
The team of Galerie Urs Meile is happy to invite you to the exhibition 'Fugitive Figuration. Paintings 1994 – 2026' by Chinese artist Xie Nanxing on Friday, June 12th from 6-9pm at the Ankerstrasse gallery.
’Fugitive Figuration. Paintings 1994–2026’, is a survey exhibition of works by Xie Nanxing curated by Clémentine Deliss.
Tracing the artist’s practice from his iconic paintings of the 1990s to works completed in 2026, the exhibition offers both an introduction to and an appraisal of Xie Nanxing’s singular position within contemporary Chinese and international art.
For the first time, nine paintings from six different series are brought into dialogue, revealing the shifting forms and possibilities of figuration that have emerged throughout his practice over the last three decades.
Born in 1970 in Chongqing, a futuristic industrial city in Southern China, Xie studied printmaking, a technique mirrored in the different ways he manipulates pigment.
The artist will be present.
Date: June 12 to August 29, Vernissage June 12th 6-9pm
Location: Galerie Urs Meile, Ankerstrasse 3, 8004 Zurich
Image: Xie Nanxing, Untitled No. 8, 2025, oil on canvas, 210 x 195 cm