Qiu Shihua

Qiu Shihua was born in 1940 in Zizhong, Sichuan, China, and lives and works in Beijing and Shenzhen. He visited France in the 1980s and studied the works of the Impressionists.

His works have been exhibited in shows including the 48th Venice Biennale, the 23rd São Paulo Art Biennial, the Kunsthalle Basel and the Exhibition "Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg" which has been shown in Europe and the U.S.A.^[1] Qiu Shihua is represented by Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne.

• Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl) (Ed.), (2018). scheinbar: nichts. Bildwelten von Qiu Shihua im Dialog / apparently: nothing. Qiu Shihua's Pictorial Worlds in Dialog. Bochum: Stiftung Situation Kunst, 2018.
• Nationalgalerie Berlin, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (Eds.), (2012). Qiu Shihua. Duesseldorf: Richter & Fey, 2012.
• Kunsthalle Basel (Ed.) (1999). Qui Shi-hua. Basel: Schwabe & Co. AG Verlag.
• Mao, C. W. (Ed.). (2005). Insight. Paintings by Qiu Shihua. New York: Chambers Fine Art.
• Galerie Rudolfinum (Ed.) (2000). Qiu Shi-hua. Landscape Painting. Prague.

• Berswordt-Wallrabe, S. von (2018). Endlos, ortlos, schwerelos. Flüchtige Bildwelten von Qiu Shihua / Beyond finiteness, place and gravity. Qiu Shihua's fleeting pictorial worlds. In: scheinbar: nichts / apparently: nothing. exh. cat. Situation Kunst, Bochum (2018), pp. 7–26 and pp. 165–174.
• Berswordt-Wallrabe, S. von (2014). Verflüchtigung und Konkretion. Die Malerei von Qiu Shihua – im Hinblick auf die Bernwardtür. In: Michael Brandt, Gerd Winner (Hrsg.): Übergänge / Transitions. Gotthard Graubner – Bernwardtür – Qiu Shihua, exh. cat. Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Hildesheim 2014, pp. 48–57.
• Berswordt-Wallrabe, S. von (2012). Between presence and absence. Qiu Shihua's landscape painting. In: Qiu Shihua (Cat. Nationalgalerie Berlin and Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern), Düsseldorf: Richter & Fey, pp. 10–45.
• Berswordt-Wallrabe, S. von (2012). At the Threshold of (In-)Visibility. The 'White' Landscape Paintings by Qiu Shihua. In: Birgit Hopfener, Franziska Koch, Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch, Juliane Noth (Eds.): Negotiating Difference. Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context (documenting an international conference held at Freie Universität Berlin/Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2009), Weimar 2012, pp. 87–97.
• Berswordt-Wallrabe, S. von (2010). Qiu Shihua. In: Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert (Catalogue Situation Kunst Bochum, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Museum Wiesbaden, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht). Cologne: Wienand Verlag. pp. 260–262, 327.
• Gerlach, P. (2007). Qiu Shihua. In: Idylle. Traum und Trugschluss Idyll. Illusion and Delusion (Catalogue, Zybok, O. Ed.). Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag. pp. 204–207.
• Rasche, S. (2007). White Out – Künstlerische Expeditionen in ungesicherte Bereiche. In: White Out (Catalogue). Bregenz: Berufsvereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Vorarlberg. pp. 34–36, 75.
• Tinari, P. (2007). Qiu Shihua. In: China Art Book. The 80 most renowned Chinese artists. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag. pp. 296–303.
• Köppel-Yang, M. (1999). Qiu Shi-hua. Geschmack an der Fadheit. In: Qui Shi-hua (Kunsthalle Basel, Ed.). Basel: Schwabe & Co. AG Verlag.
• Tancock, J. (2005). Qiu Shi-hua. In: Insight. Paintings by Qiu Shihua (Catalogue, Mao, C. W., Ed.). New York: Chambers Fine Art.
• Lai Chi-Tim (2000). The Nature of the Dao. In: Qiu Shi-hua. Landscape Painting. Prague: Galerie Rudolfinum. pp. 7–9.
• Yan Shanchun (2000). 'Landscape' Painting in the Eyes of the Chinese. In: Qiu Shi-hua. Landscape Painting. Prague: Galerie Rudolfinum. pp. 11–21.
• Chang Tsong-zung (2000). The Sky in the Landscape. In: Qiu Shi-hua. Landscape Painting. Prague: Galerie Rudolfinum. pp. 23–30.
• Wechsler, M. (1999). Malerei am äussersten Rand. Langsamkeit der Malerei. In extremis. In: Qui Shi-hua (Kunsthalle Basel, Ed.). Basel: Schwabe & Co. AG Verlag.