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10th Beijing International Art Biennale 2025

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It is my great honor and immense pleasure to announce that the painting “thundercloud” is featured at the 10th Beijing International Art Biennale, held at the Beijing Exhibition Center in China from December 29th, 2025 to January 28th, 2026.

The 10th Beijing International Art Biennale is hosted by: the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Publicity Department of Beijing Municipal Committee, CPC, China Artists Association.

Centered on the theme of “Coexistence” this year’s biennale presents work from artists from approximately 120 countries.

The 10th China Beijing International Art Biennale Download

“The recent painting practice aims to unite intent and image, the brushstroke is the cloud. The painting ‘thundercloud’ was created meditating and concentrating to paint a line with the brush, sitting outside under trees during summer 2025 when thunderclouds appeared on the horizon .”

“Jasmin Genzel – ‘thundercloud’

Harnassing the powers of the body gives the Daoist access to a unified, cosmic energy that allows him or her to create thunder and lightning. Daoist scriptures often speak of “an Original Energy that gives you control over thunder and lightning, clear sky and rain, and life and death”. It is obtained through a meditational regime focusing on the energies of the five organs (liver, heart, spleen, lungs, kidneys) of your body, a sublimation of the five phases (wood, fire, earth, metal, water), which are also expressed in five correlative colors (blue, red, yellow, white, black). The painting depicts the process of creation of this cosmic power, in which the five energies are represented by the five colors in dynamic cloud forms – the traditional shape of energy in Chinese art – unleashing the forces of thunder and lightning.”

(Lennert Gesterkamp, 2025)

detail of ‘thundercloud’, 2025, ink, aquarelle, oil on canvas, 2 wooden sticks, 123 x 186,5 x 1 cm.;

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