Exhibition
Li Binyuan BLOCKING
Curator:Li Jia
MANGROVEGALLERY,
Shenzhen 2021.6.6-8.28
Shenzhen 2021.6.6-8.28
Biography
Li Binyuan was born in Yongzhou, Hunan Province, China in 1985, graduated from the Department of Sculpture, Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. Li’ s work has exhibited throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, also had work in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.
Li explores physicality, material, conceptual cognition, and social values through actions-based film works and performances that intervene in the social fabric of everyday Chinese society. His experiments occupy urban and rural spaces, from public scenery of the streets to natural sites, or remote post-industrial locations. Using his body as a sculptural material to enact creative investigation. He uses ruptures and repetition to manifest how sculpture and performance can intertwine. Rearticulating social conduct while interrogating our experiences of the everyday. Li is the winner of The Merit Award by Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art (2015)，The Golden Key Award nomination at the 37th Kassel Documentary Festival (2020)，The Chinese Youth Artist Award of the 14th AAC Art (2020).
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2024
Give Back, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2022
Solemn Hour, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing, China
2021
BLOCKING, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2020
Cinema Paradiso, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China.
The Last Letter, Observation Society, Guangzhou, China.
2019
Li Binyuan, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China.
Breaking Point, Ren Space, Shanghai, China.
Absorb, MU Artspace, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
2018
Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan, MoMA PS1, New York, USA.*
2016
Buffering, Black Sesame Space, Beijing, China.
2015
Headwaters, Gallery Yang, Beijing, China.
Social Behaviours, CFCCA, Manchester, UK.
2014
Whose Dreams, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China.
2013
I Have Issues, Gallery Yang, Beijing, China.
2013 Spring In The Sewer, Gallery55, Shanghai, China.
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2024
Out of Place, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
2023
Nomads in the South: Rivers, Tunnels, Dampness and Constellations, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Hybrid Tales for Hybrid Times, MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: The 9th Shenzhen Young Artists Week Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Shenzhen University Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
The Power of Plants: An Ancient Vitality, Being Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Award of Art China 2023: The Wild Theatre, Artron Art Centre, Shenzhen China
Metro-Biosis, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2023, Maqiao AI Zone, Shanghai, China
9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Nantou City, Shenzhen, China
Walking Guides, Long March Independent Space, Beijing, China
In Between the Fields, ChunYanTai, Guangzhou, China
The 7th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2022
Hometown Spring, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Clean River, Calm Sea, Hauptkirche St. Katharinen, Hamburg, Germany
Ingebrigt Vik & Li Bingyuan, Kunsthuset Kabuso, Kabuso, Norway
2021
59th Ann Arbor Film Festival，Ann Arbor, USA.
On Behalf Of, QIAO SPACE, Shanghai, China.
2020
37th Kassel Documentary Festival, Kassel, Germany.
With/Against the Flow, G Museum, Nanjing, China.
Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu, Korea.
Embodied Mirror：Performances in Chinese Video Art, New Century Art Foundation, Beijing. China.
2019
Agrotopia – When life becomes art through local agriculture, Aomori Museum of Art, Japan.
GREENLICHTDISTRICT, Telemark Kunstsenter, Skien, Norway.
Berlin-Peking Visual Exchange , Museum für Fotografie , Berlin , Germany.
Afterimage: Dangdai Yishu , Lisson Gallery, London, UK.
Symbiosis: The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry, OCAT Shenzhen, China.
The Curation Workshop , OCT Art and Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China.
5 crowd Exhibition, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway.
The Street. Where the World Is Made, La Panacée-MoCo , Montpellier , France.
Body Search 1, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig , Leipzig , Germany.
The Street. Where the World Is Made, National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy. 2017 Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo. 2016 Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, MCAD, Manila, Philippines. 2015 Playback, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China. 2014 Unlived by What is Seen, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China. 2013 Any Rugged Stuff will Vanish, Kabuso Art Museum, Bergen, Norway. 2012 Logic Being Discussing, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China. 2011 Representation of Realistic Art, 5nd Cheng Du Biennale, Cheng Du, China.2018
Flowing Books, OCAT Nanjing, Nanjing, China.
Altering Home, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
Ghost:2561 Film Screening Program, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2nd Yinchuan Biennale, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China.
XIE-SHENG, Bonacon Gallery, Guangzhou, China.
Arrogation, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China.
PRESENCE, St Georges Hall Heritage Centre, Liverpool, UK.
Gangwon International Biennale, Gangwon, Korea.
Heterotopia On the Route, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China.
0:00, BANK, Shanghai, China.
Stress Field, Hubei Museum Art, Wuhan, China.
7nd Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen, China.
Round Table Discussions, Lin&Lin Gallery, Taipei, China.
2nd Asian Film & Video Art Forum, MMCA, Seoul, Korea.
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand.
What’s in Store?, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.
2nd Changjiang International Photography&Viedo Biennale, CMCA, Chongqing, China.
Visual Questions, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China.
Intermediary – Video Art from China, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA.
FLOW, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy.
Pulse Reaction, Times Museum, Guangzhou , China.
China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China.
This Future of Ours, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China.
Utoplas· Heterotoplas, Wuzhen, China.
Inward Gazes: Documents of Chinese Performance Art , Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China.
Sub Free, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.
OpenArt Biennale, Orebro, Sweden.
Don’t on Site, AMNUA-CN, Nanjing, China.
Beyond Control, Tong Gallery + Projects, Beijing, China.
MONA FOMA, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia.
Orientation of Shape, Museum of Fine Arts College of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
Another Leap, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.
Polyphony, AMNUA-CN, Nanjing, China.
A Room Not of One’s Own, Space Station, Beijing, China.
The 8 of paths, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany.
Crossroads – Another Dimension, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China.
Fuck Off 2, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands.
Chinese sculpture: Chinese sculpture since 1918, CAFA art Center, Beijing, China.
Also World, T Art Center, Beijing, China.
Busan Flower village International Nature Arts Festival, Busan, Korea.
Hypnotized, International Visual Arts Center, Taipei, China.
Hypnotized, Other Gallery, Beijing, China.
Screenings & Artist Talks (selection)
2024
Searching for the Flying Stone (with Kurt Johannessen), Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
2023
Aphasia, opening short film of Pingyao Corner, 2023 Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
International Film Festival, Pingyao, China
BAF×Cinemateket arkitektur pa film: Building a Museum, Verftet Cinemateket, Bergen, Norway
Building a Museum, Li Binyuan Screening & Talk, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China
2022
Overestimation, Li Binyuan Artist Talk at Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2021
Festival International de Cinema Marseille 2021
59th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, USA
2020
37th Kassel Documentary Festival, Kassel, Germany
2016
The Great Artist, Li Binyuan Artist Talk, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014
Li Binyuan on Li Binyuan, Artist Talk at Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Exhibitions
