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Li Luming

	1956 Born in Shaoyang, Hunan Province, China 1985 Graduated with a master's degree from the Chinese Institute for Artistic Research Currently lives in Beijing and Changsha, China

Li Luming consciously makes reference to the form and content of Gerhard Richter's "Baader-Meinhof" Cycle "18. Oktober 1977", created in 1988. In creating a cycle of paintings, Richter chose a format that has been employed in European painting to represent events of political significance. This tension between traditional form and modern content contributes to the fascination with which this work is viewed.
Similarly, Li Luming sees in representations of the Cultural Revolution a starting point for thinking about ideology, memory and the shattering of illusion. He transfers extant black-and-white photographs into the medium of oil painting, blurring them in the process. Often, his subjects are Chinese "icons". Li Luming, like Gerhard Richter and in contrast to the following generation of Chinese artists – the "Cynical Realism" – abstains from commenting. And so the paintings themselves become comments within the context of the a-historic reception specific to China.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007	Li Luming, Since 2003, Hu Nan Museum, Changsha, China Li Luming: Des Künstlers Jugendzeit, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
2006	Li Luming: Days Above the Clouds, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.
2000	Study Sessions, Beijing, Changsha, Nanjing, Guangdong, Chongqing and other cities, China.
1997	Chinese Hand: Li Luming, Space 401, Changsha, China.
1991	Li Luming: the New Image, Top Level Gallery, Changsha, China.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009	Beijing - Havana, New Contemporary Chinese art Revolution, Cuba Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana,Cuba
2008	Beijing- Athens, Contemporary Art from China, Technopolis of the city of Athens, Greece 3.15- Let's consume!, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2006	First Festival of Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Museum, Beijing, China. A Point In Time - Wuhan, Centre for Artistic Documentation, Wuhan, China. Ruins: New Photography and Video from China, UWM Peck School of Arts, Vogel Hall, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Mobile Socialism, 798 Space, Beijing, China. Cold Capacity, Biao Gallery, Beijing, China. Dusty Red, Xray Art Centre, Beijing, China. Empty and Full: New Trends in Contemporary Chinese Art, Heyri Cultural Space, Soul, Korea. Art Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Art Forum Berlin, with the Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Vision: Beijing, XRay Art Centre, Beijing, China. Size Decides Attitude, Pingyao; Beijing, China. Art Cologne, Germany. Point of View, 9 m3 Gallery, Beijing, China The Blossoming of Realism - The Oil Painting of Mainland China, Taiwan National Museum, Taipei.
2005	Vehicle and Mirror, Beijing New Art Project, Beijing, China. Open Road, Creek Art Centre, Shanghai, China. Ruins' Flowers, Old Ladies House Art Space, Macao. Chinese Version, Jiang Art Center, Beijing, China. Pavilions, Sonzhuang Art District, Beijing, China. Tribute to 85', Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China. Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China. Capable Art, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. ¼, Three Quarters Art Gallery, Beijing, China. Linked with Life, 3818 Cool Gallery, Beijing, China. Cloud, Rain, TS1 Space, Beijing, China. Second Contemporary Art Exhibition, Songzhuang Art District, Beijing, China.
2004	2004 in Chengdu, Blue Roof Art Centre, Chengdu, China. Nothing To Do With Reality?, Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, China. Nineteenth International Exhibition of Asian Art, Asia Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
2003	Landscape, XRay Art Center, Beijing, China. Opening Up the Sky, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China. Great Masters, Fudan University Museum, Shanghai, China. China Now, Tang Contemporary Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
2002	Chinese Contemporary Artists, Jingwen Art Center, Shanghai, China. Highlights of the Chengdu Biennale, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China. A Point in Time, Meilun Art Museum, Changsha, China. Shuffle the Cards Anew, Fine Arts Museum, Wuhan, China. Too much flavour, 3H Art Centre, Shanghai; Avant-garde @ Hakaren, Singapore; Chambers Fine Arts, New York, USA. Tenth of September International Exhibition of Asian Art, Daejeon Art Museum, Daejeon, Korea. First Triennale of Chinese Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China.
2001	Chinese Sensorial Art Exhibition, Si-Wei Space, Changsha, China. Shuffle the Cards Anew, Shenzhen Sculpture Museum, Shenzhen, China. Asiart, Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy. An Artistic Era, Jingwen Museum, Shanghai, China. Exhibition of Hunan Artists, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen, China. Project Art, Hai Shang Shan Art Center, Shanghai, China Posters of China, traveling exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing; Erdongqiang Gallery, Shanghai; Guangdong Fine Arts Museum; Fine Arts Museum of Chengdu; Musée de la Publicité, Paris, France ; Berlin, Germany, etc. First Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, China. Sixteenth International Asian Art Exhibition, Guangdong Fine Arts Museum, Guangdong, China. One Hundred Artist's Faces, Orange Gallery, Nanjing, China.
2000	Study Session: "The Law to Prevent the Polluting the Environment", Dazayuan restaurant, Beijing, China (participants, Zhang Nian, Sheng Qi, Cang Xin, Chen Qingqing, Wu Xiaojun and Sun Ping). Study Session: "In Service of the People", Dream Factory, Changsha, China (participants : Zou Jianping, Li Ke, Yao Yangguang, Zhang Xiaolin, Zhang Wei, Li Xiaoshan and He Weina). Study Session: "The Law for the Protection of Women's Rights", Mother Tongue Journal, Beijing, China (participants: Feng Jiali, Yuan Yaomin, Li Hong and Shi Tou). Symposium: "To Combat Contraband", Borges Bookstore, Guangdong, China (participants : Chen Dong, Lin Yilin, Liang Juhui, Chen Shaoxiong, Yang Guoxing, Shi Lei, Cao Fei and Lu Yi). Study Session: "Against Imperialism", Yuhua magazine, Nanjing, China (participants : Guan Ce, Mao Yan, Li Jianguo, Cao Kai and Gao De). Study Session: "The Law on the Rights of Authorship", Fine Arts Institute of Sichuan, Chongqing, China (participants: Dao Zi, Wang Lin and the students at the Institute).
1999	The Shanghe Museum Collection, He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China. Ouh la la ! Kitsch! - Gaudy Art, Taida Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China. Study Session: "The Law On Marriage", Mother Tongue Journal, Beijing, China (participants: Zou Yuejin, Qi Zhilong, Wang Jin, Wang Jingsong, Wang Mai, Zuo Xiao Zuzhou, Yin Xiaobin, Xiao Xiong, Feng Jiangzhou and Li Bing)
1997	The Relationship of Images, Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
1994	Exhibition of the Contemporary Situation of Chinese Oil Painting, University Museum and Art Gallery (Fung Ping Shan Museum), Hong Kong
1993	First Chinese Art Salon, International Exhibition Center, Guangdong, China. Red Sun (performances), Shaoshan, China.
1992	Documentary Exhibition on Contemporary Chinese Art, Shengyang, Shanghai, Guangdong and other cities, China. First Canton Biennale, documentation prize winner, Guangdong International Exhibition Center, Guangdong, China. Arts Asia, Exhibition Center, Hong Kong.
1991	Ten Contemporary Artists, Hunan Fine Arts Museum, Changsha, China. I Don't Play Cards with Cezanne–Exhibition of Vanguard Art in China, Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
1990	Multiple Facets, Hunan Fine Arts Museum, Changsha, China. Four Artists, Artist Gallery, Guangdong, China.
1989	Second Exhibition of Oil Paintings From Hunan, Exhibition Hall, Changsha, China.
1988	Modern Art in the South-West, Expo 88', Exhibition Hall, Chengdu, China.
1986	Great Traveling Slide Exhibition on the New Wave, Zhuhai, Beijing, Shanghai and other cities, China. Intersection Print, Youth Hall, Changsha, China Groups of Young Artist from Hunan, Fine Arts Museum of China, Beijing, China.