currently lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and Wuxi.
Engaging deeply with the history of design and manufacturing, Liu’s practice examines the precarious nature of constructed understanding while embracing liminality as both method and subject. With an acute material sensitivity, Liu’s three dimensional work, often in textile and fabric, gives form to the experience of displacement and unfolds narratives in the intersectionality. Liu creates performative surfaces with handcrafted practice, and gentle detonations of perceptual norms occur when cracks in reality’s cosmetic surface are pried open by the crowbar of precision craftsmanship.
Education
2022 - until now, Class Willem De Rooij, Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
2017 - 2021, Fashion Design, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing, China
Previous Exhibitions
Constellations Warsaw, Turnus Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Nocturnal Animals, LINSEED PROJECT, Shanghai, China
2024
cā biān, Hafenplatz 1-3, Offenbach, Germany
Rundgang Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Temple, Offenbach, Germany
2023
Symposium, Netzwerk Seilerei, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Rundgang Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2021
Skin, Participatory Art, Intimacy Series, Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center, China
Performance
Quivering Bloom, Stichting Perdu, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024
Playing in the Dark: Side B, Uncharted Collective, Busan Biennale 2024
Hairpin Beneath, TROPEZ, Sommerbad Humboldthain, Wiesenstraße 1, 13357 Berlin
The Sound of Defiance, Paludo S. Antonio Bridge Rio Dei Giadini, Venice, Italy
Residency
Mar-Apr 2025Hong Museum, Wenzhou, China
Aug-Nov 2024
HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme
Award
2025Städelschule Rundgang Award, Hiltner-Wolf-Stiftung
Contact
IG: dididilemma