Accompanying Wang Bing's solo exhibition, a talk between the artist and the director of the Kunstverein, Kathrin Bentele, will take place on March 15, 2025. The event will be simultaneously translated into English by an interpreter.

Wang Bing was born in 1967 in Xi’an in the Chinese province of Shaanxi. He studied photography and cinematography at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang and the Beijing Film Academy. He then worked for some time for television before beginning his career as an independent filmmaker in 1998. His debut film, the nine-hour documentary West of the Tracks / Tie Xi Qu (2002), gained immediate international attention and established Wang Bing as an important figure in contemporary Chinese cinema. Until today, he has directed numerous documentary films such as Fengming, A Chinese Memoir / He Fengming (2007); Crude Oil / Yuan You (2008); The Ditch / Jiabiangou (2010); Man with No Name / Wu Ming Zhe (2010); Three Sisters / San Zimei (2012); Ta’ang (2016), or Dead Souls / Si Ling Hun (2018) amongst others, which were presented at international film festivals, in Cannes, Venice, New York, Berlin, or Locarno. In 2017, his film Mrs. Fang / Fang Xiu Ying (2017) won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. His video installation 15 Hours / Shi Wu Xiao Shi (2017) premiered at documenta 14 in Kassel. Recent solo exhibitions of the artist include Cercle Cité, Luxembourg (2024); LE BAL, Paris (2021); Kunsthalle Zürich (2018–2019); CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2016), and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2014). His works have joined several public collections, among them Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; M+, Hong Kong; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, and CNAP, Paris. Wang Bing is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors, such as the Chanel Next Prize, Paris (2021); the International Human Rights Film Award at the Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival (2017), or the EYE Art & Film Prize, Amsterdam (2017). In 2006, he was awarded the French National Order of Merit (Légion d’honneur). Wang Bing was a visiting artist-professor at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing, France (2018–2019).