Chen Ruo Bing: Arise with Thoughts

The seventh solo exhibition of Chen Ruo Bing at Ginkgo Space, "Arise with Thoughts," will open on November 11, 2025, focusing on the artist's latest acrylic paintings.

Constructing the "authentic" state of the world through his two-color interactive painting system has been the enduring theme of Chen Ruobing's artistic exploration. Each presentation of "light" in his works is not only "arise with thoughts," but also another interpretation of the world by the artist. In his new works, the "light" tends to be gentle yet dazzling, beyond words. The layered and rendered image highlights the depth of color, as if the light is breathing within the canvas. The spontaneity and fluidity of the halos rise and fall... At this point of viewing, the works transcend mere aesthetic interpretation, which are abstract, elusive, yet coexist with the world as one, nourishing those who behold them.

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 and 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.

From 2015 to 2025, Gingo Space has hosted seven exhibitions for Chen Ruobing in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen:“Arise with Thoughts”（Ginkgo Space,Shanghai,2025); “World of Reflection” (Ginkgo Space, Shenzhen,2023); “The Serene Quest” (Ginkgo Space, Shanghai,2023) ; “First Sight: the here and the now” (Ginkgo Space, Beijing,2022); “Blues”(Ginkgo Space, Beijing,2019); “ River of Light” (Ginkgo Space, Beijing,2017); “Looking for Now” (Ginkgo Space, Beijing,2015)。