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LI YONG XIANG

LI YONG XIANG

b. 1991, China
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Li Yong Xiang Biography

Li Yong Xiang (b. 1991, Changsha) is a Berlin-based artist. In 2020, Li completed Meisterschüler at Städelschule, Frankfurt. He received the Prize of the Rainer Wild Art Foundation in 2023, and was nominated the eighth Huayu Youth Award in 2020.

In his practice, Li Yong Xiang draws on a diversity of media. His main interest, however, lies in the border-crossing intersections between painting, sculpture, music and video. Influenced by a reciprocal understanding of culture and diaspora experience, the artist challenges ideas of sovereignty and existing power-structures by engaging in contaminations that aim at media, formal and cultural specificities.

Courtesy Antenna Space.

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What I see in the act of painting itself: a convergence of ideas, inertia, breakthroughs, muscle memory, ecstasy, shoulder pain, swagger, humiliation, political participation, isolation, anticipation, disappointment, spirit, economy, and so much more.
Cosmopolitan Orthodoxy: Li Yong Xiang on His Larger-than-Life Tableaux
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Contemporary art exhibition Li Yong Xiang In Rust at Antenna Space Shanghai China
Li Yong Xiang In Rust Antenna Space 15 March–5 May 2025
Shanghai

Representative Artworks

Li Yong Xiang, In rust (a painting within a painting) (2025). Courtesy the artist and Antenna Space.
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Li Yong Xiang, Rise (2023). Exhibition view: Mannered in a sleeve, Deborah Schamoni, Munich (8 September–18 November 2023). Courtesy the artist and Deborah Schamoni. Photo: Uli Gebert.
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Li Yong Xiang, In rust (doze) (2025) (detail). Oil on linen, acrylic, glass bead, and varnish on polyester. 150 x 485 cm. Courtesy the artist and Antenna Space.
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Exhibition view: Li Yong Xiang, Mannered in a sleeve, Deborah Schamoni, Munich (8 September–18 November 2023). Courtesy the artist and Deborah Schamoni. Photo: Uli Gebert.
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Exhibition view: Li Yong Xiang, In Rust, Antenna Space, Shanghai (15 March–29 June 2025). Courtesy the artist and Antenna Space. Photo: Cra.
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Li Yong Xiang in Ocula Magazine

Cosmopolitan Orthodoxy Li Yong Xiang on His Larger-than-Life Tableaux
Conversation Cosmopolitan Orthodoxy: Li Yong Xiang on His Larger-than-Life Tableaux Zian Chen At Shanghai’s Antenna Space, Li Yong Xiang unveils a chapel‑like installation that unravels the painterly realism he both reveres and resists.

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