Li Binyuan was born in Yongzhou, Hunan Province，China in 1985，and graduated from the Department of Sculpture，Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. Now lives and works in Berlin and Yongzhou. His work has exhibited throughout the US，Europe，and Asia，and is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art and other art institutions. Li explores physicality，substance，surrounding environment，conceptual cognition，and social values through physical actions，video works，and performances which are the port of entry to the social fabric of everyday society. His experiments occupy urban and rural spaces，from public scenery of the streets to natural sites，or remote post-industrial locations. Using his body as a sculptural material to enact creative investigation. He uses ruptures and repetition to manifest how sculpture and performance are intertwined. His artistic practice is motivated by the needs to know one's spatial and material environment through bodily interaction in order to question and transcend the norms and ideologies our environments impose. His recent major solo exhibitions include Becoming Li Binyuan（Song Art Museum，Beijing，China，2025），Flowing Fire（Contemporary Gallery Kunming，Kunming，China，2024），Cinema Paradiso (Pingshan Art Museum，Shenzhen，China，2020)，The Last Letter (Observation Society, Guangzhou，China，2020)，Li Binyuan (HOW Art Museum，Shanghai，China，2019)，Absorb (MU Artspace，Eindhoven，Netherlands，2019)，Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan (MoMA PS1，New York，USA，2018)，Social Behaviours (CFCCA，Manchester，UK，2015). Meanwhile，Li is the winner of The Merit Award by Inward Gazes - Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art (2015)，The Golden Key Award nomination at the 37th Kassel Documentary Festival (2020)，The Chinese Youth Artist Award of the 14th AAC Art (2020)，The Grand Prize Winner of the 17th Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2021).


厉槟源，1985年生于中国湖南永州,2011年毕业于中央美术学院雕塑系，现生活工作在柏林和永州。他的作品曾在美国、欧洲和亚洲各地展出,并被纽约现代艺术博物馆等艺术机构永久收藏。厉槟源通过行动、录像和行为艺术表演深入日常社会的不同领域,探索身体、物质、周遭环境、观念认知和社会价值。其艺术实践占据了城市和农村空间,包括公共空间,自然环境或偏远的后工业区; 他利用身体做为雕塑材料进行创造性的研究,以及利用断裂和重复来展现雕塑和表演如何交织在一起;他的艺术实践的动机是通过身体互动来了解自己所处的空间和物质环境，以便质疑和超越我们对环境所强加的规范和意识形态。他的近期个展包括：“成为厉槟源”（松美术馆，中国，北京，2025）、“夜火蓝山”（昆明当代美术馆，中国，昆明，2024）、“天堂电影院”(坪山美术馆，中国，深圳，2020)、“最后一封信”(观察社，中国，广州，2020)、“厉槟源” (昊美术馆，中国，上海，2019)、“汲取”(MU艺术中心，荷兰，埃因霍温，2019)、“土地：张洹和厉槟源” (MoMA PS1，美国，纽约，2018)、“众重行事”(华人当代艺术中心，英国, 曼彻斯特，2015)。同时，他获得“以身观身”中国行为艺术文献展优异奖(2015)、第37届卡塞尔纪录片电影展金钥匙奖提名(2020)、第十四届AAC艺术中国年度青年艺术家大奖(2020)、今日美术馆“重塑-王式廓艺术奖”年度艺术家奖(2021)、第十七届Sovereign杰出亚洲艺术大奖(2021)等奖项。