Qiu Zhijie — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works101

Museum Acquisitions

10 Institutions

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Art Institute of Chicago

LACMA

Previous Sales 29

Sotheby's

Qiu Zhijie 邱志杰 | Heart Sutra 心經, 2000

Unknown

Oct 2022

Christie's

Tattoo 2, 1994, 1994

$18,900

Sep 2022

Christie's

Tattoo 1, 1994, 1994

$4,032

Sep 2022

Christie's

Interpretation of Chinese Characters - Jade

HK$62,500 ($8k USD)

Dec 2020

Christie's

Dictionary Series — Mountain, 1992

HK$87,500 ($11k USD)

May 2019

Christie's

Dictionary Series - Bamboo

HK$81,250 ($10k USD)

Nov 2018

Christie's

30 Letters To Qiu Jiawa L22 - Beyond sky there is sky, within the sea there is sea L23 - An exit from a tunnel is not always only where the light is L24 - In their contests, you do not have to become a winner, 2009

HK$1,500,000 ($192k USD)

Nov 2016

Christie's

Ten Poems by Su Shi, 2004

HK$162,500 ($21k USD)

Christie's

Christie's

Homage to Vita Nouva

HK$1,000,000 ($128k USD)

May 2016

Christie's

A Blessed Child, 2013

HK$437,500 ($56k USD)

Jun 2015

Christie's

Explaining and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) Series: Metal; & Fire, 2005

HK$137,500 ($18k USD)

Mar 2015

Christie's

B & W Zoo, 2005

HK$475,000 ($61k USD)

Nov 2014

Christie's

Rebellious Painter, 2007

CN¥562,500 ($78k USD)

Apr 2014

Christie's

Untitled

HK$325,000 ($42k USD)

Christie's

Bonhams

Standard Group I, 1996

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Two Poems by Su Shi

Bought In

Dec 2022

Christie's

Eighteen Buddhist Monks Series, 1999

Sotheby's

Christie's

Copy Orchard Pavilion Preface 1000 Times, 1990

$10,679

Sep 2022

Sotheby's

Qiu Zhijie (b. 1969), Two Poems by Su Shi 邱志傑蘇軾《書雙竹湛師房二首》

Bought In

Nov 2021

Christie's

King’s Occult is Unknowable, 2008

$24,148

Jun 2021

China Guardian Auctions

Sushi Poems, 2000

Bought In

Jun 2022

For Sale 6

SitterArt · Artsper

Puzzle Man

$5,826

Photography

Ethan Cohen Gallery · Artsy

Grinding the Steele (Tombstone) 1, 2001

Price on request

Stone rubbing, ink on paper mounted on scroll

Ethan Cohen Gallery · Artsy

Grinding the Steele (Tombstone) 3, 2001

Price on request

Stone rubbing, ink on paper mounted on scroll

Ethan Cohen Gallery · Artsy

Grinding the Steele (Tombstone) 2, 2001

Price on request

Stone rubbing, ink on paper mounted on scroll

Ethan Cohen Gallery · Artsy

Element Series, 2000

Price on request

Ink on paper, mounted on scroll

Ethan Cohen Gallery · Artsy

Tang Dynasty Poem Written Backwards in Ink, 2001

Price on request

Ink on paper

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Market219 auction results

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$1.8K – $192K

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$37.5K

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$1.8K

1 priced works on paper lots

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Dec 2022 · $1.8K

Latest priced sale: Eighteen Buddhist Monks Series - 49.5 x 50 cm - $1/sq cm

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Works on paper: $1.8K medianPhotographs: $9.8K medianPaintings: $16.3K medianEditioned prints: $24.1K medianUnclassified lots: $10.7K median

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Prizes & Awards1

Hugo Boss Prize

Shortlisted 2012

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Publications1

Survey 1

Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing

Phaidon Press · 2022

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Current Exhibitions0

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Recent News8

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Past Exhibitions3

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#4,813 PalaisPopulaire

Seeing Words, Reading Images: The Written Art Collection in dialogue with the Deutsche Bank Collection

Etel Adnan, Mounira Al Solh, Joseph Beuys, Osman Bozkurt, Hoy Wong Cheong, Natalie Czech, Claudia Comte, Marcel Dzama, Larissa Fassler, Meschac Gaba, Ellen Gallagher, Jenny Holzer, Annette Kelm, William Kentridge, Imi Knoebel, Ahmed Mater, Ahmad Moualla, Farhad Moshiri, Herta Müller, Shiryû Morita, Shirin Neshat, Zhijie Qiu, Karin Sander, Viviane Sassen, Yinka Shonibare, Slavs and Tatars, Agathe Snow, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Lawrence Weiner, Yang Jiechang, Inoue Yū-ichi, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi

Unter den Linden 5, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Mar 20, 2026 — Jun 18, 2026

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