Lianjiang Zhu
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(b. 1997, Wenzhou, China; based in London and China)
Lianjiang explores the intersection of digital technology, corporeality, and subjectivity through moving image and performance. His practice interrogates how digital technologies deconstruct and reconfigure traditional conceptions of the body, rendering identity and subjectivity fluid, unstable, and oscillating between virtual and physical realms.
Through processes of replication, mutation, and simulation, he constructs transient and indeterminate bodily forms that expose the latent mechanisms of surveillance embedded within social, political, and technological structures, as well as their influence on self-perception. His works employ fractured and shifting narratives to evoke the precarious existence of individuals within digital landscapes, unsettling the viewer’s perception of reality, control, and agency.
2024
Palimpseste – Open Studios, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
Exit Thread, Galerija SKC, Rijeka, Croatia
Thirteen Migratory Birds, Qingdao International Art Exhibition, Qingdao, China
JUMP—CUT, neXtlab YU Art Museum, TX Huaihai, Shanghai, China
Dream This Silly, Queer Youth Art Collective, London, UK
In Motion, Kunstverein Hof e.V., Hof, Germany
Lange Nacht der Bilder 2024, Studios ID Collective, Berlin, Germany
RCA2024, Royal College of Art, London, UK
EAST QUAY OPEN: Open about Identity, East Quay, Watchet, UK
NOWSHOWING:洄·临界穿行, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK
Destructive Power of War in the Arts, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Invisible Visible, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK
Out of Thin Air, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK
Screening: Kreativität der Langsamkeit, GISELA-Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany
2023
The Atlas of A Flaneur, Dimensions Art Center, Chongqing, China
JOMO---Joy of Missing Out, Mom Art Space, Hamburg, Germany
HOTPOT, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany
Awards and Residencies
2025 Swatch Art Peace Hotel artist residency, Shanghai, China (Jul. — Oct.)
2024 In Motion, Kunstverein Hof e.V., Hof, Germany–Second Prize Winner
2024 Kinomural 2024, Wroclaw, Poland– Shortlisted
2019 Award Giorgio Morandi Engraving Prize, 30th and 31st editions, Bologna, Italy– Shortlisted
Media and Article
2024 Jul. Artron.net 雅昌艺术
2024 Dec. Art.china.cn 艺术中国
Education
2023-2024 MA Print, Royal College of Art, UK
2018-2021 BFA Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Bologna, Italy
Collection
Royal College of Art
The One Minutes Collection, preserved by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Talk
FINISSAGE of the HOTPOT exhibition, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany, December, 2023