关小
Guan Xiao
关小（1983 年生于中国重庆）现生活工作于北京。
关小以一种充满游戏感的方式创作雕塑、影像与装置作品。她通过在丰富多元的材料之间建立多样的关联，创造出一种突破历史与文化界限的视觉语言；并借由拼贴的方式，将古典艺术与工业制造相融合，构筑出独特的当代艺术形式。
她常将工业制品与文化物件等具象物体，与从电脑与笔记本屏幕那无限延展的图像宇宙中所采撷的影像并置。其作品在源自对立乃至相互冲突世界的二元对照之间，生成出一种连贯的质地，将古与今、数字与模拟、自然与人工等多重维度融为一体。关小对可能性与潜在危机都保持着敏锐的洞察，她以其富有先见与魅力的构成，对当下技术驱动的世界提出批判，并为我们呈现出一个断裂而迅速临近的未来的难忘图景。
关小曾在全球多家机构举办个展，包括德国的波恩艺术协会（2019）、美国圣路易斯当代艺术博物馆（2019）、瑞士温特图尔艺术馆（2018）、巴黎的国立网球场现代美术馆（2016）以及伦敦当代艺术中心（2016）。她在奥地利的首个个展 “少年” 于 2025 年 10 月在维也纳艺术馆开幕。
关小近期参与的群展包括：“第二章：能量的色彩”（奥地利萨尔茨堡艺术协会，2024）；“时间的价值：当代艺术收藏新呈现”（德国科隆路德维希博物馆，2023）；“后资本”（丹麦哥本哈根卡洛滕堡艺术馆，2022）；“第 34 届圣保罗双年展：尽管身处黑暗，我仍高歌”（2021）；“第 57 届威尼斯双年展主题展：艺术万岁”（2017）；“第 13 届里昂当代艺术双年展：现代生活”（2015）；以及 “新美术馆三年展：围绕观众”（纽约新美术馆，2015）。
关小的作品被多家机构永久收藏，包括德国科隆路德维希博物馆；香港 K11 艺术基金会；瑞士圣加仑艺术博物馆；中国龙美术馆；卢森堡现代艺术博物馆；德国柏林博罗斯收藏；意大利都灵桑德雷托・雷・博杜恩基金会；以及中国上海星美术馆。
Guan Xiao (b. 1983, Chongqing, China) lives and works in Beijing.
Guan Xiao takes a playful approach to her sculpture, video, and installation artworks. She creates a visual language that breaks through historical and cultural boundaries by establishing diverse relationships between a variety of rich materials, and using collage to blend classical art with industrial manufacturing to build a unique form of contemporary art.
She often juxtaposes physical objects—such as industrial products and cultural artifacts—alongside images amassed from scrolling through the infinite universe of desktop and laptop screens. Her works generate cohesive textures between binaries sourced from contrasting and even conflicting worlds, and fuse old and modern, digital and analogue, and natural and artificial modes. Attuned to both possibilities and looming hazards, Guan Xiao’s prescient and fascinating arrangements critique the technological thrust of the present moment while providing indelible visions of our dislocated, rapidly approaching future.
Guan has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide including Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2019); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO (2019); Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland (2018); Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (2016); and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England (2016). Her first solo exhibition in Austria, Teenager, opened in October 2025 at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna.
Recent group exhibitions include Chapter II: The Color of Energy, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2024); On the Value of Time: New Presentation of the Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (2023); Post-Capital, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022); Though it’s dark, still I sing, 34th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2021); Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2017); La vie modern, 13th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (2015); and 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York, NY.
Guan Xiao's work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Long Museum, Shanghai, China; Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; and Start Museum, Shanghai, China.