Liwei Xu
Affiliated researcher
History of Chinese Art in the 20th Century, Nature and Landscape in Modern Art and contemporary, Amateur artists, Exhibition and museology of 20th and 21st century art, International circulation of knowledge
Liwei Xu graduated from Paris I University Panthéon-Sorbonne with a MA in Art history (2015) and also a MA in Mediation of Contemporary art from Paris VIII University Vincennes-Saint-Denis (2016). She specialised in the representation of landscapes in Chinese contemporary art from 1989 to 2015, and the multidisciplinary exhibitions of the Pompidou Centre.
Her PhD: Collectif Wuming’s Chinese landscape paintings and their quest for nature and spontaneity (1964--1989). She studies the relationship between nature as history and the Chinese modern landscape painting since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Focus Area and Themes
Humanities | Lives, materialities, representations
Supervision of PhD Thesis
Laurence Bertrand Dorléac
