About | Work |
Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Minute Gesture, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
Project Exhibitions
2016
Handing, Big whale Space, Berlin, Germany
The betrayal of the seeing, Wenhuaguan, an online project curated by Bao Dong
2010
1467+, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
2017
BANANA BANANA 2, Diskurs Berlin, Berlin,Germany
Any Ball, CAFAM, Beijing, China
Moments and More: Documents of Culture Pavilion [wén huà guǎn] Online Art Project, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
A Circle, But Not Round, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China
2016
Time Based, Non-Places-The 3rd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen, China
About Turning Point - Contemporary Art in China
Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Another Wave, The 1st Daojiao new new art festival, Daojiao granary, Dongguan, China
From Painting to Digital, Migrant Birds, Berlin, Germany
2015
Jimei X Arles: East West Encounters International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
Prototypes, Duplicates and Cast-offs—Assembly Line Project_2, 1288 Boxue Lu and V ART CENTER, Shanghai, China
No Real Body- The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
A Very Hot Pot, Inna Artspace, Hangzhou (CN)
Creating for The Future: Thinking about The Unthinkable, Momentum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The 2nd “CAFAM Future” Exhibition: Observer-Creator · The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art, CAFAM, Beijing, China
POST-Li Zhnehua´s collections, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
2014
ART·SANYA, Sanya, China
Cosmos - Limited and Limitless, Existence and Co-existence, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Notes Coordinates, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China
Sternenberg, Claudia Geiser gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
Section - drifting 1, Museum of Unknown, Shanghai, China
AUSSTELLUNG 8, GIZ-Haus Berlin, Germany
17ZWEI-A Public Art Project, Hardbrücke Zürich, Switzerland
2012
Time of the Dragon, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma Finland
Hunters and Hunted, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
N-Minute Video Festival, March Art, Shanghai, China
2011
Think Art - Act Science, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
From Interaction to Micro-Sociology: The Dual Thread of Media Intervention into Art in The Netherlands and China, Art Issue Projects, Beijing, China
2010
Think Art – Act Science, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona
SHANGSHUI-BOTH WAYS when art meets science, Stadtgalerie im PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
2008
Intrude: Art & Life 366, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2007
The Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, Guangdong, China
2006
Chinese Contemporary Art in Chinese Space -Yellow Box, Qingpu. Xiaoximen, Shanghai, China
New Folk Movement - Reconstruction of The Public Life - Contemporary Art Exhibition of The Second Art Festival of Song Zhuang, U Space, Beijing, China
2005
Archaeology of the Future - The Second Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Residencies:
2011
Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme, Helsinki, Finland
2010
Artists in Labs, Zurich, Switzerland