Guo Tiantian: Painting as a Sensory Experience

At Galerie Urs Meile in Beijing, Chinese artist Guo Tiantian presents a new solo exhibition that weaves together painting, sensory memory, and experimentation. Known for her refined use of natural lacquer, Guo creates dense, layered surfaces that explore time, materiality, and the relationship between perception and nature. Her works, suspended between abstraction and craftsmanship, evoke inner landscapes where color, light, and even sound seem to emerge as tactile memories. Trained at the China Academy of Art, with a period of study in Germany, Guo is now a leading figure in the Chinese contemporary art scene. She reinterprets the complex tradition of lacquer with a distinctly contemporary sensibility. In her compositions, technical precision meets a meditative dimension, shaping visual spaces that invite a quiet listening to the world. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to discover the work of an artist who transforms painting into a full sensory experience.