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MA LIUMING s'exprime à travers une activité dans la peinture à l'huile mais aussi de performances. Il reconsidère les frontières traditionnelles entre l'homme et la femme, l'artiste et le public. En se transformant en femme avec un corps d'homme ou superposant un corps d'enfant sur son propre visage, il nous tient un miroir à la recherche d'une identité. Il est l’un des artistes chinois les plus politisé. Il est issu de la communauté de l’East Village, dans la banlieue de Pékin qui rassemblait des artistes dits dissidents qui se firent connaître par leurs performances et leurs photographies expérimentales. Accusé d’activités pornographiques, il est emprisonné par les autorités chinoises et la colonie d’artistes est démentelée. Le personnage que Ma Liuming a crée pour ses performances est Fen-Ma Liuming, une sorte de double mutant bisexué, au corps d’homme et au visage de femme. Par cette représentation provocante, Liuming remet en cause les conventions de l’art chinois, la société et l’individu. Il questionne la rigidité sociale, l’ ambiguïté entre les sexes, l’apparence et la réalité qui coexistent en chacun de nous. Il interpelle le spectateur sur son identité et ses contradictions internes. Dans ces actions, il demande la participation active de ses spectateurs et observe leurs interventions qui divergent selon leurs cultures (Suisse, USA, Japon, Canada, Europe).
Born in Huangshi, Hubei Province, China, 1969 Lives and works in Beijing, China since 1993 1981 Began to study painting with tutor Cai Erhe 1987-1991 Oil Painting Department, Hubei Academy of Fine Arts
SOLO PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS 2005 Galerie Albert Benamou Paris (paintings and photographs)
Beijing Art Now Gallery (paintings and photographs) Ma Liuming performance chosen images Aura Gallery,Shang Hai (paintings and photographs) 2004 Fen-Ma Liuming Top Space, Tai Kang Life Building Beijing , China 2003 Any Day performance at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum , Japan Chinese Contemporary Gallery London 2002 Soobin Art Gallery Singapore 2001 Tensta Konsthall Sweden Gallery Q Tokyo Fen-Ma Liuming in Montreal Performance at Studio 303 Part of Festival Art Action Actual Montreal, Canada Fen-Ma Liuming in Lyon Performance at LES SUBSISTANCESTM Part of festival Polysonneries Lyon, France Fen-Ma Liuming in Odense Performance at Kunsthallen Brandts Kladefabrik Part of the 3rd International performance festival Odense, Danmark Fen-Ma Liuming in Istanbul Performance at Imperial Mint Part of the 7th International Istanbul Biennial Perfect day II Performance at The Maiden’s Tower Part of the 7th International Istanbul Biennial Fen-Ma Liuming in Lisbon Performance at Filomena Gallery Lisbon, Portugal Performance at Dilston Grove Church Part of Span 2 International Performance Art London 2000 Fen-Ma Liuming in Jakarta Performance at Teater Utan Kayu Jakarta, Indonesia, Part of JIPAF-2000 Fen-Ma Liuming in Kwangju Performance in Kwangju, Korea Part of Kwangju Biennial 2000 Fen-Ma Liuming in Düsseldorf Performance at Kunstraum, Germany Part of Performance Art in NRW 2000 Fen-Ma Liuming in Münster Performance at Stadt.Ausstellungshalle, Germany Part of Performance Art in NRW Five minutes of performance Performance at Maschinenhaus/Zeche Carl, Essen, Germany Part of Performance Art in NRW 2000 Perfect Day I Performance at Baan Chao Praya Part of the 3rd International Performance Art Festival Bangkok, Thailand 1999 Ma Liuming , Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, (video of performances, paintings) Fen-Ma Liuming in London, performance at Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, Part of Ma Liuming solo Exhibition (photographs, video of performances, and paintings) Fen-Ma Liuming in Geneva performance in Geneva, Switzerland Part of Performance Index Festival Fen-Ma Liuming in Basel performance in Basel, Switzerland Part of Performance Index Festival Fen-Ma Liuming at SFMOMA performance in SFMOMA, USA Part of Inside Out: New Chinese Art Fen-Ma Liuming in Enns performance in Enns, Austria Part of Performance Festival Fen-Ma Liuming in Nagoya performance in Nagoya, Japan Part of NIPAF Summer Seminar '99 Fen-Ma Liuming in Tokyo II performance in Tokyo, Japan Part of NIPAF Summer Seminar '99 Fen-Ma Liuming in Lizuna Heights 'Shinano Sansou' performance in 'Shinano Sansou' , Japan Part of NIPAF Summer Seminar '99 Fen-Ma Liuming in Nagano II performance in Nagano, Japan Part of NIPAF Summer Seminar '99 Fen-Ma Liuming in Münich performance in Munich, Germany Part of Theater Festival Spielaet '99 1998 Chaos & Birth/Ma Liuming'98 Gallery Q. Tokyo, Japan. Fen-Ma liuming Walks the Great Wall performance in Simatai, Beijing Fen-Ma liuming at P.S.1 performance at P.S.I. Contemporary Art Center New York Part of Inside Out : New Chinese Art 1997 Fen-Maliuming at the Setagaya Art Museum performance at the Setagaya Art Museum Tokyo, Japan, Part of Degenderism 36 Self Taken Photographs by Fen-Ma Liuming II performance at the Setagaya Art Museum Tokyo, Japan, Part of Degenderism Fen-Maliuming in Breda performance in Breda, Holland, Part of Another Long March Fen-Maliuming in Alma performance in Alma, Quebec, Canada. Part of Performance Asiatiques Fen-Maliuming at Le Lieu performance in Quebec city, Canada, Part of performance Asiatiques Fen-Maliuming in Trois-Rivieres performance in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada. Part of Performance Asiatiques Fen-Maliuming in Toronto performance in Toronto, Canada. Part of Performance Asiatiques 1996 Ma Liuming Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London Fen-Ma liuming in Tokyo I performance at the International Forum, Tokyo, Japan , Part of NIPAF'96 Fen-Ma liuming in Nagano I performance at the Worker Welfare Cultural Center, Nagano, Japan , Part of NIPAF'96 Fen-Ma liuming III performance in Beijing Fish Child performance in Beijing 36 Self Taken Photographs by Fen-Ma Liuming I performance in Beijing 1995 Fen-Maliuming and the Fish performance in Beijing Original Sound Part of Original Sound -10 artists performing individually on a common theme in a given place, Beijing 1994 Fen-Maliuming II performance in Beijing East Village Fen-Maliuming's Lunch I performance in Beijing East Village Fen-Maliuming's Lunch II performance in Beijing East Village Caught by Beijing police after realizing this performance sent to prison for two months. The artists of Beijing East Village disperse 1993 Dialogue with Gilbert and George performance in Beijing East Village Fen-Maliuming I Woman's face and Man's body performance in Beijing East Village Fen-Maliuming Says performance in Beijing East Village 1989 Series of Situations performance at Hubei Academy of Fine Arts
GROUP PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS 2005 China, Palazzo Saraceni and San Giogio in Poggiale Blogna, Italy (paintings) Dream Producers (II/VI): The Imaginary Museum of Chinese Contemporary Art Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art Factory 798, Beijing ( photograph and oil painting ) Prague Biennale 2 Prague ( oil painting ) Modern Art of China- Sigg Collection Switzerland (painting and photograph) The Gesture.A Visual Library in Progress, Macedoian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece Traveling to Quarter, The new Center of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy ( Video of performance ) The Strange Heaven-Contemporary Chinese photography Finland ( photographs ) Beijing Contemporary Gallery Kamp, Munich (photographs) Exhilaration Aura Gallery, Shang Hai Xianfeng – Chinese avant-garde sculpture museum Beelden aan Zee/Waanders Uitgevers Holland ( sculpture ) The Wall – Reshaping Contemporary Millennium Art Museum, Beijing. Traveling to Albright-Knox Gallery Buffalo, New York (photograph) Mayfly, Beijing Commune Beijing ( Video ) From Jing De Zhen to PVC Chinese Contemporary, Beijing ( sculpture ) Tirana Biennial Albania ( photographs ) 2004 Me,Me,Me Courtyard Gallery, Beijing ( oil painting and sculpture ) China, The body Everywhere Museum of Contemporary Art Marseille, France ( photographs ) Forbidden Senses ? Espace Culturel Francois Mitterrand de Perigueux Ancien Eveche de Sarlat, France ( photographs ) Examining My Own Practice London ( video of performance ) Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart T Z Gallery Hong Kong Arts Centre Chinese eyes Goedhuis Contemporary New York (paintings and photographs) New perspectives in Chinese painting Marella Arte Contemporanea Milano, Italy ( oil paintings ) Hua Jia Di China Art Seasons, Beijing China ( photographs ) Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China International Center of Photography New York ( photographs ) Camera / Action : Performance and Photography Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago ( photographs ) Posers Courtyard Gallery Beijing of China (oil painting) Face to Face Aura Gallery, Shanghai of China ( photographs ) Entrance Aura Gallery, Shanghai of China ( oil paintings ) 2003 China Art Now-Out of the Red, Marella Arte Contemporanea , Milano, Italy Traveling exhibition: Trevi Flash Art Museum Corps de Chine Gallery Anne Lettree, Paris ( oil paintings and photographs ) Femmes de Chine Gallery Veronique Maxe, Paris ( oil paintings and photograph and sculpture ) The Rencontres d’Arles Festival Arles, France ( photographs ) The Strange Heaven-Contemporary Chinese photography Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, ( photographs ) Peripheries Become the Center Prague Biennale 1 ( photographs ) Bare Androgyny Factory 798, Beijing ( oil painting and photograph ) 2002 Art Moscow , Moscow, ( video of performance ) Korean and Chinese painting-2002 new expression Seoul Arts Center ( oil paintings) International Exhibitionist Curzon Soho Cinema, London ( video ) Chinese Modernity Fondation Armando Alvares Penteada Sao Paulo, Brazil (photograph and video of performance ) Paris-Pekin, Paris France (photograph and video of performance ) New photography from China CourtYard Gallery, Beijing ( photographs ) Reinterpretation: A decade of experimental Chinese art 1990-2000 The first Guang Zhou Triennial , China ( photograph of performance ) Translated Acts Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil ( Carrillo Gil Museum ) Mexico City, ( photographs and videos of performance ) The 2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival: Chinese’s New Photography, China ( Photograph of performance ) When it rains it pours DDM, Shang Hai ( sculpture ) 2001 Translated Acts , Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin Traveling exhibition: Translated Acts ,16th October----1st February 2002 Queens Museum of Art, New York Hot Pot Kunstnernes Hus , Oslo, Norway ( oil paintings, video of performance and slide multimedia ) On Boys and Girls Upriver Loft, Kunming Yunnan, China (oil paintings) Egofugal The 7th International Istanbul Biennial ISTANBUL(slide multimedia) Naked Wood Street Gallery Pittsburgh, U.S.A ( photographs of performance ) 2000 Manly, Art in General New York ( video of the performance ) Man and Place Kwangju Biennial 2000, Korea . Metamorphosed Asian Art Traveling Exhibition: Asian Section of Kwangju Biennial 2000 Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Japan . Time of Reviving Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art in 2000 Upriver Gallery , China The Figure Another Side Of Modernism Sung-Harbor Cultural Center INC ,New York Our Chinese friends ACC Gallery Weimar / neudeli-Gallerie der Bauhaus Germany Utopia, International Exhibition at Rogaland Kunst Museum, Norway Chinese performance J G M Gallery, Paris, France ) 1999 Pink for Boys / Blue for Girls NGBK, Berlin Aperto over All The 48th Biennale di Venezia, , Venice 1998 Video of performances, Autonomous Action The large Glass. Auckland New Zealand. Tamavivant'98 Tama Art University Tokyo, Japan. (paintings) Inside Out : New Chinese Art P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Traveling exhibition , SFMOMA, MARCO - Mexico, Australia, Hong kong… 1997 Degenderism Setagaya Art Museum Tokyo, Japan Photographs of Performances Jack Tilton Gallery, New York Photographs and Video from China Max Protech Gallery, New York Another Long March Breda, Holland. 1996 China Avant-garde Material Exhibition Gallery Q&QS Tokyo and Fukuoka 1995 Contact of the third kind performance in Beijing. The Anonymous Mountain Raised by a Meter performance in Beijng Nine Holes performance in Beijing 1992 Guangzhou Biennial China
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