Zhuo Qi fuels his artistic practice with the daily experience of the semantic and linguistic miracles generated by cultural gap and its long history of misunderstandings. Through humor and ceramics, he confronts traditions and know-how. In his work, porcelain is both the medium and the object of an experimental “cuisine” characterized by the creation of objects involving foreign bodies immerged in incongruous, enigmatic, sometimes hostile, but always amusing environments.
From 2015 to 2019, he has directed several solo exhibitions in different European cities: Paris, Marseille, Geneva and Berlin. In 2016, he was part of the “KAO EXPORT LTD” exhibition at the Adrien Dubouché National Museum in Limoges, France. In 2014 his work was exhibited at the “1320” collective exhibition in the JCI exhibition space in Jingdezhen, China. In 2018, his works were exhibited at the Contemporary Ceramic Center of La Borne after a residency of several months.
Zhuo Qi was born in 1985 in Fuxin (Liaoning province, China). He graduated with honors from the Le Mans Higher School of Fine Arts (the DNSEP Diploma), did the post graduate program KAOLIN of the ENSA Limoges in France and the Geneva University of Art and Design in Switzerland, he has been working and living in France since 2008. He did a residency at the Fondation Martell in Cognac, France at the end of 2020.
Born in Fuxin, China in 1985
Works and lives in Paris
EDUCATION
2014-2015
Post graduate Program KAOLIN of ENSA Limoges, France
2013-2014
Post graduate DAS – REALisation, Geneva University of Art and Design, Geneva, Switzerland
2008-2013
Le Mans Higher School of Fine Arts (the DNSEP Diploma), Graduated with honors, Le Mans, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
History never really says goodbye, PARIS-B, Paris, France
2021
Étrangement beau, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
2019
Le service de table chaleureux, CCP, Geneva, Switzerland
Jarstice, Galerie Galerie Untilthen, Paris, France
Y’a des jours comme ça, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris
2018
Méditation, Centre céramique contemporaine, La Borne, France
2017
BURNED ANGELS, Edmond Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2016
Firecrackers allow the neighbours to live in peace and harmony, Galerie Untilthen, Paris, France
2015
Working in progress, Galerie OÙ, Marseille, France
Fragile, Chenaux Gallery, Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
« Towards a New Land: Tales of the Ancient Pavilion » the contemporary art exhibition of the first Suzhou Garden Art Festival, Suzhou, China
Quand la matière devient art, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
2020
Spécial Art & Craft, Eleven Steens, Brussels, Belgium
As time goes by…, Suzhou, China
2019
All we have is what our childhood gave us, Galerie Untilthen, Paris, France
Boîte à outils, Musée le Carroi, Chinon, France
2018
Best (iaire), Galerie Porte Avion, Marseille, France
2017
Métamorphose de l’ordinaire, Galerie Les lles du calvaire, Paris, France
Matière Première, Galerie Laure Roynette, Paris, France
La comédie du langage, Galerie hôtel de ville Chinon, Chinon, France
Les archives du feu, HEAD Geneve, Switzerland
2016
Détournements et distorsions, 6 Mandel, Paris, France
Choséité, Galerie Épisodique, Paris, France
Matieres grises et noirs desseins, Galerie Porte Avion, Marseille, France
Salon de Montrouge 16, Montrouge, France
Contemporary Ceramics, Art Beijing, Pékin, Chine
KAO EXPORT LTD, Musée national Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, France
2015
Private Choice15, Paris, France
Confronting Anitya, Musée de Salagon, Mane, France
Remarquer la porcelaine, Wroclaw, Poland
2014
Transit, Bazaar Compatible Program, Shanghai, China
1320°, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, China
2013
INSIDE OUT, Commune de Bardonnex et Genève, Switzerland
Grande Image Lab, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Sous Conditions, Centre d’art Ile Moulins’ art, Pays de la Loire, France
2012
Ecce homo Ludens, saison suisse “le jeu dans l’art contemporain”, Musée Suisse du Jeu, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
RESIDENCIES
2021
IDE (International Design Expeditions) to Poland, Warsaw, Poland
Porcelain Academy Messen 2021 – an artist in residence program with support of ELZER Fondation, Stuttgart
2020
Fondation d’Entreprise Martell, Cognac, France
2018
Centre Céramique Contemporaine, La Borne, France
2017
Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Résidences La Borne, Centre céramique contemporaine La Borne, La Borne, France
2015
OÙ lieu d’exposition pour l’art actuel, Marseille, France
2014
JCI (Jingdezhen ceramic institute) de Jingdezhen, China
2013
Centre d’art Ile Moulins’ art, Pays de la Loire, France
PUBLICATIONS
2017
« Qi Zhuo: Lose Mental Burden», Art World, n°321, 2017
2016
Dominique Poiret, « Zhuo Qi, expérimentations extrêmes », Revue de la céramique et du verre, n°208, May 2016, p. 74 (ISSN 0294-202X)
2015
Yvonne Manfrini and Jean Stern, « Sans le socle », Geneva, HEAD-Geneva, 2015, 270 p. (ISBN 978-2-940377-76-3)
Dominique Poiret, « Qi Zhuo, fragile », Revue de la céramique et du verre, n°202, May 2015, p. 73 (ISSN 0294-202X)
Aude Lavigne, « Entretien avec Zhuo Qi », Franceculture, 16 June 2015
2016
Phaidon, Wallpaper City Guide, London, Phaidon, 2016, p. 58-59
Aude Lavigne, « Entretien avec Zhuo Qi », Franceculture, 16 June 2015
Gaya Goldcymer and Johnatan Taïeb, L’art & ses objets, Paris, 120 p.(ISBN 978-2-9532972-3-2), p. 23,107
