徐震 Xu Zhen ( b.1977 )

1977年出生，工作和生活于上海。

徐震是中国当代艺术领域的标志人物。作品非常广泛，包括摄影、装置、影像、绘画和行为等。其作品并非只是以述行的倾向来表达，还具有着很强的概念意义，在多重的主题和事件里有着强烈透彻的叙事性。徐震常常非常直接地使用“身体”——艺术家自己的或社会的——作为象征性的素材，以一种想要挑战权威的恶作剧情绪，把艺术家个人的独特体验和中国社会政治的姿态反映在其作品中。

在艺术家身份之外，徐震还是策展人和没顶公司创始人。1998年，徐震作为联合发起人创建了上海第一家独立的非营利机构——比翼艺术中心。2006年，他与上海艺术家一起创办了网络艺术社区Art-Ba-Ba，至今仍是中国最活跃的探讨、评论当代艺术的平台之一。2009年，徐震创立了当代艺术创作型公司没顶公司（MadeIn Company），以生产艺术创造力为核心，致力于探索当代文化的无限可能。2013年，没顶公司推出徐震®，将艺术家徐震的个人创造以公司品牌化的方式运营。在这些多重角色里，更重要的是作为艺术家，徐震展现了联想的能力，改造和搅乱了现有的定义。

Born in 1977, lives and works in Shanghai.

Xu Zhen has been considered as an iconic figure in Chinese contemporary art. His practice covers various media such as photography, installations, video, painting and performance. Xu Zhen’s works express not only the tendency of performativity but also contain a strong conceptual meaning and narrative in multiple themes and events. Xu Zhen usually directly uses the “body” - his body or the body of society - as the symbolic material. With an ironic way that tends to challenge the authority, the work reflects the individual experience of the artist and the social-political situation in China.

Aside from being an artist, Xu Zhen is also a curator and the founder of MadeIn Company. As the co-organizer, Xu Zhen established Bizart Art Center in 1998, the first independent non-profit organization in Shanghai. In 2006, Xu co-curated Art-Ba-Ba with other artists, a leading online forum for discussion and critique of contemporary art in China. In 2009, Xu Zhen established “MadeIn Company”, a contemporary art creation corporate, focused on the production of creativity, and devoted to the research of contemporary culture’s infinite possibilities. In 2013, MadeIn Company launched XU ZHEN®, operating the individual’s work as a company brand, commit to art creation and cutting-edge culture development. In those many roles of Xu Zhen, the most important role is the artist, Xu Zhen presents the ability of association and develops current definitions.

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