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'''LEO XU Projects''' is a contemporary art gallery based in [[Shanghai]] exhibiting young and international artists.<ref>"LEO XU PROJECTS." ''ArtSlant''. ArtSlant, n.d. Web. 25 July 2013. <http://www.artslant.com/cn/venues/show/26276-leo-xu-projects>.</ref><ref> name="TripAdvisor">{{Cite web |title=Leo Xu Projects, (Shanghai.") ''TripAdvisor''.- TripAdvisor,All n.d.You Web.Need 25to JulyKnow 2013.BEFORE <httpYou Go |url=https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g308272-d2515606-Reviews-Leo_Xu_Projects-Shanghai.html>. |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=Tripadvisor |language=en}}</ref><ref>"Leo Xu Projects." ''BLOUIN ARTINFO''. BLOUIN Media, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/814309/814308/home-overview>.</ref>

==The Gallerygallery==

[[File:Leo Xu Projects.jpg|thumb|Gallery Building]]

Leo Xu Projects is the eponymous gallery founded by Leo Xu in the year of 2011. andIt is housed in a three-story building in Shanghai's former French Concession, aroundnear the intersection of West Fuxing Road and Wulumuqi Road.<ref>"Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai.name=" ''TripAdvisor''. TripAdvisor, n.d. Web. 25 July 2013. <http:"//www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g308272-d2515606-Reviews-Leo_Xu_Projects-Shanghai.html>.</ref> It represents a younger generation of artists from China and overseas who experiment with a variety of media in their artistic endeavors. The group focuses on the language of urbanism, architecture and new cinema and strives to explore how such vocabularies have inflected the visual culture of modern China. Leo Xu Projects is envisioned as a platform for artistic experiments that investigate and explore through the aesthetic lens the phenomenon of [[Shanzhai]]ism, namely bootleg culture, in the contemporary Chinese society. It also takes special interest in artworks that discuss and examine Chinese diaspora in other parts of the world and how such changing demographics have come to reshape the cultural landscape of the country.

==The Gallery==

Leo Xu Projects is the eponymous gallery founded by Leo Xu in the year of 2011 and is housed in a three-story building in Shanghai's former French Concession, around the intersection of West Fuxing Road and Wulumuqi Road.<ref>"Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai." ''TripAdvisor''. TripAdvisor, n.d. Web. 25 July 2013. <http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g308272-d2515606-Reviews-Leo_Xu_Projects-Shanghai.html>.</ref> It represents a younger generation of artists from China and overseas who experiment with a variety of media in their artistic endeavors. The group focuses on the language of urbanism, architecture and new cinema and strives to explore how such vocabularies have inflected the visual culture of modern China. Leo Xu Projects is envisioned as a platform for artistic experiments that investigate and explore through the aesthetic lens the phenomenon of [[Shanzhai]]ism, namely bootleg culture, in the contemporary Chinese society. It also takes special interest in artworks that discuss and examine Chinese diaspora in other parts of the world and how such changing demographics have come to reshape the cultural landscape of the country.

==Exhibition==

The gallery space was inauguratedbyinaugurated by a grand group exhibition, ''Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)'', thatwhich featured a roster of artists from China and abroad, including Liu Wei, Liang Yuanwei, [[Cheng Ran (artist)|Cheng Ran]], [[Chen Wei (artist)|Chen Wei]], [[Gabriel Lester]], and Sun Xun, etc.<ref>"Group Exhibition: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." ''Asia Art Archive''. Asia Art Archive, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.aaa.org.hk/WorldEvents/Details/18555 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808052822/http://www.aaa.org.hk/WorldEvents/Details/18555 |date=2014-08-08 }}>.</ref>

Subsequent exhibitions includeincluded a series of solo exhibitions by young Chinese artists, such as [[Cheng Ran (artist)|Cheng Ran]] (''Cheng Ran: What Why Now''), [[Chen Wei (artist)|Chen Wei]] (''Chen Wei: More''), [[Liu Chuang (artist)|Liu Chuang]] (''Liu Chuang: Works #16-21)'', [[Michael Lin (artist)|Michael Lin]] (''Michael Lin: Shanghai Daily''), [[Cui Jie (artist)|Cui Jie]] (''Cui Jie''), and [[Guo Hongwei]] (''Guo Hongwei: Editing'').

Two group exhibitions have also been held at the venue, ''Cui Jie, Li Shurui, Zhang Jungang & Li Jie'' and'' Boy: A Contemporary Portrait.'' The former, featuring works by the Beijing-based [[Cui Jie (artist)|Cui Jie]] and Li Shurui and Harbin-based duo Zhang Jungang & Li Jie, provided a visual narrative of the relationship between the artists' lifelives and the contemporary landscape.<ref>"{{Cite web |title=Cui Jie, Li Shurui, Zhang Jungang & Li Jie." ''SmartShanghai''.{{!}} SmartShanghai, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http|url=https://www.smartshanghai.com/event/16657> |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=www.smartshanghai.com}}</ref> The latter portraysportrayed and exploresexplored the concept of masculinity while surveying the cultures, sub-cultures and ideologies that have been instrumental in defining young men in the first decade of the 21st century.<ref>Gregory, Hannah. "Boy: A Contemporary Portrait." ''Frieze Magazine''. Frieze, 01 May 2012. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/boy-a-contemporary-portrait/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729113907/http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/boy-a-contemporary-portrait/ |date=2013-07-29 }}>.</ref> ''Boy: A Contemporary Portrait ''presents works produced by a group of artists who work with diverse mediasmedia, including the French choreographer [[Jérôme Bel]], video artist [[Cheng Ran (artist)|Cheng Ran]], [[Guo Hongwei]], Hu Xiangqian, [[Li Qing (artist)|Li Qing]], [[Liu Chuang (artist)|Liu Chuang]], fashion photographer Mei Yuangui, [[Wolfgang Tillmans]], Fred Tomaselli, [[Apichatpong Weerasethakul]], [[Danh Vo]], [[Yang Fudong]] and Zhou Haiying.

==Off-site Projectsprojects==

Leo Xu Projects also collaborates with other institutions and organizations on off-site projects, including ''Voyage: Recent Videos by Young Chinese Artists'' at ShContemporary Art Fair 2011, ''ArtistTalk: Apichatpong Weerasethakul''<ref>"ARTIST TALK: APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL." ''Rockbund Art Museum''. Rockbund Art Museum, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <[https://archive.today/20130415173459/http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_activityDetail.asp?id=279]>.</ref> and ''Artist Talk: Timespace'' by Gabriel Lester<ref>"ARTIST TALK: TIMESPACE." ''Rockbund Art Museum''. Rockbund Art Museum, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_activityDetail.asp?id=314 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914034411/http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_activityDetail.asp?id=314 |date=2013-09-14 }}>.</ref> at Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, and ''Shanghai Surprise'', a project realized through the collective effort of Leo Xu and Azure Wu that comprises two parts: a group exhibition featuring young Chinese and expat authors who boast a close affiliation with the city in either geographical or cultural terms, and a mobile library that captures Shanghai's transforming cultural landscape.<ref>"「上海」上海惊奇：一场关于上海当代艺术的群展." ''豆瓣''. Douban.com, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.douban.com/event/18328876/>.</ref>

Leo Xu Projects also contributed to [[Michael Lin (artist)|Michael Lin]]'s solo exhibition ''Model Home: A Proposition by Michael Lin'',<ref>[http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_exhibitions_exhibitionDetail.asp?id=155 ''Model Home: A Proposition by Michael Lin''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325230816/http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_exhibitions_exhibitionDetail.asp?id=155 |date=2012-03-25 }}</ref> mounted at Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum in the spring of 2012.<ref name="ModelHome">"Model Home: A Proposition by Michael Lin." ''Rockbund Art Museum''. Rockbund Art Museum, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <{{cite web |url=http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_exhibitions_exhibitionDetail.asp?id=155 |title=Model Home: A Proposition by Michael Lin |accessdate=2012-04-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325230816/http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_exhibitions_exhibitionDetail.asp?id=155 |archivedate=2012-03-25 }}>.</ref> The exhibition was intended as a response to the Bauhaus contention that architecture should serve as a vehicle through which multiple forms of art, including architecture, painting and sculpture, are combined and integrated as a single unity.<ref name="ModelHome"/> The show was realized through the collective effort by Michael Lin and several other artists. [[Cheng Ran (artist)|Cheng Ran]] produced a ten-channel video installation that incorporates a documentary of the making of Lin's Model Home, as well as footage on the architectural environment and people.<ref name="ModelHome"/> Dutch artist [[Gabriel Lester]] gave a talk on the relationship between time and space as part of the exhibition program.<ref name="ModelHome"/> Leo Xu curated a sound project that extended the exhibition into a subtle soundscape that further facilitates the philosophical rumination over the dynamics between architecture, people, and urban landscape.<ref name="ModelHome"/>

==Artists==

==Off-site Projects==

LEO XU Projects represents and collaborates with the following artists:<ref>{{Cite web |title=LEO XU PROJECTS |url=http://leoxuprojects.com/ |access-date=2022-10-13 |language=en-US}}</ref>

Leo Xu Projects also collaborates with other institutions and organizations on off-site projects, including "Voyage: Recent videos by Young Chinese artists" at ShContemporary Art Fair 2011, "ArtistTalk: Apichatpong Weerasethakul"<ref>"ARTIST TALK: APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL." ''Rockbund Art Museum''. Rockbund Art Museum, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_activityDetail.asp?id=279>.</ref> and “Artist Talk: Timespace” by Gabriel Lester<ref>"ARTIST TALK: TIMESPACE." ''Rockbund Art Museum''. Rockbund Art Museum, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_activityDetail.asp?id=314>.</ref> at Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, and ''Shanghai Surprise,'' a project realized through the collective effort of Leo Xu and Azure Wu that comprises two parts: a group exhibition featuring young Chinese and expat authors who boast a close affiliation with the city in either geographical or cultural terms, and a mobile library that captures Shanghai’s transforming cultural landscape.<ref>"「上海」上海惊奇：一场关于上海当代艺术的群展." ''豆瓣''. Douban.com, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.douban.com/event/18328876/>.</ref> Leo Xu Projects also contributed to Michael Lin's solo exhibition ''[http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_exhibitions_exhibitionDetail.asp?id=155 Model Home: A Proposition by Michael Lin] ''mounted at Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum in the spring of 2012.<ref>"Model Home: A Proposition by Michael Lin." ''Rockbund Art Museum''. Rockbund Art Museum, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_exhibitions_exhibitionDetail.asp?id=155>.</ref> The exhibition was intended as a response to the Bauhaus contention that architecture should serve as a vehicle through which multiple forms of art, including architecture, painting and sculpture, are combined and integrated as a single unity.<ref>"Model Home: A Proposition by Michael Lin." ''Rockbund Art Museum''. Rockbund Art Museum, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_exhibitions_exhibitionDetail.asp?id=155>.</ref> The show was realized through the collective effort by Michael Lin and several other artists. [[Cheng Ran]] produced a ten-channel video installation that incorporates a documentary of the making of Lin’s Model Home' as well as footages on the architectural environment and people.<ref>"Model Home: A Proposition by Michael Lin." ''Rockbund Art Museum''. Rockbund Art Museum, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_exhibitions_exhibitionDetail.asp?id=155>.</ref> Dutch artist [[Gabriel Lester]]<nowiki/>gave a talk on the relationship between time and space as part of the exhibition program.<ref>"Model Home: A Proposition by Michael Lin." ''Rockbund Art Museum''. Rockbund Art Museum, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_exhibitions_exhibitionDetail.asp?id=155>.</ref> Leo Xu curated a sound project that extended the exhibition into a subtle soundscape that further facilitates the philosophical rumination over the dynamics between architecture, people, and urban landscape.<ref>"Model Home: A Proposition by Michael Lin." ''Rockbund Art Museum''. Rockbund Art Museum, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_exhibitions_exhibitionDetail.asp?id=155>.</ref>

* [[aaajiao]] (Xu Wenkai)

==Artist<ref>"LEO XU PROJECTS." ''LEO XU PROJECTS''. LEO XU PROJECTS, n.d. Web. 25 July 2013. <http://leoxuprojects.com/>.</ref>==

* [[Chen Wei (artist)|Chen Wei]]

LEO XU Projects represents and collaborates with the following artists:<br />

* [[ChenCheng WeiRan (artist)|ChenCheng WeiRan]]<br />

* [[Cui Jie (artist)|Cui Jie]]

[[Cheng Ran]]

* [[Gabriel Lester]]<br />

* [[Guo Hongwei]]<br />

* [[Li Qing (artist)|Li Qing]]<br />Li Shurui<br />

* Li Shurui

* [[Liu Chuang (artist)|Liu Chuang]]<br />Michael Lin<br />

* [[Liu Shiyuan]]

* [[Michael Lin (artist)|Michael Lin]]

* Pixy [[Yijun Liao]]

* [[Apichatpong Weerasethakul]]<br />Zhang Jungang & Li Jie

* Zhang Jungang & Li Jie

== Art Fairsfairs ==

[[Cui Jie]]

Leo Xu Projects has been present at a number of international art fairs, including SH Contemporary, [[Frieze Art Fair|Frieze New York]] and [[Art Basel|Art Basel Hong Kong]].

At the Frieze Art Fair in New York in 2013, a selection of works by the Beijing-based artist [[Liu Chuang (artist)|Liu Chuang]] was presented, which focus on the indigenous culture of Shenzhen and Guangzhou, a region in south China populated with migrant works. Through installation works, the artist examines and calls into attention the immediate reality of contemporary China, exploring in particular how the notion of [[Shanzhai]] - the phenomenon of counterfeiting and plagiarism in mass manufacturing and consumption - has infiltrated and inflected the local population and their ideological landscape.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LEO XU PROJECTS » fair {{!}} FRIEZE NEW YORK 2013 |url=http://leoxuprojects.com/?p=1413 |access-date=2022-10-13 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=2013-05-10 |title=40 Nations, 1,000 Artists and One Island |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/arts/design/frieze-new-york-at-randalls-island.html |access-date=2022-10-13 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

[[Gabriel Lester]]<br />

[[Guo Hongwei]]<br />

[[Li Qing (artist)|Li Qing]]<br />Li Shurui<br />

[[Liu Chuang (artist)|Liu Chuang]]<br />Michael Lin<br />

[[Apichatpong Weerasethakul]]<br />Zhang Jungang & Li Jie

At Art Basel HK 2013, Leo Xu Projects premiered a photography-based project by the Beijing-based artist [[Chen Wei (artist)|Chen Wei]] that investigates the youth culture of mainland China - music and lifestyle in particular. This series, set primarily on club dance-floors or at party scenes, aims to capture the moment of trance from the life of Chinese youth, who grow up in the post-89 years and are heavily influenced by imported and unlicensed cultural products such as bootlegged music cassettes, CDs, DVDs, unofficially translated literature and art publications.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LEO XU PROJECTS » fair {{!}} ART BASEL HONG KONG 2013 |url=http://leoxuprojects.com/?p=1419 |access-date=2022-10-13 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-05-30 |title=The Highlights Of Art Basel in Hong Kong {2013} |url=https://www.yatzer.com/highlights-art-basel-hong-kong-2013 |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=Yatzer |language=en}}</ref>

== Art Fairs ==

Leo Xu Projects has been present at a number of international art fairs, including SH Contemporary, [[Frieze Art Fair|Frieze New York]] and [[Art Basel|Art Basel Hong Kong]]. At the Frieze Art Fair in New York in 2013, a selection of works by the Beijing-based artist [[Liu Chuang (artist)|Liu Chuang]] was presented, which focus on the indigenous culture of Shenzhen and Guangzhou, a region in south China populated with migrant works. Through installation works, the arist examines and calls into attention the immediate reality of contemporary China, exploring in particular how the notion of [[Shanzhai]] - the phenomenon of piracy and plagiarism in mass manufacturing and consumption- has infiltrated and inflected the local population and their ideological landscape.<ref>"Fair | FRIEZE NEW YORK 2013." ''Leo Xu Projects''. Leo Xu Projects, n.d. Web. 04 July 2013.<http://leoxuprojects.com/?p=1413></ref><ref>Smith, Roberta. "40 Nations, 1,000 Artists and One Island." ''New York Times ''11 May 2013, New York ed., Art Review sec.: C1. ''NY Times.com.'' New York Times, 10 May 2013. Web. 28 July 2013. <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/arts/design/frieze-new-york-at-randalls-island.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0>.</ref> At Art Basel HK 2013, Leo Xu Projects premiered a photography-based project by the Beijing-based artist [[Chen Wei (artist)|Chen Wei]] that investigates the youth culture of mainland China — music and life-style in particular. This series, set primarily on club dance-floors or at party scenes - aims to capture the moment of trance from the life of Chinese youth, who grow up in the post-89 years and are heavily influenced by imported and pirate cultural products such as pirate music cassettes, CDs, DVDs, unofficially translated literature and art publications.<ref>"Fair | ART BASEL HONG KONG 2013." ''Leo Xu Projects''. Leo Xu Projects, n.d. Web. 04 July 2013. <http://leoxuprojects.com/?p=1419>.</ref><ref>"The Highlights Of Art Basel in Hong Kong {2013}." ''Yatzer.com''. Yatzer, 30 May 2013. Web. 27 July 2013. <http://www.yatzer.com/highlights-art-basel-hong-kong-2013>.</ref>

==References==

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==External links==

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