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)
2024Give Back, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2022Solemn Hour, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing, China
2021BLOCKING, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2020Cinema Paradiso, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
The Last Letter, Observation Society, Guangzhou, China
2019Li Binyuan, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Breaking Point, Ren Space, Shanghai, China
Absorb, MU Artspace, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2018Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan, MoMA PS1, New York, United States 2016Buffering, Black Sesame Space, Beijing, China 2015Headwaters, Gallery Yang, Beijing, China Social Behaviours, CFCCA, Manchester, United Kingdom 2014Whose Dreams, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2013I Have Issues, Gallery Yang, Beijing, China 2013 Spring In The Sewer, Gallery55, Shanghai, China
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2025The City as an Art Site: The Boundary Change from Space to Daily Life，Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy, Guangzhou,China
The Stranger, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2024PICTURES OF THE POST- 80S GENERATION – GENERATIONAL LEAP, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China
FATHER, HOW DO WE TALK ABOUT HIM, JinYue Children’s Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Out of Place, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
2023Nomads 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
2022Hometown Spring, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Clean River, Calm Sea, Hauptkirche St. Katharinen, Hamburg, Germany
Ingebrigt Vik & Li Bingyuan, Kunsthuset Kabuso, Kabuso, Norway
202159th Ann Arbor Film Festival，Ann Arbor, United States
On Behalf Of, QIAO SPACE, Shanghai, China.
202037th 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
2019Agrotopia – 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, United Kingdom
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
2018The Street. Where the World Is Made, National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy 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, United Kingdom Gangwon International Biennale, Gangwon, Korea Heterotopia On the Route, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China 2017Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo. 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, United Kingdom 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, United States FLOW, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy 2016Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, MCAD, Manila, Philippines 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 2015Playback, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, 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 2014Unlived by What is Seen, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China 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 2013Any Rugged Stuff will Vanish, Kabuso Art Museum, Bergen, Norway Crossroads – Another Dimension, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Fuck Off 2, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands 2012Logic Being Discussing, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China 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 2011Representation of Realistic Art, 5nd Cheng Du Biennale, Cheng Du, China Hypnotized, International Visual Arts Center, Taipei, China Hypnotized, Other Gallery, Beijing, China
Screenings & Artist Talks (Selection)
2024Searching for the Flying Stone (with Kurt Johannessen), Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
2023Aphasia, 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
2022Overestimation, Li Binyuan Artist Talk at Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2021Festival International de Cinema Marseille 2021, Marseille, France
59th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, United States
202037th Kassel Documentary Festival, Kassel, Germany
2016The Great Artist, Li Binyuan Artist Talk, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014Li Binyuan on Li Binyuan, Artist Talk at Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
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