Through its various academic research and exhibition activities, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) is engaged in multifaceted efforts to establish the place of Korean modern and contemporary art history within the dynamic currents of contemporary art in Asia and throughout the world.
“We should all be feminists!” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) —In Europe and the United States, feminism has long since become part of popular culture. Yet, despite global movements, demonstrations, and petitions to establish equality, it is still not possible in the twenty-first century to speak of comprehensive gender equality with regard to women and LGBTQIA+ communities-not in any country of the world.
14 / Jul / 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.
02 / Jun / 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!”
“ARRA Video Art Project No.2” Curator: Nasim Nasr Opening Guest: Anne Marsh Artists: Xiao Lu, Wendy Yu, Gabriella Mangano & Slivana Mangano. Opening: May 7, 2022. 4PM. Exhibition：May 7 – 31 August, 2022. Address: 13 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia.
Artists: Anothermountainman ( Stanley Wong )、Bui Cong Kanh、Cang Xin、Chan Dany、Serge Clement、Dinh Q. Le、Atul Dodiya、Nandan Ghiya、Gu Benchi、Maya Hewitt、Htein Lin、Huang Rui、Marques de Jadraque、Ko Siu Lan、Sutee Kunavichayayont、Carol Lee Mei Kuen、Frog King Kwok、Li Wei、Liang Hao、Hung Liu、Ma Desheng、Manit Swriwanichpoom、Gered Mankowitz、Laurent Martin “Lo”、Ken Matsubara、Tuan Andrew Nguyen、Pan Jian、Rong Rong & Inri、Julian Schnabel、Shi Guorui、Wang Keping、Xiao Lu、Xiao Zheluo、Shao Yinong & Muchen、John Young Zerunge、Jessica Zoob.
26 / Oct / 2021
Speaker：Mexican Artist & Curator Elizabeth Ross Honored Guest: Artist Xiao Lu Time：October 26 at 16:00PM Mexico time, 10:00AM Sydney time. Mode: Through Zoom. First Elizabeth Ross intruce Xiao Lu’s work, after they have a dialogue. Organization: The Arts Faculty of Baja California University, in the border with the USA.
Host: Claire Roberts Artist: Xiao Lu Theme: Art + Courage, CoVA Creating Futures Seminar series Sponsor: The University of Melbourne Time: 2021.10.23 Mode: Online from Zoom Adelaide / Sydney Translator: Liu Wanling Coversation video online link: https://sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/…/dia…/art-courage Claire Roberts: Hello Xiao Lu, it is great to have this opportunity to talk about your thoughts …
Xiao Lu takes part in this exhibition: “15 gunshots…From 1989 to 2003” (2003); “Parlor” (2006); “Suspension” (2017)
Conversation between Whiskey Chow and Xiao Lu, China’s foremost feminist performance artist, reflecting on inter-generational performance practice alongside sharing video documentation of their past work. Supported by the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS), University of Nottingham. (Chinese with English translation).
01 / Jun / 2021
Location: Sydney Time: 2021.6.26 – 10.10 Materials: Ink, rich paper. Size: 50.5 x 50.5 cm About ” 107 days” NSW of Australia announced lockdown on June 26, 2021. My concern about the number of epidemics let me to record the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 and number of deaths every day during 107 …
Xiao Lu’s work “Dialogue” (1989) has been participating in a collection exhibition called “Democracy” at Tate Liverpool, UK. Period: 14 November 2020 – 11 September 2022.
This is not a monograph on the history of women artists or an art-historical survey of ‘women’s art’. It is thirty-four perspectives on pivotal moments in, and key contributions to, the field of art and design by women, all drawn from the NGV Collection. The idea of persistence was the inspiration for this publication.
Book: A History of Contemporary Chinese Art / In English Author: Zhou Yan Publication: Springer Press 2020 Page 238-40
In late May 2011, escaping the behemoth art fair ArtHK. I caught the subway to the end of the Hong Kong Island line.
Design School of UWA “Guan Kan: Thinking with Conemporary Chinese Art”
On 5 February 1989, two gunshots were fired at Dialogue, an installation art work in the exhibition China/Avant-Garde at China’s National Art Gallery in Beijing. This event was the first officially sanctioned exhibition of ‘unofficial’ art held in post-Mao China.
02 / Feb / 2020
I recently saw a very colourful Xiao Lu. One of her hands was wrapped in white bandage, previously wounded during her “Polar” exhibition, whilst the other hand maneuvered the steering wheel with ease.
01 / Feb / 2020
Time: 2020.1.23 — Material: Rice paper, water & ink About blocked Wechat ID blocked, city lockdown, country lockdown……
10 / Oct / 2019
At the opening reception of an exhibition at Beijing’s National Art Museum in February 1989, Xiao fired two bullets at her installation.
10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present SKEW, a solo exhibition and new performance by Xiao Lu, one of China’s most provocative artists. This will be Xiao Lu’s first solo show in Hong Kong and will present an important survey of some of her most iconic performances.
10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present SKEW, a solo exhibition and new performance by Xiao Lu, one of China’s most provocative artists. This will be Xiao Lu’s first solo show in Hong Kong and will present an important survey of some of her most iconic performances.
15 / Sep / 2019
In September 2019, I came to Hong Kong to participate in the solo exhibition “Skew” at 10 Chansan Lane gallery, and performed “Skew” on September 12th. On September 15, I participated in the first “anti-extradition” march. After returning to Beijing, with Ah Zhen went to Hong Kong again to participate in the “anti-extradition” marches and …
12 / Sep / 2019
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.
Born to two Socialist Realism painters shortly before China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76), Xiao was exposed to art and politics from a young age. She attended the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, with the work shown in this image serving as her graduation piece.
04 / Jun / 2019
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…
Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue 肖鲁:语嘿 is the first retrospective of leading contemporary Chinese artist Xiao Lu. The exhibition is anchored by Xiao Lu’s performance work Dialogue from the landmark China/Avant-Garde exhibition at the National Art Gallery, Beijing, in February 1989.
Danish Cultural Center, 798 Arts District, Beijing, China (23 October 2016). Photographs by Yi Zhilei. Exhibition view: Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney (19 January–24 March 2019). Courtesy the artist. Photo: Kai Wasikowski (2019), for 4A Center for Contemporary Asian Art.
18 / Jan / 2019
Performance Time: Early morning, 18th Jan, 2019 Location: A beach near Sydney, Australia Material: 30 Bamboo poles, Red skirts Exhibition: Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue Location: 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia Exhibition period: 19th Jan. – 24th March, 2019 Curator: Claire Roberts, Mikala Tai, Xu Hong Photography by Jacquie Manning …
