LI Jiaqing

Li Jiaqing was born in 1995 in China and currently lives and works in Frankfurt and Shenzhen. His practice focus on the relationships between formal structures, linguistic systems, and the generation of logic. Through digital modeling and material translation, he constructs visual modules, conceiving of each work as a node within a broader language system rather than as an isolated image or event. Rooted in the traditions of structuralism and semiotics, his methodology emphasizes the logical evolution of form and its historical responsibility. Within a contemporary context shaped by suspended judgment and mechanism-driven systems, he seeks to reconstruct the systematic and critical dimensions of artistic language. In contrast to practices driven primarily by emotional expression or social narrative, Li underscores the linguistic coherence and logical autonomy of the work, proposing that structures can be inherited, misreadings absorbed, and judgment generated. He regards art as a practical response to cognitive structures, rather than a superficial participation in the mechanisms of visuality.

  • Selected Solo Exhibitions

    2026
    Driving in the Void, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2025
    Begründeter Dialog, DODGERS GALLERY, Guangzhou, China

    2022
    Motherboard & Process, Apotheke, Mainz, Germany

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2025
    Placeholder, Triumph Gallery, Beijing, China
    Common Ground, K-Lab, Mainz, Germany
    I Did It My Way, ISM Art Space, Shenzhen, China
    German Symphony, KCCA, Shenzhen, China

    2024
    45 Jahre Galerie Van der Koelen, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
    Keep Running, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst Freiburg (Foundation for Concrete Art), Freiburg, Germany

    2023
    Experimente V – Spuren, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    2022
    Temporary Solids, KWR40, Mainz, Germany
    The Grass Is Always Greener, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Berlin, Germany

    2019
    Schwarzer Nebel – Weißer Rauch, Kokerei Hansa, Dortmund, Germany

    2018
    Karussell (Class of Prof. Jochen Stenschke), Level One, Hamburg, Germany