Lv Zhe

1985 Born in Jilin Province

2009 Graduated from Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin

Currently lives and works in Beijing

SOLO EXHIBITION

2019

Beyond Humans, Noeli Gallery, Shanghai

2014

Her, Noeli Gallery

2012

Toy - Mask, Cunshang Contemporary Art Space, Beijing

GROUP EXHIBITION

2021

R;0,G:47,B:167/No.0984 Lv Zhe + Hu Jing, Red Gate Gallery,Beijing

When the Grotesque Becomes the New Normality, Parkview Green Art, Beijing

2019

NaCl, Mountain & Sea Art Museum, Beijing

2018

Connection, Noeli Gallery,Shanghai

Status Quo, Red Gate Gallery,Beijing

Contemporary Art Search Engine, Mountain & Sea Art Museum,Beijing

2017

Thunderbolt SURGE Art Pop-up Showcase, Red Gate Gallery,Beijing

2016

Minus, Collection of Mountain & Sea Art Museum,Beijing

New Spirit, 798 Baijia Lake Art Center, Beijing

2015

Wall Power, Today Art Museum, Beijing

Art Nova 100, Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing

Invitational Exhibition of PVG Art Festival, Parkview Blue, Beijing

To Collect Master Art, The First Sound Gallery, Beijing

Graffiti Performance, Mountain & Sea Art Museum,Beijing

Poly Young Art Fair, Agricultural Exhibition Center,Beijing

Winter Show, Noeli Gallery,Shanghai

2014

SURGE Art Fair, MOMA Art Zone, Beijing

2013

Surge Art Fair, 800 / Memory of East Uptown, Shanghai / Chengdu

Illuminant, Red Gate Gallery,Beijing

SURGE Art Fair, Sanlitun Orange Hall, Beijing

2012

First Weibo Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing

HIHEY Young Artists, Today Art Museum,Beijing

Affordable Art Beijing, 798 Space, Beijing

2011

Songzhuang Art Festival Art Archive of 80’s Generation, Beijing

Lv Zhe’s creation is initiated from youth works. “Toys & Masks Series” has a strong sense of “ loss and found” of youth. This feeling is no longer the "the cruelties of youth" in the early 2000s, which emphasizes on the crude of brutal blood color or dominate image of damage. To contrast with the artists of 1970s, Lv Zhe’s painting displays a more subtle and relatively delicate expression in emotion. He adopts “ Still Sense” to put leading figures with mask symbols into different environments or games’ lost theaters, and endows the existence of the figures with significance through half-story scenario. Gradually his creation began to dissolve clear protagonist and symbol. Through conceptualizing the plane composition, his paintings started to deviate from defined meanings and narration, but entered into a kind of conceptual constitution between people and environment. Moving forward along this road, Lv Zhe’s painting begins to develop from the plane constitution to the construction between work units. Later, among these works, the principal role of architecture and environment began to bid farewell to the function of the object type, and the function of leading figure retired. The perspective of building was entrusted with new meaning and the value of the world of art, instead of the “ Things’ Order” under “ Normal Days”. In this case, artistic concept not only enhanced contemporaneity, but also made Lv Zhe’s art progress further on the purified road. His “Chimney” continued to express the order of things conceptually. “ A Plane just Passed By” practiced the intertextuality between images and texts. The sky in his “ Overcast and Rainy” revealed a visual production function for conceptual creation.

- Wang Meng

(Curators, Art Critics, the Researcher of the Study of Gallery of Chinese Art Museum)