
DOKU the self, 2022
1 / 5

DOKU the self, 2022
2 / 5

DOKU the self, 2022
3 / 5

DOKU the self, 2022
4 / 5

DOKU the self, 2022
5 / 5

False Awakening
Kunstpalais Erlangen
Erlangen, 2022
1 / 10

False Awakening
Kunstpalais Erlangen
Erlangen, 2022
2 / 10

False Awakening
Kunstpalais Erlangen
Erlangen, 2022
3 / 10

False Awakening
Kunstpalais Erlangen
Erlangen, 2022
4 / 10

False Awakening
Kunstpalais Erlangen
Erlangen, 2022
5 / 10

False Awakening
Kunstpalais Erlangen
Erlangen, 2022
6 / 10

False Awakening
Kunstpalais Erlangen
Erlangen, 2022
7 / 10

False Awakening
Kunstpalais Erlangen
Erlangen, 2022
8 / 10

False Awakening
Kunstpalais Erlangen
Erlangen, 2022
9 / 10

False Awakening
Kunstpalais Erlangen
Erlangen, 2022
10 / 10

Cyber Altar
Art Basel Hong Kong
Basel, 2019
1 / 6

Cyber Altar
Art Basel Hong Kong
Basel, 2019
2 / 6

Cyber Altar
Art Basel Hong Kong
Basel, 2019
3 / 6

Cyber Altar
Art Basel Hong Kong
Basel, 2019
4 / 6

Cyber Altar
Art Basel Hong Kong
Basel, 2019
5 / 6

Cyber Altar
Art Basel Hong Kong
Basel, 2019
6 / 6

Lu Yang
Uterus Man, 2013
1 / 8

Kulturforum, Berlin, 2019
Lu Yang
LuYang Delusional Mandala, 2015
Lu Yang
Power of Will – Final Shooting, 2016
2 / 8

Kulturforum, Berlin, 2019
Lu Yang
LuYang Delusional Crime and Punishment, 2016
3 / 8

Kulturforum, Berlin, 2019
Lu Yang
Electromagnetic Brainology Brain Control Messenger, 2017
4 / 8

Kulturforum, Berlin, 2019
Lu Yang
Material World Knight, 2018
5 / 8

Hearse Delusional Mandala No.6, 2015
artificial crystal
19.5 x 25 x 13 cm / 7 x 9 x 5 in
Edition: 1/3
6 / 8

Hearse Delusional Mandala No.4, 2015
artificial crystal
42 x 17 x 10 cm / 16 1/2 x 6 x 4 in
Edition: 1/3
7 / 8

Hearse Delusional Mandala No.7, 2015
artificial crystal
32.5 x 36 x 12 cm / 12 1/2 x 14 x 4 in
Edition: 1/3
8 / 8

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
1 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
2 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
3 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
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Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
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Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
6 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
7 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
8 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
9 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
10 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
11 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
12 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
13 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
14 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
15 / 17

Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
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Encephalon Heaven
M WOODS
Beijing, 2017
17 / 17

Société, Berlin, 2017
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Société, Berlin, 2017
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Société, Berlin, 2017
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Société, Berlin, 2017
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Société, Berlin, 2017
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Société, Berlin, 2017
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Société, Berlin, 2017
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Société, Berlin, 2017
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Société, Berlin, 2017
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Société, Berlin, 2017
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Société, Berlin, 2017
11 / 11
Delusional Crime and Punishment, Video, 12 min 37 sec
Delusional Mandala, Video, 16 min 27 sec

Delusional Crime and Punishment
NYU Shanghai Art Gallery
Shanghai, 2016
1 / 9

Delusional Crime and Punishment
NYU Shanghai Art Gallery
Shanghai, 2016
2 / 9

Delusional Crime and Punishment
NYU Shanghai Art Gallery
Shanghai, 2016
3 / 9

Delusional Crime and Punishment
NYU Shanghai Art Gallery
Shanghai, 2016
4 / 9

Delusional Crime and Punishment
NYU Shanghai Art Gallery
Shanghai, 2016
5 / 9

Delusional Crime and Punishment
NYU Shanghai Art Gallery
Shanghai, 2016
6 / 9

Delusional Crime and Punishment
NYU Shanghai Art Gallery
Shanghai, 2016
7 / 9

Delusional Crime and Punishment
NYU Shanghai Art Gallery
Shanghai, 2016
8 / 9

Delusional Crime and Punishment
NYU Shanghai Art Gallery
Shanghai, 2016
9 / 9
Solo exhibitions
2022 | Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2022, Palais Polpulaire, Berlin MAM Screen 015, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo False Awakening, Kunstpalais, Erlangen |
2021 | Digital Descending, ARoS, Aarhus Digital Alaya, Jane Lombard gallery, New York Asrava World, COMA gallery, Sydney GIGANT DOKU, Garage Museum, Moscow |
2019 | Debut, BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai The Game World of Material World Knight, CC Foundation & Art Center, Shanghai Cyber Altar, Art Basel Hong Kong under the auspices of Société |
2018 | Electromagnetic Brainology – LuYang, Spiral, Tokyo Âme Nue, Hamburg |
2017 | Lu Yang Asia Character Setting Show, Special Special, New York Lu Yang: Encephalon Heaven, M WOODS, Beijing Welcome to LuYang Hell, Société, Berlin Delusional Mandala, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland Delusional Mandala, Space Gallery, Portland |
2016 | Shanghainese in Yokohama, Zou no Hana Terrace, Yokohama Lu Yang, Delusional Mandela, abc gallery night, Société, Berlin LuYang Delusional Crime and Punishment, NYU Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai Delusional Mandala Lu Yang, interstitial, Seattle |
2015 | Lu Yang Delusional Mandala, Beijing Commune, Beijing ANTI-HUMANISME, OK Corral, Science Friction, Copenhagen |
2014 | Arcade, Wallplay, New York Selected Videos, Ventana244 Art Gallery, New York KIMOKAWA Cancer Baby, Ren Space, Shanghai |
2013 | UterusMan, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai The Images Beyond Good and Evil, AMNUA, Nanjing Screening Program, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo |
2012 | Holiday, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee The Biggest Circle, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York Plymouth Rock 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York World Peace, Kunstverein München, Munich Rock, Vilma Gold, London |
2011 | 11th Winds of Artist in Residence Part 2 – LuYang, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka The Anatomy of Rage (Wrathful King Kong Core), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
2010 | The Project of KRAFTTREMOR, Boers Li Gallery, Beijing Hell, Art Labor, Shanghai Torturous Vision, Input/Output, Hong Kong |
2009 | The Power of Reinforcement, Zendai MOMA, Shanghai |
Group exhibitions
2022 | Ghosts of the Machine, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver WORLDBUILDING, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin THE MILK OF DREAMS, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2022, Palais Polpulaire, Berlin Beneath the Skin, Between the Machines, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai Hacking Identity- Dancing Diversity, Möllerei, Luxembourg Ultra Unreal, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney , Australia Epoch Wars, Performing Lines, Australia No False Idols, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney |
2021 | The Earth is Flat Again, Muzeum Sztuki, Poland Rehearsing the future: Dance with Nonhuman, Alien Art Center, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Rising festival Melbourne, Melbourne we do not dream alone, Asia Society Triennial, New York Borau Hall Screening, CineZeta, Madrid Fake Me Hard, Rotterdam Radical Gaming: Immersion Simulation Subversion, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel Ultra Unreal 2021, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney MUNCH Triennale, MUNCH MUSEUM, Oslo Multi-prismatic Mutual View, Macau Cultural Centre, Macau Museum of Art, Macau 5th Bian Metamorphosis, Organized by Elektra, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal IMAGE TO IMAGE, Person Projects’s video-art series, Berlin Art for the Future International Biennial, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, Russia |
2020 | Art Is Still Here: A Hypothetical Show for a Closed Museum, M WOODS, Beijing Neurones, Les Intelligences Simulées, Centre Pompidou, Paris pixelsfest, Yeltsin Cultural Center, Yekaterinburg FEEDBACK LOOPS, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne BIAN Biennale internationale d’art numérique, International Digital Art Biennale, Montreal Live performance at ELEKTRA Festival, Montreal Asia Society Triennial, New York LICHTSICHT – PROJECTION-BIENNALE, Osnabrück, Münster and Bielefeld Bangkok Art Biennale 2020, Bangkok Made by Artists online exhibition, Content Lab, Videotage, Hong Kong Bangkok Art Biennial 2020, Thailand “Heavy Bored”, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland Bit Street Hong Kong, New Art Fest 2020, Lisbon Futurological Congress at Transart Festival, Bolzano ACC Gwangju-Asia Artists Exhibition < UN·TACT >, Asia Culture Center, Korea IMMATERIAL, RE-MATERIAL: A brief history of computing art, UCCA, Beijing New Year Eve Screening, Tank, Shanghai Player of Beings, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai Manque de Recul, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai Learning What Can’t Be Taught, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong Both Sides Now 6, Videotage Hong Kong, Videoclub UK Global launch of Cloud Nothing Music Video “Am I Something” |
2019 | Micro Era. Media Arts From China, Kulturforum, Berlin Stumbling Through the Uncanny Valley: Sculpture and Self in the Age of Computer Generated Imagery, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Chinernet Ugly, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester LOW FORM. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, MAXXI (National Museum of XXI Arts), Video Gallery, Rome Some Kind of Halfway Place, Higher Pictures Gallery, New York TEC ART, Rotterdam |
2018 | Roskilde Festival, “Diesel Worm”, Roskilde Vector Festival, InterAccess Gallery, Toronto China bi-annual festival “China Time”, Art Space Âme Nue, Hamburg “Lumen Quarterly” by World Organization of Video Culture Development, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing FUTURE FLASH 200, from Frankenstein to Hyperbrain, GOGBOT Festival for Creative Technology, Enschede Computer Grrrls, HMKV, Dortmund / La Gaité Lyrique, Paris Nowness Anniversary Exhibition, Shanghai True Self, Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation, Beijing Digital Art Festival Taipei, Taipei City AN IM AL Art Science Nature Society, Hong Kong City University, Hong Kong TAxT Taoyuan Science and Technology Festival, Taoyuan City Big Workout-Annual International Project III”, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing Conversation on the Edge, School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Film, Video and New Media, in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank, Chicago From/To: the Frontier of Chinese Art Education-China Academy of Art at SFAI, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco 6th Athens Biennale, “ANTI”, Athens 12th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai |
2017 | Zhongguo 2185, Sadie Coles, London promises of monsters, Fuchsbau Festival 2017, Hannover FOREVER FORNEVER, Rhode Island College, Bannister Gallery, Providence Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto: Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto After Party 1 : Collective Dance and Individual Gymnastics, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong one world expo 2.1 #like4like, K11, Hongkong After Us, K11, Shanghai |
2016 | Hyperlinks 2, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Believe In the Power of Gesture, Projektraum LS43, Berlin Post-sense-sensibility: Trepidation and Will, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing ARE WE HUMAN?: The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years, 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing Beijing Media Art Biennale, Beijing Smart Illumination, Zou no Hana Terrace, Yokohama Why the Performance, MCAM, Shanghai CYNETART Festival 2016, Theater Hall Hellerau, Dresden asia young 36, JEONBUK MUSEUM OF ART, JeonJu Green celadon, The Artist House, Tel Aviv Glas Animation Festival, Berkeley, San Francisco Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition 2016, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk Liverpool Biennial 2016-Circuit Breaker Screening Program, Institute of Contemporary Art, London Queensland Film Festival 2016, Queensland Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing The 3rd Edition of the International Digital Art Biennial, Montreal Mapping the Body, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innisbruke ARE WE HUMAN?: The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years, 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, Innsbruck The Shadow Never Lies, 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai We: A Community of Chinese Contemporary Artists, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai WeChat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art, Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, CT; Asia Society Texas Center, Texas Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas |
2015 | Glas Animation Festival, Los Angeles Imaginary Circle, Asian-Plastic Myths, Asian Cultural Center, Kwangju Weaving the Asian Democracy, Asian Cultural Center, Kwangju Moscow Biennale 2016, Moscow The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku Psycho/Somatic: Visions of the Body in Contemporary East Asian Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH Breaking Joints, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Bad Asians 3.0, Dirty Looks NYC, New York Absolute Collection Guideline, SiFang Art Museum, Nanjing The 56th La Biennale di Venezia-China Pavilion, Venice Renzez-vous, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore Essential Experiments: Introduce Chinese Video Arts, British Film Institute, London New Directions In Chinese Animation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Fridericianum-Inhuman, Museum Fidericianum, Kassel Transcending Tibet-Mapping Contemporary Tibetan Art in the Global Context, New York |
2014 | OCAT-Pierre Huber Prize Shortlist Exhibition, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai Performance and Imaginations: Photography from China 1911-2014, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger The 5th FukuokaAsian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka The IV International Biennale for Young Art, the Museum of Moscow, Moscow PANDAMONIUM: Media Art from Shanghai, Momentum, CAC/Chronus Art Center, Berlin My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida PANDAMONIUM Micro-Exhibition #2: AI Weiwei + Lu Yang, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin LA Asian Pacific Film Fest, Los Angeles Animamix Biennale 2013-2014 Rediscovery, Museum of contemporary art Shanghai, Shanghai Art Robotique”, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris Unpainted Media Art Fair – LAB3.0, Munich |
2013 | Neo Folk, Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore 7th Move on Asia, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul No Name, Ren Space, Shanghai Queer project 2013, Nha San Collective, Hanoi Degeneration, OCAT, Shanghai Art World – Second Hand, Power Station of Art, Shanghai GLOBAL PHOTO COLLABORATIONS, Diesel Art Gallery, Tokyo West bund 2013 – A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Shanghai ASVOFF – A Shaded Viewon Fashion Film, Centre Pompidou, Paris Cutlog Paris, Paris Rendez-vous 2013, Musée d’art contemporain of Lyon, Lyon OFF COURSE, FUORI ROTTA, FondazioneQueriniStampalia, Venice THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS:Exploring Independent Animation, OCT, Shanghai Some like it ho, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai Memo, White Space, Beijing Truth, Beauty, freedom and money, K11, Shanghai Tampere Film Festival, Tampere Pépinière, Lavitrine, Limousin Art Contemporain& Sculptures, Paris ON/OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept & Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
2012 | ESCAPE(s) – in/from china #3, Centre d’Artsplastiquesetvisuels de Lille, Lille UNFINISHED COUNTRY, Asia Society, Houston PERSPECTIVES 180 – UNFINISHED COUNTRY: NEW VIDEO FROM CHINA, Contemporary Arts Museum Huston, Houston Dressing the screen – the rise of fashion film, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Reactivation – Shanghai Biennale 2012, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai Project Daejeon 2012:Energy, DaejeonMuseum, Daejeon The Shadow of Language, Royal College of Art, London Unseen – Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Fine Art Museum, Guangzhou Hinterlands, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco VIRTUAL VOICES – approaching social media and art in China, Charles H.Scott Gallery, Vancouver Get It Louder, Beijing Rapid Pulse, DFB Performance gallery, Chicago Sub-Phenomena, the firstCAFAM-Futureexhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing The Untouchables, Saamlung Gallery, Hong Kong Solar Plexus, V Art Center, Shanghai Solar Plexus, Space Station, London It takes four sorts: A cross-strait Four-Regions Artistic Exchange Project, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Macau, Hong Kong, Osage FOCUS2012, KunsthalNikolaj, Copenhagen Symptoms, Iberiart, Beijing |
2011 | 2011 Video Art in China – MADATAC, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid Hypnosis, TIVAC, Taipei HIGH 5 – FIVE YEARS OF ART LABOR 2006 – 2011, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai CAFAM Biennale – Super Organism 2011, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing Moving Image in China:1988-2011, Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Little Movements: Possibilities of Self-construction in Art, OCAT, Shenzhen Hypnosis, Other Gallery, Beijing Future Festival, Top Building, Shanghai Focus on Talents Project, Today Art Museum, Beijing +Follow, Shanghai MOCA, Shanghai In a Perfect World…, Meulensteen Gallery, New York Grafted in, 53 Art Museum, Guangzhou |
2010 | Reflection of Minds-MoCA Shanghai Envisage 3, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai Young Media Artists: China, Japan and Korea’ in INDAF 2010, Tomorrow City, Songdo, Incheon 2ND IMPRESSIONSArt Labor Gallery Openning Show, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai Use the Hand Do the Job, Excellent Graduation Work, Shift space, Shanghai Exhibition of CAA, Gallery of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou Seven young artist, Beijing Commune, Beijing Jungle – A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends Exhibition, Platform China, Beijing Burning Youth, Hangzhou GO Young Artist Group Show, OCAT Art Center, Shenzhen |
2009 | Bourgeoisified Proletariat —Small production, Songjiang, New City Thames Town, Shanghai The Quantity Bears Identity-How Shanghainese people treat themselves in a public transport, KultFluxArt Space, Vilnius PRESENT exhibition, CANART, Shanghai Yang Chang Xiao Dao, Am art space, Shanghai Itchy Young Artist Group Show, Biz Art, Shanghai |
2008 | Small production–No.5, Shopping Gallery, Shanghai Fractal Note–9/9], Metoo Space, Hangzhou, China 2008 [Spade], T-space, 798 Art Zone, Beijing |
2007 | Pierre Huber Creation Prize 2007, Biz Art, Shanghai what’s the time? Beijing, Shanghai Hangzhou New Media Art Exhibition, Creek Art Gallery, Shanghai fruits of experimental contemporary art education in China, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai |
Screenings
2021 | Online screening: Lu Yang Studio Visit, Centre d’art Contemporain Geneve, Geneve Art Review Magazine, Arts Lovers Movie Club, Online Screening European Media Art Festival Online Screening, online screening internationally; offline screening, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi Chinese Arts Now, Online Screening |
2020 | Online Screening and Conversation, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver |
2017 | Notes on the Afterlife, Rokolectiv Festival 2017, Bucharest |
2016 | East Asia Moving, Videoclub |
2014 | MOMENTUM_InsideOut Screening Nightly, Berlin Art Week, Berlin Warp Zone+Fay’s Festival, Amsterdam Video Art Competition THE 02, Poland inHOUSE Film Festival, London |
2012 | Impakt Art Festival 2012, Utrech |
2010 | Beijing 798 Art Festival, Beijing 798 Art Zone, Beijing |