Anqi Li, photographer,1993 (born in China), lives and works in Europe and Shanghai. She retains exceptional balance and hybrid between staged photography and fine art photography. Li deploys the visual language of cinematic narrative in her art creation by applying minimal set-up, but delivers sophisticated scenarios and tension. She is inspired by movies, literature, and painting, and translates them into vibrant characters, body language, and vivid colours. By using the medium of photography, Li explores the boundaries between the real and the fictional, the reality and the fantasy. She invariably experiments on the possibilities of the representation delivered through image language. Anqi Li graduated from Auckland University of Technology with a MA in Art and Design. And now doing her master at HFBK Hamburg in Freie Kunst.
Education
HFBK Hamburg, MFA, 2025
Beaux-arts de Paris, MFA, 2024
Auckland University of Technology, Postgraduate diploma of Art and Design, 2016
Chang’an University, BA, 2015
Awards
Kunstpreis der Atelierkate, 2023
TEDX, Top20 Asia Awards 2020
C/O Berlin Nominated, 2022
Athens Photo Fair Shortlisted, 2024
Solo Exhibition
“Randomevent” FujifilmXspace, Shanghai, China, 2024
“Seventh continent”, IOMA Art Space, Beijing, China, 2021
“Other” Radius Gallery, Xi’an, China, 2020
“Double” Camus Gallery, Shanghai, China , 2020
Selected Group Exhibition
2024, Imagenation, Galeria Joseph Le Palais, Paris, French
2024, New Positions, Der GreifxGriesbach，Berlin，Germany
2024, Women’s photograph, Glasgow,UK
2023, No need to present, Tong Gallery+Projects，Beijing，China
2021, Image and Relationship, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China 2021，I’m Fine, Tauku Gallery, Nanjing, China
2021，Offshore，M Art Space，Shanghai，China 2021，Coming Together to stay apart，Bermen，German
2017, The Initiates Graduates Exhibition, Auckland ,New Zealand
Education
HFBK Hamburg, MFA, 2025
Beaux-arts de Paris, MFA, 2024
Auckland University of Technology, Postgraduate diploma of Art and Design, 2016
Chang’an University, BA, 2015
Awards
Kunstpreis der Atelierkate, 2023
TEDX, Top20 Asia Awards 2020
C/O Berlin Nominated, 2022
Athens Photo Fair Shortlisted, 2024
Solo Exhibition
“Randomevent” FujifilmXspace, Shanghai, China, 2024
“Seventh continent”, IOMA Art Space, Beijing, China, 2021
“Other” Radius Gallery, Xi’an, China, 2020
“Double” Camus Gallery, Shanghai, China , 2020
Selected Group Exhibition
2024, Imagenation, Galeria Joseph Le Palais, Paris, French
2024, New Positions, Der GreifxGriesbach，Berlin，Germany
2024, Women’s photograph, Glasgow,UK
2023, No need to present, Tong Gallery+Projects，Beijing，China
2021, Image and Relationship, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China 2021，I’m Fine, Tauku Gallery, Nanjing, China
2021，Offshore，M Art Space，Shanghai，China 2021，Coming Together to stay apart，Bermen，German
2017, The Initiates Graduates Exhibition, Auckland ,New Zealand