- WORKS
- Nostalgia of red fire 红火蚁乡愁
- The Slow Journey 缓慢的征程
- Shield and Ants 盾与蚁
- The Cocoon Of Belief 观音巢
- Echoes from muddy water 浊水中的呼喊
- Digestive Tract Of God 神的消化道
- Monument 碑
- He Family Ancestral Hall 何氏宗祠
- With the wind 飘
- Regulars and Passersby 常客与过客
- Tides in Liangshi Town 练市潮汐
- Freezing frequency 凝固的频率
- Flowering period 花期
- Birds,village,sandbar 鸟翼下的村庄
- …
- WORKS
- Nostalgia of red fire 红火蚁乡愁
- The Slow Journey 缓慢的征程
- Shield and Ants 盾与蚁
- The Cocoon Of Belief 观音巢
- Echoes from muddy water 浊水中的呼喊
- Digestive Tract Of God 神的消化道
- Monument 碑
- He Family Ancestral Hall 何氏宗祠
- With the wind 飘
- Regulars and Passersby 常客与过客
- Tides in Liangshi Town 练市潮汐
- Freezing frequency 凝固的频率
- Flowering period 花期
- Birds,village,sandbar 鸟翼下的村庄
- WORKS
- Nostalgia of red fire 红火蚁乡愁
- The Slow Journey 缓慢的征程
- Shield and Ants 盾与蚁
- The Cocoon Of Belief 观音巢
- Echoes from muddy water 浊水中的呼喊
- Digestive Tract Of God 神的消化道
- Monument 碑
- He Family Ancestral Hall 何氏宗祠
- With the wind 飘
- Regulars and Passersby 常客与过客
- Tides in Liangshi Town 练市潮汐
- Freezing frequency 凝固的频率
- Flowering period 花期
- Birds,village,sandbar 鸟翼下的村庄
- …
- WORKS
- Nostalgia of red fire 红火蚁乡愁
- The Slow Journey 缓慢的征程
- Shield and Ants 盾与蚁
- The Cocoon Of Belief 观音巢
- Echoes from muddy water 浊水中的呼喊
- Digestive Tract Of God 神的消化道
- Monument 碑
- He Family Ancestral Hall 何氏宗祠
- With the wind 飘
- Regulars and Passersby 常客与过客
- Tides in Liangshi Town 练市潮汐
- Freezing frequency 凝固的频率
- Flowering period 花期
- Birds,village,sandbar 鸟翼下的村庄
LIU SHUAI
Liu Shuai is an artist and insect researcher. He reflects and previews the easily ignored glimmers and twinges between land, weather, humans, and non-human life, from the perspective of creatures displaced by human activities. Shuai uses natural materials such as feathers, plants, bones, sand, and venom as media, combining biological and ecological technologies, to show the epic of the microcosm that emerges from the interweaving of nature and the human world through installations, vdieo, and other forms.
Shuai has long focused on the changes in local and global connections brought about by alien species invasions, the pet trade, and human military conflicts. Recently, Liu Shuai has been working in the Middle East, focusing on the ecological issues and other secondary hazards caused by recent wars that are often overlooked.
Member of the Entomological Society of China
Education
China academy of art, China, 2019(MA)
Awards/Sponsorship
2024 UCCA&XINTIANDI RANRAN - The Exploration Award
2024 Sailor Program · Art, One way street foundation&Georg Jensen
2023 Prince Claus Seed Award
2022 Goethe-Institut's project: Local Knowledge and Diversified Ecological PerceptionSolo exhibitions / project
2022 Insect Footprints, Human Traces, Goethe-Institut China, Beijing,China
2022 Nomadism and Imagination·7th art book in China:When animals pass through the homeland of human, Tianmuli, Hangzhou, China
2020 Tunnel: Clockwise sound of water, Random Play, Hangzhou,China
Main group exhibitions
2024 Sparking Into Sparking, XINTIANDI, Shanghai, China
2024 Seeing Birds, Hushiguang, Longyou, China
2023 Home Away from Home, Larnaca, Cyprus
2023 See Animal See Me, Pidan gallery, Shanghai, China
2022 The 9th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), Shenzhen, China
2021 Blue Cables in Venetian Watercourse-online residency show, PSA, Shanghai, China
2020 Clustering And Resonance,Art Museum Of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2020 Leming Expo - An annual exchange of agriculture and art ,Yuan Museum, Guangzhou, China
2019 New Species-Heredity&Variation ,Sichuan Provincial Library, Chengdu, China
Speech/workshop
2024 Leave the Zoo, Return to the Zoo, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China
2022-2024 Invasion of Alien Species - Nature Around Us, Huitong school, Shenzhen,China
2023 Fish bone and flamingo, Aral Sea Camp, Nukus, Uzbekistan
2022 Birds, insects, dialects, Tianmuli,Hangzhou, China
2022 Insects, starry sky and road, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China
2021 Can I come to your house to look for insects? Lianshi Town, Huzhou, China
Interview
2023 Egrets, snails, red fire ants... Do animals experience homesickness, CITY+ Sanlian Lifeweek
2022 Conceiving homesickness stories for some "villain creatures", art book in China
Publications
2024 At both ends of the Earth are ant nests, Unofficial Pan-American Conference
2022 I was observing bees in a mountain village in Guangdong, Mapping workshop
2022 Liu Shuai: Spider Web and Tadpole, Taoxichuan
2021 The Snake's Moonlit Escape into the Reeds
2020 Tunnel | October: Clockwise sound of water, RANDOM PLAY
2019 The lacquer garden I heard, Homeland 2019
刘 帅
刘帅是一个艺术家和昆虫研究者，他常以因人类活动而被迫迁徙的生物视角去回望和预演土地、气象、人、非人生命之间易被忽略的微光与刺痛。刘帅使用羽毛、植物、骨骼、沙石、毒液等自然材料作为主要媒介，结合生物和生态技术，通过装置、影像等形式去呈现交织于自然与人世的微观史诗。
外来物种入侵，动物贸易是刘帅持续关注的主题。近年来，他在中东、中亚地区针对现代战争导致的军事污染等次生灾难开展研究与创作。
硕士毕业于中国美术学院 中国昆虫学会会员
奖项/资助
2024 新天地&UCCA 燃冉青年艺术家扶持计划 锐意探索奖
2024 单向街基金会·水手计划
2022 歌德学院“地方知识与多元化生态感知”
个人展览/项目
2022 “昆虫·家”，德国文化中心·歌德学院，北京
2022 “游牧与想象”-“动物乡愁”，天目里，杭州
2021 “顺时针的水声”，Random Play，杭州
部分群展
2024 "响亮的吻"-燃冉艺术季，新天地壹号，上海
2024 "瀫石光-看见鸟"，龙游
2023 “Home Away from Home”，拉纳卡，塞浦路斯
2023 “动物看见了吗”，Pidan gallery，上海
2022 第九届深港城市建筑双年展-“看见最初500米”，深圳
演讲/工作坊
2024 Leave the Zoo, Return to the Zoo, 德国文化中心·歌德学院，北京
2022-2024 身边的自然 - 外来物种入侵，荟同学校, 深圳
2023 鱼骨与火烈鸟，咸海湖畔，努库斯，乌兹别克斯坦
2022 鸟虫方言，天目里，杭州
2022 昆虫、星空、乡路，德国文化中心·歌德学院，北京
2021 我可以去你家捉虫吗？练市镇，湖州
采访
2023 白鹭、蜗牛、红火蚁……动物也有乡愁？，三联人文城市，
2022 刘帅：为一些“反派生物”构想它们的思乡记 ，abC
写作
2024 地球的两端是蚁穴，非官方泛美大会
2022 我在广东一个山村观察蜜蜂的附近，Mapping workshop
2022 刘帅：蛛网与蝌蚪二三事，陶溪川
2021 “看着一条水蛇破开河面的月光滑进芦苇丛”，去野艺术公益基金
2020 Tunnel：顺时针的水声，RANDOM PLAY
2019 我听到的漆园，Homeland