Zhang QiQai, who is the famous Chinese-German artist and critic, was born in Shehong County, Sichuan Province in 1950, and moved to Chongqing with his family in 1953. Once he studied art in Japan from 1987 to 1990, then migrated to Germany in 1990. Mr. Zhang devoted himself to art education and cultural exchanges between East and West after he came back to China in 2000.

1970    
Born in at Shehong, Sichuan province, China
1972    
Art Exhibition of Chongqing, China, Chongqing Museum, China
1979    
First Art Exhibition of Popular Science and Technology, National Gallery, Beijing
1980     
Initiated and organized "Weed Society" with friends
Art Show of "Weeds", Chongqing, China
1983    
First Sichuan Exhibition of Oil Paintings, Sichuan Provincial Gallery,
Chengdu
1985    
Art Exhibition of Chinese Youth in Progress in Celebration of the International Youth Year, National Gallery, Beijing.
1987    
Left China for Japan by sea
1987      
13th Exhibition of Japan International Modern Artist Association, Metropolitan Gallery, Tokyo
1988    
14th Exhibition of Japan International Modern Artist Association, Metropolitan     Gallery, Tokyo; prizewinner of Dr. Ogn. Art Exhibition of “Cinkado” Gallery, Tokyo
1989    
Attended Tamatsi University of Fine Arts
Single Exhibition at Osaka, Cultural Center of China, Osaka
56th Exhibition of Artist Association, Kanagawa, Japan; winner of a special prize
15th Exhibition of Japan International Modern Artist Association, Metropolitan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Prize-winner of international art
1990    
Single Exhibition, Shinjuku Gallery, Tokyo
1990    
Migrated to Germany
1991-1995    
Art Exhibitions of Free Berliners(FBK), Berlin
1991    
17th Exhibition of Japan International Modern Artist Association, Metropolitan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; winner of the Speaker’s Prize
1995  Art Exhibition of Five Chinese Artists, Berlin, 4024 Studio, Berlin
1996    
 “Maloka-Art from the Margin”, an International Invitation Exhibition, Kassel, Documentary Gallery (documenta-Halle), Kassel, Germany
Art Exhibition of “Juxtaposition-Chinese Artists in Berlin”, Exhibition Hall, Berlin University of Fine Arts, Berlin
Single Exhibition, “Cleditsch 45” Gallery, Berlin
Single Exhibition of Schelling Art Committee, Schelling Gallery, Berlin
1997    
Single Exhibition at Frankfurt, Keller Gallery, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
China’s Art Exhibition, Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai
Single Exhibition, Berlin, by German-Chinese Cultural Exchange Association, Holderlin Research Institute, Tubingen, Germany
Art Exhibition of “I Am a Berliner”, St. Matthaus Church, Berlin
1998    
Single Exhibition, Tokyo, “o”Museum, Tokyo
Exhibition of Two Artists at Vollmar, Gallery of city Hall, Vollmar, Germany
“The Celestial Axis-Berlin International Invitation Exhibition for communication”, Prisma Haus, Berlin
Art Exhibition of “Two spaces, One Subject” eine welthhaus, Magdeburg, Germany
1999    
Single Exhibition by Zhang Qikai, Shanghe Art Gallery, Chengdu
2000    
Single Exhibition in Chongqing, China
2002    
Curated the Performance Art of “International New Long March – Across the Europe”
2006    
 “Entry Gate：Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, Biennale of MOCA Shanghai”, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China
Curated the the World Tour Exhibition of “50 Jahrs/Years of the documenta-Archive in Motion 1955-2005”, Chongqing Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
2007    
“The 3rd Art Biennale of Guiyang”  Guiyang Art Museum, China
“30 Years of Sichuan Art School”  Beijing YIBO Gallery, Sino-Foreign Culture Communication Center, China
2008    
Single Exhibition in London, the U.K. Marlborough Fine Art in London, the U.K.
Single Exhibition in Chengdu, Chengdu Art Academy, China
Collection -
1985    
Acquired by the National Gallery, Beijing.
1991-1998    
Berlin Art Promotion Committee, Germany consecutively acquired his works of art
1996    
Painting being acquired by Schelling Art Committee
1998    
Painting being acquired by the city government, Vollmar