Liu Jianhua was born in 1962 in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province. After graduated from Fine Art of Sculpture at the Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute in 1989, he started his own experimental practices within a contemporary context. As an artist who keeps exploring new directions of his art, Liu Jianhua mainly used porcelain as the material to create works in his early practices. Porcelain is such a unique material that looks hard but intrinsically fragile. Through such character, Liu Jianhua creates a metaphor for people's obsession with and anxiety on material, which reveals the spiritual characteristic of modern society. With his further exploration, Liu Jianhua has switched to mixed materials in recent years. Liu Jianhua's works have been exhibited in the main exhibition VIVA ARTE VIVA of the 57th Venice Biennale, the 17th Biennale of Sydney, the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the 1st Singapore Biennale, the 6th Shanghai Biennale, the 50th Biennale di Venezia China Pavilion and his works are included in the permanent collections of institutions including Tate Modern, London, UK; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, US; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US; The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, US and Kawara Museum, Tokyo, Japan. The artist currently lives and works in Shanghai, China.

11.09 Studio visit and onsite discussion