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 2026, the artist’s first at the gallery and her first solo exhibition in Germany.
Stella Zhong
Trust the High Altitude, 2025
Epoxy-clay, wire, oil paint, aqua-resin, plaster, wood, foam, thread
152.4 x 75 x 101.5 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin
Via installation, sculpture, video and painting, Zhong crafts environments that oscillate vastly in scale, material and approachability, making distance in perception and comprehension felt. Her elemental forms have gravitational pull but cannot be accessed. Seen forensically, Zhong’s smooth, enveloping volumes are infiltrated by endearing objects – but following them leads one into ontologically frightening territory.
Stella Zhong
Stella??, 2025
Wood, oil paint, aqua-resin, sand, plaster, cloth, paper, foam, epoxy clay, wire, string, pom pom, bead
79 x 166 x 138 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin
Stella Zhong
HIGH RISK SPARE FUTURES, 2024
Single-channel video, sand, epoxy, paper, wire, magnet, paint, wood
130 x 545 x 300 cm
Installation view at Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
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 entirely from the human scale, instead pressing for a new mathematics, a new power structure, is where her practice finds footing. 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.
