
On Friday, June 23, 2023, at 6 pm you are invited to join our Salon in dialogue with the Chinese artist Zeng Zhe.
She will talk about her life as an artist and about her most recent project. Zeng Zhe will present the book Another Place, Some Other Time (2022) which was a joint project with Chinese curator Li Zhenhua. We will also have a chance to watch the film about the making of the book.
The book is a journey through pandemic times, some words and drawings, and a collaboration between Zeng Zhe and Li Zhenhua that took two years. Zeng Zhe came to Berlin from Beijing a few years before the pandemic which brought life to a standstill, but it also gave her time to focus on a flood of creativity in a small living space. The book is nearly 400 pages long, beautifully printed and hand-marked, all echoing the artist's state of being, and is timed to the development of the pandemic, interspersed with texts from Li Zhenhua, as well as poems, phrases and texts that he collected and compiled (Text: Burki & Li).
The film ‘Another Place, Some Other Time’ presents Zeng Zhe's creative process and everyday state. A displaced person, a three-year epidemic, a hometown that cannot be returned to. Through repeated brush strokes, the borders of paper and time gradually deposited traces, regular or irregular edges, tangible and intangible, colours accompanying the paper and pigments, appearing in the light.
Zeng Zhe 曾喆 (*1980) was born in Zhejiang. She entered the secondary school affiliated of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1996 and the Central Academy of Drama in 1999, majoring in stage design. In 2014, she held a solo exhibition, "Moment of Being" (EGG Gallery, Beijing), moved to Berlin in 2017, participated in the choreography of the opera "Turandot" at Ai Weiwei Studio in 2018-2019, and completed the book “Another Place, Some Other Time" with Li Zhenhua from 2020-2022. Currently lives and works in Berlin.
Li Zhenhua 李振华 was born in Beijing in 1975 and currently works in Zurich, Berlin and Hong Kong. He has been active in contemporary art since 1996 mainly covering curation, art making and project management.