Lu Chunsheng (陆春生)
Biography
Born in 1968, Changchun, China;
Currently works and lives in Shanghai, China.
Biography
Born in 1968, Changchun, China;
Currently works and lives in Shanghai, China.
Solo Exhibition
2014
Vigorous shake and the after, the earth feature gets much clearer, prophecy comes into his mind, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
2012
Video Bureau Archive 6: Lu Chunsheng, Video Bureau, Beijing / Guangzhou, China
2011
Perspectives: Lu Chunsheng, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
2010
Lu Chunsheng and Jia Aili: Counterpoints, New work from contemporary Chinese artists, inIVA, Rivington Place, London, UK
2008
The Materialists are All Asleep, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
2006
History Of Chemistry 2 - Excessively Restrained Mountaineering Fancier,
Shanghai BizArt, Shanghai; Platform China Space A, Beijing, China
2004
History of Chemistry, Project Space Zip, Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibition
2015
LOOP Fair 2015, Barcelona, Spain
2014
V&P, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing, China
Photo Shanghai 2014, Shanghai, China
2012
TransMedia Art & Fashion Exhibition, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai, China
Art Dialogue City - 2nd N-Minutes Video Art Festival, Shanghai, China
2011
Moving Image in China: 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Move on Asia, second part of Universo Video, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon, Asturias, Spain
Urban Skin - 1st N Minutes Video Art Festival, Shanghai, China
2010
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Stuart Pearson Wright, Henry Coombes, Lu Chunsheng, CIRCA Projects, Stephenson Works, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Focus Shanghai: Lu Chunsheng and Birdhead, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, U.S.A
China Power Station: Part IV, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, Italy
Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009 - The Theme, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
Jungle: A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China, Beijing, China
San Sheng Wan Wu, Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, Shanghai, China
2009
“Every human being is an artist”, China-Germany Contemporary Art Exhibition, German Week 2009, Shanghai Times Square, Shanghai, China
In-Situ: A Dialog with Space and Time, River South Art Center, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Kino, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Blackboard, ShanghAsrt H-Space, Shanghai, China
Another Scene, Artists’ Projects, Concepts and Ideas, ShanghArt H-Space, Shanghai, China
imPOSSIBLE! - 8 Chinese Artists Engage Absurdity, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2008
China Power Station, Part III, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Mudam), Luxembourg
Vernacular Terrain 2, International Digital Art Projects, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
China China China!!! - Chinese Contemporary Art Beyond The Global Market, Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Focus Shanghai, New Video from China, Anthology Film Archive, New York, U.S.A.
Open Archive: 40 Years of Video Art in Germany + Chinese Video Art Archive (Part 1), Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
Fokus Kina, nationwide tour, Sweden
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007
Amateur World, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
Wuhan 2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Hubei Museum of Art; Art Museum of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts; Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China
A Continuous Dialogue - Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, Gu Dexin, Kan Xuan, Lu Chunsheng, Yan Lei, Zheng Guogu, Zhuang Hui, GALLERIA CONTINUA / San Gimignano, San Gimignano, Italy
Rejected Collection, More the 40 Chinese Artists / Over 60 Rejected Proposals, Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
Thermocline of Art, New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany
Keep an Eye on China, N.O. Gallery, Milan, Italy
Chinese Video Now, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
World Factory, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, U.S.A.
(I’m Always Touched) By Your Presence, Dear, IMMA Acquisitions since 2003, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
10th International Istanbul Biennial, Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War, Istanbul, Turkey
Move on Asia 2007: Visual Sensibility and Technology in Video Art, Gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea
The Supplemental History: Contemporary Art Works from Collection of DGMoA, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Individual Positions 2 (video, photo and installation), Shanghart Gallery H-space, Shanghai, China
2006
Never Go Out Without My DVcam, Video in China, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain
Alllooksame?/Tutttuguale? - Art form Japan, China and Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
A Continuous Dialogue - Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, Gu Dexin, Kan Xuan, Lu Chunsheng, Yan Lei, Zheng Guogu, Zhuang Hui, GALLERIA CONTINUA / Beijing, Beijing, China
The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA
China Contemporary: Architecture, Art and Visual Culture, Netherlands Architecture Institute; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Netherlands Fotomuseum, The Netherlands,
Move on Asia 2006: Clash and Network (World-tour exhibition), Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea; Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China; Arario Gallery, Beijing, China 38 Solo Exhibitions, 2577 Longhua Road Creative Garden, Shanghai, China
China Power Station: Part 1, Battersea Power Station, London, U.K.
27° Bienal de Sao Paulo: How to Live Together, Sao Paolo, Brazil
China’s Cutting Edge: New Video Art From Shanghai and Beijing, Anthology Film Archives, New York, U.S.A.
Less Travelled, Island 6, Shanghai, China
2005
Masculinities - an exhibition by the Video Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Biennale! Film and Video Exhibition China Tour, Dashanzi International Arts Festival, Beijing; BizArt, Shanghai; Redskyart Space, Haikou, China
Biennale! Film and Video Exhibition, temporarycontemporary, The Ola Seager Distilleries, London, U.K.
Shanghai Constructions, Group exhibtion by 10 artists, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2nd Guangzhou Triennial - BEYOND: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
1st Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Double Vision, Culture Square Lianzhou, Lianzhou, Guangdong, China
Back to the Future: Shanghai Arts, IF Museum Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland; Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, Germany
Out of Sight, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004
Techniques of the Visible: 5th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Monk and the Demon, Art Contemporain Chinois, Musee Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France
All Under Heaven, Ancient and Contemporary Chinese Art, the Collection of the Ullens Foundation, Koninkijk Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium
China Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
Silknet, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Images: Asian Photography and Video Exhibition, M63 Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China
A I’Ouest du Sud de I’Est, L’annee de la Chine, Céntre Regional d’Art Contemporain Laguedoc-Roussillon, Sete, France
2003
Open Sky: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
The Minority is Subordinate to the Majority, BizArt, Shanghai, China
White Tower Mountain, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Baita Ling, Hangzhou, China
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003, Short Video Festival, Niigata, Japan
Nasty: A Group Exhibition of Paintings, BizArt, Shanghai, China
Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis Centre of Contemporary Art, Pau, France
2002
1st Guangzhou Trienniale - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Fan Mingzhen & Mingzhu (Twin Exhibition) - Glad to Meet you, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai, China
Too Much Flavor Mirage, 3H Art Center, Shanghai, China
24:30 Contemporary Art Exhibition, BizArt, Shanghai, China
The Third Space in the Fourth World, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
2001
Living in Time, 29 Contemporary Artists from China, National Galerie im Hamburger Behnhof Museum Fuer Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany
Mantic Ecstasy, Digital Image and Video Art, Hangzhou; Shanghai, Beijing, China
2000
Uncooperative Approach (Fuck Off), Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
Out of Desire, Painting Exhibition of Six Shanghai Young Artists, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Home? Contemporary Art Project, Yuexing Furniture Plaza, Shanghai, China
Inertia & Mask - Works on Paper, Shanghai Oil Painting & Sculpture Institute, Shanghai, China
Screening
2008
37th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2007
4th China Independent Film Festival, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China
2006
Retrospective Screening of Lu Chunsheng, 12+ Contemporary Experimental Image Screening, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Festival SHADOWS Paris Octobre 2006, Paris, France
Video-Easy: video art from China & Australia, The Hart Center of Arts, Beijing, China
2004
2004 Chinese New Media Art Festival, China Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou, China
22° Torino Film Festival, Torino, Italy
2003
+System, Short Videos from the World 2002-2003, BizArt, Shanghai, China
Residency Program
2008
IAIR (International Artist-in-Residence) Program Fall 2008: Richie Budd, Lu Chunsheng and Taryn Simon, Artpace San Antonio, San Antonio, U.S.A.
2006
Gasworks - Residencies: Lu Chunsheng, Gasworks, London, UK
News
Lu Chunsheng: Vigorous shake and the after, the earth feature gets much clearer, prophecy comes into his mind
16 Nov 2014 – 16 Jan 2015
Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
News
Lu Chunsheng: Vigorous shake and the after, the earth feature gets much clearer, prophecy comes into his mind
16 Nov 2014 – 16 Jan 2015
Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
Reflection
Video stills
Reflection
Selected works and artist’s statements
The Curve which can Cough
2001, Black & White, 8’16″
I was enlightened by the way a chameleon moves. Of course, it has nothing to do with chameleons. I think it looks like certain state of man in certain time.
Video stills
Before the Appearance of the First Steam Engine
2003, Black & White, 28’56″
The two Incidents of the film happened simultaneously. I juxtaposed the two “in an attempt to discover” certain psychological connection between these two unrelated events.
Video stills
Murdered Trotsky in Summer, Gentlemen in Financial Circles Got More Depressed
2003, Black & White, 19’18″
In Murdered Trotsky in Summer, Gentlemen in Financial Circles Got More Depressed, scenes of a modern-day corporate environment are cut with the enactment of a murder. Not
following the actual circumstance of Trotsky’s death, the scenes played out by the costumed young men are something more like a sketchily-remembered idea. While the bulk of the
action is in black and white, a colour sequence folows in a more obviously contemporary setting; the young men walk through the streets raging and shouting. Little is resolved, and the
viewer is left with the sense that they are as perplexed by the slipperiness of collective memory as they are by the murder.
Video stills
The History of Chemistry I
2004, Black & White, 26’33″
Modern chemistry is derived from ancient Western alchemy. Pacific Asia today is like a big alchemist’s workshop;in other words, China is just a huge workshop. That’s probably why I selected this title for my film.
Video stills
The History of Chemistry II
2006, Color, 95′
“A descendant of John Dee lives somewhere in UK. He has a very “special” ability that he must inherited from his ancestor. He knows something about the “future”. He is the only one
who knows about the “future”, maybe the future of UK. he has a crucial “contract”…
I know nothing about China’s future, so I think that maybe there will be a “contract”…
1. Chemistry is an art of changing the objects, or to say, a disciplin concerning the natural changes of matters. Driven by the metaphor of change, people combined philosophy and simple
chemistry, thus created alchemy. People constantly transform the world for their own gain. They use alkali and grease to make soap; stir and solidify concreate; learn to control the
fermentation; smelt cooper and tin from ore then make bronze and alloy; etc. Experience and knowledge hence became routine practice, and later industry and science.
2.We are able to acquire pure compounds, which are “building blocks” of chemistry. With a formular at hand, one can make aspirin- no matter he’s in New york, Iceland, or Russia.
Chemistry is sometimes too easy.
3.If the “bright prospect” of the Orient has disappeared politically, then the utopia-sickened West’s only and final ambition would be seeking happiness through market economy. In the
pan-Pacific part of Asia, profound technology and industrial revolution was on the way, striving to face down the affluent and stagnent West, to shake it’s very foundation.
4.Matters were transformed. Alchemy was transformed.
Note. 1、2、4 quoted from Roald Hoffmann&Vivian Torrence Chemistry Imagined: Reflections on Science, 3- quoted from R.Scheps, Introduction of L’Empire des techniques.
Video stills
The square Loaded with nuclear power is going to America
2007, Color, 3’51″
Square is a very “absolute” geometric shape that barely existes in the natural world. If installed with nuclear power, it might be “driven” straight to America.
Video stills
The first man who bought a juicer bought it not for drinking juice
2008, Color, 27’16″
I have been thinking about what it was Lenin’s spiritual situation like when he was exiled to Siberia.
Video stills