LIJIN ZHU | 朱栎瑾
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Lijin Zhu (b. 1998, Shanghai) works across video installation, performance, sound, sculpture and text. Practice explores the origins of orientation and the conditions that make identification possible. Her works construct embodied metaphorical structures that render visible the unconscious patterns shaped by cultural and political forces. Concave and wind recur as her cyclical archetypal motifs. Her practice is also concerned with creating spaces for dialogue and shared ground.
朱栎瑾（b. 1998 ，上海）通过影像装置、雕塑、行为、声音和文字等媒介，探索方向性的来源和认同的前提。作品试图构建具身化的隐喻结构，使得由文化与政治塑造的无意识模式显形。凹陷和风是她周期性回归的元形象。其实践也关注创造对话的空间和共同基础。
Education
2025 MFA, Goldsmiths University of London, Fine art
2022 BFA, China Academy of Art, Sculpture
Awards
2022 Silver medal of the 2022 China Academy of Art Graduation Creation and Lin Fengmian Creation Award
EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE
2025.01 Poetic Parrot, Central Art Museum, Hangzhou
2023.10 Another day, Another Archetype, Lewisham Arthouse, London
2023.05 It could rain in a room this big, Seager, London
2022.11 If you want me, Imaginary Z, Hangzhou
2021.12 On the Edge of Blank Page, CAA Tspace, Hangzhou
2021.08 Port-Protocol-Port, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
2021.05 Looking awry, BY ART MATTERS RESIDENCY, Hangzhou
2020.12 Moon escape, Fuyicang Art Centre (National cultural relic protection buildings), Hangzhou
2020.12 A Weak Light In the Cave, CAA Tspace, Hangzhou
2020.11 Dune of Sensibility, Wind H Art Center, Beijing
2020.09 T², CAA Tspace, Hangzhou
2020.08 2020: Twenty Years Towards a World Theatre, OCAT, Shenzhen
2020.05 .TXT,CAA Tspace, Hangzhou
2020.03 Isolation, Ephemeral Gallery, Hangzhou
2019.10 Fitting Room, Picnicartfestival, Shanghai
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
2020.12-2021.04 As the chief curator assistant, I participated in the joint multi-space exhibition of Unknown Vector and held intensive discussions with the Doctoral student Project Coordinator and Master student Curator for nearly half a year（Hangzhou）
2020.12 As the remote liaison of Lingnan BNB team, participating in the ”2020 On the road” Nomination Exhibition of Chinese Young Artists & Forum of Young Art Critics (Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen)
2020.09 As one of the planners and organisers of Three plans of Tproject, and the exhibition of T²
2020.02-2020.05 As one of the main planners of the Tproject Sound Project. During the first peak of the Covid-19 epidemic, we collected and released many audio recordings from people in various cities, both at home and abroad, Each was about the perception of ‘space’ in quarantine situations. We tried to create a channel that leaves the possibility of echoes and interoperability where different voices have existed.
2019.11 leader of the "Magnetic Fields" lecture month, coordinating the overall arrangement of the lectures, connecting with the speakers, etc.
2019.04 As one of the leaders of the self-nomination section, Participating in the "Unknown Vector Young Sculptors Group Exhibition"
2019-2020 Participated in the media operation of Tproject
2018-2020 Responsible for sorting out lecture texts and connecting with speakers, including senior editor of Artform Chinese, the curator and director of public projects of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, etc
2018.12-2021.6 Participating in an art project, "Tproject".
Tproject is a platform for creative expression through ongoing exhibitions, workshops, academic lectures, international exchange programmes, and dialogue with the art ecology inside and outside the school.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2024.04 Participated in rehearsals and performances of Grass Stage Theatre, an independent experimental theatre (founded in 2005) supported by international organisations such as the British Council.
2023.10 Participated in Dai Chenlian’s new work The Diary of a Modern Lunatic (by an artist previously featured in the Shanghai Biennale)
2021.12 performance volunteer, in Roman Ondák's work “Clockwork” in the exhibition "A Show About Nothing" ( BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou)
2021.5.22-2021.7.11 performance volunteer, in Xu Zhen's performance "6th March" in the exhibition “City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millennium” (UCCA Edge, Shanghai)