Stella Zhong
1 MAY until 13 JUN 2026
Opening – 1 MAY 2026, 6-9 pm
Trautwein Herleth is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Stella Zhong for Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026, the artist’s first at the gallery and her first solo exhibition in Germany.
Stella Zhong
Trautwein Herleth, Berlin
May 2 – June 13, 2026
Installation view
Courtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin
Zhong crafts environments that oscillate vastly in scale, material and approachability, making the distance between perception and comprehension felt. Her elemental forms have gravitational pull but in many cases cannot be accessed. Seen forensically, Zhong’s enveloping volumes are infiltrated by endearing objects – but following them can lead one into ontologically frightening territory.
Stella Zhong
Asymmetric Revolution 02,2026
Wood, resin, plaster, foam, oil paint, color pencil, sand, string, fishing wire
78.5 × 435 × 43 cm | 30 7/8 × 171 1/4 × 16 7/8 in
Courtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin
Stella Zhong
Stella???, 2026
Resin, plaster, wood, foam, oil paint, color pencil, rubber, plastic, latex paint, wire, pom pom, string, bead
85 × 208 × 159 cm | 33 1/2 × 81 7/8 × 62 5/8 in
Courtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin
In her way of magnifying the gap between the infinitesimal and infinite, Zhong’s work calibrates decidedly incommensurable relations on the same plane. Withdrawing from human scale, her practice instead presses for a new mathematics, new power structures. But this heady side is offset by tactility, uncanniness, and an existential humor that is deeply human, reflecting contemporary conditions – with their frictions between solitude and connectivity, expansion and opacity, and the simultaneous and indeterminate.
Stella Zhong
Trust the High Altitude 06, 2026
Wood, resin, plaster, foam, oil paint, color pencil, wire, epoxy clay, air-dry clay, string, magnet
217 × 78 × 110 cm | 85 3/8 × 30 3/4 × 43 1/4 in
Stella Zhong
Trust the High Altitude 06, 2026
Wood, resin, plaster, foam, oil paint, color pencil, wire, epoxy clay, air-dry clay, string, magnet
217 × 78 × 110 cm | 85 3/8 × 30 3/4 × 43 1/4 in
Stella Zhong
Accumulate into a New Star, 2026
Wood, granite grip, paint
252 × 600 × 400 cm | 99 1/4 × 236 1/4 × 157 1/2 in
Courtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin
Stella Zhong (b. 1993, Shenzhen, China) is an artist based in New York City. She has been included in recent exhibitions at Para Site, Hong Kong; The Power Station, Dallas; Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; and SculptureCenter, New York, as well as holding solo exhibitions across Europe, North America and Asia.