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Street shot
Street shot
Street shot

2022-2026

At this moment, I stand in the Bonn Women's Museum, amidst a patch of weeds, breathing in and out, conveying the unbreakable bond of life between us, while simultaneously confronting the value divide we cannot communicate with.
At this moment, I stand in the Bonn Women's Museum, amidst a patch of weeds, breathing in and out, conveying the unbreakable bond of life between us, while simultaneously confronting the value divide we cannot communicate with.
Breathless

Performance / Installation

Germany

Nov 2025 – Feb 2026

Happening of various of the night or day, each performance involves the use a bottle of ink and 100 pieces of rice paper.
Happening of various of the night or day, each performance involves the use a bottle of ink and 100 pieces of rice paper.
Junk

Installation/Performance

Sydney

2024.6.14 – 7.16

Rubble from Melbourne construction site was placed in the exhibition space at Mars Gallery, using a photo of Xin Jian  villages in Beijing at the end of 2017 to symbolize this historical witness of the cleaning away the have-not end of the  population.
Rubble from Melbourne construction site was placed in the exhibition space at Mars Gallery, using a photo of Xin Jian  villages in Beijing at the end of 2017 to symbolize this historical witness of the cleaning away the have-not end of the  population.
Razed

Contruction Garbage, photo

Melbourne

27 February, 2024

I began writing characters with a brush on xuan paper in primary school, copying masters such as Wang Xizhi and Yan Zhenqing.
I began writing characters with a brush on xuan paper in primary school, copying masters such as Wang Xizhi and Yan Zhenqing.
Ink Drawing

Ink on rice paper

2015-2024

Encountering
Encountering
Encountering

2023

Traffic
Traffic
Traffic

2018 – 2026

It is not because there is hope that we resist, but only if you resist can there be hope…. The people of Hong Kong
It is not because there is hope that we resist, but only if you resist can there be hope…. The people of Hong Kong
The moment of history

2019 – 2024

Landscape
Landscape
Landscape

2016 – 2024

Bask
Bask
Bask

2019, 2023

Toned Photo
Toned Photo
Toned Photo

2023

December 10, 2022, World Human Rights Day. Xiao Lu participated in the Human Rights Day march organized by the Iranian Society in Sydney. Afterwards, She came to the Sydney Opera House and held up a piece of A4 white paper to express her support for China’s “White Paper Movement”.
December 10, 2022, World Human Rights Day. Xiao Lu participated in the Human Rights Day march organized by the Iranian Society in Sydney. Afterwards, She came to the Sydney Opera House and held up a piece of A4 white paper to express her support for China’s “White Paper Movement”.
World Human Rights Day

Social Action

Sydney

Dec 2022

On October 1, 2022, Xiao Lu put on an umbrella and went to Belmore Park at Sydney Central Station to participate in the
On October 1, 2022, Xiao Lu put on an umbrella and went to Belmore Park at Sydney Central Station to participate in the
Women Life Freedom Rally

Social Action

Sydney

Oct 2022

Watercolor, 76.5x57.5cm,  2022, Sydney
Watercolor, 76.5x57.5cm,  2022, Sydney
Trace

Watercolor, 76.5×57.5cm

2022, Sydney

On December 29, 2021, the number of Covid-19 cases over 10,000 in a single day in New South Wales, Australia, which caught my attention. Recording the numbers of confirmed cases and deaths (in red) has become my daily routine again.
On December 29, 2021, the number of Covid-19 cases over 10,000 in a single day in New South Wales, Australia, which caught my attention. Recording the numbers of confirmed cases and deaths (in red) has become my daily routine again.
Over ten thousand

Ink, 50.5 x 50.5 cm

2022, Sydney, Australia

Covid-19
Covid-19
Covid-19

2020-2022

Location: Hangzhou, Sydney

See Exhibition
See Exhibition
See Exhibition

2022

Xiao Lu was wearing a pink dress, with pink paint on his feet, and walked on a dark gray wallpaper that was ten meters long and seventy centimeters wide.
Xiao Lu was wearing a pink dress, with pink paint on his feet, and walked on a dark gray wallpaper that was ten meters long and seventy centimeters wide.
Dirt – Trace

Performance

Germany

2022

When I saw on WeChat how people were being caged in time after time behind barbed wire and fences, and their personal space wantonly trampled underfoot in the name of the Chinese zero-tolerance policy towards the Covid pandemic, I kept hearing the words of former US President Ronald Reagan ringing in my ears when he cried out in front of the Brandenburg Gate on the border of West Berlin on June 12, 1987: “Tear down this wall!” 
When I saw on WeChat how people were being caged in time after time behind barbed wire and fences, and their personal space wantonly trampled underfoot in the name of the Chinese zero-tolerance policy towards the Covid pandemic, I kept hearing the words of former US President Ronald Reagan ringing in my ears when he cried out in front of the Brandenburg Gate on the border of West Berlin on June 12, 1987: “Tear down this wall!” 
Tear down this wall

Installation/Video (3’54”)

2022.6

107 days
107 days
107 days

2021.6.26 – 10.10 Sydney

Ink, rich paper.

50.5 x 50.5 cm

Blocked
Blocked
Blocked

Wechat ID blocked, city lockdown, country lockdown……

Material: Rice paper, water & ink

2020

Anti-extradition bill
Anti-extradition bill
Anti-extradition bill

Social Action

Hong Kong

2019.9

Xiao Lu, wearing a long black dress stands in front of the work and tells the viewers: “This work is for Hong Kong.” She then enters the space shaped like a trilateral pyramid, two sides of which (including the base) are red, the remaining two sides being transparent, and which is almost hermetically sealed.
Xiao Lu, wearing a long black dress stands in front of the work and tells the viewers: “This work is for Hong Kong.” She then enters the space shaped like a trilateral pyramid, two sides of which (including the base) are red, the remaining two sides being transparent, and which is almost hermetically sealed.
Skew

Performance/Installation

Hong Kong

2019.9.12

Calligraphy
Calligraphy
Calligraphy

Material: Ink, Water, Rice paper

2014 – 2023

On June 4, 2019, I went to Hong Kong for the first time to attend the June Fourth candlelight rally in Victoria Park. The candlelight vigil held by Hong Kong people for thirty years made me both touched and ashamed. Unexpectedly; this turned out to be the last time...
On June 4, 2019, I went to Hong Kong for the first time to attend the June Fourth candlelight rally in Victoria Park. The candlelight vigil held by Hong Kong people for thirty years made me both touched and ashamed. Unexpectedly; this turned out to be the last time...
June 4th Victoria Park Rally

Social Action

Hong Kong

2019.6.4

Tides
Tides
Tides

Performance

Sydney

Jan 2019

Xiao Lu stands inside the plexiglass box, while the audience burns cigars made of absinthe leaves and inserts them into the holes of the box. As the fog intensifies, she starts to cough, cry and scream…  
Xiao Lu stands inside the plexiglass box, while the audience burns cigars made of absinthe leaves and inserts them into the holes of the box. As the fog intensifies, she starts to cough, cry and scream…  
Coil

Skew House, Beijing

April 2018

Demolition
Demolition
Demolition

2017 (Beijing)

On December 5, 2017, I saw the news about the eviction of the “low-end population” from Xinjian Village in Beijing’s Daxing District through WeChat in Hangzhou.
On December 5, 2017, I saw the news about the eviction of the “low-end population” from Xinjian Village in Beijing’s Daxing District through WeChat in Hangzhou.
Evacuating the Low-End Population

Social Action

Beijing

2017

Drove out the
Drove out the
Drove out the “low-end population”

Daxing District, Beijing

2017

Xiao Lu places 27 blue acrylic plates (40 x 60 cm) from east to west in a diagonal line in the Piazza San Marco in Venice, and pours a bottle of Moutai (53% alcohol) into 7 white porcelain bowls.
Xiao Lu places 27 blue acrylic plates (40 x 60 cm) from east to west in a diagonal line in the Piazza San Marco in Venice, and pours a bottle of Moutai (53% alcohol) into 7 white porcelain bowls.
Holy Water

Venice, Italy

13 May, 2017

Xiao Lu scattered bullets and millet to Piazza San Marco in Venice. Pigeons gathered around her and ate up the millet, leaving the bullets.
Xiao Lu scattered bullets and millet to Piazza San Marco in Venice. Pigeons gathered around her and ate up the millet, leaving the bullets.
War & Peace

Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy

May, 2017

Two blocks of frozen water and two blocks of frozen ink suspended mid-air, drip continuously onto xuan rice paper. Xiao Lu walks towards the first black ice block, caresses it and spins it, moaning softly, letting the black ink drip onto her white dress.
Two blocks of frozen water and two blocks of frozen ink suspended mid-air, drip continuously onto xuan rice paper. Xiao Lu walks towards the first black ice block, caresses it and spins it, moaning softly, letting the black ink drip onto her white dress.
Suspension

Skövde Art Museum (Konstmuseet), Sweden

Feb. 2017

I was inspired by the Arctic icebergs: the ice block was the barrier to break through. While cutting the ice with a knife, I hurt myself: my blood started to spill all over the ice surface, as if my life was truly touching the aura of the Polar Regions.
I was inspired by the Arctic icebergs: the ice block was the barrier to break through. While cutting the ice with a knife, I hurt myself: my blood started to spill all over the ice surface, as if my life was truly touching the aura of the Polar Regions.
Polar

Danish Cultural Center, Beijing

Oct. 2016

The xuan paper is spread over the felt, and by the penetrative force of water and ink, the traces left on the paper are preserved.
The xuan paper is spread over the felt, and by the penetrative force of water and ink, the traces left on the paper are preserved.
Infiltration

装置 / 水墨

2014-2016 (北京)

The work, People, continues Xiao Lu's response to the concept of yin and yang. In Eastern philosophy, yin and yang, as the two core elements that make up nature, reinforce and neutralise each other.
The work, People, continues Xiao Lu's response to the concept of yin and yang. In Eastern philosophy, yin and yang, as the two core elements that make up nature, reinforce and neutralise each other.
Human

Beijing Kirin Contemporary Art Center

Mar 2016

Ink is Yin, Water is Yang, Yin and Yang becoming One is the Way of the Universe.
Ink is Yin, Water is Yang, Yin and Yang becoming One is the Way of the Universe.
One

Gothenburg, Sweden

Sep. 2015

It was a repetitive and slow performance, an action which women have done for thousands of years. But of course with a signification beyond that of only cleaning household linen.
It was a repetitive and slow performance, an action which women have done for thousands of years. But of course with a signification beyond that of only cleaning household linen.
Money Laundering

Gothenburg, Sweden

Aug 2015

A door opened, Xiao Lu went into a room, and the door closed behind her. In the darkness, there are more than eighty square-shaped candles.
A door opened, Xiao Lu went into a room, and the door closed behind her. In the darkness, there are more than eighty square-shaped candles.
Open Close

Performance

Guangzhou, China

Dec 2014

Using “skin paper”(pizhi,mulberry bast fibre paper), Xiao Lu constructed a room of 20 square meters, imitating the Daoist method of Pigu (Pigu, literally “refrain from eating grains”, a Daoist isolation exercise).
Using “skin paper”(pizhi,mulberry bast fibre paper), Xiao Lu constructed a room of 20 square meters, imitating the Daoist method of Pigu (Pigu, literally “refrain from eating grains”, a Daoist isolation exercise).
Bast paper room

Expo Museum, Shanghai, China.

Oct – Nov 2013

The design informed by the conception of the co-existence of straight and skew. When I was young, things were generally tangled up: straight and skew, right and wrong, black and white. they pervade your thinking and creating.
The design informed by the conception of the co-existence of straight and skew. When I was young, things were generally tangled up: straight and skew, right and wrong, black and white. they pervade your thinking and creating.
Skew House

Installation / Design

2011 – 2013

In male-dominated discourse, a woman's vagina is the shubjest of insult. In his famous The Tropic of Cancer, the American novelist Henry Millar compared the vagina to
In male-dominated discourse, a woman's vagina is the shubjest of insult. In his famous The Tropic of Cancer, the American novelist Henry Millar compared the vagina to
The Flowers of Evil

Root of ancient camphor tree

240cm x 190cm

2012

The title is derived from the French sbsurdist play The Bald Soprano, written by famous playwright Eugene lonesco in the 1950s. In this case, because the words for
The title is derived from the French sbsurdist play The Bald Soprano, written by famous playwright Eugene lonesco in the 1950s. In this case, because the words for
Bald Girls

Xiao Lu, Li Xinmo, Lan Jing

Beijing

3 Mar 2012

 

On 1 January 2011, I copied out a Tang poem using Chinese medicine for oral administration that I had to hand. Continuing to copy Tang poetry for several successive days, I experienced a feeling of physical and mental well-being, so I decided to continue for 365 days in order to copy out the entire Three Hundred Tang Poems.
On 1 January 2011, I copied out a Tang poem using Chinese medicine for oral administration that I had to hand. Continuing to copy Tang poetry for several successive days, I experienced a feeling of physical and mental well-being, so I decided to continue for 365 days in order to copy out the entire Three Hundred Tang Poems.
Menopause

Beijing, Hangzhou,  Florida

January – April 2011

Sixteen bottles of red wine were arranged in a circle, and Xiao Lu began to drink. When she got to the fourth glass, the viewers of their own accord came up to her to clink glasses and drink with her.
Sixteen bottles of red wine were arranged in a circle, and Xiao Lu began to drink. When she got to the fourth glass, the viewers of their own accord came up to her to clink glasses and drink with her.
Drunk

La Bellone, Brussels, Belgium

15 October 2009

One of the most simple; the most complex issues. I took this question to a small town in Europe, Ljubljana ( fomer Yugoslavia)
One of the most simple; the most complex issues. I took this question to a small town in Europe, Ljubljana ( fomer Yugoslavia)
What is Love ?

Ljubljana,The Republic of  Slovenia

11th Oct. 2009

I know when “ love letters” started, but I don’t  know when “ love letters ”will end.
I know when “ love letters” started, but I don’t  know when “ love letters ”will end.
Love Letter

2009 – 2010

Rice paper, Chinese medicine, acrylic, Charcoal

Earth-fire, sky-glow Is it yin, is it yang Once two makes two Nine, nine, start again
Earth-fire, sky-glow Is it yin, is it yang Once two makes two Nine, nine, start again
Bullet

Forge copper

59x380cm

1 – 22 June 2009

 

On 5 February 2009, at the “Twenty Years Anniversary of the China/Avant-Guade Exhibition”, I performance a wedding ceremony for myself at the “Wall Art Museum” in Beijing.
On 5 February 2009, at the “Twenty Years Anniversary of the China/Avant-Guade Exhibition”, I performance a wedding ceremony for myself at the “Wall Art Museum” in Beijing.
Wedlock

Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China

PM, 5th Feb. 2009

X
X
X

From November 2007 to …

Beijing, China.

Project: The famous international art project “Long March Project-Yan’an” arrived in Yan’an in May of 2006. More than forty other artists along with several dozen experts and scholars arrived in Yan’an to undertake experimentation, creation, study, debate, and exhibition proposals.
Project: The famous international art project “Long March Project-Yan’an” arrived in Yan’an in May of 2006. More than forty other artists along with several dozen experts and scholars arrived in Yan’an to undertake experimentation, creation, study, debate, and exhibition proposals.
Sperm

Installation/Performance

May 21-23, 2006

Fifteen years ago, after I fired those two shots at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, The National Art Museum was closed.
Fifteen years ago, after I fired those two shots at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, The National Art Museum was closed.
A Dialogue about “Dialogue”

The Spaciousness of 798, Beijing, China.

2 May 2004

Take fifteen framed works to the shooting. Range, and uses a 77 pistol to fire at each one, fifteen shots in all.
Take fifteen framed works to the shooting. Range, and uses a 77 pistol to fire at each one, fifteen shots in all.
15 Shots…From 1989 to 2003

Beijing

2003.10.19

Dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue

Installation / Performance

Beijing 1989.2.5

Time: 1988, Location: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art, Teacher: Zheng Shentian, Hu Zhenyu, Wang Chenyi
Time: 1988, Location: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art, Teacher: Zheng Shentian, Hu Zhenyu, Wang Chenyi
Dialogue ( Installation)

Time: 1988

Location: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art

Teacher: Zheng Shentian, Hu Zhenyu, Wang Chenyi

Time: 1988, Location: Zhejing academy of fine Art, Teacher: Xu Mangyao
Time: 1988, Location: Zhejing academy of fine Art, Teacher: Xu Mangyao
Red wall ( Oil painting)

Time: 1988

Location: Zhejing academy of fine Art

Teacher: Xu Mangyao

Landscape
Landscape
Landscape

Time: 1987

Location: Shan Bei, China

Woman Old man & Old Woman
Woman Old man & Old Woman
Woman Old man & Old Woman

Artist: Xiao Lu

Time: 1987

Location: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art

Tecaher: Hu Zhengyu

Contemplation
Contemplation
Contemplation

Time: 1986

Location: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art

Teacher: Xu Jing

Time: 1985, Location: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art, Teacher: Xu Jing
Time: 1985, Location: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art, Teacher: Xu Jing
Bridge ( Oil paingting)

Time: 1985

Location: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art

Teacher: Xu Jing

Time: 1984, Location: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art, Teacher: Song Ren
Time: 1984, Location: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art, Teacher: Song Ren
Drawing ( Oil painting)

Time: 1984

Location: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art

Teacher: Song Ren

Assignments
Assignments
Assignments

Artist: Xiao Lu

Time: 1982 – 1984

Assignments from study times

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