Chen Zhen — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works57

Museum Acquisitions

11 Institutions

MoMA

Met

NGA Washington

Pompidou

Guggenheim

Tate Britain

Kröller-Müller Museum

Previous Sales 2

Christie's

Untitled, 1993

HK$2,190,000 ($280k USD)

Christie's

For Sale 9

GALLERIA CONTINUA · Artsy

L'Autel n° 15, 1993

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Metal, wood, glass, self-adhesive plastic sheet, rice paper, black and white acrylic paint, sand, water, objects

DE SARTHE · Artsy

Le Sommeil Profond (Serie) The Deep Sleep Series, 1992

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Water, sand, metal, wood, plexiglass, glass, objects, rice paper

ARTIN Space 樂藝居 · Artsy

Un monde accroché / détaché (a set of 5), 1990

Price on request

Photocopy of newspaper, photocopy of map, ink, paper and glass

DE SARTHE · Artsy

Daily Incantations, 1996

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Wood, metal, Chinese chamber pots, electrical wires, electronic objects, sound system

GALLERIA CONTINUA · Artsy

Météorite, 1992

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Metal, glass, bauxite, aluminium, photograph, red acrylic paint

DE SARTHE · Artsy

Instrument Musical, 1999

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Wood, metal, Chinese chamber pots, sound system

DE SARTHE · Artsy

Chaise de concentration, 1998

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Wooden chair, Chinese chamber pots, sound system, wire, metal aperture, screws and electrical tape

Guggenheim Museum · Artsy

Fu Dao/Fu Dao, Upside-Down Buddha/Arrival at Good Fortune, 1997

For sale

Steel, bamboo, resin Buddha statues, washing machine, computer monitor, tires, bicycle, fan, chair, household appliances, other found objects, and string

Rockbund Art Museum · Artsy

My Diary in a Shaker Village (Detail), 1996

For sale

Wood, glass, India ink, pencils, pastels, black, red, blue and green rollerball pen, black and green felt pen on paper, cardboard, photographs

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Market131 auction results

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$280K – $280K

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$280K

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$280K

1 priced sculpture/objects lots

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May 2013 · $280K

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Sculpture/objects: $280K medianPaintings: $86.9K medianWorks on paper: $19.3K medianUnclassified lots: — median

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Publications1

Exhibition Catalog 1

Chen Zhen

MIT Press · 2020

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Current Exhibitions0

No current exhibitions found.

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Recent News2

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In Venice two new cultural realities in the Civic Museums circuit: a contemporary art center is born in Mestre and the Wagner Museum enters the network

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