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| Gender: | Male |
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Lawrence Lek Lawrence Lek is a filmmaker, musician, and artist who unifies diverse practices—architecture, gaming, video, music and fiction—into a continuously expanding cinematic universe. Over the last decade, Lek has incorporated vernacular media of his generation, such as video games and computer-generated animation, into site-specific installations and digital environments which he describes as 'three-dimensional collages of found objects and situations.' Often featuring interlocking narratives and the recurring figure of the wanderer, his work explores the myth of technological progress in an age of artificial intelligence and social change. Lawrence Lek (b. Frankfurt, 1982) studied at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, the Architectural Association, London, and The Cooper Union, New York. Lek holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art in London. He has exhibited internationally with recent solo exhibitions including NOX, LAS Art Foundation, Berlin (2023); Black Cloud Highway, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2023); Nepenthe (Summer Palace Ruins), QUAD, Derby (2022); Post-Sinofuturism, ZiWU the Bund, Shanghai (2022); Ghostwriter, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, Prague (2019); Farsight Freeport, HEK House of Electronic Arts Basel, Basel (2019); Nøtel, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Essen (2019); AIDOL 爱道, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019); Nøtel, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague (2018); 2065, K11 Art Space, Hong Kong (2018); and Play Station, Art Night, London (2017). His work has also featured internationally in numerous group shows, biennales and film festivals including Biennale de I'Image en Mouvement 24 (BIM'24): A Cosmic Movie Camera, Centre d'Art Contemporian, Genève (2024); Connectivity Construction, Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju (2024); The 24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns, White Bay Power Station (2024); Virtual worlds: From cycloramas to Metaverse, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (2023); HOPE, MUSEION, Bolzano (2023); Fotograf Festival – hypertension23, National Gallery Prague (2023); Topologies of the Real: Techne, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen (2023); Game Society, MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); FOUNDATION: A Web3 Media Art Festival, Videotage, Hong Kong (2023); The Pieces I Am, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, UCCA Edge, Shanghai (2022); WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (2022); 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (2022); Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2022); donaufestival, Krems (2021); IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam (2020 and 2018); 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (2021); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | de Young Legion of Honor, San Francisco (2020); CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2019); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2019); Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2019); MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2018); The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2018, Taipei (2018); Arsenale Nord, Venice (2017); UCCA, Beijing (2017), among others. Lek has been recognised with the 2017 Jerwood/FVU Award and the 2015 Dazed Emerging Artist Award. In 2021 he was the recipient of both the 4th VH Award Grand Prix and the LACMA 2021 Art + Technology Lab Grant and in July 2024 he was announced as the winner of the Frieze London 2024 Artist Award. Lek lives and works in London. |
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| Opening: | Sep 28, 2024 Saturday |
| Curators: | Zhen Yu, Kaimei Wang |
| Artists: | Baoyang Chen, Rui huang, Di Liu, Jiayu Liu, Lek Lawrence, Kun Song, Rong Shi, Somei, Ziyang Wu, Zhipeng Wang, Ye Linghan, Tian Yu, Zhen Yu, Wenchao Zhang, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ART CREATION RESEARCH CENTER, CAA AI Center, UFO media lab, zzyw, Draftman |
| Gender: | Male |
| About: | |
Lawrence Lek Lawrence Lek is a filmmaker, musician, and artist who unifies diverse practices—architecture, gaming, video, music and fiction—into a continuously expanding cinematic universe. Over the last decade, Lek has incorporated vernacular media of his generation, such as video games and computer-generated animation, into site-specific installations and digital environments which he describes as 'three-dimensional collages of found objects and situations.' Often featuring interlocking narratives and the recurring figure of the wanderer, his work explores the myth of technological progress in an age of artificial intelligence and social change. Lawrence Lek (b. Frankfurt, 1982) studied at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, the Architectural Association, London, and The Cooper Union, New York. Lek holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art in London. He has exhibited internationally with recent solo exhibitions including NOX, LAS Art Foundation, Berlin (2023); Black Cloud Highway, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2023); Nepenthe (Summer Palace Ruins), QUAD, Derby (2022); Post-Sinofuturism, ZiWU the Bund, Shanghai (2022); Ghostwriter, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, Prague (2019); Farsight Freeport, HEK House of Electronic Arts Basel, Basel (2019); Nøtel, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Essen (2019); AIDOL 爱道, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019); Nøtel, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague (2018); 2065, K11 Art Space, Hong Kong (2018); and Play Station, Art Night, London (2017). His work has also featured internationally in numerous group shows, biennales and film festivals including Biennale de I'Image en Mouvement 24 (BIM'24): A Cosmic Movie Camera, Centre d'Art Contemporian, Genève (2024); Connectivity Construction, Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju (2024); The 24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns, White Bay Power Station (2024); Virtual worlds: From cycloramas to Metaverse, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (2023); HOPE, MUSEION, Bolzano (2023); Fotograf Festival – hypertension23, National Gallery Prague (2023); Topologies of the Real: Techne, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen (2023); Game Society, MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); FOUNDATION: A Web3 Media Art Festival, Videotage, Hong Kong (2023); The Pieces I Am, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, UCCA Edge, Shanghai (2022); WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (2022); 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (2022); Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2022); donaufestival, Krems (2021); IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam (2020 and 2018); 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (2021); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | de Young Legion of Honor, San Francisco (2020); CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2019); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2019); Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2019); MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2018); The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2018, Taipei (2018); Arsenale Nord, Venice (2017); UCCA, Beijing (2017), among others. Lek has been recognised with the 2017 Jerwood/FVU Award and the 2015 Dazed Emerging Artist Award. In 2021 he was the recipient of both the 4th VH Award Grand Prix and the LACMA 2021 Art + Technology Lab Grant and in July 2024 he was announced as the winner of the Frieze London 2024 Artist Award. Lek lives and works in London. |
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| Opening: | Sep 28, 2024 Saturday |
| Curators: | Zhen Yu, Kaimei Wang |
| Artists: | Baoyang Chen, Rui huang, Di Liu, Jiayu Liu, Lek Lawrence, Kun Song, Rong Shi, Somei, Ziyang Wu, Zhipeng Wang, Ye Linghan, Tian Yu, Zhen Yu, Wenchao Zhang, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ART CREATION RESEARCH CENTER, CAA AI Center, UFO media lab, zzyw, Draftman |
