Exhibitions
Zhang Enli has participated in such dynamic group exhibitions as "Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation: Contemporary Art from China’, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in 2005, and "Infinite Painting and Global Realism", curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, at Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Udine, in 2006, in addition to his solo show “Human, Too Human" at BizArt, Shanghai in 2004.
It was not until 2006, however, that he gained broad international attention when he attended Art Basel at which he was one of the most successful contemporary Chinese artists. Since then, Zhang Enli’s success has slowly infiltrated the international art world as a result of the continued positive reception of his work, and more recently due to solo shows in 2009, such as “Zhang Enli” at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, curated by Jonathan Watkins, and “Zhang Enli”, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, curated by Philipe Pirotte.
This year, he will have solo exhibitions at Mingsheng Contemporary Art Museum and at Hauser & Wirth London, who represents Zhang Enli alongside the ShanghArt Gallery in Shanghai and Beijing. In the latter show, he presents new, sensational series of works that continue his quest to invest life into the most common of signifiers: from details of trees to lace curtains, bare mattresses, and rubber tubing.
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