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Xiao Lu: First Gunshot of Chinese Feminist Art

Xiao Lu: First Gunshot of Chinese Feminist Art
Archive / Publication /

17 / Aug / 2026

Published by  Frauenmuseum Bonn / I O Cultural Network e.V. + Bald Girls Group 2025.

Article Authors: Juan Xu, Julia Heintz, Jerome Silbergeld, Gao Minglu, Claire Roberts, Wen Pulin, Monic Merlin, Tench Martin-Liao, Xiao Lu.



Lecture

Lecture

17 / Aug / 2026

Xiao Lu uses an intuitive, perceptive perspective to record sensitive and opinionated observations of the world shaped by her life experience. About Exhibition Chronology Lecture 艺术家简介 展览 讲座 生平年表 2023 Lecture topic: "Xiao Lu and her works". Hosted by: Morelos Contemporary Museum of Art, Mexico, Moderator: Elizabeth Ross. Speaker: Xiao Lu. Time: October 18th. Lecture ...



Chronology

Chronology

17 / Aug / 2026

Xiao Lu uses an intuitive, perceptive perspective to record sensitive and opinionated observations of the world shaped by her life experience. About Exhibition Chronology Lecture 艺术家简介 展览 讲座 生平年表 1962 April 16, Xiao Lu is born in Hangzhou, China. Father: Xiao Feng (肖峰), mother Song Ren (宋韧), whose ancestral home was Shandong (traditionally: Lu/鲁), which ...



Exhibition

Exhibition

17 / Aug / 2026

Xiao Lu uses an intuitive, perceptive perspective to record sensitive and opinionated observations of the world shaped by her life experience. About Exhibition Chronology Lecture 艺术家简介 展览 讲座 生平年表 Solo Exhibition 2025 "Xiao Lu: First Gunshot of Chinese Feminist Art " Bonn Women´s Museum, Germany. 2024 "Junk" Passage Gallery, Sydney, Australia. "Dignity of Memory" Mars ...



About Xiaolu

About Xiaolu

17 / Aug / 2026

Xiao Lu uses an intuitive, perceptive perspective to record sensitive and opinionated observations of the world shaped by her life experience. About Exhibition Chronology Lecture 艺术家简介 展览 讲座 生平年表 Xiao Lu was born in Hangzhou, China in 1962. She graduated from the High School Affiliated to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in ...



Skew House

Skew House
Underground /

13 / Aug / 2026

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.



Street shot

Street shot

01 / Aug / 2026

When I walking on the street and being attracted by a certain person or scene, immediately picked up the camera.  



“Protest”, “Gathering” joined “Bearing Witness”

“Protest”, “Gathering” joined “Bearing Witness”
Group Exhibition / What's On /

01 / Aug / 2026

In these works, artists across Asia and its diasporas address history and social change, transforming the body, language and visual traditions into forms of resistance.



Xiao Lu: Explanation of the work Dialogue that was shot in 1989 in the National Art Museum of China, Beijing

In 1988 I was a student in the 1988 graduation class of the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art)1 and had embarked on the tense period of creating my graduation work.



Two Gunshots: The Curtain Call of the New Wave in Art!

Two Gunshots: The Curtain Call of the New Wave in Art!
"Dialogue" Document /

01 / Aug / 2026

Speaking on the basis of its lack of an avant-garde directing theory, the China/Avant-Garde Exhibition does not have an avant-garde character.



This is why I decline Geoff Raby

This is why I decline Geoff Raby
Writing / What's On /

01 / Aug / 2026

“Radio Free Asia” reported: Dissatisfied with collector Geoff Raby’s whitewashing of the CCP, Chinese artist Xiao Lu refused to attend the Sydney Art Exhibition. Reported link:  https://bit.ly/3S3RLD9 This is a letter I wrote to Steven Alderton, CEO of the National Art School in Sydney, told him why I decline Geoff Raby.   This is why I decline …



“The Space of Negotiation: My Art across Borders”

  Speaker: Xiao Lu Host: Sarah E Fraser Hosted by CATS of University Heidelberg, Germany. Time: July 6, 2026, 18:15PM, CATS Auditorium R. 010.01.05  



“Dialogue” joined “The Hooligans”

“Dialogue” joined “The Hooligans”
Group Exhibition /

17 / May / 2026

Artists: Ju Ji, Tian Longyu, Meng Site, Jin Shan, Li Wei, Samson Young, Liu Dahong, Huang Yongping, Xu Lei, Feng Mengbo, Jin Feng, Liu Ding, Xiao Lu, Chen Zhe, Wang Yuyu, Peng Yun, Chen Lingyang, Yan Lingyang Cuo Chunning, He yinping, He Yunchang, Ai Weiwei, Zhu Yu, Xu Zhen, Wu Chen, Ju Anqi, Song Yongping



“Dialogue” joined “Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now”

Artists: Ai Weiwei, Cai Fei, Cai Yu, Chen Chunmu, Chen Haiyan, Chen Wei, Gen Jianyi, Guo Jian, He Yanyu, Li Binyuan, Lin Ke, Lin Yilin, Liu Xi, Lu Pingyuan, Lu Yuan, Luo Yongjin, Miao Ying, Nabqi, Ni Weihua, Pixy Liao, Pu Yingwei, Ren Hang, Shang Liang, Shi Xinning, Song Dong, Tamen+, Tao Siqi, Wang Haiyang, Wang Jinsong, Wang Jiuliang, Wang Tuo, Wang Ziquan, Xiao Lu, Xu Bing, Xu Zhen, Xi Yadie, Yang Fudong, Yang Yongliang, Zhang Huan, 



“Shot” joined “Unsettled”

“Shot” joined “Unsettled”
Group Exhibition /

22 / Mar / 2026

Artists: Ai Weiwei;Chiharu Shiota;Shirin Neshat;Xiao Lu (肖鲁);Roberta Di Laudo;Daniel Romano;Joshua Cosimo;Sandra Miranda Pattin;Francesca Morozz.



“Dialogue” joined “A Grain of Wheat: The 1980s Contemporary Art Memorial Exhibition”

Artists: Chen Baosheng, Chen Ren, Cong Ruri, Datongdazhang, Dai Guanyu, Dao Zi, Ding Fang, Ken Jianyi, Han Lei, Jian Hai, Kunming Photo studio, Liu chuanbao, Liu yiyuan, Mao Xuhui, Mao Yan, Mneg Luding, Pan Dehai, Ren Xiaoying, Sun Jianping, Wang Guangyi, Wei Guangqing,Wen Pulin, Wu Dayu, Xiao Feng, Xiao Lu (肖鲁), Xiao Quan, Yan Binghui, Yan Li, Yang Chongguang,Yang Feiyun, You Jingdong, Yuan Qingyi, Zhang Linhai, Zhang Beili, Zhang Qun, Zhao Bandi, Zhao Dewei, zheng Lianjie, Zhu Yanguang.



“Xiao Lu: First Gunshot of Chinese Feminist Art”

“Xiao Lu: First Gunshot of Chinese Feminist Art”
Exhibition / Solo Exhibition /

08 / Feb / 2026

Xiao Lu never raised her voice — she fired a shot.
In 1989, with two bullets, she shattered not only a pane of glass but also the silence surrounding women’s autonomy in Chinese art.
At the time, she did not speak of feminism.



Breathless

Breathless

02 / Dec / 2025

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.



“Dialogue”,”15 gunshots…From 1989 to 2003”

“Dialogue”,”15 gunshots…From 1989 to 2003”
Group Exhibition /

03 / Mar / 2025

Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists attempts a new examination of the contemporary meaning of post‒1960s art by Asian women from the perspective of ‘corporeality.’



“Dialogue” showed at Half the Sky: Women in Chinese Art

“Dialogue” showed at Half the Sky: Women in Chinese Art
Group Exhibition / What's On /

09 / Sep / 2024

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), the museum has organized a special exhibition entitled Half the Sky: Women in Chinese Art, referencing by Chairman Mao Zedong’s 1968 quotation “Women hold up half the sky,” meaning that they are the equal of men.



Junk

Junk

19 / Jul / 2024

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



“Junk”

“Junk”
Exhibition / Solo Exhibition /

19 / Jul / 2024

Solo Show: JUNK Artist: Xiao Lu Work: JUNK (Installation/Performance) Passage Gallery, Sydney 14 June -19 July 2024   About “JUNK” A black room, visible round the clock from the outside through glass. A black table, a bottle of ink, a brush-pen, several stacks of xuan paper. Eight red light bulbs. I come to Passage Gallery …



In Dialogue with Xiao Lu

In Dialogue with Xiao Lu
What's On /

13 / Jul / 2024

On February 29, 2024, Xiao Lu’s solo exhibition “The Dignity of Remembering” opening at the MARS Gallery in Melbourne, Australia.



Dignity of remembering

Dignity of remembering
Solo Exhibition / What's On /

29 / Feb / 2024

On February 29, 2024, Xiao Lu’s solo exhibition “The Dignity of Remembering” opening at the MARS Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. The opening ceremony started at 6 pm, and some Hong Kong people posted Stickers next to three photos of Hong Kong’s “return in progress” in 2019.



Razed

Razed

27 / Feb / 2024

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.



“Dialogue” showed at “Engaging with the World: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Since the Dawn of the 20th Century”

Opening Exhibition of the New Taikang Art Museum in Beijing “Engaging with the World: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Since the Dawn of the 20th Century”. Xiao Lu’s work “Dialogue” was exhibited.



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