Liu Wei’s recent large-scale installations and paintings continue to reflect his sensitivity towards urban texture in China’s post-planning era. In his own abstract and streamlined fashion, >> Read more
Hong Kong, June 28, 2016—Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present Radical Materiality, a group exhibition featuring Mary Corse, Liu Wei, and Nari Ward >> Read more
Figurative painting has dominated China during the last decades. Its beginning started with the Cynical Realism movement to which Liu Wei (born 1965) belonged. >> Read more
Hong Kong, June 26, 2015—Lehmann Maupin Hong Kong is pleased to present Nocturnal Friendships, an exhibition that examines various forms of friendship and considers the idea of friendship in relation to desire, the erotic, and death.
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Liu Wei (b. 1972, Beijing) is one of the most important artistic voices of his generation. Coming from the heated conceptual climate of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou during the 1990s and a key member of the late 1990s “Post-Sense Sensibility” formation, Liu Wei has gone on in the past decade to pioneer […] >> Read more
More than 20 acrylic paintings created during 2011 and 2013 will be presented this time. As curator and art critic Demetrio Paparoni writes for new catalogue, LIU Weijian has managed to catch and subtly revealed the emotions and feelings filled the journey that is the hotness of day. >> Read more
Shanghai artist Zhou Xiaohu (b. 1960) awarded DAAD fellowship for the Berlin Artist Program residency >> Turin Foundation Rebaudengo purchases Liu Wei's (b. 1972) "Library" >> Read more