Zhang Jin Wei
Born in 1989 in China.
Graduated from Nanyang Junior College in Singapore (1999) and the St. Petersburg Repin Academy of Arts in the Department of Graphics under the supervision of A.A. Pakhomov (2010–2016). His artistic practice is focused on the awakening and sublimation of the inner spirit of a person, based on the belief that at the moment of deep existential insight, an individual experiences an imperative — a call from higher dimensions or the depths of his own being. This call is not a concrete sensory phenomenon, but manifests itself as an intense internal intentionality that directs the subject to the place where the transmutation ritual is performed.
This process is visualized as entering a forest-like locus — a symbolic transpsychic space representing a portal to another ontological reality (not a literal natural landscape). Within this space, the subject acquires a personal installation, often visually likened to an operating room with pronounced ritualistic semantics. The object embodies a unique individualized rite necessary for the completion of internal sublimation.
In terms of visual representation, the dialectic of the relationship between the human body and the surrounding space is explored in depth, especially the states of dissolution (dissolution of boundaries), integration (fusion) and transgression (crossing of limits). As the individual awakens, the demarcation lines between the individual and the outside world, as well as the intrapsychic boundaries, are subject to erosion and become labile (mobile).
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
- 2025 — Solo exhibition at Simulacra Gallery, Beijing, China
- 2024 — Solo exhibition at Zimmer 48 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- 2022 — “Eschatological Fugue” Sation Hall, Brusnitsyn Cultural Portal, St. Petersburg, Russia
RESIDENCES:
- 2025 — Culterium program
FAIRS:
- 2024 — BAAM ART FAIR, Berlin, Germany
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