Artist：He Zike
HE Zike (b.1990, Guiyang, China) is an artist who works with mediums including video,writing, performance, prints, and computer program. By incorporating personal memories into her research and fieldwork in East Asian, HE Zike’s practice illuminates the interplaybetween time, mundane lives and the technological environment. She weaves the disorder beneath the surface of contemporary life through a narrative approach.
She is the finalists of the 5th VH Award of Hyundai Motor Group, and was selected in the residency program of Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council in 2023. From 2021, She co-initiated the interdisciplinary project “Under the Cloud” which visits and studies the technological infrastructure in Southwest China. Her works have been exhibited and screened in Cosmos Cinema, the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023), Dresden Film Fest (2024), Ars Electronica Linz (2023) and Beijing Biennale (2022) among others. HE Zike received master degree from the Department of Future Media Art, China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2018, and studied media art at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany, in 2017. In 2012, she graduated from the Communication University of China with bachelor degree in Digital Film Making.
✲Screenings:
2024Dresden Filmfest, Germany
Assembly Intelligence, Geneva, Switzerland
Art Central, Hong Kong
2023
Deep Space Program, Ars Electronia, Linz, Austria
✲Solo Exhibition:
2021The Hidden Layer, Shunluck Space, Guangzhou, China
✲Group Exhibitions(Selected):
20245th VH Award, MACAN Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
5th VH Award, Objectifs, Singapore
2023
Cosmos Cinema, 14th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Someone has been disarranging these roses, Beiqiu Contempoary Museum of Art, Nanjing, China
Seaward, The Second TAG New Contemporary, TAG Museum, Qingdao, China
2022
Earth Heat Flow: The Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time, Beijing Biennale, China
Violence at the Exceptional Moments (Zhu Ye): Math, Diction and Knives, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China
AI Delivered: The Abject, A4 Museum, Chengdu, China
2021
Gangwon Triennale, Korea
The Long Cut, Online Project
AI Delivered: The Abject, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
2020
A2P (V2), Online
La Belle Noiseuse, Mocube, Group Show, Beijing, China
2019
Gender Travel, Group show, Hongcheon Art Museum, Korea
Lying Sophia & Mocking Alexa, Group show, HYUNDAI motor studio Beijing
Hic sunt leones, Group show, 798 Art Center, Beijing, Surplus Space, Wuhan
Under the Sign of the Internet, Group show, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing
2018
Ghosts in Information, Group show, PPPP, Beijing
Surpassing r=a(1-sinθ), Group show, QIMU Space, Beijing
2017
Sichtbarkeit, Group show, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Future of the Present, Group show, Gallery Yang, Beijing
Moments and More, Group show, OCAT, Shanghai
2016
Why the Performance?, Group show, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
Are You Normal?, Group show, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
✲ Prize&Grant:
Finalist, 5th VH Award, Hyundai Motor Group, Korea, 2022Digital Residency Artist, Pro Helvetia, Switzerland, 2022
Finalist, Ranran Award, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 2023
2nd TAG New Contemporary, 2023
✲Writings&Publications:
The Ghost of Film: A Path to the River of Forgetfulness, Article, 2021
Under The Cloud, publication, 2023
✲Lectures&Events:
Before the Fireplace Went Out, A Dream Dropped by Air, Performance LectureMacalline Art Center, Beijing, 2023
Xintiandi&UCCA, Shanghai, 2023
Salon Room of Macalline Art Center, Shanghai, 2022
✲Curatorial Projects:
Under the Cloud, Visiting Program, Guiyang, China, 2021-2023Temporal Stacks: The Deep Sensor, Guiyang, China, 2021
✲Residency Programs:
Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, 2023VH Award&Eyebeam(NY), Online, 2022
Pink Factory, Hongcheon, Korea, 2019