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Xiao Lu work on "Empowerment: Art and Feminisms" Catalogue

Xiao Lu work on "Empowerment: Art and Feminisms" Catalogue


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Berenice Angremy interview Xiao Lu

Berenice Angremy interview Xiao Lu


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"Purging": Xiao Lu’s "Subversion" of „Subversion"

"Purging": Xiao Lu’s "Subversion" of „Subversion"


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In these works, artists across Asia and its diasporas address history and social change, transforming the body, language and visual traditions into forms of resistance.
“Protest”, “Gathering” joined “Bearing Witness”
Contemporary Asian art from NGV collection

NGV, Australia

2026.4.18 – 8.30

This is why I decline Geoff Raby
This is why I decline Geoff Raby

By Xiao Lu
16th January 2024 in Sydney

The Space of Negotiation: My Art across Borders
The Space of Negotiation: My Art across Borders

CATS, University Heidelberg

7 July, 2026

“The China Moment” explores the developments of Chinese contemporary art since the late 1970s, a period of profound social, political, and cultural change.
“15 Gunshots…From 1989 to 2003” joined “The China Moment”
Contextualizing Individualism in Chinese Contemporary Art

The documenta Institut first research exhibition at the Kasseler Kunstverein

2026.1.24 – 3.22

Xiao Lu never raised her voice — she fired a shot.
In 1989, with two bullets, she shattered not only a pane of glass but also the silence surrounding women’s autonomy in Chinese art.
At the time, she did not speak of feminism.
Xiao Lu: First Gunshot of Chinese Feminist Art

Bonn Women Museum, Germany

2025.11.9 – 2026.2.8

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), the museum has organized a special exhibition entitled Half the Sky: Women in Chinese Art, referencing by Chairman Mao Zedong’s 1968 quotation “Women hold up half the sky,” meaning that they are the equal of men.
“Dialogue” showed at Half the Sky: Women in Chinese Art

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, USA

9 Sep. 2023-7 July 2024

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

Darling Square Library

13 July, 2024

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

MARS Gallery in Melbourne, Australia

29 February, 2024 – 30 March

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

Morelos Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico

18 Oct. 2023

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

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Oct. 12 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.
Lecture: Art as chance encounter with me

SFU & Centre A, Canada

29 September 2023

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).
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.
“Dialogue”, “Polar”, “Coil” joined exhibition “Stepping Out !” in Denmark

Kunstforeningen GI Strand Copenhangen, Denmark

2 Dec. 2022 – 12 March 2023

The original idea of
“One” showed at “China-The Past is Present”

National Gallery of VIC, Australia

15 October 2022 – 20 February 2023.

On September 9, 2022, at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany, a four-month exhibition on women in the world named
“Open Fire” joined exhibition “Empowerment”

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

9 Sep. 2022 – 8 Jan. 2023

 
“Dialogue”, “Polar”, “Soil” join exhibition “Stepping Out ! ” in Norway
on display at Lillehammer Art Museum

Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway

14 May – 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.
For Iran, For Freedom, For Feminism / Sydney Rally

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

On March 3, 2012, the exhibition
“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

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
“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
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
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:
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).
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
“Dialogue” showed at “Democracy” exhibition in TATE Liverpool,UK

TATE Liverpool,UK

14 Nov. 2020 – 11 Sep. 2022

Design School of UWA
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.
Xiao Lu: 15 Gunshots…from 1989 to 2003
collected by Art gallery of New South Wales, Australia

By Cao Yin

2020.3 in Sydney

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.
“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.

Documentary film
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.
Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue
exhibition open at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney, Australia

19 Jan. 2019 – 24 March

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.
“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

In these works, artists across Asia and its diasporas address history and social change, transforming the body, language and visual traditions into forms of resistance.
“Protest”, “Gathering” joined “Bearing Witness”
Contemporary Asian art from NGV collection

NGV, Australia

2026.4.18 – 8.30

This is why I decline Geoff Raby
This is why I decline Geoff Raby

By Xiao Lu
16th January 2024 in Sydney

The Space of Negotiation: My Art across Borders
The Space of Negotiation: My Art across Borders

CATS, University Heidelberg

7 July, 2026

“The China Moment” explores the developments of Chinese contemporary art since the late 1970s, a period of profound social, political, and cultural change.
“15 Gunshots…From 1989 to 2003” joined “The China Moment”
Contextualizing Individualism in Chinese Contemporary Art

The documenta Institut first research exhibition at the Kasseler Kunstverein

2026.1.24 – 3.22

Xiao Lu never raised her voice — she fired a shot.
In 1989, with two bullets, she shattered not only a pane of glass but also the silence surrounding women’s autonomy in Chinese art.
At the time, she did not speak of feminism.
Xiao Lu: First Gunshot of Chinese Feminist Art

Bonn Women Museum, Germany

2025.11.9 – 2026.2.8

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), the museum has organized a special exhibition entitled Half the Sky: Women in Chinese Art, referencing by Chairman Mao Zedong’s 1968 quotation “Women hold up half the sky,” meaning that they are the equal of men.
“Dialogue” showed at Half the Sky: Women in Chinese Art

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, USA

9 Sep. 2023-7 July 2024

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

Darling Square Library

13 July, 2024

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

MARS Gallery in Melbourne, Australia

29 February, 2024 – 30 March

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

Morelos Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico

18 Oct. 2023

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

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Oct. 12 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.
Lecture: Art as chance encounter with me

SFU & Centre A, Canada

29 September 2023

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).
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.
“Dialogue”, “Polar”, “Coil” joined exhibition “Stepping Out !” in Denmark

Kunstforeningen GI Strand Copenhangen, Denmark

2 Dec. 2022 – 12 March 2023

The original idea of
“One” showed at “China-The Past is Present”

National Gallery of VIC, Australia

15 October 2022 – 20 February 2023.

On September 9, 2022, at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany, a four-month exhibition on women in the world named
“Open Fire” joined exhibition “Empowerment”

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

9 Sep. 2022 – 8 Jan. 2023

 
“Dialogue”, “Polar”, “Soil” join exhibition “Stepping Out ! ” in Norway
on display at Lillehammer Art Museum

Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway

14 May – 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.
For Iran, For Freedom, For Feminism / Sydney Rally

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

On March 3, 2012, the exhibition
“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

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
“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
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
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:
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).
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
“Dialogue” showed at “Democracy” exhibition in TATE Liverpool,UK

TATE Liverpool,UK

14 Nov. 2020 – 11 Sep. 2022

Design School of UWA
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.
Xiao Lu: 15 Gunshots…from 1989 to 2003
collected by Art gallery of New South Wales, Australia

By Cao Yin

2020.3 in Sydney

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.
“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.

Documentary film
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.
Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue
exhibition open at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney, Australia

19 Jan. 2019 – 24 March

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.
“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

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