Loading... Hard Containers 4, 2023, Laser cut eye floaters in 100% light blocking curtain fabric, embedded in micrograph coated acrylic glass with engraved rhodopsin and myosin proteins, 37.3 x 27.5 x 2 cm 
Loading... Hard Containers 1, 2023, lasercut eye floaters in 100% light blocking curtain fabric, embedded in micrograph coated acrylic glass with engraved rhodopsin and myosin proteins, 37.5 x 27.6 x 2.8 cm 
Loading... Human Sized Things 2, 2023, laser engraved rhodopsin and myosin proteins on on micrograph coated acrylic glass, laser cut double eye floaters, 42.3 x 13.5 x 11 cm 
Loading... Reclaim Some Kind of Edge Vortex (8), 2022, lasered inkjet print on paper, [PDB ID: 5JCO, Vemu., etching al. (2016) structure and dynamics of single-isoform recombinant neuronal human tubulin], 91 x 70 cm 
Loading... Reclaim Some Kind of Edge Vortex (1), 2022, lasered inkjet print on paper, [PDB ID: 5DGY, Zhu., etching al. (2016) X-ray laser diffraction for structure determination of the rhodopsin-arrestin complex], 100 x 69 cm 
Loading... Pros and Cons in Mental (1), 2021, digital printing of the crystal structure of human rhodopsin, inkjet print on paper, [PDB ID: 5DGY, Zhu et al. (2016) X-ray laser diffraction for structure determination of the rhodopsin-arrestin complex], 200 x 134 cm 
Loading... Pros and Cons in Mental (3), 2021, digital printing of the crystal structure of human rhodopsin, inkjet print on paper, [PDB ID: 5DGY, Zhu et al. (2016) X-ray laser diffraction for structure determination of the rhodopsin-arrestin complex], 200 x 145 cm 
Loading... Exhibition view, “Jiggly Motions / Gigues moléculaires”, FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, 2022 
Loading... Exhibition view, “Jiggly Motions / Gigues moléculaires”, FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, 2022 
Loading... Exhibition view, “Jiggly Motions / Gigues moléculaires”, FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, 2022 
Loading... Exhibition view, “Jiggly Motions / Gigues moléculaires”, FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, 2022 
Loading... Resolution of Traits 8, 2020 – 2021, fictional objects wrap around six different spatial orientations of the crystal structure of MYH7, acrylic, watercolour, ink and pigment on inkjet print, 160 x 110 cm 
Loading... Resolution of Traits 3.1/3.2, 2019, fictional objects wrap around the crystal structure of full length human cytoplasmic dynein, acrylic, watercolour, ink and pigment on inkjet print, 170 x 112 cm (each) 
Loading... Resolution of Traits 4, 2019, fictional objects wrap around the crystal structure of neuronal human tubulin (microtubule) acrylic, watercolour, ink and pigment on inkjet print, 180 x 112 cm 
Loading... Resolution of Traits 5.1, 2019, fictional objects wrap around the crystal structures of three human kinesin family members in complex with ADP, acrylic, watercolour, ink and pigment on inkjet print, 180 x 112 cm 
Loading... Resolution of Traits 6, 2019, fictional objects wrap around the crystal structure of a complete model of the myosin rod, acrylic, watercolour, ink and pigment on inkjet print, 177 x 112 cm 
Loading... Resolution of Traits 7, 2019, fictional objects wrap around the Cryo-EM structure of a human cytoplasmic actomyosin, acrylic, watercolour, ink and pigment on inkjet print, 177 x 112 cm, 
Loading... Chiral (1), 2017-18, punched holes on inkjet print of 100 times magnified miniature food setting, 120 x 91 cm 
Loading... Chiral (2), 2017-18, punched holes on inkjet print of 100 times magnified miniature food setting, 120 x 91 cm 
Loading... Chiral (3), 2019, punched holes on inkjet print of 100 times magnified miniature food setting, 120 x 91 cm 
Loading... Natritine Gaze 2 (part 5), 2016, inkjet print, 4 color silkscreen print, acrylic, watercolor, pigment and ink on paper, ca. 110 x 80 cm 
Loading... Natritine Gaze 2 (part 6), 2016, inkjet print, 4 color silkscreen print, acrylic, watercolor, pigment and ink on paper, ca. 110 x 80 cm 
Loading... Natritine Gaze 2 (part 7), 2016, inkjet print, 4 color silkscreen print, acrylic, watercolor, pigment and ink on paper, ca. 110 x 80 cm 
Loading... Natritine Gaze 2 (part 8), 2016, inkjet print, 4 color silkscreen print, acrylic, watercolor, pigment and ink on paper, ca. 110 x 80 cm 
Loading... Natritine Gaze (part 1 – 4), 2014-15, synthetic and organic materials 100-times magnified, inkjet print, 4 color silkscreen print, acrylic, watercolor, pigment and ink on paper, 120 x 56 cm (each) 
Loading... DIN A0, 2013, digital inkjet print, microscope photograph of applied 3 primary colors, 84.1 x 118.9 cm 
Loading... DIN B0, 2013, digital inkjet print, microscope photograph of CMYK silkscreen print, 100 x 141.4 cm 
Loading... DIN C0, 2013, digital inkjet print, microscope photograph of pencil drawing, 91.7 x 129.7 cm 
Loading... Image, 2013, 18 scans of studio space with three-dimensional prints of sound waves of recordings made in the same positions, developed on analogue photo paper, 25 x 50 cm (each) 
Loading... Material Transformation 1, 2012, four seasons acrylic, ink and pigment erasing printed calligraphy writing on paper, 139 x 19 cm (each) 
Loading... Material Transformation 3, 2012, acrylic, ink, pigment, oil on paper plates, ca. 20 x 13 cm (each) 
Loading... Possible Erasing (3), 2010, acrylic, watercolor, pigment, oil erase digital prints, ca. 21 x 27 cm 
Loading... Possible Erasing (5), 2010, acrylic, watercolor, pigment, oil erase digital prints, ca. 21 x 27 cm
Exhibitions
Biography
Ran Zhang
(b. 1981 Tianjin, China) lives and works in Rotterdam and Berlin
Education / Residency
2018 ACC-Rijksakademie Dialogue and Exchange 2018-19, Gwangju, KR
2016 M4 Gastatelier, Amsterdam, NL
2012-13 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL 2011
2011 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten guest-residency, Amsterdam, NL
2006-10 Fine Arts Departement, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
Prize / Funding
2015 ‘the Image’ in permanent contemporary art collection, Hexiangning Museum, Shenzhen, CN
2014-15 Mondriaan Fonds Werkbijdrage Jong Talent, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst Ontwikkelbugdet, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdam, NL
2010 nomination, ‘the Rietveld Prize for the best thesis’, Amsterdam, NL
2009 ARTSTART End Exam Concept Prize, Amsterdam, NL
2008 Danfoss Art Award 2007-2008, Nordborg, DK
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Jiggly Motions, FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, FR
2020
Enantiomers and traces, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE
Resolution of Traits, L’ahah, Paris, FR
2016
Amsterdam UNSEEN, Amsterdam, NL
Natritine Gaze 2, M4 Gastatelier, Amsterdam, NL
2015
Natritine Gaze, Galerie Pascaline Mulliez, Paris, FR
2014
Amsterdam Drawing, NDSM, Amsterdam, NL
2012
Phoenix Statement, Galerie Pont & Plas, Gent, BE
2011
Synesthesia, Apice For Artists, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Am Seegarten, Kirchmöser, Brandeburg, DE
Atlas of Affinities: Vol. 2, Scores for Movement, HUA International, Berlin, DE
2022
Aliens are temporary – eine mutierende Erzählung, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
Convidados, Galería Vilaseco, A Coruña, SP
2021
WIE ES EUCH GEFÄLLT UND WAS WIR SIND, Knust Kunz, Munich, DE
2019
Werethings, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE
Home Sequence, Amsterdam, NL
2018
The Hazenstraat Biennale, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL
2017
I Ikigai, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
2015
My Respects to Madame Bernard, Momart, Amsterdam, NL
2014
Double Vision-Culture China, Hexiangning Museum, Shengzhen, CN
Twenty Thousands Years of Yarn, Future Gallery, Berlin, DE
Dall’ apice al fondo (e viceversa), Apice For Artists, Amsterdam, NL
2013
the Image, OpenStudio Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2012
Material Transformation, OpenStudio Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2011
C&H May group show, C&H Art Space, Amsterdam, NL
2010
C3 December Show, C3 gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Pulchri Expositie, Pulchri, Den Haag, NL
2009
Oud Kerk – Evil in the Church, Oud Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
2008
Growing Symbols Growing Symbols, Cultuurhuis Diamantslijperij, Amsterdam, NL
Bibliography
Exhibition Catalogues, Artist Book, Monographss
2016
Prospects&Concepts, Mondriaan Fonds Toont Talent, Art Rotterdam 2016, p.180-182.2014
Double Vision-Culture China, overseas Chinese women’s invitational exhibition, Hexiangning museum, Shengzhen, CN, P.250-259.2012
The Phoenix Statement (12 books), Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
Articles and podcasts
2020
Clara Tang, Ran Zhang’s “Enantiomers and traces”, ArtAsiaPacific, October 2020.
‘Apnea #13 Conversation with Ran Zhang’, Sonia Fernández Pan, May 2020, Berlin
Feminism Under Corona: A One Flavor Reality, the first episode of Promise No Promise, by Sonia Fernández Pan, Institute Kunst, CH, May 2020. [podcast]2019
poetry by Estelle Hoy, Resolution of Traits, commissioned by L’ahah Paris, November 2019, Berlin