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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">"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><ref>"Leo Xu Projects." ''BLOUIN ARTINFO''. BLOUIN Media, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/814309/814308/home-overview>.</ref>

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

==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.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.

==Exhibition==

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==Off-site Projects==

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 name="ModelHome">"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.name="ModelHome" ''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.name="ModelHome" ''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.name="ModelHome" ''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.name="ModelHome" ''Rockbund Art Museum''. Rockbund Art Museum, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013. <http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/en_exhibitions_exhibitionDetail.asp?id=155>.</ref>

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

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==References==

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