Life Rehearsals
June 14–October 19, 2025
Inside-Out Art Museum 1-2F
Ticket Price: ¥20
Ticket + Guidebook: ¥30
Group visitors (Above 10 visitors) with reservation to visit at the appointed time.
As a contemporary art institution, Inside-Out Art Museum sees itself as an active participant in the social sphere. From this standpoint, our exhibitions consistently offer critical reflections on and responses to many of the urgent issues that shape contemporary life. During the dispiriting stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, we curated The Principle of Hope; in a time when meaning seemed to be crumbing, we reasserted the importance of Meaning; facing the threat of truth being obscured by the entanglement of technology and power, we curated When the Monster is Speaking; in response to the ossified state of artistic creation trapped in the shackles of power and capital, we initiated a call for Improvisation, and through It Always Sounds Somewhere, we brought the ubiquitous, flexible, and diverse practices of sonic creation into the museum, turning it into a front stage for action. At the heart of the Inside-Out Art Museum’s practice is a commitment to the human experience. Since its founding, and by chance, the museum has repeatedly held exhibitions and public programmes around April 2—World Autism Awareness Day. These initiatives aim to foster greater public understanding of autism and echo the original spirit of goodwill held by the museum’s founders: to make a modest contribution to the public good in both society and culture. Over time, this has become a tradition for the museum.
As a contemporary art institution, Inside-Out Art Museum sees itself as an active participant in the social sphere. From this standpoint, our exhibitions consistently offer critical reflections on and responses to many of the urgent issues that shape contemporary life. During the dispiriting stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, we curated The Principle of Hope; in a time when meaning seemed to be crumbing, we reasserted the importance of Meaning; facing the threat of truth being obscured by the entanglement of technology and power, we curated When the Monster is Speaking; in response to the ossified state of artistic creation trapped in the shackles of power and capital, we initiated a call for Improvisation, and through It Always Sounds Somewhere, we brought the ubiquitous, flexible, and diverse practices of sonic creation into the museum, turning it into a front stage for action. At the heart of the Inside-Out Art Museum’s practice is a commitment to the human experience. Since its founding, and by chance, the museum has repeatedly held exhibitions and public programmes around April 2—World Autism Awareness Day. These initiatives aim to foster greater public understanding of autism and echo the original spirit of goodwill held by the museum’s founders: to make a modest contribution to the public good in both society and culture. Over time, this has become a tradition for the museum.
As a contemporary art institution, Inside-Out Art Museum sees itself as an active participant in the social sphere. From this standpoint, our exhibitions consistently offer critical reflections on and responses to many of the urgent issues that shape contemporary life. During the dispiriting stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, we curated The Principle of Hope; in a time when meaning seemed to be crumbing, we reasserted the importance of Meaning; facing the threat of truth being obscured by the entanglement of technology and power, we curated When the Monster is Speaking; in response to the ossified state of artistic creation trapped in the shackles of power and capital, we initiated a call for Improvisation, and through It Always Sounds Somewhere, we brought the ubiquitous, flexible, and diverse practices of sonic creation into the museum, turning it into a front stage for action. At the heart of the Inside-Out Art Museum’s practice is a commitment to the human experience. Since its founding, and by chance, the museum has repeatedly held exhibitions and public programmes around April 2—World Autism Awareness Day. These initiatives aim to foster greater public understanding of autism and echo the original spirit of goodwill held by the museum’s founders: to make a modest contribution to the public good in both society and culture. Over time, this has become a tradition for the museum.
As a contemporary art institution, Inside-Out Art Museum sees itself as an active participant in the social sphere. From this standpoint, our exhibitions consistently offer critical reflections on and responses to many of the urgent issues that shape contemporary life. During the dispiriting stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, we curated The Principle of Hope; in a time when meaning seemed to be crumbing, we reasserted the importance of Meaning; facing the threat of truth being obscured by the entanglement of technology and power, we curated When the Monster is Speaking; in response to the ossified state of artistic creation trapped in the shackles of power and capital, we initiated a call for Improvisation, and through It Always Sounds Somewhere, we brought the ubiquitous, flexible, and diverse practices of sonic creation into the museum, turning it into a front stage for action. At the heart of the Inside-Out Art Museum’s practice is a commitment to the human experience. Since its founding, and by chance, the museum has repeatedly held exhibitions and public programmes around April 2—World Autism Awareness Day. These initiatives aim to foster greater public understanding of autism and echo the original spirit of goodwill held by the museum’s founders: to make a modest contribution to the public good in both society and culture. Over time, this has become a tradition for the museum.
Camera Lucida
Project YYIN, 2024, theatre, single-channel video (color, sound), 72′34″, co-Production with National accessArts Centre
Invisible Touch
Daisuke Kosugi, 2024, single-channel video (color, sound), 22′
Everything is Going Well!
Bethel House, single-channel video (color, sound), 2010, 2024, 4′29″, 7′28″
Work Unit: Motion to Maintain
He Ziyu, 2025, metal plates, bolts, MDF, plastic tracks, metal mesh, mixed industrial products, bells, etc., 350 × 50 × 25 cm
Work Unit: Motion to Maintain
He Ziyu, 2025, metal plates, bolts, MDF, plastic tracks, metal mesh, mixed industrial products, bells, etc., 350 × 50 × 25 cm
I Exist Because You Exist
Desmond Mah, 2022, synthetic polymer, wire, motorised, pir sensor, arduino, 37 × 19 × 25 cm
Artistic Directors
Li Mu
Li Mu is a Professor in the Department of Painting at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, and a doctoral supervisor. He teaches in Tsinghua’s General Education Honors Courses, Benchmark Courses, and National First-Class Undergraduate Courses. He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence, including the 13th Beijing Higher Education Teaching Excellence Award (2017), the Baosteel Outstanding Teacher Award (2017), the Tsinghua University Centennial Teaching Achievement Award (2021), the Beijing Excellent Teacher Award (2022), and the Tsinghua Wang Bugao General Education Award (2022). Professor Li has long been dedicated to both general art education and professional painting instruction, and he teaches courses such as Research on Modern Painting Theory and Practice, The Inspiration of Art, and Art, Philosophy, and Science. His academic publications include What Is Known and What Is Imagined, What We See Doesn’t Matter, The Painting We Don’t Know, Twenty-Two Reveries on Art, Sixteen Lectures on General Education in Art, and The Aesthetic Education Teacher’s Manual.
Carol Yinghua LU
Carol Yinghua LU is an art historian and a curator. She holds a Doctorate in art history from University of Melbourne. She is the director of Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum. She was the artistic director and senior curator of OCAT, Shenzhen (2012-2015), guest curator at Museion, Bolzano (2013) and the China researcher for Asia Art Archive (2005-2007). She was a recipient of the ARIAH (Association of Research Institute in Art History) East Asia Fellowship (2017) and visiting fellow in the Asia-Pacific Fellowship Program at the Tate Research Centre (2013). She was the co-artistic director of Gwangju Biennale (2012) and was the co-artistic director of the 8th Yokohama Triennale with Liu Ding (2024). She has acted as a jury member for Hyundai Blue Prize Art + Tech (2022, 2021), Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (2022-2019), and the Golden Lion Award at Venice Biennale (2011).
Curator
Na Rongkun
Na Rongkun, art worker, graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University. She currently serves as assistant curator at the Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum. Her research and practice focus on the overlooked and suspended fragments in people’s daily interactions. She has curated exhibitions including When the Monster is Speaking (2024), Waste Time to Do Things (2024), How Can I Rid My Mind of Her – “Mother” in Zhao Wenliang’s Paintings (2023), and personal project In the Blur of Longing (2025). She has also edited and proofread several exhibition catalogs. Her writings and reviews have been published in publications and platforms such as ART MONTHLY,ArtReview, ARTnews, The Paper, and Xinrui Weekly.
Exhibition Photos
Exhibition Brochure
An digital version of the exhibition brochure is available for viewing. Click here to download
The digital version of the Social Narrative foldout is also available for viewing. Click here to download
Exhibition Date
June 14–October 19, 2025
Exhibition Time
Wed.-Fri. 11:00-18:00
Sat.-Sun. 10:00-18:00
Last Entry
17:30
Exhibition Location
Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, No.50 Xingshikou Road, Haidian District, Beijing
Ticket Price
Regular Ticket: 20 RMB per person
Concession: 10 RMB per person
Concessions applied to the following audience members:
Students and teachers, with student ID and teacher ID.
Language
Chinese, English
Barrier-free Access
We provide barrier-free access. Please make an appointment by telephone in advance. Tel: (010) 62730230
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