Qin Feng 秦風 (b. 1961)

One of the most important names in the Chinese avant-garde movement, Qin Feng nurtured his interest in art by studying mural painting at the Shandong University of Art and Design in the cultural city of Jinan in China. It was also during this time that he experimented with foreign styles of contemporary art. While teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts in the late 1990s, Qin explored combining modernism and the ink painting tradition, resulting in a style that is similar to abstract expressionism, but with an emphasis on movement and spontaneity.

One of the pieces ECKART ASIA owns, which features bold black strokes, is similar to the works Qin exhibited at the courtyard of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Qin’s works are in the collections of The British Museum in London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Ford Foundation in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Museum in Harvard University in Boston, the Yale University Art Gallery in Connecticut, the Smith College Museum of Art in Massachusetts, The National Arts Foundation in Paris, and Art in Embassies by the U.S. Department of State.