Exhibition
Lin Ke, Zhou Yilun Purple Fuzz
MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen
2023.12.22-2024.01.27
Biography
Since 2010, Lin Ke has turned his attention to the behavioral science of the computer age by making himself his own Guinea pig. Converting his laptop into a studio, Lin extracts material from computer software and the Internet as the fodder and form of his art. The mundane act of exploring the vicissitudes of the world wide web and various applications becomes the catalyst for art making and self-portraiture. He records operational behavior and conceptual images by using screenshots and screen recording software. His work takes the form of installation, image, sound, text, video and computer painting.
Lin Ke has gained major critical acclaim for his work by winning the OCAT – Pierre Huber Art Prize in 2014, and the Chinese Youth Artist Award of the 9th AAC Art 2015. His work has been shown at ZKM, Karlsruhe; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo; Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. His work is featured in the collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; M+ Museum of Visual Culture, HK; K11 Art Foundation, HK; Kadist Foundation, Paris/San Franciso; New Century Art Foundation, Beijing; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; White Rabbit Museum, Sydney and among others.In his work, Lin Ke uses software to set its various functions free from their original purpose in the way that language is liberated from its communicative functions to become poetic. If poetry expresses the joy of language, Lin Ke’s work brings out the pleasure of the graphical user interface.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2025***, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
Ghostivity, BANK, Shanghai, China
2024COLORS IN MIND, Nanshan Society, Xi’an, China
2023Nantou Face Town, MANGROVEGALLERY Artist Residency Programme, Nantou City, Shenzhen, China
2022XiFang Art Museum, SiFang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Beyond Photoshop, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2021Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
2020 Business, Canton Gallery, Guangzhou, China
Xuan Fu Shi Ji, Riverside, Hangzhou, China
The Boundary of Dimensions, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2019Sky Paintings, Bank, Shanghai, China
2017BANK Booth, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2016LIKE ME, Bank, Shanghai, China
2014L in K, Gallery Yang, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2025Booth 127: A Fair Show, BANK, New York, United States
From Zero to Infinity, Yancheng Art Museum, Yancheng, China
Once Upon A Time: PSA Collection Series, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
The Stranger, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2024Pictures of the Post-80s Generation Generational Leap, TANK, Shanghai, China
QUELQUES ACROBATES DU TECHNO-IMAGINAIRE, Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Doors Open Windows Locked, Imagokinetics, Hangzhou, China
From ZERO to Infinity, LAST Art Project, Shanghai, China
2023Purple Fuzz, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
Someone Has Been Disarranging These Rose, Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
Making Reality, Xie Zilong Photograph Museum, Changsha, China
ENGAGING WITH THE WORLD: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Since the Dawn of the 20th Century, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Motion Is Action – 35 Years of Chinese Media Art, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China
The past is a foreign country, SGA, Shanghai, China
Up in the Air, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China
Heaven on Earth, Sound Activity Center, Sound Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Interface of Janus, Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
You As Me – Hold the Gaze, HOW ART MUSEUM 5TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION EXHIBITION, Shanghai, China
Visions Come True, chiK11 art museum, Shanghai, China
2022The Pieces I Am, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China
In the Line of Flight, for Possible Worlds, DEJI Art Museum, Nanjing, China
A Group Show, 39-plus Art Space, Singapore
2021The Long Cut, https://feralfile.com
Red, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Symphony of Gravity & Harshness, G+ Art Space, Nanping, China
Coffee Kiosk – Pink is the New Black, ROOM 6×8 , SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China
On Behalf of, Qiao Space, Shanghai, China
2020Casting Votes, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing, China
Ineffable Longings, G Museum, Nanjing, China
Immaterial / Re-material：A Brief History of Computing Art”, UCCA, Beijing, China
Duration：Chinese Art in Transformation, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
UN/ CONVENTIOANL – OCAT X KADIST EMERGING MEDIA ARTIST EXHIBITION, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2019Zhang Peili Geng Jianyi’s Students, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China Roots of Clouds Adrift – Temporality：OCAT Nanjing Public Art Project, OCAT Nanjing Qixia Exhibition Site, Nanjing, China Advent–Inventing Landscapes, Producing the Earth, Qianshao Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China A Turning Moment—Urban Narrative in Chinese Contemporary Art 1995-2019, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China The Return of Guests – Selections From the PSA Collection, PSA, Shanghai, China The Kind Stranger, UNArt Center, Shanghai, China Lin Ke, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom Chinternet Ugly, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, United Kingdom Remapping Reality–Selected Video Collection From Wang Bing, “EXIT PLAN”, SNAP, Shanghai, China 2018The 6th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China FRONT International, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, United States Lumen Quarterly, World Organization Of Video Culture Development, Beijing, China Play&Loop, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, China Flaneur’s Square, Hive Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Seminar on Painting, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China presence-Young Artist Exhibition, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China 2017 Frontier – Re-assessment of Post-Globalizational Politics, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China Simultaneous Eidos – Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China The Esastasy of Time – Reframing the Medium of Knowing”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Sharing Exhibition Episode 1 – Time Dividuals, Screen Room You Really Know Where You Are, For the First Time In History, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, China Saved by the Web?, Postmasters Gallery, New York, United States The 2nd Session of Changjiang International Photograph & Video Biennale, Chongqing Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China Digital Samplers, Or New Generation Deep Dive into Internet Superposition, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China .com/.China, K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong, China AFTER US, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2016Shenzhen MAF 2016, G&G Creative Community, Shenzhen, China Dragon Liver, Phoenix Brain-Eight Emerging Artists, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China Screen addiction-Lin Ke’s personal project, Goethe Institute, Beijing German Cultural Center, Beijing, China 11th Shanghai Biennale-WHY NOT ASK AGAIN, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China Performing in the Shot: Video Collections from Wang Bin, NEW CENTURY ART FOUNDATION, Shanghai, China Holzwege, ShanghArt Gallery (ShanghART at West Bund), Shanghai, China Li Wendong & Wei Xingye Collection, OCAT Contemporary Art Xi’an, Xi’an, China TURNING POINT: CONTEMPORARY ART IN CHINA SINCE 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Screen Test: Chinese Video Art Since 1980s, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China THE EXHIBITION OF ANNUAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF CHINA 2015”, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China THIS FUTURE OF OURS, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China WE – A COMMUNITY OF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, Shanghai, China GLOBALE: New Sensorium, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany 2015THE EXHIBITION OF ANNUAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF CHINA 2014, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China Peek show, Long March Space, Beijing, China The Ballad Of Generation Y, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai , Shanghai, China Tokyo Art Meeting VI,”TOKYO” – Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan JING SHEN, PAC PADIGLIONE D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Milan, Italy Works in Progress-Photography, MUSEUM FOLKWANG, Essen, Germany 2014OCAT – PIERRE HUBER ART PRIZE SHORTLIST EXHIBITION THE TRUTH ABOUT ENTROPY, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai, Shanghai, China Teach Us To Care and Not To Care – Teach Us To Sit Still, Bank, Shanghai, China Too Smart to Good?-The 7th A+A, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China 2013The Sun, V Arts Centre (Space 1), Shanghai, China 2012MAKE UP, V Arts Centre, Shanghai, China Guest: Standing On the Shoulders Of Little Clowns, UCCA, Beijing, China 2011Fiction, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China Top Events – 2nd Session, TOP Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China Top Events, TOP Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China Low Fat, HanHouse, Hangzhou, China 2010DEDICATED TO MONEY MAKERS, MadeIn space, Shanghai, China
Awards
2015The Chinese Youth Artist Award of the 9th AAC Art
2014OCAT – Pierre Huber Art Prize
Collections (Selection)
UCCA Foundation, Beijing, China
New Century Art Foundation, Beijing, China
Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
M+ Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong, China
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Kadist Foundation, Paris, France/San Francisco, USA
White Rabbit Museum, Sydney, Australia
Exhibitions
