Acrylic on canvas
160 x 110 cm
Cui Jie
BIOGRAPHY
Cui Jie (b. 1983, Shanghai) currently lives and works in Shanghai. The modernization, the development of city landscape and the unified and tedious style of contemporary architecture has always been one of the topics being discussed in Cui Jie’s paintings of cities. Connecting and intertwining visions of the past and the present under her brushstrokes, Cui expresses her nostalgia for the past and a seemingly utopian exploration for the future landscape, and hence evokes the viewer’s collective nostalgia.
She has been included in Phaidon Press’s publication Vitamin P3. Her works have been placed into the collections of various institutions such as Centre Pompidou, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Rubell Family Collection, Kistefos Museum and M+ Collection HK.
Selected solo and two-person exhibitions: Species as Gifts, Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China (2023); Cui Jie: Thermal Landscapes, Pilar Corrias, London, UK (2023); New Model Village, Focal Point Gallery, Essex, UK (2022); From Pavilion to Space Station, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK (2019); The Peak Tower, Pilar Corrias, London, UK (2019); To Make a Good Chair, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2019); The Enormous Space (with Lee Kit), OCAT, Shenzhen, China (2018); Latter, Former, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland (2016); Cui Jie: The Proposals for Old and New Urbanism, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China (2014) among others.
Selected group exhibitions: Building Shanghai: Architecture, Urbanism and Culture since 1949, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, CN (2025); Postcards From the Future, PoMo Museum, Trondheim, Norway (2025); no man’s land, Som Gallery, Nihonbashi Bakurocho, JP (2025); Once upon a time: PSA Collection Series, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, CN (2025); 目 China: A new generation of artists, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (2024); One and All: New Artistic Styles of Contemporary Painting, curated by Yi Ying, Wang Jing and Yuan Jiawei are executive curators, National Art Museum of China, Beijing(2024); Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema, curated by the team led by Anton Vidokle, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2023); Horizons: Is there anybody out there?, curated by Robin Peckham, Antenna Space, China (2023); Brave New World: 16 Painters for the 21st century, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands (2023); Steadfastly Revise for the Standards in Nonproductive Construction: Part I: Solid Molds, Long March Space, Beijing, China (2022); Common Ground: UCCA 15th Anniversary Patrons Collection Exhibition, UCCA, Beijing, China (2022); Liquid Ground, Para Site, Hong Kong, China (2021); Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, Pace Palo Alto, San Francisco, US (2021); L’Invitation au voyage, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany (2021); Taipei Biennial 2020: You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France (2021); Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (2020); 1st X Museum Triennial: How Do We Begin?, X Museum, Beijing, China (2020); China Africa, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2020); Uncompleted, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China (2019); Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future, Tai Kwun Contemporary Art Museum, Hong Kong, China(2019); An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong, China (2019); Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, Centre Pompidou & Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, Chengdu, China (2018); Long March Project: Building Code Violations III—Special Economic Zone, Guangdong Time Museum, Guangzhou, China (2018); FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: An American City, Cleveland, US (2018); Past Skin, MoMA PS1, New York, US (2017) among others.
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Swan and Central Bank of West African States, Bamako, 2025
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Cui Jie, Ceramic deers and Central Bank of West African States, Abidjan, 2025
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Cui Jie, Ceramic deer and the BIDC building, Lomé, 2025
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Cui Jie, China Merchants Group The Westpoint, 2024
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Peacock and Salam Tower, Doha, 2024
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Giraffe and State Grid Corporation of China, Beijing, 2023
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Cui Jie, Sculpture Park, 2023
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Cui Jie, Porcelain rooster and Shanghai Golden Light Bund Center, 2023
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Cui Jie, Porcelain giraffes and China Insurance Tower #2, 2023
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Giraffe and The Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Qatar, 2023
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Giraffe and Bank of Central African States, Yaounde, 2023
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Cui Jie, Two Ceramic Deer and The Central Bank of West African States Headquarter, Dakar, 2023
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Camel and Fujairah Trade Centre, 2023
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Horse and the BIDC Building, Lomé, 2023
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Rabbit and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Chengdu, 2023
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Rooster and Bab Al Qasr Hotel, Abu Dhabi, 2023
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Kissing Geese and Shanghai Huaneng Union Tower, Shanghai, 2023
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Kissing Geese and Astronautics Hotel, Shanghai, 2023
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Kissing Geese and Hengshan Cinema, Shanghai, 2023
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Cui Jie, Ceramic Kissing Geese and Creek Tower, Dubai, 2023
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Cui Jie, Shanghai Botanical Garden, Shanghai, 2023
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Cui Jie, Ground Invading Figure #50, 2022
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Cui Jie, Ground Invading Figure #51, 2022
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Cui Jie, Ground Invading Figure #52, 2022
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Cui Jie, Caoyang New Village, 2021
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Cui Jie, Silver End Village, 2021
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Cui Jie, Basildon, 2021
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Cui Jie, Harlow Town Hall, 2021
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Cui Jie, Bata Factory and Caoyang Sculpture, 2021
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Cui Jie, The Bata Cinema and Caoyang Cinema, 2021
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Cui Jie, Caoyang New Village, 2021
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Cui Jie, Contessa II chairs, 2021
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Cui Jie, Caoyang Cinema and Bata Cinema, 2021
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Cui Jie, Silver End Village, 2021
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Cui Jie, Silver End Village #2, 2021
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Cui Jie, Contessa II chairs 2, 2021
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Cui Jie, Sabrina chair and Contessa ll Chair, 2021
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Cui Jie, Silver End Village and Caoyang Sculpture, 2021
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Cui Jie, Happy Family, 2021
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Cui Jie, Shanghai CCB Building 2, 2021
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Cui Jie, Contessa 2II Chair 2, 2021
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Cui Jie, Rainfall Pavilion, 2021
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Cui Jie, Salam Tower, Doha, 2020
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Cui Jie, Base Station #2, 2020
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Cui Jie, Cell Tree 3, 2020
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Cui Jie, Base Station, 2020
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Cui Jie, The Pinnacle (Nairobi), 2020
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Cui Jie, Bank of Central African States, Yaounde, 2020
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Cui Jie, Western City Gate, Belgrade, 2020
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Cui jie, Rowell Court, Singapore, 2020
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Cui Jie, New Taipei City Hall, Xinbei, 2020
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Cui Jie, Chengwu Building #2, 2020
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Cui Jie, Office2, 2019
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Cui Jie, Regeneration Work Chair, 2019
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Cui Jie, China Telecom Building, 2019
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Cui jie, China Telecom Building 2, 2019
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Cui Jie, Contessa2ll Chair, 2019
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Cui Jie, Office, 2019
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Cui Jie, Sabrina Chair, 2019
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Cui Jie, Contessa2ll Chair 2, 2019
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Cui Jie, Generation Work Chair, 2019
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Cui Jie, Radisson Blu Hotel Shanghai, 2019
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Cui Jie, Steel Pulling Glass Curtain Wall, 2019
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Cui Jie, Steel Pulling Glass Curtain Wall 2, 2019
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Cui Jie, Glass Curtain Wall, 2019
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Cui Jie, The Peak Tower 3, 2019
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Cui jie, Shanghai Brodcasting Building, 2019
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Cui Jie, The Rainfall Pavilion and the Lakeside Pavilion, 2019
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Cui Jie, Shanghai Industrial Building, 2019
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Cui Jie, Shanghai East China Electric power Building 2, 2019
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Cui Jie, Shanghai Light Building, 2019
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Cui Jie, International Space Station, 2019
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Cui Jie, Generation Work Chair, 2019
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Cui Jie, Sayl Chair, 2019
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Cui Jie, China Merchants Group The Westpoint, 2018
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2018
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2018
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Cui jie, Untitled, 2018
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2018
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2018
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2018
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2017
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2017
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2016
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2016
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2016
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2016
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2016
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Cui Jie, Petroleum Building, 2016
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Cui Jie, Shanghai Education TV Station 2, 2016
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Cui Jie, Untitled, 2015
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Artworks
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Horizons: Is there anybody out there?
2023.09.16 – 2023.10.25
Curator: Robin Peckham
Participating Artists: Korakrit Arunanondchai, Dora Budor, Hilo Chen, Xinyi Cheng, Cui Jie, Simon Denny, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Buck Ellison, Carolyn Forrester, Owen Fu, Sayre Gomez, Guan Xiao, Han Bing, Tishan Hsu , Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Allison Katz, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers), Matthew Lutz Kinoy, Josh Kline, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Heidi Lau, Li Ming, Yong Xiang Li, Liu Chuang, Jr-Shin Luo, Nancy Lupo, Mai Zhixiong, Helen Marten, Alexandra Noel, Peng Zuqiang, Tara Walters, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Xie Nanxing, Joseph Yaeger, Yu Honglei, Yu Peng, Zhao Gang, Zhou Siwei (alphabetically) -
Cui Jie:To Make a Good chair
2019.03.22 – 2019.05.15
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Vertical Gardens: Cui Jie, Dora Budor, Max Hooper Schneider, Ajay Kurian, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Kelly Akashi, Julian Hoeber, Lena Henke
2017.04.09 – 2017.05.30
EXHIBITIONS
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Cui Jie, Liu Chuang, Li Ming | 目China: A new generation of artists @ Centre Pompidou
2024.10.09 – 2025.02.03
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Cui Jie | The 14th Shanghai Biennale “Cosmos Cinema” @ Power Station of Art
2023.11.09-2024.03.31
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Cui Jie | “Species as Gifts” @ West Bund Museum
2023.11.10-2024.02.25
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Cui Jie | “Thermal Landscapes” @ Pilar Corrias
2023.09.22-2023.11.04
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Cui Jie | “Brave New World – 16 Painters for The 21st Century” @ Museum de Fundatie
2023.01.28-2023.06.11
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Cui Jie | “Common Ground: UCCA 15th Anniversary Patrons Collection Exhibition” @ UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
2022.04.16-2022.08.14
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CUI Jie | “New Model Village” @ Focal Point Gallery
2022.03.06 – 2022.06.12
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Cui Jie | “You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet” @ Centre Pompidou-Metz
2021.11.06-2022.04.04
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Cui Jie | “Liquid Ground” @ Para Site
2021.08.14-2021.11.14
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Cui Jie | “Taipei Biennial 2020” @ Taipei Fine Arts Museum
2020.11.21-2021.03.14
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Cui Jie | “China Africa” @ Centre Pompidou
2020.03.04-2020.05.18
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Cui Jie | “FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art—An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises” @ Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
2018.07.14-2018.09.30
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Cui Jie | “The Enormous Space: Double Solo Exhibition of Lee Kit and Cui Jie” @ OCAT Shenzhen
2018.01.20-2018.04.08
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Cui Jie | “The New Normal: Art and China in 2017 ” @ UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
2017.03.19-2017.07.09
NEWS
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崔洁:都市漫游者的现代反思 | 艺术世界 ArtReview – 文:钱诗怡
2024-春
在城市和历史中往复漫游的近十年里,崔洁的视觉系统逐步成熟。身边的城市街景反复更新,更新反复推进、停滞,而她通过绘画,检阅城市以及在其中的人类生活与其他生态:改革开放时期的高楼建筑和城市雕塑、社会主义早期阶段的居住设施、现代家庭生活方案以及上海本地动植物在不同空间中的历史交换。从穿越都市街头的主观视角,到对二手材料的物质媒介的考察调研,崔洁绘制出西方现代发展模板套用在中国现实时产生的无声龃龉与暴烈冲突,把错置的时间感折入几经覆盖、反复擦拭的画面叠层中。
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Cui Jie’s Solo Exhibition “New Model Village” – The Guardian | Words: Skye Sherwin
It was less the architecture that interested Cui, however, than “the elements that are nowhere to be found today: who used to live there, the communal lifestyle and intimacy between people. Unlike buildings, traces of life can easily fade away.” A number of her works explore how communities’ aspirations and ideology are shaped by our surroundings. In drawings, Caoyang’s social realist public statues – including weavers with arms raised like conquering divinities – merge with edifices from the Bata estate. Elsewhere, Bata and Caoyang’s cinemas blend. Although western and Chinese movies were poles apart politically, she points out “they were both ritual spaces where the public is to be collectively entranced. We can clearly see the aesthetic function of the statues: they reveal the ideal state of trance.”
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Gates to the City: Cui Jie | Owen Hatherley
Looking at the work of Cui Jie from a northern European perspective, the first error is probably to think you’re seeing some form of lament for a modernist past. That narrative is fairly familiar now, based on a longing for the largest-scale remnants of the material culture of postwar social democracy or state socialism—the buildings they left behind to be inhabited or ruined under neoliberalism. -
Cui Jie: Lines of Flight between Surface and Model | Yuan Jiawei
Amid a wave of postmodernism, this full-fledged approach of developing and utilizing the value-in-exchange of symbols caused a breach in creative barriers between art and architecture, and cast light on the way in which modernism captured pure form. In particular reference to urban construction and development, the interchangeability of the identity of artist and architect is instrumental in pushing the notion of space towards a dimension verging on democracy. In this vein, Cui Jie, an artist who came of age in the 1980s and 90s, shows a keen grasp on the various architectural patterns that have had a profound effect on the rapid renewal and expansion process of Chinese cities, and is adept at selectively harking back to these precedents of modernization in her painting and sculptural practice, thus triggering a momentary sense of the immediate future. The architect’s psyche reflected in her work goes beyond a mere collage-like schematization of architectural elements. Instead, her works are predicated on a technical enthusiasm for the city’s “autonomous surface” (hereafter referred to as the “epidermis”) and a pattern recognition of geographical misplacement or anachorism. -
Rearviews & Mirrors: Architecture, idealism and anachronism in the work of Cui Jie | Zhou Ying
Representations of the future always look dated as soon as the future itself arrives. Part of China’s post-1980s generation, the artist Cui Jie makes paintings that continually confound our sense of time in their seeming nostalgia for the future. Set against a metallic sky and often floating above a similarly reflective gridded ground, Cui’s technically exquisite renderings of built forms not only capture a specific typology of urban China’s modernist artefacts; together with her more recent sculptures, they scrutinize the veracity of modernism as an ideology claiming the future. To the artist, who did a residency last year in Tel Aviv, the flawless International Style of the white city is appealing but not all that ‘interesting’. What compels her is precisely the opposite: the seemingly arbitrary, erratic and often jarring juxtaposition of an appropriated modernism against a context that is, in itself, rapidly shifting. Reconstructed amidst the chaos of China’s urban transition, the pristine, future-facing forms of Western modernism read as anachronisms.