Stories of the Northwest: Four Decades of Duan Zhengqu's Painting

Exhibition Info

Exhibition Period　　　　29 July – 15 October 2025

Exhibition Venue　　　　Exhibition Hall 7-8, Fourth Floor

Chief Director　　　　Lu Xiaobo

Chief Artistic Director　　　　Deng Yan

Art Consultant　　　　Xu Hong

Academic Director　　　　Carol Yinghua Lu

Curator　　　　Ma Xiao

Exhibition Supervisor　　　　Wang Chenya　Chen Xinglu

Design Supervisor　　　　Wang Peng

Visual & Display Design　　　　Wang Peng　Chen Xinglu　Yang Hui

Exhibition Team　　　　Wang Xinchi　Li Ziyu　Chen Yanran　Zhu Fengyi　Song Ziyi　Xiong Jinhua　Wan Jiangtao
　Wang Peng　Lu Yan　Wu Bo　Dong Chaoyang　Li Duqing　Wu Wei

Publicity Team　　　　Liu Yaomeng　Zhou Xinxin　Xiao Fei　Peng Yu　Shi Xiaoyan

Education Program　　　　Zhang Ming　Zhou Ying　Wang Wenhui　Zhang Ruiqi

English Translation　　　　Bai Shenhao　Wang Xinchi　Li Ziyu

Host　　　　Tsinghua University Art Museum

Exhibition Profile

Over the course of 40 years of artistic journey, Duan Zhengqu has grown from greenness to maturity, and his changes are based on the unchanging rationale of a continuous response to the seductive land of Northwest China. When the audience is immersed in the exhibition hall and gazes at these deep color fields, they will undoubtedly be taken into the moods and atmospheres that the artist has acquired from the Northwest through the canvas and paper, and into the land, characters, stories, and history that he has been focusing on. At the same time, through his vision, the audience may also glimpse a spiritual homeland of their own.

Artist Profile

Duan Zhengqu (b.1958, Yanshi, Henan Province) graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1983. He is currently a professor and PhD supervisor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University; researcher at the Oil Painting Institute of China National Painting Academy; a member of the Oil Painting Art Committee, China Artists Association; and director of the China Oil Painting Society.

 

Duan Zhengqu has participated in numerous large-scale exhibitions organized at the National Art Museum of China. He has also exhibited at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Hong Kong University Museum, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Beijing International Art Gallery, Exhibition Hall of China Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum, Fujian Art Museum, OCAT Shenzhen, He Xiangning Art Museum, Art Museum of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Xinjiang Urumqi Art Museum, Taipei Sotheby’s Art Space, National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Seoul Museum of Art; Vasa Art Museum of Finland; National Museum of Lima; Museum of Modern Art of Chile; and Russian National Museum, among others. He has held solo exhibitions at the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts and the China Oil Painting Institute Art Museum. Other notable exhibitions include the Shanghai Biennale (2005), Beijing Biennale (2015), and the second Yinchuan Biennale (2018).