstler in Deutschland, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing/New Gallery of Art, Shanghai/TAG Art Museum, Qingdao
2022 Existence & Repetition, Chun Art Museum, Shanghai
2022 Encounter-Asia Abstract Art exhibition, Holly´s Space, Shanghai
2022 Walking on the Waves, Dahe Art, Xiamen
2022 Two SONGS in the LIVING ROOM, Gallery Légume, Chengdu
2021 3(3-6-9) Part 3, Hengyi Space, Hangzhou
2021 Marginalism, Yuan Art, Beijing
2021 The Superiority of the Invisible, Galerie Frank Schlag & CIE., Essen
2021 Relations, NanShan Foundation, Xi‘an
2021 Invisible Reality, Hongmei Museum, Shenyang
2020 Abstract 2020 Part I-Cold & Warm, YIBO/M Gallery, Shanghai
2020 Sichtbar-die Eigene Sammlung in Villa Marckhoff, Kunstmuseum Bochum
2020 Time-Space-Existence, De Rijk/Chabot Fine Art, The Hague
2020 Where the Value of Art Emerges?, Prefectural Museum, Tottori
2019 Forms which are not Forms, T6 Gallery, Beijing
2018 Intermezzo, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin
2018 #FARBE, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2018 Ansichten XXXI-4ABSTRACTs2NOT, QuadrART, Dornbirn
2018 Abstract Quad Exhibition, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai
2017 Mutual Supplementary and Medge, Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai
2017 China-Dialogue-Transmission, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
2016 The Research Exhibition of Abstract Art in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2016 Beyond the Mirror Phase, Times Museum, Beijing
2016 Beyond Form-Abstract Art in China, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
2016 Non-Objective Art in Process, Right View Art Museum, Beijing
2016 Abstract Art in China 2016, Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai
2016 My Abstract World, me collector’s room, Berlin
2016 Abstraction and Beyond, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2016 Plural, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2015 The Boundaries of Order, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2015 Chinese Abstract Painting, S+ Gallery, Busan
2015 Conception & Perception, Art Issue, Taipei
2015 Void: There's nothing more left, but a little trace from human being, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2015 Chinese Abstract Painting Today, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2015 Handmade, Mao Space, Shanghai
2015 Die Farbe hat mich, COLOUR21, Cologne
2015 Following Traces, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju-Si
2015 The Concept of Form-Chinese History and Aesthetic Expression of Abstract Art, China Millennium Monument, Beijing
2015 Beyond Form-Abstract Art in China, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou
2014 Form Does Not Differ from Emptiness, Meijiang Art Center, Tianjin
2014 Die Übermacht der Unsichtbaren, Museum für aktuelle Kunst/Sammlung Hurrle, Durbach
2014 Position of Chinese Abstract Art-Part I, Deshan Art Space, Beijing
2014 The New Generation of Abstract Art, SiShang Art Museum, Beijing
2014 Logic of Perception, IAM Art Space, Beijing
2014 The Third Kind of Critic: Critical Thinking of Art Language, Times Museum, Beijing
2013 Contemporary Art from China, Japan and Korea, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2013 New Abstract, Phoenix Art Palace Museum, Wuxi
2013 Rhythm and Method, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan
2013 Farbe-Rückblicke und Ausblicke, Fesel Modern Art, Sonsbeck
2012 Facing China-Chinese Abstract Slow Art, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
2012 China-Germany: Abstract Painting Today!, Opländer Stiftung, Dortmund/Beijing
2011 Facing China-Chinese Abstract Slow Art, Singer Laren Museum, Al Laren
2011 Visible Soul-The 4th Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing
2011 China Abstract Painting Now, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2010 Array with no Objects-Contemporary Abstract Art, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan
2010 Assimilating Antiquity-Depth in Space in Contemporary Abstract Chinese Painting, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing
2009 Stille-Leere-Konzentration, Kunstraum Falkenstein/Elke Dröscher, Hamburg
2008 Quiet Request-Realism to Abstraction, onemoon, Beijing
2007 Lines-Chinese Abstract Art, Creek Art, Shanghai
2006 Visibleinvisible, onemoon, Beijing
2006 An Existence, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2006 Less is more, Renate Schröder Galerie, Mönchengladbach
2005 Metaphysics 2005-Black & White, Shanghai Art Museum
2002 Zeitgenössische Kunst aus China, Landesvertretung der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg beim Bund, Berlin
2001 L’IMPURETE, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris
2000 nouvelles peintures, Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris
1999 Junge Kunst-Malerei bis Multimedia, Haus der Kunst, Munich
1997 Basis-28 Artists, Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss
1993 Über Grenzen-Übergrenzen, Hedwig und Robert Samuel Stiftung, Düsseldorf
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
Die Eiche, Lübeck
Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou
Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan
Kunstmuseum Bochum
Landesvertretung der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg beim Bund, Berlin
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
Norton Rose Fullbright, Amsterdam
Olbricht Collection, Berlin
Prefectural Museum, Tottori
Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart
Sagacity Art Foundation, Hongkong
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Stiftung Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss
St. Georg, Hattingen
Tiffany & Co., New York
Times Museum, Beijing
Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju-Si
