Lin Wang

Sculpture, Ceramic, Installation

Lin Wang (b. 1985, CN) holds a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the China Art Academy. She works mainly with sculpture, installation and performance involving different media, such as food, sound, smell, tattoos etc. Her interdisciplinary practice focuses on how art can use innovative angles and platforms to highligt contemporary personal and social spheres. A number of Wang's works thematize how the West historically has both exchanged and exploited its position to achieve trade in the East. In the long-term project 'Exotic Dreams and Poetic Misunderstandings', begun in 2016, Wang uses installations of porcelain, performance and various other media as a starting point for stories about the meeting between East and West. In the project's second part titled 'Still life', the still life's presentation of transience and beauty, which has fascinated people for centuries, is thematised, and in particular the message that nothing lasts forever.

Wang's work is part of a number of public and private collections, including the National Museum, the National Museum for Decorative Arts and Design in Trondheim, and Oslo Municipality's art collection. Wang lives and works in Oslo.

Still life #2 (group), QB Gallery, Oslo, NO
2024
Eckbo Legats Jubileumsutstilling (group), Vigelandmuseet, Oslo, NO
2023
Still life (solo), Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst, Trondheim, NO
2022
LUCK AND DESTINY. A Porcelain Cabinet (group), Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, NO
2022
Exotic Dreams Tattoo Shop (solo), Entré, Bergen, NO
2021
As far as my Eyes can Sea - The Expedition Exhibition (group), Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Arendal, NO
2021
Høstutstillingen (group), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2021
Raphsody & Still Life (solo), Vigelandmuseet, Oslo, NO
2019-2020
Exotic Dreams and Poetic Misunderstandings (solo), BWA, Wroclaw-Galleries of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw, PL
2017
Sweden - China Maritime Silk Road Culture Exhibition (group), Swedish Embassy, Prince Kung's Mansion, Beijing (CN)
2017
Høstutstillingen (group), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2017
Høstutstillingen (group), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2016

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