ProjectsPhoto WorkTextsAbout                                                                                                                                                          
Jolie Zhilei Zhou
a multi-functional and sensitive human being. She works with photography,  text, and space. 
Her works concern the contemporary dilemma of love and emotions, reflecting our economic-social living environment through the absurdity of daily life and subtleness of emotions. 

1994 born in Guangzhou, China.
Now lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

Contact
info@joliezhou.de

Education2023-
Diploma 2 in Media Arts, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, DE 2013-17Honor Bachelor of Arts in Visual Studies&Cinema Studies, University of Toronto, CA
Award2023-25Postgraduate Study Scholarship for Fine Arts, DAAD, DE
Solo Exhibitions2024Imitation of Life, Filzengraben 8-10, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, DE
Pass by Me, Penetrate Me, Destroy Me-part 1, CASE-Projektraum der Fotografie, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, DE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024  Sotheby’s Presents: Group Show during DC-Open, Sotheby’s, Cologne, DE2023 Imageless Dummy Photobook Award, Shanghai, CN
A Few Fruit Knives, Unicorn Image, Guangzhou, CN
City Disharmony Ensemble, Temporary Space, Guangzhou, CN2017Subject:Post-, Visual Studies Undergraduate thesis exhibition, University of Toronto, CA
Curatorial Projects2021-23(inefficient) LOVE MANIFESTO, artist’s book
-collected by Thomas J. Watson Library @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tai Kwun Artist’s Book Library, Asian Art Archive  2023
Serendipity: Jin Qiaoer’s Exhibition, 33ml offspace, Shanghai, CN
Professional Side Paths
Editor @Coordinator
Project-based printing supervisor @Accent Society Actively looking for part-time/full-time vacancies at Publishing Houses and Exhibition Teams
Publications see Texts Events check Dates

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