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2025.04.29 - 2025.06.10

Lou Nengbin: Children of the ancient boat Gen 2

  • Duration
    April 29 - June 10, 2025
  • Opening hour
    Tuesday - Sunday 10:00-17:30
  • Address
    Taikang Art Museum, 1F Taikang Art Museum, Building 1, Yard 16, Jinghui Street,Beijing Taikang Group Building
  • Artist
    Lou Nengbin
  • Art Director
    Tang Xin
  • Curator
    Xin Yunpeng
  • Coordinator
    Le Meiqing

Following his diagnosis with Type 1 Diabetes, Lou Nengbin meticulously gathered blood glucosereadings from patients across the Chinese territory. For his evocative piece, “Children of theAncient Boat,” the artist meticulously selected data from 50 individuals, among them his ownspanning from 2019 to 2021.This wealth of data has been ingeniously converted into a pentatonicmusical scale, preserving the intervalic relationships to forge a harmonious and contiguoussound structure, while mirroring the corresponding frameworks found in orchestral compositions.

The acoustic landscape of the artwork is crafted through Open Al’s classical music frameworkevolving from nebulous and generaized associations to an ever-increasing precisionuniqueness, and intimacy in its “performances.”

Lou explores the vast and complex “entities” of data, intertwining his distinctive “dailyexistences” with a “clinical” perspective, as machines reveal the exact metrics of his endeavorsBy blending the pulsations of life, he orchestrinate a symphony of the inner self.

Other Information

  • ABOUT CURATOR

    Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a Master’s degree in Art in 2016, Xin Yunpeng has been engaged in contemporary art practice since 2007. He currently lives and works in Beijing. His works mainly take the form of installations, videos, and site-specific projects.
    Recent solo exhibitions include The Winds Howl Cannot Silence the Grass (MouMou Space, Beijing, 2024); Multi-Minds (Gravity Art Museum, Beijing, 2023); Simultaneous (de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong, 2022); and Friendship First, Competition Second (C5CNM, Beijing, 2020).
    Selected group exhibitions include Zhilan: A Glance in Urban Garden (X Museum, Shanghai, 2024); STUDY II: Natural History, Alternative Knowledge and Deep Learning (ShanghArt, Beijing, 2024); Engaging with the World: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Since the Dawn of the 20th Century (Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, 2023); and M+ Sigg Collection: Another Story (M+, Hong Kong, 2023).

  • ABOUT ARTIST

    Lou Nengbin (b. 1989, Jinan; lives and works in Beijing) holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Printmaking from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. His practice focuses on the ontology of sound and rhythm through works spanning printmaking, sculpture, and installation. Selected recent exhibitions include: “Children of the Ancient Boat Gen2” “Taikang Museum, Beijing, 2025); “Tom and Jerry” (C5CNM, Beijing, 2025); “Satz.Ein.Satz” (UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2024); “The Big Water” (Zhoushan Art Museum, Zhoushan, 2024); “A Touch of Clips T3” (Star Art Museum, Shanghai, 2024); “Children of the Ancient Boat” (Sound Art Museum, Beijing, 2024); “Heavy Rain” (MRoom, Beijing, 2024); “Other Like Me” (Wynn International, Beijing, 2023); “Circle of Fifths System” (Bauhaus Square, 798, Beijing, 2023); “Be Water, My Friend” (Zhouzhuang Ancient Town, 2023); “MOYAMOYA” (Yue Art Museum, Beijing); “Unanswered Question” (Cai Jin Space, Beijing, 2022); “Rebuild in Polyphony” (Caijin Space, 2022); “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” (STUDIO GALLERY, Shanghai, 2022); “A SWEET FUGUE” (CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2021); “Fasting Menu” (CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2017).

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