Sui Jianguo

Sui Jianguo, born in 1956 in Qingdao (Shandong province, China), is one of the most influential sculptors on the Chinese contemporary scene. Trained at the Shandong University of Arts and then at Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), where he later taught and headed the sculpture department, he now lives and works in Beijing. His work explores with symbolic force the collective memory and political, economic and cultural mutations of modern China. Through emblematic series such as Mao's Coats Molded in Vacuum, Dinosaurs / Made in China and Blind Portraits, Sui questions the weight of the ideological past, the notion of absence and the tension between tradition and globalization. His work, combining conceptual power and technical mastery, blends industrial materials, new technologies and philosophical reflection on form and emptiness. Presented in numerous international institutions - from the British Museum in London to Hong Kong's M+ - he is recognized as a pioneer of contemporary Chinese sculpture and a major figure in the dialogue between art and society.