Liu Bolin

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Liu Bolin 2010 in Venice

Liu Bolin ( Chinese  劉勃麟  /  刘勃麟 , Pinyin Liú Bólín ), (born January 7, 1973 in the east Chinese province of Shandong in the People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese photographer , sculptor and performance artist.

Life

Liu attended the Shandong Art Institute and graduated with a BA in 1995 . In 2001 he completed his sculpture training at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with an MFA .

Liu's first exhibitions followed in 1999 and 2001 in the Chinese "province". He then settled in Beijing's artists' district Suo Jia Cun , which was demolished in November 2005 by city authorities due to an alleged lack of building permits. After that event, Liu began international recognition with exhibitions in his Hiding in the City series , which were shown in Beijing, France , the United States and Italy . In this series of photos, the artist adapts to the background so that his person and the background structure merge into one another in the photographs of these performances, for example the national flag of the People's Republic, a construction fence in Beijing or graffiti in the city. In June 2011 he adapted himself to the background in various places in New York City , for example he posed in front of the cop on Wall Street in Manhattan .

Liu lives and works today (2011) in Beijing.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999: The Second Metal Works Exhibition , Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.
  • 2001: The First Sculpture Competition , Fujian , China.
  • 2001: The Second Invited Sculpture Works Exhibition of Contemporary Young Sculptors , Hangzhou Art Museum, Hangzhou, China.
  • 2001: Life is Beautiful , West Lake ( Westsee ) International Sculpture Exhibition, Hangzhou Art Museum.
  • 2005: Dismantle-Dismantle-Dismantle (demolition - demolition - demolition), Suo Jia Village International Arts Camp, Beijing.
  • 2005: Luxury Times , Tianjin Harbor Plaza Cheung Chau, Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition , Tianjin , China.
  • 2005: Beijing Calligraphy Exhibition , Must Be Art Center, Dashanzi Art District , Beijing.
  • 2005: Contemporary Art Exhibition of Dismantle , Xiyuantanlu Business Hotel, Beijing.
  • 2006: Gray and Red , Dashanzi Art District, Beijing.
  • 2006: Opening of Beijing Destillery Art Studio , Beijing Wine Factory Art Zone , Beijing.
  • 2006: Sculpture Exhibition in honor of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 , Jintai Museum , Beijing.
  • 2006: Demolish CHINA , 751 Factory, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing.
  • 2006: Reference inside and outside , Nanjing , China.
  • 2006: Red star, Red star, Red star , Dashanzi Art District, Beijing.
  • 2006: Group exhibition: Qingzhou International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Qingzhou Museum , Shandong.
  • 2006: Satellite Exhibition , Shanghai .
  • 2006: Beijing View Exhibition , Ner Art Project, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing.
  • 2006: Visit by Yourself , Songzhuang Art Zone , Beijing.
  • 2006: China Contemporary Art Exhibition , Galerie Bertin-Toublanc, Paris.
  • 2007: The Invisible Man , Fotografiska , Stockholm, also: Vänermuseet, Lidköping and Eli Klein Fine Art, New York City.
  • 2007: The First "Breathing" Shandong Modern Art Exhibition , Jinan , Shandong.
  • 2007: Off Center Generation - Post-1970s Group Exhibition , Factory 751, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing.
  • 2007: Resettling - Suo Jia Village Modern Art Exhibition , Beijing International Arts Camp II, Ka Tsuen, Beijing.
  • 2012: Hide in the City , Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow , Moscow, Russian Federation.
  • 2015: Interact: Deconstructing Spectatorship: East Wing Biennial , The Courtauld Institute of Art , London, England (with, among others, Manfred Bockelmann , Felix Gonzalez-Torres , Jessica Johnson , Donald Martiny , Julie Mehretu , Bridget Riley , Marc Quinn )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.artnet.de/magazine/abriss-des-pekinger-künstlerviertels-suojiacun/
  2. ↑ 2014-2015, Interact: Deconstructing Spectatorship. (No longer available online.) In: eastwingbiennal.org. Archived from the original on January 6, 2018 ; accessed on January 2, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / eastwingbiennial.org
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liu is the family name here, Bolin is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Liu, Bolin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese photographer, sculptor and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th January 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Shandong , People's Republic of China