“Dialogue” joined “A Grain of Wheat: The 1980s Contemporary Art Memorial Exhibition”

Ui Art Museum, Suzhou, China.

2025.9.19 – 2026.3.1


 

Exhibition: A Grain of Wheat: The 1980s Contemporary Art Memorial Exhibition

Curator: Hao Qingsong

Artists: Chen Baosheng, Chen Ren, Cong Ruri,  Datongdazhang,  Dai Guanyu, Dao Zi,  Ding Fang,  Ken Jianyi,  Han Lei,  Jian Hai,  Kunming Photo studio, Liu chuanbao,  Liu yiyuan,  Mao Xuhui,  Mao Yan, Mneg Luding,  Pan Dehai,  Ren Xiaoying,  Sun Jianping,  Wang Guangyi, Wei Guangqing，Wen Pulin, Wu Dayu, Xiao Feng, Xiao Lu (肖鲁）, Xiao Quan, Yan Binghui, Yan Li, Yang Chongguang，Yang Feiyun, You Jingdong, Yuan Qingyi,  Zhang Linhai, Zhang Beili, Zhang Qun, Zhao Bandi, Zhao Dewei, zheng Lianjie, Zhu Yanguang.

Location：Ui Art Museum, Suzhou, China.

Time: 2025.9.19 – 2026.3.1

 

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Passage Gallery in Sydney, Australia

14 June – 19 July, 2024

On February 29, 2024, Xiao Lu's solo exhibition
News
In Dialogue with Xiao Lu

Darling Square Library

13 July, 2024

Opening on June 14th, between 6PM-8PM is renowned performance artist Xiao Lu’s latest installation and performance ‘JUNK’ at passage Gallery in Sydney.
News
Xiao Lu’s solo show “JUNK” open at passage gallery in Sydney

Opening on June 14th, between 6PM-8PM

On February 29, 2024, Xiao Lu's solo exhibition
Solo Exhibition
News
Dignity of remembering

MARS Gallery in Melbourne, Australia

29 February, 2024 – 30 March

Opening Exhibition of the New Taikang Art Museum in Beijing “Engaging with the World: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Since the Dawn of the 20th Century”. Xiao Lu's work
Group Exhibition
Collection Gallery
“Dialogue” showed at “Engaging with the World: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Since the Dawn of the 20th Century”

Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, China

23 August 2023 – 12 January 2024

Curator: Elizabeth Ross Location: Morelos Theater, Cuernavaca, Mexico Time: 17 Oct. 2023 - 22 Oct
Group Exhibition
News
“Money Laundering”, “Polar” Joined “ IV Festival De Artist As Chinas 2023” in Mexico

Morelos Theater, Cuernavaca, Mexico

17 Oct – 22 Oct, 2023

Location: Morelos Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico
News
Lecture: Xiao Lu with Her works

Morelos Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico

18 Oct. 2023

Location: Koret Room, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
News
Lecture: Dialogue XIAO LU

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Oct. 12 2023

Exhibition: China the new frontier of Art, Curator：Vincenzo Sanfo, Location：Cultural & Institutional Center, Milan, Italy., Time：23 June, 2023 - 8 October
Group Exhibition
“Open Fire”, “One” join exhibition “China the new frontier of Art” in Italy

Cultural & Institutional Center, Milan, Italy.

23 June  – 8 October, 2023

Whenever I look back at my works, it is like going back to a certain moment of that former me. The overlapping of past and present, the collision of time and life intertwined together, can always find traces of survival in the crevices of the works.
News
Lecture: Art as chance encounter with me

SFU & Centre A, Canada

29 September 2023

The exhibition
Group Exhibition
Collection Gallery
“Dialogue” showed at “Framing the Revolution”

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, USA

28 January 2023 – 27 August

Group Exhibition
Collection Gallery
News
“15 Gunshots…from 1989 to 2003” showed at “20th-Century Galleries Collection 1960s-2000”

Art Gallery of NSW, Australia

20 August 2022 – 2023

STEPPING OUT! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art is the first exhibition in twenty-five years to offer a comprehensive survey of the output of Chinese women artists working today.
Group Exhibition
“Dialogue”, “Polar”, “Soil” join exhibition “Stepping Out ! ” in Austria

Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria

1 April – 25 June, 2023

Whenever I look back at my works, it is like going back to a certain moment of that former me. The overlapping of past and present, the collision of time and life intertwined together, can always find traces of survival in the crevices of the works.
Writing
Art work as chance encounter with life

By Xiao Lu

14 June, 2023 in Sydney

The inescapable focus of any commentary on the art of Chinese-born female artist Xiao Lu is the action of her firing a gun into her installation Dialogue 对话 (1988-89).
Article
News
Time and Tides: Xiao Lu’s Recursive Art, 1989-2019

By Claire Roberts

PLAYGROUND 2023 Issue 12

In Stepping Out! you'll get a unique insight into China's contemporary art scene through 80 works by 26 prominent female artists. The exhibition includes performance, video, photography, sculpture, ink drawings and oil paintings, offering a surprisingly rich range of themes, approaches and perspectives.
Group Exhibition
News
“Dialogue”, “Polar”, “Coil” joined exhibition “Stepping Out !” in Denmark

Kunstforeningen GI Strand Copenhangen, Denmark

2 Dec. 2022 – 12 March 2023

The original idea of
Group Exhibition
Collection Gallery
News
“One” showed at “China-The Past is Present”

National Gallery of VIC, Australia

15 October 2022 – 20 February 2023.

On February 23, 2023, Xiao Lu participated in 
News
Xiao Lu participated in Sheng Qi’s “Contempoary Chinese Artists Autobiography”
On September 9, 2022, at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany, a four-month exhibition on women in the world named
Group Exhibition
News
“Open Fire” joined exhibition “Empowerment”

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

9 Sep. 2022 – 8 Jan. 2023

 
Group Exhibition
News
“Dialogue”, “Polar”, “Soil” join exhibition “Stepping Out ! ” in Norway

Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway

14 May – 16 Oct 2022

My work
Group Exhibition
News
“Polar” join the exhibition “Sensitive Content” in Unit London, UK

Unit London, UK

13 Sep. – 16 Oct. 2022

1 October 2022 at 4:00PM. For the freedom of Iran, for the freedom of women. In BELMORE PARK, ON EDDY AVENUE, CENTRAL STATION, Sydney, Australia. We are together.
News
For Iran, For Freedom, For Feminism / Sydney Rally

In Belmore Park, On Eddy Avenue, Central Station, Sydney

Becoming One: Xiao Lu’s Dialogues of Ink and Water
Article
Becoming One: Xiao Lu’s Dialogues of Ink and Water

By Luise Guest

09/2022

On March 3, 2012, the exhibition
Group Exhibition
News
“Skew” and “Tear down this wall” join the “Bald Girls-Chain Reaction” in Germany

KUH Art space in Dusseldorf, Germany

14 July 2022 – 6 August

Stepping Out! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art is the first book and exhibition in twenty-five years to present a broadly representative selection of works by China’s contemporary women artists.
Publication
Xiao Lu works on “Stepping Out” catalog

HATJE CANTZ

2022

Through its various academic research and exhibition activities, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) is engaged in multifaceted efforts to establish the place of Korean modern and contemporary art history within the dynamic currents of contemporary art in Asia and throughout the world.
Publication
“Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists” Catalog

MMCA Seoul, South Korea

2022

“We should all be feminists!” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) —In Europe and the United States, feminism has long since become part of popular culture. Yet, despite global movements, demonstrations, and petitions to establish equality, it is still not possible in the twenty-first century to speak of comprehensive gender equality with regard to women and LGBTQIA+ communities-not in any country of the world.
Publication
Xiao Lu work on “Empowerment: Art and Feminisms” Catalogue

This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition, Empowerment

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

September 10, 2022 – January 8, 2023

Xiao Lu's work
News
Xiao Lu’s work “Tides” join at “ARRA Video Art Project No.2”
Artists: Anothermountainman ( Stanley Wong )、Bui Cong Kanh、Cang Xin、Chan Dany、Serge Clement、Dinh Q. Le、Atul Dodiya、Nandan Ghiya、Gu Benchi、Maya Hewitt、Htein Lin、Huang Rui、Marques de Jadraque、Ko Siu Lan、Sutee Kunavichayayont、Carol Lee Mei Kuen、Frog King Kwok、Li Wei、Liang Hao、Hung Liu、Ma Desheng、Manit Swriwanichpoom、Gered Mankowitz、Laurent Martin
News
“Love in the Dream” 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

10 Chancery Lane Gallery 20th Anniversary Celebrations

Nov 2021

Mexican Artist & Curator Elizabeth Ross talk about Artist Xiao Lu‘s work
News
Mexican Artist & Curator Elizabeth Ross talk about Artist Xiao Lu‘s work

The Arts Faculty of Baja California University, in the border with the USA.

October 26, 2021

Claire Roberts conversation Xiao Lu
Interview
News
Claire Roberts conversation Xiao Lu

Theme: Art + Courage, CoVA Creating Futures Seminar series

Sponsor: The University of Melbourne

23 Oct 2021

Xiao Lu takes part in this exhibition:
News
The Realm of Existence: An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art

Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing.
22 Oct 2021 – 12 Dec 2021

Conversation between Whiskey Chow and Xiao Lu, China’s foremost feminist performance artist, reflecting on inter-generational performance practice alongside sharing video documentation of their past work. Supported by the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS), University of Nottingham. (Chinese with English translation).
News
Xiao Lu Dialogue with Whiskey Chou on Zoom

Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS),
University of Nottingham

2021/06/06

Xiao Lu's work
Group Exhibition
News
“Dialogue” showed at “Democracy” exhibition in TATE Liverpool,UK

TATE Liverpool,UK

14 Nov. 2020 – 11 Sep. 2022

This is not a monograph on the history of women artists or an art-historical survey of ‘women’s art’. It is thirty-four perspectives on pivotal moments in, and key contributions to, the field of art and design by women, all drawn from the NGV Collection. The idea of persistence was the inspiration for this publication.
Publication
“She Persists” published by NGV in 2020

NGV

2020

Zhou Yan
Publication
Zhou Yan “A History of Contemporary Chinese Art”

Zhou Yan

Springer Press 2020

In late May 2011, escaping the behemoth art fair ArtHK. I caught the subway to the end of the Hong Kong Island line.
Article
“Xiao Lu: Thirty years later”

By Mikala Tai

Published by NGV 2020

Design School of UWA
News
Guan Kan: Thinking with Contemporary Chinese Art Online

Design School of UWA “Guan Kan: Thinking with Conemporary Chinese Art”

2021/05/14 – 06/17

On 5 February 1989, two gunshots were fired at Dialogue, an installation art work in the exhibition China/Avant-Garde at China’s National Art Gallery in Beijing. This event was the first officially sanctioned exhibition of ‘unofficial’ art held in post-Mao China.
Article
News
Xiao Lu: 15 Gunshots…from 1989 to 2003

By Cao Yin

2020.3 in Sydney

I recently saw a very colourful Xiao Lu. One of her hands was wrapped in white bandage, previously wounded during her “Polar” exhibition, whilst the other hand maneuvered the steering wheel with ease.
Article
Evil does not differ from justice, and justice does not differ from evil – A story of Xiao Lu

By Wen Pulin

Early spring, February of the Year of Rat

02 / 2020

At the opening reception of an exhibition at Beijing’s National Art Museum in February 1989, Xiao fired two bullets at her installation.
Group Exhibition
News
“Dialogue” show at “Collection Galleries: 1970s – Present” in MoMA, NY

MoMA

10 Oct. 2019

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present SKEW, a solo exhibition and new performance by Xiao Lu, one of China’s most provocative artists. This will be Xiao Lu’s first solo show in Hong Kong and will present an important survey of some of her most iconic performances.
Solo Exhibition
Skew

10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

12 Sep. 2019 – 5 Oct.

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present SKEW, a solo exhibition and new performance by Xiao Lu, one of China’s most provocative artists. This will be Xiao Lu’s first solo show in Hong Kong and will present an important survey of some of her most iconic performances.
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“Skew” – Xiao Lu’s solo show at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery in Hong Kong

10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

12 Sep. 2019 – 5 Oct.

Born to two Socialist Realism painters shortly before China's Cultural Revolution (1966-76), Xiao was exposed to art and politics from a young age. She attended the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, with the work shown in this image serving as her graduation piece.
Publication
Xiao Lu work “Dialogue” on “GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS” published by PHAIDON

Rebecca Morrill, Karen Wright, Louise Elderton, Catalina Imizcoz

PHAIDON Press Limited 2019

Documentary film
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MY 1980’s – Documentary on European TV Broadcast

ARTE TV channel in France and Germany

Channel 2 in Sweden

Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue 肖鲁:语嘿 is the first retrospective of leading contemporary Chinese artist Xiao Lu. The exhibition is anchored by Xiao Lu’s performance work Dialogue from the landmark China/Avant-Garde exhibition at the National Art Gallery, Beijing, in February 1989.
Solo Exhibition
News
Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney, Australia

19 Jan. 2019 – 24 March

Danish Cultural Center, 798 Arts District, Beijing, China (23 October 2016). Photographs by Yi Zhilei. Exhibition view: Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney (19 January–24 March 2019). Courtesy the artist. Photo: Kai Wasikowski (2019), for 4A Center for Contemporary Asian Art.
Interview
OCULA / Conversation

In partnership with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

In Conversation with Mikala Tai

Sydney, 21 January 2019

Opposed to conform to societal norms and unwilling to restrict the self, this kind of women refuse to be ordinary and do what is expected. Xiao Lu, Zhao Yinou, and Cao Yu have been her kind. They may have multiple personas, as daughter, mother, and wife, but more importantly, they are artists.
Group Exhibition
News
“HER KIND: Xiao Lu, Zhao Yinou, Caoyu” – Beijing Zhuzhong Art Museum

Exhibition: HER KIND
Couator: Alia Lin
Artist: Xiao Lu, Zhao Yinou, Caoyu
Location: Beijing Zhuzhong Art Museum

Human / 人
Article
Human / 人

By Alia Lin

Oct 2018

Moxico 2018
Article
CUANDO EL ARTE CHINO DEVIENE CONTEMPORÁNEO

By Elizabeth Ross

Ciudad de México, 2018

Alexandra Monroe, Philip Tinari, Hou Hanru
Publication
Alexandra Monroe, Philip Tinari, Hou Hanru “Art And China After 1989 Theater of the World “

Alexandra Monroe, Philip Tinari, Hou Hanru

@2017 The Soloman R. Guggenheim Foundation.

To see the problems clearly, you have to view in the dimension of time. “More than twenty years” is quite a lengthy stretch of history for an individual, but in terms of art history, it may be quite short.
Interview
Man Art Magazine Interview Xiao Lu
Monica Merlin interview Xiao Lu
Interview
Monica Merlin interview Xiao Lu

Monica Merlin interviewed Xiao Lu at TATE

2013.11.12

The discussion centered on whether it is meaningful for Xiao Lu to be
Article
“Purging”: Xiao Lu’s “Subversion” of „Subversion”

By Juan Xu

Huaian, China

June 27, 2013

Taikang Space
Publication
Taikang Space “IMAGE HISTORY EXISTENCE”

Taikang Space

Culture & Art Press 2011

Book: CONTEMPORARY ART
Publication
Terry Smith “CONTEMPORARY ART” – World Currents

Terry Smith

2011 Laurence King Publishing

Book: Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Chinese Art / In English, Author: Gao Minglu, Publication: The MIT Press 2011
Publication
Gao Minglu “Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Chinese Art”

Gao Minglu

The MIT Press 2011

Focus and Freeze- Revisiting Dialogue
"Dialogue" Document
Focus and Freeze- Revisiting Dialogue

By Hu Xiaolan, Wangjing

15 May, 2011

it was the first time that I broke my silence to talk about Dialogue in public in the whole period from 1989 to 2004. This process was so long. These things are all described in my novel “Dialogue”. You can read about it later.
Interview
Berenice Angremy interview Xiao Lu

Berenice Angremy Curator X Xiao Lu

Time: 2010/10/18

Location: 798 “Thinking Hands”

Although Xiao Lu’s Dialogue is written in the form of a novel, it is based on a true story. However, it is not only the story of a single individual. At the same time it presents a particularly important event in the history of Chinese contemporary art.
Publication
"Dialogue" Document
Xiao Lu novel “Dialogue”

Author: Xiao Lu

Hong Kong University Press 2010

Although she belongs to the avant-garde generation that has done so well, internationally as well as within China, Xiao Lu nonetheless presents an alternative to the recognized artist. Contradictions abound in regard to her career: for one, she is considered a major artist on the basis of a very small body of work.
Article
Xiao Lu: The Confluence of Life and Art

By Jonathan Goodman

December 2008 in New York

 This is because we see in these two telephone booths a red telephone placed on a table, but the telephone’s mouthpiece is not atop the telephone, but rather dangles there, unanswered, suggesting that the “dialogue” has been cut off.
"Dialogue" Document
The Sound of Gunshots, Half a Life’s Dialogue: On Xiao Lu’s “Dialogue” / By Gao Minglu

“China Guardian Press” published on November 2006

October 2006

First letter from Xiao Lu to Gao Minglu about the shooting of her work Dialogue at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, in 1989.
"Dialogue" Document
Letters from Xiao Lu to Gao Minglu about the shooting of her work Dialogue at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, in 1989.

February – March, 2004

Greetings! Thank you for your account of the shooting and your three letters. I apologise for not answering promptly. I have indeed been very busy recently, and also been unwell for a while.
"Dialogue" Document
Gao Minglu’s reply letter to Xiao Lu

April 16, 2004

This time I spent all my time in a hotel. I couldn’t see any green shadows outside the window, but just shut myself inside my room, except for an occasional long walk outside, and I seemed isolated from this world.
"Dialogue" Document
Letters from Xiao Lu to Li Xianting about the shooting of her work Dialogue at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, in 1989.

February – March, 2004

Li Xianting interview with Xiao Lu, Li Songsong and re-interpretation of the work
"Dialogue" Document
Li Xianting interview with Xiao Lu, Li Songsong and re-interpretation of the work

First draft spring 2004

revised 3 October, 2005

15 Gunshots… From 1989 to 2003 Exhibition Record
Archive
15 Gunshots… From 1989 to 2003 Exhibition Record
On Aug. 21, the “Country Life Plan” exhibition was scheduled to open at the National Gallery in Beijing. Though the paintings were indifferent, and had to the ordinary eye no hint of political significance
"Dialogue" Document
Their Irony, Humor ( and Art ) Can Save China

By Andrew Solomon

New York Time Magazine

December 19, 1993

Dialogue Exhibition Record
Archive
Dialogue Exhibition Record
As a matter of my overall conception of art, I believe that art is a process of testing (or perhaps, supplementing this word with words of similar meaning: a practice, practical experiment, attempt, possibility of discovery and so on).
"Dialogue" Document
Letter from Tang Song to Li Xianting

21 June, 1989

     Concise situation account of the “Shooting Incident” of 5 February, 1989 at the China/Avant-Garde in Beijing. Naturally, the facts in my account are selective and have a motive, namely to draw people’s increased attention to the facts of these events. Our original object in this action was to let the situation speak for itself.
"Dialogue" Document
Tang Song’s concise account of the Shooting Incident of 5 February 1989

27 February 1989

The original idea of
Group Exhibition
“Dialogue” exhibited at “China Avant-Garde” in National Art Gallery, Beijing.

5 – 19 Feb. 1989

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