LONGGANG DISTRICT CUHK-SHENZHEN SITE FOR THE 10TH BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM\ARCHITECTURE (SHENZHEN)
Echoes
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?Chief Planner | SHEN Shaomin
?Curator Team | University Arts Centre of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
?Artists | ?CAI Yinan、 Limin CHEN、 GAO Jiangbo × 204works、 HU Liying、 Libiao PENG、 SHEN Si、TAN Lijie、 WEN Jie Junjie、 Wei WENG、 Ziwei XU、 Yuan ZHOU
?Duration | 2025.12.29-2026.03.09
?Venue | Front Corridor of Gravity Field Art Gallery (Teaching Complex D101) and Other Areas of Lower Campus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 2001 Longxiang Boulevard, Longgang District, Shenzhen
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Project Introduction
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As an extension of the "Telephone Booth Reconstruction Plan" on campus, "Echoes" marks not only the first attempt by the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) to enter a university environment but also a profound dialogue on memory, connection, and co-creation. We have invited 11 artists, each with their own unique ties to the university, to return to campus. Taking their individual creative journeys as trigger points, they reunite here and now—as if posing a question to the past and offering a lingering response to time itself.
"Echoes" refers both to the reverberation of sound and to the re-development of memories across time. The vintage telephone booth serves as a symbolic medium, linking conversations between the past, present, and future. It acts as a container for personal memories and a channel for public dialogue. In this project, each artist collaborates with students from non-art disciplines—a setup that in itself embodies an "echo": the artists' early experiences intersect with the students' contemporary perspectives, blurring and reshaping the boundaries between professional and amateur. Private expression intertwines with external intervention, ultimately crystallizing into works that either extend original intentions or emerge entirely anew.
The 11 telephone booths will be placed in public spaces across campus, becoming heterogeneous nodes in the everyday landscape and triggers for contemplation. They are not merely venues for displaying artworks but open arenas for interaction and potential sites for teaching and learning. Throughout the exhibition, we will continue the university's ongoing discussion—initiated during The 2nd Culture & Arts Festival in 2020—on "public art and the right to aesthetics", seeking to spark new social perceptions and intellectual resonances through dialogue and encounter as art enters non-traditional spaces.
All of this is not just about how art is seen, but also about how voices are heard, how memories are sustained, and how the future is gradually formed in the common narrative.
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About the Co-Creation Teams
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Artist CAI Yinan's Team
CAI Yinan
Principal of STONE STAGE; Co-founder of the Cyanbee Book Club.
An artist who loves exploring new fields and has created many unique and unconventional works.
Specializes in becoming a stranger.
Previously responsible for the visual design of film retrospectives at Broadway Cinematheque in Shenzhen, including "éric Rohmer Retrospective", "Aki Kaurism?ki Film Exhibition", "Kenji Mizoguchi and Kinuyo Tanaka: The World of Women on Screen", and "Wim Wenders Film Tour".
Emerging playwright, with works including the children's play "The Sun Is a River of Colors" (playwright), "Twenty-One Selves" (associate playwright), and "Who Is the Moon" (playwright).
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?Co-Creation Students
Terry
2025
SSE
Harmonia College
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Yoyo
2025
HSS
Minerva College
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Artist Limin CHEN's Team
Limin CHEN
Limin CHEN graduated from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in the UK. She is an interdisciplinary textile designer whose work integrates robotics, fashion, and traditional textile techniques. Her practice focuses on connecting traditional craft with new technologies. A major area of her research is the study of energy transport within plants. By observing natural life forms from various perspectives, she investigates the complex internal mechanisms of botanical energy transfer. She also explores the role of textiles in biomimicry, linking biological principles with technological applications, and aims to introduce nature's restorative qualities into daily environments. Her work has been exhibited in multiple locations in China and the UK. CHEN's overall goal is to expand the possibilities of textile design and create new forms of experiential engagement.
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Co-Creation Students
CHEN Zhencheng
2022
HSS
Ling College
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Guqi ZHANG
2022
MED
Shaw College
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GAO Jiangbo × 204works Team
GAO Jiangbo
GAO Jiangbo is a curator and an art writer. He graduated from Musashino Art University. He currently lives and works in Tokyo and Shenzhen and has been active in various art scenes including biennale in China and Japan. His curatorial project was awarded 8th place in Takashi Murakami's "GEISAI 19", the first Chinese recipient of this award in history.
204works Formerly known as Dehairi Co., Ltd., it is dedicated to extending artistic structures into design expressions and has been practicing in the art scenes of both China and Japan for many years.
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Co-Creation Students
Yifan WANG
2017
MED
Muse College
Zhiqing ZHONG
2023
SDS
Duan's Family College
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?Artist HU Liying's Team
HU Liying
HU Liying is an installation artist whose practice is deeply rooted in theoretical construction. An MA graduate of Central Saint Martins, she is known for her rigorous formalism and conceptual precision, navigating the convergence of material, structure, and philosophy. She conceptualizes space as a narrative medium, articulating a theoretical system she terms "TOPOLEXIA". By constructing specific "fields", she examines the dynamic tensions between the tangible and the intangible, and between rational structure and emotional narrative. Her work—spanning sculpture, installation, and cross-media experiments—exposes the transformative nature of opposing elements to unveil the inherent paradoxes of daily existence.
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Co-Creation Students
QIU Hanjing
2023
SME
Minerva College
érasme
2022
SSE
Ling College
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Artist Libiao PENG's Team
Libiao PENG
Libiao PENG, born in 1987, currently lives and works in Shenzhen. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in 2009 and is committed to exploring the possibilities inherent in the language of sculpture itself and the conceptual dimensions of materials. Solo and Group exhibitions: Destination Unknown (Banri Art Museum, Shantou, 2025); Lunar Maria (W.onespace, Shenzhen, 2024); Living in a castle (Shenzhen Nantou City, Shenzhen, 2024); Nomads in the South: Rivers, Tunnels, Dampness and Constellations (Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, 2023); The Confrontation and Dissolution—One's Spatial Symbolism (Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, 2022); Uncharted Territory: For a Change—The 4th Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art (Northem Section OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen, 2021); The Boundless Wind and Moon (W.onespace, Shenzhen, 2021); Speed//Time: The 2nd Culture & Arts Festival of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (TC101 SPACE, Shenzhen, 2020); The 5th Shenzhen Public Sculpture Exhibition (Shenzhen, 2019); Temporary Scene (Gallery MC, Shenzhen, 2018); World by World—Contemporary Art Exhibition for the 45th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relation between China and Germany (Germany, 2017); Finding Friends, Art Window: The Sad Fortune Cat (Today Art Museum, Beijing, 2016); The 1st Shenzhen Contemporary Art Biennale (Shenzhen University Art Gallery, Shenzhen, 2015).
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?Co-Creation Student
LI Zongguo
2023
SME
Muse College
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Artist SHEN Si's Team
SHEN Si
SHEN Si is a Chinese artist and writer who was born in Wuhan, Hubei, China in 1996. She obtained a master's degree from the Department of Oil Painting of the China Academy of Art and the Department of Intercultural Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently running a home lifestyle brand "Witch Cantina". She lives and works mainly in Hangzhou and Hong Kong, China.
As an artist, she mainly works on painting, installations and interactive experiments. Her work, rooted in ecofeminism, critically disputes the construction of gender identity and the narratives of national public mythology, unearth the matriarchal civilizations in supernatural belief systems, and explore the relationship between the body and power under the intergenerational structural oppression of patriarchy and capitalism. She currently tries to enter the open automatic writing to discuss the connection between Complex System and the image of body in Traditional Chinese Medicine principle. She explores the essence of spirituality and nature through the channel of bodily meridians, embodying mental landscapes in a state of contemplation, expressing a merciful energy and will.
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Co-Creation Student
Miya
2022
HSS
Harmonia College
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Artist TAN Lijie's Team
TAN Lijie
TAN Lijie studied at the School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art from 2010 to 2017, where she received her Master of Fine Arts degree. In 2015, she studied as an exchange student at the School of Art, Kingston University in London. Now she lives and works in Shenzhen.
As a visual artist, Lijie combines the reality of images with reflections on the present from her unique perspective. She uses animals, plants, dreams and symbols to contemplate things and creates a suspended moment through images. Moreover, she is good at making dreamlike atmosphere in her artworks, capturing the poetic moments and freezing the inspiration and resonance when facing the world. She creates a bewildering and fantastical visual experience, weaving together dreams and reality in her imaginative stories. As a person who grew up in Shenzhen, TAN Lijie's creations are always related to personal experience, memory, and emotion. She uses images as a tool to connect people and places, the past and the present, bringing individual life bits back to the city of Shenzhen.
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Co-Creation Students
Ripley
2024
SME
Harmonia College
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Jin
2025
HSS
SHAW College
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Artist WEN Jie Junjie's Team
WEN Jie Junjie
WEN Jie Junjie was born in Yongzhou, Hunan in 1980. He first connected to the internet in 2000, graduated from Central South University with a degree in Computer Science and Technology in 2004, and worked as a computer engineer in Zhuhai, Guangdong from 2004 to 2007. He then moved to Beijing and began his career as an artist in 2008. From 2009 to 2011, he initiated the "Jiju Plan (Inquiline Project)" online and lived with strangers in various locations—a practice that formed the foundational model for his understanding of the world. His artistic spirit is rooted in his family environment and upbringing: his grandfather practiced calligraphy and wrote couplets, his grandmother managed the household, his father worked as a tailor away from home, and his mother left home for the second time and never returned.
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Co-Creation Students
Allen JIANG
2025
SAI
Muse College
Shiyuan LIU
2023
SDS
Diligentia College
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Artist Wei WENG's Team
Wei WENG
Born in China and now based in Melbourne, artist Wei WENG is known for using photography, lacquer installations, and speculative text to explore sensory connections between nature and memory. Holding an MFA in Painting from the California College of the Arts (2005), her work has been exhibited in international galleries in cities such as Kyoto, Rome, and Melbourne. She was nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (2023). Her recent projects Museum of Lost Heirs (2026) and Air Hunter (2024) challenge the liminal and poetic borders of storytelling.
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Co-Creation Student
Echo
2025
HSS
Ling College
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Artist Ziwei XU's Team
Ziwei XU
Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2016, and now works and lives in Shenzhen. Her work often employs light as a medium to explore and respond to contemporary social issues, involving spatial interactive installations, public art, and video. "When we explore the external world, we primarily rely on vision, and the very existence of vision depends on the transmission of 'light' as a medium." Ziwei XU transforms "light" into shifting, mysterious, and unknown visual experiences, reflecting spaces of infinite possibility that remain intangible and unverifiable. She has held solo exhibitions in Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, among other places, and her works have been collected by institutions such as the Shanghai Putuo District Municipal Government and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. She has served as a visiting lecturer at the School of Public Art, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
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Co-Creation Students
LIN Zihan
2022
SME
Muse College
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WU Zifeng
2021
MED
Shaw College
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Artist Yuan ZHOU's Team
Yuan ZHOU
Yuan ZHOU (Butter Z.) was born in Pujiang, Zhejiang Province, and currently lives and works in Shenzhen. He graduated from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London in 2015. His artistic practice centers on ceramic art while exploring diverse forms across multiple media such as painting, wood carving, installation, and performance art. His style and expression are unrestricted, often conveying exuberant vitality through exaggerated visual language and strong personal characteristics. ZHOU emphasizes intuitiveness in his works, believing that artworks are the materialized manifestation of his subconscious mind. He also stresses extensive practice, aiming to achieve a creative state of mutual transformation between mind and matter through in-depth dialogue with different materials.
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Co-Creation Students
ZHENG Yiting
2024
SME
Muse College
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Georgia
2024
MED
Harmonia College
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TC101 SPACE endeavors to promote excellent artists and art projects. Based inside the campus, it provides staff and students with a platform to appreciate, discuss and get engaged in contemporary art. It is an essential part of general education in the University and has become a significant window to introduce the diversity of campus culture and art forms. Through various exhibition projects, the operation team works with creative artists to explore the potential of the space continuously, breaking through the boundary, and creating a public art space on campus with more possibilities and flexibility.
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