My story & career
Creating is only my hobby. I only share it with close friends. I thought I would be a "worker" in any big "factory" in China when I was a kid. So I tried to become an architect as a decent worker.
During the Pandemic, I was forced to study at University again. I submitted my funny creations for homework. Then, I was been see.
Biography
Siyu Liu was born in the southwestern part of China, Guizhou province, a typical aboriginal and hilly area located to the east of the Himalayas. Compared with the traditional Chinese Confucian education, her hometown gave her a vivid, natural, and wild background. After studying and working in architecture in Barcelona for 6 years, she became a half-Mediterranean. She creates to preserve and integrate the unique memory and identity of the two regions in this age of material excess. She focuses on intercultural research by discovering and explaining slight differences in different cultures under the same physical element with craft works. Merging the huge cultural differences to weaken the increasingly fierce misunderstanding is the final target. Creating for fun is her attitude all the time. The preference for materials and technique is inseparable from her architecture background. Her special research lets her exhibit in Spain, Italy, Germany, China, Korea in her early career as an artist, such as the RA Summer Exhibition, Milan Design Week 2023&2024 and Talente - Meister der Zukunft 2024.
Solo Exhibition
2024 Traveling Vases, Da Gallery, Shanghai, China
Group Exhibition
2024 RA Summer Exhibition 2024, London, United Kingdom.
Is One Life Enough? | MDW24, Milan Design Week, Milan, Italy
Talente - Master of Future 2024, IHM, Munich, Germany
2023 1000 Vases, Fondaziones Sozzani, Milan, Italy (During Milan design week)
Circular Cities Challenge, CosmoCaixa Science Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Visual Culture 2023, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Korea
Chinese Material, Come Art Space, Carrara, Italy
Promised land, A+BOX, Chengdu, China
2022 ANIMA MUNDI | Venice 2022, ITSLIQUID Artspace, Venice, Italy;
The Body Language 2022, ITSLIQUID Artspace, Venice, Italy;
2021 Contemporary Venice 2021 9th Edition, Archivi della Misericordia, Venice, Italy
The Ashes of the Sages, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Collected by Anna Ramos Sanz and some private collectors.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 AL-Tiba9 Art Magazine Original Issue 15, Barcelona, Spain
altiba9.com/artist-interviews/siyu-liu-sculpture-craftwork-waving-traditional-techniques
Talente 2024 Master of Future, Catalogue of 2024 exhibitors, Munich, Germany
2023 Breath, Visual Culture 2023, CICA Press, Gimpo-si, Korea
Awards&Grants
Collection
2024 Finalist, Talente - Meister der Zukunft 2024, International Craft and Design Competition, Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern, Germany
Young Ambassadors 2024 of HOMO FABER
Publications
Symposium
2023 Presented "Mixing identities -- from Mediterranean helix to Chinese porcelain",
International Symposium for Visual Culture 2023, CICA Press, Gimpo-si, Korea
Education
2020-2022 studied Contemporary Design in Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (MA)
2017-2019 studied Contemporary Project in Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (MA)
2012-2016 studied Architecture in Qingdao Technology University, Qingdao, China (BA)
Working Experience
2019-2021 worked in EMBA | ESTUDI MASSIP-BOSCH ARCHITECTS
2018 Internship in MIAS Architects
Residency
2024. Neo Materia, Centre d'Artesania de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Neo Materia, Centre d'Artesania de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Summer Session, Donostia/ San Sebastián, Spain