Jin Lie
notes, paintings, oil on paper, each 20×30cm, framed, 2000–2009
The works of the Chinese artist shown here were created between 2000 and 2009, with the edited images originating from a variety sources. Portraits of friends, acquaintances, gallerists, collectors contrast with a vanitas motif or with a weary American flag in front of a sad background. For Jin Lie art is a means to approach and get closer to the themes like »memory« –be it biographical, be it social/historical phenomena, each with its own visual language. Lie’s technique is somewhere between painting and drawing (he uses oil colors and restrains of solvent materials), becoming an aesthetic language by transforming pieces of visual memory’s archive into a culture of memory: by using a similar format throughout, he eliminates any evaluation and difference, as is typical for archives.
Jin Lie
Born in 1969 in Shanxi, China. Lives and works in Berlin.
Education:
1993–1997 Study of painting and set-design at
Duesseldorf Academy, Jan Dibbets / Karl Kneidel
Solo exhibitions:
2008 The Poetry of the Portrait, upstairs berlin ››› On
nature, McKinsey & Company, Cologne/Frankfurt a.Main
2006 The Grammar of Nature, upstairs berlin 2004
Portraits for a White House, Villa Grisebach Gallery,
Berlin 2002 Architektures, Gallery Seulen, Heidelberg
Selected group exhibitions:
2009 Excuse me, are you famous?, Invaliden1 Gallery,
Berlin 2008 The Garden in the Museum – Interventions
of contemporary artists, Georg-Kolbe-Museum,
Berlin ››› Der Blinde Fleck, Neue Gesellschaft für
Bildende Kunst, Berlin 2007 NULL BOCK, Schickeria,
Berlin ››› BE ONE GET THREE, Cluster, Berlin ››› 01/01,
Exhibition in the greenhouse, Berlin ››› Night of the
sweet bees, Schickeria, Berlin ››› Myth –Matrix of the
World, upstairs berlin, Berlin 2006 Rio, curated by
Artnews Project, Berlin ››› Dance the Communism,
Schickeria, Berlin ››› SALONG, Projekt 0047, Berlin/
Stavanger, Norway 2005 Winterzauber, upstairs berlin,
Berlin 2003 ››› 6. International summer academy for the
fellows of the academy of arts, Berlin ››› Entdecken,
Fördern, Handeln, Württembergischer Kunstverein,
Stuttgart 1998 Association d’Art Contemporain, Paris
1997 Project Room Scheidstrasse, Wuppertal
Grants
2003 Scholarship by Akademie der Künste, Berlin
