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Li Hanwei, born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province in 1994, graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts in 2018, and currently lives and works in Shanghai. Li’s practice adopts the forms of commercial advertisements and films as metaphors. Exploring various communication methods, the artist uses CG images to establish a worldview in the fictional world where counterfeit of the real world and science fiction coexist, as a way to present the intersection between contemporary culture forms and individual identities. 

Li Hanwei has participated to exhibitions such as: “Sino-Wharf: from Chinatown to Red Internationalism”, OCAT, Shenzhen, China, 2020; “Recommendations of Institutions”, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, China, 2020; “Wild Metropolis”, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Advent: Inventing Landscape, Producing the Earth”, Qianshao Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2019；“Extreme Mix”, Guangzhou Airport Biennale, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “The Variable and The Generating”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019; “Liquid Health”, Goethe Open Space, Shanghai, 2019; “Hunting Cycle”, MadeIn Park, Shanghai, 2018; “Shanghai Hot the Beheaded Six”, Yell Space, Shanghai, 2018; Boundary, SIVA, Shanghai, China；BABEL7, Babelsberger Strasse 52, Berlin, 2018; "Diversity", École nationale supérieure d'art de Nice – Villa Arson, Nice, 2016. Li Hanwei nominated for “Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents” in 2020.

Li Hanwei also co-operates the online contemporary art space Slime Engine with Liu Shuzhen, Fang Yang and Shan Liang since 2017. Li Hanwei has been involved in the conception and production of several exhibitions for Slime Engine.

Shen Xin (1990, Chengdu) lives and works in London and Amsterdam. Through films and video installations, as well as performative events, Shen’s practice examines and fabricates techniques and effects of how emotion, judgment, and ethic circulate through individual and collective subjects. By focusing on interpersonal complexity and political narratives, their films often aim to generate reflexiveness to dismantle dominant power structures.

Shen’s recent solo presentations include To Satiate, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019; Methods of Inhabiting, K11 Shanghai, 2018; Sliced Units, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, 2018; half-sung, half spoken, Serpentine Pavilion, London, 2017; and At Home, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China, 2016. Recent group shows include Sigg Prize 2019, M+, Hong Kong, 2019; FREE PRISM, Video Wave, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Guangzhou, 2019; NEITHER BLACK/ RED/ YELLOW/ NOR WOMAN, Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany, 2019; LANDSCAPE WITH BEAR, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019; Remapping Reality, OCAT, Shanghai, 2019; New Metallurgists, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, 2018; Songs for Sabotage, the New Museum Triennial, New York, 2018; Capricious Structure, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, 2018; and The New Normal, UCCA, Beijing, 2017, etc. Shen was awarded the BALTIC Artists’ Award in 2017, and they are currently an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.

Payne Zhu, b.1990, lives and works in Shanghai, graduated from Shanghai University of International Business andEconomics. Payne Zhu critically investigates the control systems that lead the rheology of finance, body, image, and becomes an exile or a rule-breaker, revealing or creating conflicts that are often hidden behind these systems.

His recent exhibitions include: “Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art”, New Century Art Foundation, Beijing, China, 2020; “Meditations in an Emergency”, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2020; “Serious Games”, HOW ArtMuseum, Wenzhou, China, 2019; “Lying Sophia & Mocking Alexa”, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Beijing, China, 2019; “Porsche Young Chinese Artist of the Year”,Beijing Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China, 2019; “The Variable and TheGenerating”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2019, “NOWISTHETIME, 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Wuzhen, 2019; “Cosmopolis #1.5: EnlargedIntelligence”, Chengdu Pompidou Biennale, Chengdu, 2018; “New Metallurgists”, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, 2018; “A Better Version of You 2”,Goethe-Institut China, Beijing, 2018; “A Better Version of You”, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2017; “Precariat’s Meeting”, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, 2017; “Serendipitous Mission”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2017; “Digital Sampler”, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, 2017; “Chinafrica. Under Construction”, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Germany, 2017; “You Won’t Be Young Forever”, No.235 GuangfuRoad, Shanghai,2016; “Post-sense sensibility: Trepidation and Will”, Minsheng ArtMuseum, Beijing, 2016; “The nightmare of the Exhibition Part II”, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, 2015.

Pu Yingwei, 1989 Born in Taiyuan, China. Lives and works in Lyon and Beijing, received his BFA from Sichuan Fine art Institute, DNSEP (MFA with Félicitation du jury) from École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. Pu Yingwei bases his work upon his personal investigation of realities, as he believes that the experience and memory of individuals are the cordial justification of the world’s existence. The artist is revisiting and parodying political and historical text in a personal way through his practice of various forms, including exhibition, writing, publishing and lecturing, and working in his writing of a nonfictional autobiography the narratives that involve such broad topics as race, country, language and colonization.

Recent solo exhibitions/projects: “Time, History, Why We Fight”, Beehive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2020; Personal Project “Pu Yingwei and ChinaCapital”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2020; “Double Empire”, Nouvel Institut Franco-Chinois, Lyon, 2018; “If only it were true”, Galerie Sator, Paris, 2018; “Pu Yingwei and Jim Thompson Architects”, J: GALLERY, Shanghai, 2017; “Roman Nomade”, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2017; Recent group exhibitions: “Dance With It”, Taikang Space, Beijing, 2018; “The Comfort Zone At A Distance”, Taikang Space-Light Pavilion, Beijing, 2018; “Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics”, OCAT Shanghai/OCAT Institute, Shanghai/Beijing, 2017-2018; “Fiction Art”, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 2018; “I Do (not) Want To Be Part Of Your Celebration”, Qiao Space & TANK Shanghai Project Space, Shanghai, 2017; “Reciprocal Enlightenment”, CAFA, Beijing, 2017. He won the John Moores Painting Prize (2012). HuaYu Youth Award (2018). His film “Interview” has been shortlisted for Caen Si Cinéma Festival (2018). Also, Pu Yingwei views the nomadic life he’s lived in China and the West and the tide of globalization as a type of contemporary exile, and tries to describe in his works the intertextuality and mutual clarification between China’s domestic situations and other cultural contexts. In 2016, after “post-truth” became the word of the year, Pu Yingwei began his fictional writing, His article Empire’s Legacy On “Pacing: A Journey of 70 years” and its silences won the second prize of for the IAAC (International Awards for Art Criticism), in the belief that first-language writing and translating are the identity construction and contextual production as one among the “others”. And such production is ushering in a new possible identity that is rid of any established ideologies.

Liu Chengrui (b.1983 in Qinghai) currently lives and works in Beijing. Performance, painting and text have been the main mediums since the beginning of his practice. In live performances, the artist’s body becomes the subject, fusing action and performance, cohering the suffering and the poetics of ordinary people; Liu’s durational performances often recreate life sceneries and social personalities together with the participants in a lengthy period of time; in paintings, Liu is fascinated by the intense colors, and the implied life-will behind the colors; Liu’s text works are mainly poetry, and starting in 2017 he begins fiction writing, as a complement to stories that other artistic languages cannot complete.

Liu Chengrui’s major solo exhibitions include: "Pagan", MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai (2016); "Into The Sun", X Gallery, Beijing (2015); "Our Backgrounds are All the Same", Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing (2011), etc. Selected group exhibitions include: "Heavy Artillery", White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2016); The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia, (2015); The 6th Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia, (2015); Performance Platform Lublin, Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin, Poland (2013), etc. Selected awards: Excellence Award, Youth Plus-Young Artists Promotion Project supported by China National Arts Fund, 2015; First prize, the 1st Circle Art Youth Award, 2015; Merit Award, Inward Gazes - Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macao Museum of Art, 2008. Poems Published: So the River, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, 2013; Which Way to East, Qinghai Normal University, 2004.

Lu Pingyuan, born in 1984 in Zhejiang province, China, lives and works in Shanghai. Lu' s artworks involves a variety of media, including texts, installations, videos, paintings and others. For a few years, Lu concentrated his practice on the writing of “stories” as a unique type of media for art creation. These short “stories” significantly broaden the artworks’ state of existence in the real world, while extending the inherent spirit of art itself. His works have been exhibited extensively in both national and international museums and biennales. 

Recent solo exhibitions include: “KOLA”, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “La Malle aux Trésors”, Mansion de Hermès, Shanghai, China, 2018; “HOME ALONe”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2017; “James Stanley-The Seventh Earl of Derby”, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, United Kingdom, 2016; “ON KAWARA”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2016; “Unexpected Discoveries”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2015; “Time Capsule”, Gallery Box, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011, etc. He participated in numerous group shows among which are “Wild Cinema”, TX Huaihai, Shanghai, China, 2020; “Land of the Lustrous”, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, China, 2019; “Edge of the Wonderland-Thailand Art Biennale”, Krabi, Thailand, 2018; “Artist is Present”, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018; “This is Shanghai”, Cunard Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2018; “*underground-children-festival”, Para Site x Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2018; “Zhong Guo 2185”, Sadie Coles HQ, London, 2017; “11th Shanghai Biennale”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2016; “9th Liverpool Biennale”, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2016; “A Beautiful Disorder”, Cass Sculpture Foundation, United Kingdom, 2016; “3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art”, Ural, Russia, 2015, etc.

Wang Sishun, born in 1979, currently lives and works in Beijing. His approach is conceptual while investing in the creation of objects that would easily be classified as sculpture and installation. He also expresses himself through video or photography. His playful and experimental approach is accompanied generally by a protocol that makes the creative process remain on an equal footing with the plastic qualities of the final work.

Wang Sishun recent solo exhibitions include: Apocalypse (Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2016), Truth (New Galerie, Paris, France, 2015), Truth (MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2014), The Indeterminate Boundless (Goethe Open Space, Shanghai, China, 2013), Liminal Space (Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2012), Wrong body (Galleria Dell’ Arco, Shanghai, China, 2011), Top of Dopamine (Taikang Space, Beijing, China, 2010).

Group exhibitions include:  "The Stranger From beyond the Mountain and the Sea"  Asian Art biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 2019; Silent Narrative, MOCA Yingchuan, Ningxia, China, 2019; Extreme Mix: Guangzhou Airport Biennial, Guangzhou, China, 2019; Land of the Lustrous, UCCA Dune, Qinhuang Island, 2019l; Hic Sunt Leones, Taikang space, Beijing, China, 2019; Contagious Cities: Far Away, Too Close, Tai Kwun, HongKong, 2019; Disappearing Archives, MOCUBE, Beijing, China, 2019; Between Utopia and Dystopia, Massimo de Carlo, Hong Kong, China,2017; Free Realm - Beijing 798 – Guiyang Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guiyang 798 Art Center, Guiyang, China, 2017; Bagism – We are all in the same bag!, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2016; A Beautiful Disorder, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK, 2016; You may say I am a dreamer, V.M. Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan,2016; On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones (Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Germany, 2015), Essential Matters (Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015), 2nd CAFAM Biennale: The Invisible Hand: Curating as Gesture (Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China, 2014), ON/OFF: China’s young Artists in Concept and practice (UCCA, Beijing, China, 2013).