LI GANG
He regards artistic creation as the practice of building emotional storage and spiritual container. To analyse and interpret the source information and self-expression in the development of things/matters, he tries to find the mutual involvement between the artistic language and the language of everyday life, and transforms such mutual involvement into special things that can preserve emotion and spirit. Through his intuition on materials, Li Gang emphasizes the inherent spirit and tension of the materiality of things/matters, and constructs a balance between form and content in artworks, so as to explore the boundary of artistic perception. In summary, Li Gang's practice is a process that is guided by the material spirit as the concept to discuss the “Matter Awaken” generated by art in people’s emotions of survival.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Amnesia, bizarre space，wuhan，China
2023 High Seas, Galerie Teagan,Beijing, China
2022 Matter Awaken，Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy
2020 Naked Color, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
2019 Vowel,Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin , Germany
2017 Fictional Symbol, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2017 Skin colour, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy
2017 Li Gang, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Switzerland
2016 Li Gang, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
2014 Salt Road, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
2013 Lateral Edge, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
2011 Between, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
2011 A Tranquil Order, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
2024 “In the turbulent silence of”， TANG YAO GALLERY, Beijing, China
2024 “Tomorrow Party”, Shanzhongtian Art Center, Xuanguan, Beijing, China
2023 “Time Gravity Chengdu Biennale”,Chengdu Art Museum,Chengdu,China
2022 “Hill of the Madman”,Power Station of Art (PSA),Shanghai,China
2022 “Being is comes naturally”ZHI ART MUSEUM,Chengdu,China
2021 “Mickey: The True Original & Ever Curious ”,yuz museum shanghai, Shanghai,China
2020 Art Power 100,Hello!Future,Beijing,China
2020 Beijing contemporary art Expo 2020,Golden Flow, Beijing,China
2019 “hic sunt leones”,Gallery Weekend Beijing 2019 Up&Coming Sector，China
2018 Notes on Region, Contemporary Gallery Kunming, Kunming, China
2017 Extended Ground, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
2017 Blanc de Chine International Ceramic Art Award Exhibition, Museum of Confluence,Lyon, France
2016 Être et ne pas être, YISHU 8 Art Foundation, Beijing, China
2016 Inventing Ritual, Louis Vuitton Foundation Musuem, Paris, French
2016 Confronting Anitya. Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art, Gasometer
Kulturzentrum,Liechtenstein
2015 Kabinett, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, USA
2015 The 6th Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia
2015 The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2015 Steirischer Herbst, Festival of New Art, Graz, Austria
2015 Inside China: L’Intérieur du Géant, K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong; chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China
2014 Inside China, L'intérieur du Géant, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2014 A Measure of Fantasy - Edition 5 Erstfeld, Theaterladen, Schlachthaus Theater Bern,Bern, Switzerland
2014 Confronting Anitya. Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art, Yuan Art Museum,Beijing, China; Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn-Mehlem, Germany
2013 Building Bridges – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus China, Wolfsberg, Ermatingen, Switzerland
2012 1st CAFAM Future Exhibition, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing,China