Ai Weiwei, Liu Xiaodong at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

6 October 2017 to 7 January 2018

Included in group exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, NY.

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World is a major exhibition of contemporary art from China spanning 1989 to 2008, arguably the most transformative period of modern Chinese and recent world history. The largest show of this subject ever mounted in North America, it offers an interpretative survey of Chinese experimental art framed by the geopolitical dynamics attending the end of the Cold War, the spread of globalization, and the rise of China...

Liu Xiaodong at Chronus Art Center

18 September to 30 December 2016

Included in group exhibition Datumsoria: An Exhibition of Liu Xiaodong, Carsten Nicolai, and Nam June Paik at Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China.

Chronus Art Center is pleased to present the much-anticipated presentation of Datumsoria: An Exhibition of LIU Xiaodong, Carsten Nicolai, and Nam June Paik. A neologism, Datumsoria conjugates datum and sensoria, denoting a new perceptual space immanent to the information age...

Liu Xiaodong at the Faurschou Foundation

26 May to 16 December 2016

Solo exhibition Liu Xiaodong – Painting as Shooting at the Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Painting as Shooting is conceived as an exhibition in three chapters, curated by Jérôme Sans and produced by Faurschou Foundation, in Venice, Beijing and Copenhagen. The first step, which took place at the Cini Foundation for the 56th Venice Biennale, was the first major European institutional exhibition to fully explore Liu Xiaodong’s unique practice, as one of China’s most influential painters of the last two decades. The second, presented by Faurschou Foundation in its Beijing space, presented the most recent series of works created by the artist during his stay in Ordos in Inner Mongolia. The last chapter, mixing the first two shows, represents the most updated survey on Liu Xiaodong’s work...

Liu Xiaodong at Eslite Gallery

14 May to 5 June 2016

Solo exhibition Liu Xiaodong in South Africa at Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.

“Liu Xiaodong in South Africa” will be opened at ESLITE GALLERY on 14 May, exhibiting his life drawings resulted from his project in South Africa (commissioned by LV) in August 2014. During the one month, LIU Xiaodong visited many places: he sketched the wild lives in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park and Blyde River Canyon and portrayed the ordinary people in Cape Town and Cape of Good Hope, to name just a few spots. 50 paintings on xuan paper and on photos present the robust people and landscapes in South Africa. They are so powerfully contagious that the viewers can lay aside the differences of ethnicity and culture, observing their lands and lives via the lens of shared humanity...

Liu Xiaodong at the Palazzo Strozzi

22 April to 19 June 2016

Solo exhibition Liu Xiaodong: Migrations at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy.

The exhibition, devised and produced by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, showcases a broad selection of paintings, drawings and photographs on which the artist has created during a spell in Tuscany lasting from the autumn of 2015 through to the spring of 2016. The main themes of the work on display are the cities of Florence and Prato and the Sienese countryside, which the artist has observed and experienced through direct contact with the local people, but with a special focus on the local Chinese communities...

Liu Xiaodong at Fondation Louis Vuitton

27 January to 2 May 2016

Included in group exhibition Bentu: Chinese Artists in a Time of Turbulence and Transformation at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France.

This exhibition will present a limited selection of twelve very different artists, twelve strong individualities. They share not only the ability to live and work in what is a particularly fast-moving world of "turbulence and transformation," but also a tendency to use multiple means of expression, combining tools supplied by local traditions with the latest sophisticated technologies. Responding with striking swiftness, their work mirrors the new realities of today's China, as manifested in the economy, the environment, cities and international relations, showing a strong awareness of the changing relations between town and country and the great rural exodus...