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- MENG ZHOU Solo Exhibition II Trovatore (The Troubadour) | Munich, PFEUFER 38
- Presented by Yaoshan Contemporary Art BMCA and Nanke Gallery, Meng Zhou's solo exhibition II Trovatore (The Troubadour) opened at 6:00 PM on September 13, 2024, at Pfeufer 38 in Munich, Germany. In this former workshop composed of multiple spaces, Meng Zhou presents his new series of works, creating four distinct scenes and contexts through the concepts of "experience, objects, and epiphany."
Sep 18, 2024Read More
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- Interview with Meng Zhou
- Currently showcasing his solo exhibition “Il Trovatore” in Munich at PFEUFER38, Meng Zhou delves into the delicate balance between nature and art, reflecting on global shifts and personal exploration.
Sep 18, 2024Read More
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- Meng Zhou's Munich Solo Exhibition Project - II Trovatore (The Troubadour)
- Artist Meng Zhou will present his latest solo exhibition at Pfeuferstraße 38 in Munich, Germany, from September 13th to October 11th. II Trovatore is presented by BMCA and Nan Ke Gallery. The public will be confronted with a new series of works developed especially for this former workshop space, which is spread across various rooms. Like a journey, Meng Zhou has created four situations that bring together experiences, objects and the unifying realisation.
Sep 11, 2024Read More
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- Eternal Time and Endless Experiences: Wandering in Meng's "Vacuum"
- Meteorites become materials, materials become weapons, weapons become games... From May 26th to August 15th, UK-based artist Zhou Meng constructs a world "Vacuum" at Tianmuli's R PLUS Gallery. Entering the serene black exhibition hall, the large installation "Star Map" composed of 88 iron meteorites evokes the infinite cycle of the universe before your eyes. Wandering through it feels like a dream... In that moment, time leaps off its linear track and reaches a higher dimension.
Jul 23, 2024Read More
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- The Exhibition of Zhou Meng from the Proust Era - "Outside the World" at R PLUS in Tianmu Li
- From May 26th to August 15th, 2024, R PLUS Gallery in Tianmu Li will host a solo exhibition of Zhou Meng, a British-based artist, titled "Outside the Mundane World". This is a story about meteors, shooting stars, and the infinite cycle of life. The artist is fascinated by the state of life and existence in the universe and the biological world, and in the process of creation, he continuously adds information. When different fragments are created at different times to form new scenes, it seems like a resting place for the river of life - perhaps the "Outside the Mundane World" in everyone's heart. At that time, we look forward to everyone coming to feel the sound of the colliding fragments of time.
May 22, 2024Read More
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- Vacuum: The Unity of All Things - 8 Creative Segments by Artist Meng
- One moment that remains vividly etched in my memory is when Weiwei introduced Meng to me with great enthusiasm. "Meng paints, creates installations, and writes poetry. He's a young man straight out of the Proustian era!" Such a description naturally piqued my curiosity, and together, we visited Meng's studio located on the west side of London... That was in 2019. In the blink of an eye, five years have passed.
May 16, 2024Read More
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- Zhou Meng: On Mount Buzhou, the Entrance to Reality
- In the age of gods, Mount Buzhou was the pillar of heaven on earth. When it fell, the worlds of gods and humans were forever separated. Mount Buzhou symbolizes incompleteness and disaster. Or rather, it is itself a collection of incompleteness and disaster. Using the mythological metaphor of Mount Buzhou, Zhou Meng’s exhibition "Mount Buzhou · Yuanqiu Hill" opens at Nanke Gallery. The narrow and elongated layout of the old Shanghai mansion, with the height of the third floor and the single-person wide corridors, makes the exhibition experience feel like climbing a mountain. Scattered throughout the "mountain" are Zhou Meng’s works. As I walked and picked up symbols awakened by different materials: Western Christmas trees, Eastern mysticism, ancient murals, modern totems; materials and cultures intricately intertwined and juxtaposed... At certain moments, these binary structures fade, leading people into unfamiliar yet familiar life experience rituals.
Jan 25, 2024Read More
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- Zhou Meng: Art is Like a Beautiful Dream
- Conversations with Zhou Meng often oscillate between the extremely virtual and the real. In his creation, he sees himself as a dreamer blowing bubbles, preferring to talk about stars, caves, and fragments of ancient stories. However, when discussing the trivialities of making art and the realities of living abroad, his frustration and confusion are unabashedly apparent. In his own words, "I am still an ordinary person. When transcendent, I can ascend to immortality, but sometimes I think, forget it, it’s better to just decay in the ground. Finally, averaging the two, I’d rather just grow melons in the ground."
Sep 16, 2023Read More
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- Exhibition Preview | Incomplete Wonder · Everlasting Land
- Nan Ke Gallery is delighted to announce the official opening of artist Meng Zhou's solo exhibition, "Incomplete Wonder · Everlasting Land", on September 16, 2023. This exhibition will be presented in two distinct chapters and spaces. The first chapter, "Incomplete Wonder", will be on display at Nan Ke Gallery from September 16 to October 31, while the second chapter, "Everlasting Land" will be showcased at BACKSTAGE ART space (by appointment only) from September 16 to October 16.
Sep 11, 2023Read More
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- Printmaking 100 | Artist Zhou Meng
- Zhou Meng, born in Shaoxing, China, works across dynamic imagery, installations, sculptures, paintings, and poetry. A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts and the Royal College of Art (RCA), his works have been exhibited in numerous public exhibitions in Europe and China, including London Art Night, 021 Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai's Bund No. 22, Barbican Centre, Chelsea Arts Club, European Cultural Centre, and Wuhan Art Museum. His works have been shortlisted for the Traver Smith, Laguna International Art Prize, Celeste Art Prize, among others, and the China Academy of Art has published two of his art collections.
Aug 5, 2023Read More
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- Esquire | Meng Zhou
- "It's quite fascinating. We talked about... fox poop and bento, a ‘creepy’ old house, Dunkleosteus, and dinosaur fossils."
Jan 29, 2023Read More
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- Zhou Meng Loves to "Play": It's Better to Be Humorous as an Artist
- Although the West Bund Art & Design Fair in Shanghai has just ended, it remains a hot topic. Among the highlights was Zhou Meng's solo exhibition "Focus" at Quantum Gallery's booth. This exhibition uniquely presented a series of sculptural installations in the form of spatial scrolls, filled with mystery and philosophical thinking, inspired by the ancient Egyptian myth of the Eye of Horus.
Dec 6, 2020Read More
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- A8 Interview | Extending Stage Stories with Video and Installation: "The Cat's Romance" Producer Zhou Meng
- Born in Shaoxing, China, Zhou Meng's work spans dynamic imagery, installations, sculptures, paintings, and poetry. A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts and the Royal College of Art (RCA), his work has been exhibited in numerous public exhibitions in Europe and China, including London Art Night, Venice European Cultural Centre, Shanghai Bund No. 22, Himalayas Museum, Wuhan Art Museum, and as the art director of the experimental theater "The Cat's Romance" at the Royal College of Music (RCM) and "Eight Winds" at the Shanghai Liangshe Night Banquet. His works have been shortlisted for the Traver Smith, Arte Laguna, and Celeste art awards, and the China Academy of Art has published two of his art collections.
Jun 17, 2020Read More
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- Aesthetica Magazine | Poetic Techniques
- Meng Zhou’s artistic projects draw on analogies of Chinese cultural history and myth. We speak with him to find out more.
Jul 6, 2018Read More
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- NATIONAL ARTS ｜Zhou Meng: The Self-Reader
- In Bernhard Schlink's "The Reader," there's a passage that reads: "Our lives are layered, one layer on top of another, so that we constantly touch the old scars of the past in new encounters, and the past neither vanishes nor rests, but is alive in the present reality before our eyes." This passage seems to be a key to interpreting Zhou Meng's works. The flowing lines, the poetic diffusion, the obscure metaphors—Zhou Meng's diverse and distinct artistic creations draw us into countless overlapping "parallel worlds." Those encounters, those imperfections, those vivid realities—Zhou Meng tells his stories and enjoys the purity of being a "self-reader."
Oct 7, 2017Read More
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- Zhou Meng: A Young Artist in the UK Captures the Rhythmic Soul with Dance Mastery
- Artist Zhou Meng captures the movement of dance on paper, blending imagined characters and spaces. The scenes of reality and fantasy are no longer confined to two divided states; he weakens societal influences and allows the characters in his works to freely "live" in a space full of uncertainty.
Jul 31, 2017Read More
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- Elephant Magazine | Meng Zhou
- For his exhibition 0.06.49 at gallery@oxo in London, Meng Zhou created works in various media, sculpture, ink drawings, installation and video, centering on his fascination with the silkworm and the metaphor of the cocoon for wider society, especially in his native China. A student keen to push his practice further, this quietly spoken, self-professedly shy artist is definitely one to watch.
Jun 11, 2017Read More
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- Aesthetica Magazine | Considering Tradition
- Meng Zhou is of a generation that has formed its personalities and beliefs during a period of shifting social and economic circumstances, and through a boom in the availability of information and technology. Deeply engaged in the process of artistic creation, the contested notion of metamorphosis and the becoming of oneself within a social environment, Zhou presents his sensibility towards introspective concerns, which he has described as “being incubated and oppressed at the same time.”
Mar 13, 2017Read More
