LU Lei
b. 1972
Lu Lei was born in Jiangsu in 1972. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of China Academy of Art in 1998, now works and lives in Beijing.
As one of the important artists in contemporary Chinese installation art, Lu Lei’s works show sensitivity and precise control of material texture. His works often exude classical mysticism and allegorical inner qualities. Lu Lei is good at creating images of vivid imagination. In his works, social symbols, personal memories and sensitive intuitions of material attributes are combined to form a closed system with hidden orders.
Recent exhibitions include: tone, Reflexion Gallery, Beijing (2024); First Spring – Chapter 4, Lu Lei & Apichatpong Weerasethakul, ShanghART, Beijing (2021); Meditations in an Emergency, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2020); Lu Lei: Wander Giant, ShanghART, Shanghai (2019); Heteroglossia, How Art Museum, Shanghai (2018); Forty Years of Sculpture · The First Term, Contemporary Art and Urban Planning Museum, Shenzhen (2017); Post-sense Sensibility: Trepidation and Will, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing (2016); Lu Lei Solo Exhibition: Echo, ShanghART, Beijing (2015); Li Pinghu, Li Ran, Lu Lei: Semi-automatic Mode, ShanghART, Beijing (2014); Jungle II, Platform China, Beijing (2013); Evidence, Newage Art Gallery, Beijing (2012); Lu Lei: Floating Ice Biography, Other Gallery, Beijing (2011); Blackboard, ShanghART H Space, Shanghai (2009); Lu Lei: Present, Hanart TZ gallery, Hong Kong (2008); Amateur World, Platform China, Beijing (2007); 6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (2006).
Collections
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
How Art Museum, Shanghai
White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Sydney, Australia
Artworks
News & Events
Exhibition
You as Me, Hold the Gaze , How Art Museum 5th Anniversary Collection Exhibition
LU Lei
How Art Museum, Shanghai
Exhibition
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2019
LU Lei
Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Press
LU Lei | Sheet metal, rebar, and concrete are the materials of his creations
TARGET | Guo Cheng
Exhibition
Meditations in an Emergency
LU Lei
UCCA, Beijing
Press
The Forgotten, the Unforgettable – The Politic Memory of LU Lei
ARTSHARD | Pu Yingwei
Exhibition
LU Lei | Wander Giant
Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Exhibition
Heteroglossia
LU Lei
How Art Museum, Shanghai
Exhibition
Forty Years of Sculpture · The First Term
LU Lei
Shenzhen Contemporary Art and Urban Planning Museum, Shenzhen
Exhibition
Post-sense Sensibility-Trepidation and Will
LU Lei
Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
Exhibition
LU Lei | Echo
Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing