Busan Biennale 2020
Words at an Exhibition - an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems
Exhibition Period
2020.09.05. - 11.08
Artists
89 Artists from 34 countries
(11 Authors, 67 Visual Artists, 11 Musicians)
Artistic Director
Jacob Fabricius
Curatorial Directors
Mélanie Bouteloup, Stephanie Cristello, KIM Sung woo
Venue
Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Old Town, Yeongdo Harbor
Online Viewing Room
Busan Biennale 2020 Online Viewing Roomhttps://bb2020.viewingroom.kr/mocabusan_B1F/
Exhibition view, Busan Biennale 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea, 2020
MadeIn Gallery artist Liu Wa participates in Busan Biennale 2020 "Words at an Exhibition–an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems", presenting the latest watercolor and video works Devil's Ivy (2020) and two-channel video installation Racing Thoughts (2019) in "Chapter 9: Electricity Speaks".Busan Biennale 2020 examines the city and tries to expand the various spectrums of a metropolitan through artistic expressions. At Busan Biennale 2020, ten fiction writers and one poet were invited to write on the characteristics of the city of Busan as a conceptual basis for selecting the artists, each responding through new commissions and existing works within the context of the exhibition.Video Stills
Liu Wa, Devil's Ivy, 2020, Virtual Reality Film, 10'Director: Liu Wa, Producer: Guo Qinya, VR Visual Effect: SUTU, Sound Design: Matt McCorkle
Devil’s Ivy is a 10-min virtual reality film interrogating the increasingly blurred lines between truth and imagination during the COVID-19 pandemic. It sends the viewer on a surreal trip to the city of Wuhan under lockdown, the virus-hit cruise ship and the mass grave in New York.
Liu Wa, Devil's Ivy, 2020, Virtual Reality Film, 10'Director: Liu Wa, Producer: Guo Qinya, VR Visual Effect: SUTU, Sound Design: Matt McCorkle
As the invisible virus morphs into bizarre symbolic elements, it reveals issues embedded in the fabric of the society long before the contagion, such as public surveillance and social distrust. The Internet overflowed with contradictory narratives and misinformation has rendered the world both seemingly accessible and at the same time bewilderingly labyrinthine, leaving each individual with one’s own limited imagination of the ever-morphing reality.
The work gets its name from the commonplace vine “Devil's Ivy,” which a girl in Wuhan bought during lockdown, because the plant is almost impossible to kill and stays green even when kept in the dark.
Exhibition view, Busan Biennale 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea, 2020
Liu Wa works with drawings, paintings and video, and for the last few years, she has turned her drawings into virtual reality work. Liu presents 30 pieces of watercolor on paper of Devil's Ivy in this exhibition.
Liu Wa, Devil's Ivy, 2020, Watercolor on paper, 36 x 26 cm Each
Liu Wa, Devil's Ivy, 2020, Watercolor on paper, 26 x 36 cm EachThe other work on display, Racing Thoughts, traces the artist’s aimless Internet surfing through two divergent yet complementary approaches. One the right channel, she clinically measures her real-time emotions through an EEG-based brain-computer interface. On the left channel, she blends her hand-drawn animations with the screencast, delineating her imagination with a human touch. During her Internet surfing, she comes across with fake science articles and mental health records.Video stills
Liu Wa, Racing Thoughts, 2019, Two-channel video installation, 7’28’’
Through the map of a hospital, the artist locates regions with the worst air pollution and spots China’s first military nuclear base “404.” In the digital ocean of information, clicking on the new webpages means replacing and forgetting the old ones. Asher emotions fluctuate along the way, racing thoughts are taking over her mind.
Immaterial / Re-material:
A Brief History of Computing Art
798, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Street, Beijing
MadeIn Gallery artist Liu Wa participates in group exhibition at UCCA Beijing, "Immaterial / Rematerial: A Brief History of Computing Art", a wide-ranging overview of the evolution of computing art from the 1960s to the present, exploring topics that span from machine-learning aesthetics to digital objecthood and technological discontent. The exhibition defines its area of focus not simply as digital art in general, but art-making that actively engages with the algorithms and generative logics that undergird the field of computing.
Exhibition view, "Immaterial / Re-material: A Brief History of Computing Art", UCCA Beijing, Beijing, 2020
Liu Wa (b.1994) is an artist who explores the subjectivity and limitation of human perception through interactive installation, moving image, and painting. She receives her BA in Anthropology and Art from Yale University in 2017 and currently works in Beijing and New York. Through technological approaches, neuroscience in particular, she creates visual pathways between the abstract emotions of the audience and the physical environment. In the current age of technology, her pluralistic practices seek to grapple with humanist topics, such as self-awareness and agency, exploring the interdependence between mentality and physicality. Liu’s works have been globally exhibited and collected by prestigious museums and galleries. She is the winner of the 2018-2019 Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” and was selected for the“Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list” in 2019.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Solo project “Moon Milk”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2020; Solo project “MoonMilk”, ART021, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China,2019; “Glimpse”, Asia Now, Paris, France, 2019; “Glimpse: A Passing Look”, SabsayGallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018; “Still”, Arts First Festival, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 2017; “Tree of Life”, performance, Yale University, New Haven, USA, 2015. Selected group exhibitions include: “The 2018-2019 Porsche ‘Young Chinese Artist of the Year’ Nominees Exhibition”, Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing, China, 2019; “Enter”, Refshaleoen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019; “The Variable and The Generating”, MadeInGallery, Shanghai, 2019; “PorscheYoung Chinese Artist of the Year”, Beijing Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China, 2019; “The 6th Guangzhou Triennial—As We May Think”, Feedforward, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2018; “After Sunset”, Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris, France, 2018; “Heart of the Tin Man”, M Woods Museum, Beijing, China, 2017; “I Do (Not) Want To Be Part Of Your Celebration”, QiaoSpace & Tank Project Space, Shanghai, China, 2017; “Art Utopia”, UllensCenter for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2016; “Fantastic Art China”, Javits Convention Center, New York, USA, 2016.
“Wish You a Sweeeeeet Life”
Feng Feng, He Yunchang, Jiang Zhi, Jiao Xingtao, Li Liao, Liu Gangshun, Lu Pingyuan, Miao Ying, Qin Ga, Qu Yan, Sui Jianguo, Sun Yitian, Wang Du, Wang Qingsong, Wang Yi, Zhao BandiDuende Contemporary Art MuseumNo.105, 1 Block, OCT Happy Harbour PLUS, 1Huanle Avenue, Daliang Town, Shunde District, Foshan, Guangdong Province
MadeIn Gallery artist Lu Pingyuan participates in the group exhibition "Wish You a Sweeeeeet Life" at Duende Contemporary Art Museum, presenting Don't Ask Me Who I am.
Lu Pingyuan, Don’t Ask Me Who I Am, 2016, Print on canvas, metal, lightbox, Dimensions variable Exhibition view, "Wish you a Sweeeeeet Life", Duende Contemporary Art Museum, Foshan, Guangdong, 2020
In Don’t Ask Me Who I Am the artist sprayed smiley faces on images of planet gathered from the Internet. This series of works is about a mysterious artist from one of Lu Pingyuan’s stories. This artist was inspired at a younger age by one of the lines from The Lion King: “The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.” Then he decided to travel to the outer space and paint smiley faces on those starry planets as if they were a family smiling at the earth. He traveled on a spaceship to the cosmos and got lost in the space soon after. Don’t Ask Me Who I Am is the sketch of his plan and the beginning of this story, or at least, it isn’t its end.Lu Pingyuan was born in 1984 in Zhejiang province, China, lives and works in Shanghai. Lu Pingyuan‘s artworks involve a variety of media, including texts, installations, videos, paintings and others. For a few years, Lu Pingyuan 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, extend 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; “Lost Child”, ONEHOME Art Hotel, Shanghai, China; “HOME ALONe”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2017; “Hidden Treasure”, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China, 2017; “James Stanley-The Seventh Earl of Derby”, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, United Kingdom, 2016; “ON KAWARA”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2016; “Unexpected Discoveries”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2015; “Time Capsule”, Gallery Box, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011. He participated in numerous group shows among which are “Wild Cinema”, TX Huaihai, Shanghai, 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; “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; “City Unbounded-China·Shanghai Jing’an International Sculpture Project”, Jing’an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China, 2018; “This is Shanghai”, Cunard Building, Liverpool, UK, 2018; “Long March Project: Building Code Violations III - Special Economic Zone”, Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2018; “Arts in Urban Cultures”, Taikoo Li Sanlitun, Beijing, China, 2018; “*underground-children-festival”, Para Site x Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2018; “Animamix Biennale—Ballade”, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China; “PLAY”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China; “11th Shanghai Biennale”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2016; “9th Liverpool Biennale”, Liverpool, England, 2016; “A Beautiful Disorder”, Cass Sculpture Foundation, England, 2016; “Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan”, Si Fang Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2016; “3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art”, Ural, Russia, 2015 etc. Lu Pingyuan was nominated for the 4th Art Sanya for the Young Chinese Artists Award and the First Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year”.
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野生青年艺术节·北京 2020 野生青年艺术节·北京 2
YES! ART FESTIVAL
Ye Funa, Wang Buke, Wangjingxin, Li Shan, Lu Pingyuan D-06 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Rd, Chaoyang, BeijingMadeIn Gallery artist Lu Pingyuan participates in "YES! ART Festival" and presents three of his latest works from the "Story" series.
Something Happened
Exhibition Period
2020.09.11. - 11.08
Artists
Xu Zhen, Zheng Yuan, Sun Xun, Lu Pingyuan, Chen Tianzhuo, Gao Ludi, Yun Yongye, Sun Lingnan, Jiang Zhi, Li Qing, Yan Bing, Zhang Dali, Leng Guangmin, Otani Workshop, Yoshitomo Nara, Yuichi Hirako, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Hikari Shimoda, Takashi Murakami, Mr., Emi Kuraya, OB, Tomoo Gokita, Hikari Shimoda, Masahisa Fukase, Daido Moriyama, tadayuki naitoh, Tokihiro Sato, Toshio shibata, Issei Suda, YOSHIHIKO UEDA, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Eikoh Hosoe, Ishimoto Yasuhiro, Kawada Kikuji, Shigeichi Nagano, Yuichi Hirako, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Daniel Arsham, JR, Felipe Pantone, Julian Opie, Melati Suryodarmo, Caroline Walker, Josh Sperling, Daniel Crews-Chubb, André Butzer, Jan Kalab, Baldur Helgason
Venue
Powerlong Art Center
L4, Onemall, No.1, Jinshan Road, Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian
MadeIn Gallery artists Lu Pingyuan, Xu Zhen® and Zheng Yuan participate in "Something Happend". This exhibition is the opening exhibition of Nothing Happened Gallery and gathers more than 60 works from 47 world-renowned artists. All the artworks are shown in China for the first time, ranging from painting, video, installation, sculpture, photography and more.
The exhibition will be divided into four major theme exhibitions. Lu Pingyuan's "Look! I'm Picasso!" series, Xu Zhen's Eternihty-Buddha in Nirvana, Under Heaven-0302BD0187 and Zheng Yuan's Nothing Happened are exhibited in the "+ 86" exhibition area.
Exhibition view, "Something Happened", Powerlong Art Center, Xiamen, Fujian, 2020
Lu Pingyuan’s series of works, “Look! I’m Picasso!”, is inspired by the first feature-lengthcomputer-animated film produced by Pixar in 1995, “Toy Story”. A scene in the film presents thetoy Mr. Potato Head with his eyes, nose and mouth on the side claiming: “Look! I’m Picasso”. Theartist conceived a series of cubist paintings and sculptures in the style of Picasso and incorporatedelements inspired from the facial props of Mr. Potato Head.
XU ZHEN®, Eternity-Buddha in Nirvana, the Dying Gaul, Farnese Hercules, Night, Day, Sartyr and Bacchante, Funerary Genius, Achilles, Persian Soldier Fighting, Dancing Faun, Crouching Aphrodite, Narcissus Lying, Othryades the Spartan Dying, the Fall of Icarus, A River, Milo of Croton, 2016, Mineral-based composite material, mineral pigments, metal, wood, 360 x 89 x 112 cm
Exhibition view, "Something Happened", Powerlong Art Center, Xiamen, Fujian, 2020
"Eternity" is a series of sculptural installations that fuses together and immortalizes classics of art history and great civilizations. Statues of Greek gods or Chinese divinities and Modern Art sculptures are replicated using mineral composite, taking on the form of visual hybrids. “Eternity” brings global civilization into a broader perspective, showing through the East - West cultural impact/collision, the historical influence of the traditional Orient and the modern Occident on contemporary life.
XU ZHEN®, Under Heaven-0302BD0187, 2018, Oil on canvas, aluminium, 50 x 70 cm
"Under Heaven", a magnificent title filled with an authoritative sense, consists in dense cream flowers of fancy colors: strawberry red, grape purple, mocha green, milk white, chocolate black... such as a thick layer of flowery cream on a freshly baked cake. These desiring aliment colors and the creamy form are twisted together into a carved baroque jungle; the exaggerated scales of the works present an intense and extravagant gaiety.
Zheng Yuan, Nothing Happened, 2014, Single-channel HD Video, colour, sound, 5'23''
Nothing Happened began with a video made by a minimalist. A few vehicles occasionally passed by the viewer and there were no pedestrians in sight on the highway in a freezing winter. Meanwhile, according to the real-time city simulation, a serious accident simultaneously occurred on the same highway while the photographer made this video. But in a strong favor of the minimalist aesthetic, she chose not to shoot the accident, in a way to maintain the tranquility of a cold winter day.
XU ZHEN®, founded by artist Xu Zhen in 2013, is the flagship art brand of MadeIn Company. Born in 1977, Xu Zhen is a leading Chinese artist and curator, and the founder of MadeIn Company. XU ZHEN® is committed to art creation and cutting-edge culture development. XU ZHEN® is one such initiative to offer spiritual aspirations and life experiences of the finest quality through the appreciation and collection of artworks and events produced by the brand.
Xu Zhen was born in 1977, and lives and works in Shanghai. Xu Zhen has been considered as an iconic figure in Chinese contemporary art. In 2004, Xu won the prize for ‘Best Artist’ at the China Contemporary Art Award. His practice covers various media such as installations, video, painting and performance, etc.
Xu Zhen has exhibited internationally, at museums and biennales, such as, Venice Biennale (2001, 2005), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2004), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2005), MoMA PS1 (New York, 2006), Tate Liverpool (2007), Hayward Gallery (London, 2012), Lyon Biennial (2013), Armory Show (New York, 2014), Long Museum (Shanghai 2015), Al Riwaq Art Center (Qatar, 2016), Sydney Biennial (2016), Guggenheim Museum (New York, 2017), Sharjah Biennial (2019), The Museum of Contemporary Art（Los Angeles, 2019）, among others.
Aside from being an artist, Xu Zhen is also a curator. He co-curated together with other artists major exhibitions in Shanghai and was one of the initiators of Art-Ba-Ba (www.art-ba-ba.com), a leading online forum for discussion and critique of contemporary art in Shanghai, in 2006. In 2009, Xu Zhen established ‘MadeIn Company’, a contemporary art creation corporate, focused on the production of creativity, and devoted to the research of contemporary culture’s infinite possibilities. In 2013, MadeIn Company launched XU ZHEN® which is committed to art creation and cutting-edge culture development. In 2014, MadeIn Company established MadeIn Gallery and in November 2016 launched the first “Xu Zhen Store” in Shanghai.
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About Zheng Yuan
Zheng Yuan (b.1988, Lanzhou, China) currently lives and works in Beijing. He received his MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015.
Zheng Yuan’s recent solo project includes “Forward, Backward”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai; “Up in the Air”, Taikang Space, Beijing, China, 2017; “An Open Studio”, PRACTICE SPACE, New York, United States, 2016. He recently participated in group shows including “An Impulse to Turn”, Inside-Out Museum, Beijing, China, 2020; “UN/CONVENTIONAL”, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 2020; “Be In a Half of Maze” CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou, China, 2019; “The Mesh”, Shanghai chiK11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Extreme Mix – 2019 Guangzhou Airport Biennale”, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “Porsche Young Chinese Artists of the Year Nominees’ Exhibition”, Beijing, China, 2019; “65th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival”, Oberhausen, Germany, 2019; “NOW IS THE TIME – 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Wuzhen, Zhejiang, China, 2019; “his sunt leones – Gallery Weekend Beijing 2019 Up&Coming Sector”, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China, 2019; “HOW NOW: THE LIFE APP”, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence”, Eastern Suburb Memory, Chengdu, China, 2018; “OFFLINE BROWSER”, The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, 2018; “New Metallurgists”, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2018; “Long March Project Building Code Violations III Special Economic Zone”, Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2018; “Flickering Boundaries”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2018; “The Ecstasy of Time”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, 2017. His works are also screened at film festivals including the 36th Kassel Dokfest, Kassel, Germany, 2019; the 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany, 2019; 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, United States, 2017; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, 2016. He was nominated at the Art Sanya for the Young Chinese Artists Award in 2017.
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Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation
Exhibition Period
2020.09.05. - Permanent
Artists
91 Artists in total
Venue
Beijing Minsheng Art Museum
Universal Creative Park-C7, No.9 Jiuxianqiao North Rd. Chaoyang District, 100015, Beijing
MadeIn Gallery artist Xu Zhen® participates in "Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation" in Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, presenting his video work Rainbow (1998).
Xu Zhen, Rainbow, 1998, video, 3'50''
Xu Zhen’s early video works focus on the body and public space. The video work Rainbow (1998) records a person’s back growing increasingly red, and throughout the entire process, the result of slaps are heard on the soundtrack but never seen. Xu Zhen uses the body as a medium to challenge the threshold which the human body can withstand; the image and the audio lead to inconsistent facts, directing the audience to re-examine the reliability of image and their own viewing experience.
MadeIn Gallery was established in 2014 in Shanghai by the contemporary art creation and curating platform MadeIn Company, a corporation founded by international influential artist Xu Zhen.
MadeIn Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of outstanding artists and projects, spurring the development of contemporary culture and international exchanges. Since its creation, the gallery has organized numerous curated, high-quality solo and group exhibitions of both emerging and established artists, becoming a unique and important art platform. MadeIn Gallery excels in discovering and accompanying young talented artists in their career, as well as actively participating among international dialogues, in the Chinese and international contemporary art scene.
Collaborating artists: Cai Jian, Chen Leng, Chen Ying, Ding Li, Elliot Dodd, Feng Mengbo, Feng Zhixuan, Gong Jian, He An, Li Hanwei, Liu Chengrui, Liu Wa, Lu Boyu, Lu Pingyuan, Miao Ying, Mo Shaolong, Payne Zhu, Pu Yingwei, Shang Liang, Shen Xin, Su Yu-Xin, Wang Sishun, Wang Newone, Wang Ziquan, Xia Yunfei, Xu Dawei, XU ZHEN®, Yang Shen, Yang Yang, Zhang Lian, Zheng Yuan, Zhong Wei, Zhou Zixi.
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