Liu Zhenchen
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LIU Zhenchen, born in 1976, is a multidisciplinary artist based between Paris, Hamburg, and Shanghai. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University and the National High School of Art in Villa Arson, France. Later, he received his Post-Diplôme from Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, France, in 2007. His work engages with contemporary social and environmental issues, exploring the complexities of urban life through moving images, installations, and painting. By blending poetic visuals with critical reflections, he offers a deep exploration of the postmodern urban experience.


LIU has exhibited internationally across major film and visual arts platforms, including the Locarno Film Festival, Oberhausen Film Festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles Photo Festival, Nuit Blanche in Paris, Transmediale in Berlin, and Ars Electronica in Linz. His works have been shown in prestigious venues such as the Grand Palais, Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kunst Museum Bonn, and the Contemporary Art Museum in Marseille. His work is part of the permanent collection at the Centre Pompidou.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Tilted Time, How Art Museum, Shanghai

Exposition d’art France-Chine, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing

Beyond the soil: Art on ecology, Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou

Chinese Medicine and Art Exhibition, Mingyuan Museum, Shanghai

Kaleidoscope, West Bund, Shanghai

2023

A Silence Already Filled With Noises, M Art Center, Shanghai

Swirl, Wuhan Museum of Art, Wuhan

2022

Ran, 1905 Art Space, ShenYang

Floating, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

Conte de Printemps, Chao Art Center, Pekin

Entr’acte, Galerie ArtCN, Shanghai

Spring, Whitebox Art Center, Pekin

2021

PASSAGGI, MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Roma

Botanical Transmutations, Galerie ArtCN, Shanghai

2020

Panacée, Mois Franco-Chinois de l’environnement, Shanghai

In the Name of Flower, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai

2019

Belvedere, MARS Milan Artist Run Space, Milan

BelVedere Locarno, Teatro dei Fauni, Locarno

La main qui dessinait toute seule, Galerie Danysz, Shanghai

En Chantier, la petite galerie, La Maison Europeenne de la photographie, Paris

2018

Here/Ever, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, en collaboration avec Photo Shanghai, Shanghai

Témoins de la ville, Metropolis Art Center, Pekin

Photo Macau, Macau

2017

HEAT Paris, Asian contemporary art festival, Mi*Galerie, Paris

Architecture invisible, The Swiss Church Londres, London

Videobox, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris

2016

Ice Monument, Mois franco-chinois de l'environnement, Bund, Shanghai

No Translation Needed, Kunstlerhaus FRISE, Hamburg 

Quand la Chine réveille l’art contemporain, Galerie RueVisconti, Paris

Babord / Tribord, Maison de France, Sfax

Là où va le cinéma, MK2 Beaubourg, Paris

Trace, Minsheng Art Museum, Pekin

Welcome to my life, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai

Changing City, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos

We, K11, Shanghai

2015

Nuit Blanche, Hôtel de Ville, Paris

Le Fresnoy, Mémoire de l’imagination, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

2014

Festival OPEN VideoArt, Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris

Y es-tu, l’Institut français du Japon à Yokohama, Yokohama

2013

Festival Temps d’Images, 104, Paris 

Imaginaires des villes, Centre Pompidou, Paris 

Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money, Chi K11 Art Center, Shanghai

Traverse Video, Goethe Institut, Toulouse 

Je sème à tout vent, galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre, Paris

Futur en Seine, 104, Paris

Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai

2012

A la croisée des images, La Maison européen de la photograhie, Paris

Nuit Blanche, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Festival International Jean Rouch, Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris

Architekturfotografie / Made in China, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Köln

2011

Nuit Blanche, Le Bal, Paris

Videonale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

Ornamental Structures, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken

Alles wandelt sich, Galerie DNA, Berlin

Petit formats, Galerie Briobox, Paris

2010

Kaleidoscope – Zhenchen Liu, Galerie Briobox, Paris

Nuit Blanche, Maison des Métallos, Paris

Imaginez Maintenant, Cite de l’architecture & du patrimoine, Paris

Paradise is somewhere else, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt

Animated Images, Goethe Institut, Taipei

Architecture Film Festival, Rotterdam

2009 

Espacios Urbanos, Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires

OVNI, CCCB, Barcelona

Video Dumbo Festival, New York

2008

Dans la nuit, des images, Grand Palais, Paris

Down Town Production, The Red Mansion Foundation, London

Single channel, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

Worlds on Video, International video art, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Loop Festival, Galerie Anita Beckers, Barcelona

Tea time, Living with Art, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt

International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid

Trunk, Fargfabriken, Stockholm

Cinéma du réel, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Studio, Invitation à Madeleine Van Doren pour le Fresnoy, Galerie des Filles du Calvaire, Paris

Transmediale 08, CONSPIRE, Berlin

Festival Courtisane, Gent, Belgium

2007

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid

Who do you think you are? BaseB, Milan

Exis, Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul

2006

Zhenchen LIU, Studio44, Stockholm

Shanghai Shanghai – Zhenchen Liu, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa

Under construction – Zhenchen Liu, Gallery Allegra Ravizza Art Project, Milan

Manifestation internationale video et art electronique, Montréal

35th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal

2005

Biennale International d’Art Contemporain Chinois, Montpellier, Montpellier

Biennale de I’image en mouvement, Geneva


Formation & Residence

2017                           

Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai

2016                            

Frise, Hamburg

2013-2015 

104, Paris

2008-2009 

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

2005-2007 

Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing

2003-2005 

Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Art de Nice, Villa Arson

1996-2000 

Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Shanghai


Public Collections

La Maison européenne de la Photographie, Paris

Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne 

Collection Départementale d’Art Contemporain de la Seine-Saint-Denis 

Centre d’art contemporain, Domaine Départemental de Chamarande

Collection Neuflize Vie 


Liu Zhenchen Selected Works
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