ANTONE LIU
b. 1999, ChinaAntone LIU was born in 1999 in Liaoning, China. He obtained his BA in Fashion Design from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in 2021, and is currently pursuing his Meisterschüler in the class of Willem De Rooij at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He currently lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. Deeply invested in transcultural narratives and the history of design and manufacturing, his research and works tickle the precariousness and shifts in the perceptions of worldviews. Liu repeatedly deliberates and finds unexpected intersections among these evolving paths. His works capture liminal intersections within evolving trajectories, constructing specious experiential fields where humor becomes a Trojan horse for cognitive intervention. LIU creates performative surfaces with handcrafted practice, and gentle detonations of perceptual norms occur when cracks in reality’s cosmetic surface are pried open by the crowbar of precision craftsmanship.
His selected solo exhibitions include: “Well, well”, 2026, Art Basel Hong Kong with LINSEED, Hong Kong; “Four Apertures”, 2025, Schein Space, Hangzhou; “Antone Liu in Temple”, 2024, Temple, Offenbach; “Skin, Participatory Art, Intimacy Series”, 2021, Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center, Suzhou. His selected group exhibitions include: “The Office”, 2026, Basel Social Club, with LINSEED; “A Mountain Within the City”, Hangzhou Museum, Hangzhou; “Four Artists Walk Into A Bar”, 2025, Contellations, Warsaw; “Nocturnal Animals”, 2025, LINSEED, Shanghai; “Quvering Bloom”, 2025, Stichting Perdu, Amsterdam; Open Studio, 2024, HIAP Gallery Augusta, Helsinki; “Playing in the Dark: Side B”, 2024, Uncharted Collective, Busan Biennale, Busan; “Hairpin Beneath”, 2024, TROPEZ, Berlin; “The Sound of Defiance”, 2024, Paludo S. Antonio Bridge Rio Dei Giadini, Venice; “cā biān”, 2024, Hafenplatz 1-3, Offenbach; “Rundgang Städelschule”, 2024, Frankfurt am Main; “Symposium”, 2023, Netzwerk Sellerie, Frankfurt am Main. He was included in the shortlist of ars viva Prize 2027.
Text courtesy LINSEED Projects.
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