Lin Zhipeng aka. No. 223

Chinese

Place of Birth: Born in Guangdong China in 1979

Place of Residence: Beijing, China

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“I have always been fascinated by the creative madness and incredible energy that emanates from youth,” he says.

Amour Defendu – Paris 2023

No. 223’s photographs depict a Chinese youth who live without taboos or limits, and who indulge in the games of love, alternating exaltation, deep melancholy and playful sexuality.

His images are bathed in a gentle carelessness. His stagings, inspired by his own life experience, are poetic, playful, joyful and spontaneous. He photographs his friends, his lovers, their parties, their eccentric outfits, their sexual behavior, without any taboo around nudity, gender, homosexuality, fetishism and desire, in an explosion of color and patterns. His love life is closely intertwined with the production of his photographs. His images are carnal, they often evoke taste and touch, the mixture of senses is everywhere, his feelings have colors, his memories have perfumes. He uses simple accessories, flowers that he considers both strong and romantic, a powerful combination he says. He plays with the decors, the wallpapers, the fabrics, the food that he likes to graft onto the bodies of his models. “Eroticism and voyeurism are two things as common as walking, eating or taking a shower. In my home, love and sex are absolutely not taboo. I don’t know if I will chase naked bodies with my camera all my life, but the fact remains that today I am still quite young and curious about this world and everything that revolves around me.” His vision of the younger generation is very far from the conservatism and the burdens of today’s Chinese society. Bypassing the pitfalls of censorship in his country, his quest for freedom, freedom of bodies, freedom of his life choices, is fundamental in his artistic expression.

By MEP · Pascal Hoël
Responsable des collections
Head of collections

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Mysterious Skin, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
2023 Boys Boys Boys, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin (Germany)
2023 We have no purity in the dark, Kitsuné Gallery, New York (USA)
2022 Colors of Love, Represented by in)(between, RASTOLL Gallery, Paris / Sinibaldi Galerie, Arles (France)
2022 Colors of Love, Represented by in)(between, Galeria Cadaques, Cadaques (Spain)
2008 Polaroids, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
2020 Satellite of Love 愛，放衛星, Canton-Sadine, Vancouver (Canada)
2020 A Savage Affection 以蛮为情, Solonia Art Center, Suzhou (China)
2019 Amphibian Relationships 两栖关系 – No.223@The Delaware Contemporary, Delaware (USA)
2019 No.223@Akio Nagasawa Gallery Aoyama, Tokyo (Japan)
2019 No.223@The Walther Collection feats Then And Now, The Walther Collection, Neu Ulm (Germany)
2019 No.223@in)(between, in)(between Gallery, Paris (France)
2018 No.223@Grand Amour, Grand Amour Hotel, Paris (France)
2018 223@Stieglitz19, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
2017 No.223@M97, M97 Gallery, Shanghai (China)
2016 No.223, de Sarthe Beijing Gallery, Beijing (China)
2016 Hidden Track, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
2014 223, Loppis Galleria, Parma (Italy)
2014 青红皂白 Velvet Pogo, Kui Yuan Gallery, Guangzhou (China)
2013 蜜桃 The Peaches, ATTIC, Taipei
2008 我派对 Me Party, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing (China)
2008 时光成分 Composition In Time, GZOP Lab, Guangzhou (China)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 selbst，boa-basedonart Gallery, Düsseldorf (Germany) introduced by in)(between gallery Paris
2014 “What We Are”, de Sarthe Gallery, Hongkong (China)
2023 (In)directions: Queerness in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Eli Klein Gallery, NewYork (USA)
2023 “Each,Other”, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane (Australia)
2023 Love Songs, ICP, NewYork (USA)
2023 中間地帯 interface, ARTiX3, Tokyo (Japan)
2022 I Have Not Loved (enough or worked), Art Gallery of Western Australia (Australia)
2022 WHO AM I? I AM. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, (Germany)
2022 Love Songs, MEP Paris, Paris (France)
2022 223 & Ren Hang, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
2021 Signs of The Times, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia (Italy)
2020 可能的往事 Possible Past, Star Gallery, Beijing (China)
2020 丰收 / 尖果儿 Harvest / Hanging Fruit, M97 Gallery, Shanghai (China)
2020 自如的绑票与疗愈的暗示, M Studio, Beijing (China)
2020 Chamber of: , Lou Carter Gallery, Paris (France)
2020 China Fever, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin (Germany)
2020 The Farm, K11 Art Foundation, Shenyang (China)
2019 I AM (AT WAR) IN LOVE WITH THE OBVIOUS, The Address Gallery, Brescia (Italy)
2019 Chinese Spring Part 4, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
2019 對流 Convection, Art Tai Space, Hohhot (China)
2018 EL CUERPO REINTERPRETADO, NUE Gallerie, Valencia (Spain)
2018 十方 Ten Directions: 三影堂摄影奖十周年特展 The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of The Three Shadows Photography Award,Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing (China)
2018 Chinese Spring #3, Stieglitz19 Gallery，Antwerp (Belgium)
2018 知尚 A nous la mode! , Temple Beijing / Bailian Centre Shanghai / Three Shadows Xiamen / Chengdu Museum (China)
2017 世界切片 The World Section, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an (China)
2017 PHOTOSYNTHESIS, M97 Gallery, Shanghai (China)
2017 诗 Poem, Zhong Gallery, Beijing (China)
2016 遇见森山大道 Meet Daido Moriyama, Aoman Space, Beijing (China)
2016 坦白·猝不及防的九场自拍实验 Illuminate Your Beauty, UCCA, Beijing (China)
2016 BredaPhoto International Photofestival, Breda (Netherlands)
2015 Teetering at The Edge of The World-Reading the Chinese Contemporary, Espacio de Arte Contemporeáno (EAC), Montevideo (Uruguay)
2015 This is not China anymore, GuatePhoto International Photography Festival, Antigua (Guatemala)
2015 图像新潮 Coming Image, curated by LEAP, Photo shanghai (China)
2015 首届长江国际影像双年展 Changjiang International Image Biennale, Chongqing (China)
2014 Collab#1 curated by Now&Them, The Gallery，Shanghai (China)
2014 No.223, 10th Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Lianzhou (China)
2014 XXX, BANK Gallery, Shanghai (China)
2014 Chinese spring #2, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
2013 Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
2013 不合作方式2 FUCK OFF 2, Groninger Museum (Netherlands)
2013 Exposure, London Gallery West (UK)
2013 平等的关系 Equal Relationships, Blindspot Gallery, Hongkong.
2012 宓爱 Secret Love，OSTASIATISKA MUSEET Skeppsholmen (Sweden)
2012 每一天 Every day, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai (China)
2012 Unspecified Urban Site, RH Gallery, NewYork (USA)
2012 ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE, White Gloss Gallery. Los Angels (USA)
2012 I have also other favorites, Stacion Gallery, Prishtina (Turkish)
2011 蚯蚓-连州国际摄影节 Earthworm, Lianzhou Foto 2011 (China)
2011 白痴 dAfT，Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai (China)
2011 Chinese Spring #1, Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)
2011 Boys’ Little World，ZEN FOTO Gallery,Tokyo (Japan)
2011 一重影事 Recurrent Shadows, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (China)
2011 万相 MYRIAD VISIONS, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing (China)
2011 Art Amsterdam 2011 (Netherlands)
2011 GTZ Photography Workshop 2011, Berlin, (Germany)
2010 5PRCITY, United Nude Miami, Miami (USA)
2010 Get It Louder Exhibition, touring exhibition, venues in Shanghai & Beijing (China)
2010 首届集美国际当代艺术节 The First International Contemporary Art Festival of China Jimei, Xiamen (China)
2010 草场地摄影季 Caochangdi Photo Spring 2010: ARLES IN BEIJING, Beijing (China)
2010 Box II: The Cruelty of Youth, White Space Collection, New York City (USA)
2009 LINEART Fair at Flanders Expo Gent (Belgium)
2009 China Now –The Edge of Desire, Max Lang Gallery, New York (USA)
2009 我,我见 I, I SEE－ Southern Pocket Film festival, Guangzhou (China)
2008 连州国际摄影节 Youth Appearance, 4th Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Lianzhou (China)
2008 变形记 Metamorphosis, Art Scene China, Shanghai (China)
2008 潜活:公寓日志 Hidden Life: Apartment Diary, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing (China)
2008 FotoGrafia International Festival, Rome (Italy)
2008 New Photography In China, City Festival (Hong Kong)
2007 抽样 Sampling: Chinese Young Photographers, Potential Gallery, Beijing (China)
2007 刷新 Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists, touring exhibition, ZendaiMoMA, Shanghai, China; ARARIO Gallery, Beijing (China)
2007 Get It Louder Exhibition, touring exhibition, venues in Guangzhou, Shanghai & Beijing (China)
2006 自私-连州国际摄影节 Selfhood – Absent Minded , First Lianzhou International Photography (China)
2005 平遥国际摄影节 Five New Generation Photographers, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao (China)

Publications

Myriad of Things And Bodies, by Yining He, Foam Magazine #63 Food! Issue, 2023
LOVE SONGS, Published by MEP Paris, 2022
Rooms Within China, Published by Tofu Collective, 2021
123 Polaroids – No.223, Published by in)(between gallery Paris + Super Labo, Japan, 2021
Grand Amour – No.223, Published by Witty Books, Italy, 2020
Xuan Juliana Wang: “223, Acts of Memory”, Aperture, Issue 239, 2020
Flowers and Fruits – No.223, Published by T&M Projects, Japan, 2019
Sour Strawberries – No.223, Published by Editions Bessard Press, France, 2018
In Our Secret Life – No.223, Published by Hunan Literature & Art Press, 2016
Hidden Track – No.223, Published by Editions Bessard Press, France, 2016
屏幕生存 Living in Screens, by 海杰Haijie, China, 2016
ExtraExtra#7, Netherlands, 2016
Snoecks 2016, Snoecks nv, Belgium, 2016
Genda#1, a+mbookstore edizioni, Italy, 2016
GUP#43, Netherlands, 2014
Versatile#2, Self-published, Beijing, April 2014
(Documentary) China Through The Lens of Youth, NHK Japan, 2014
(Documentary) Emma Tassy, LA CHINE DANS L’OBJECTIF, ARTE France, 2013
Ubies, Asian Creatives, PIE International Inc. Tokyo, 2013
想象 Imagination, by 孙慧婷 Sun Huiting, China, 2013
Satellite of Love – No.223, Published by Guangming Daily Press, Beijing, 2012
Lili Chien, Artist’s Show Case: No.223, Voices Of Photography, Taiwan, Jul/Aug 2012
Travis, The Simple Connection between Photography and Sexual, PPAPER, Taiwan, June 2012
No.223, Published by Revolution-star, Taiwan, May 2012
223, From China With Love, Bare Bones, London, Issue 9, 2012
Versatile#1, Self-published, Beijing, April 2012
Tristan Chen, “22.3 questions about No.223”, Fashion China, China, Nov.2011
Mino, ‘Intimate Bodies Through Lens, Surface, China, June 2011
My Private Broadway – 223’s Photobook 3, Self-Published, Beijing, 2011
Pinko, ‘Adolescence is the most creative periods’, The Outlook Magazine, China, July 2010
Nicki Xiao, ‘The Third Eye on Fashion’, Design 360°, Hong Kong, N.20, March 2009
Sarah Fakray, ‘New faces of Beijing’, Dazed&Confused, London, December, 2008
Xu Jinglei, ‘Lin Zhipeng Q&A’, Wallpaper.com, September 25, 2008
Cynthia, ‘Creative Forces in Beijing’, Milk, Hongkong, August, 2008
Joe Magliaro, ‘223’, Theme Magazine, New York, issue 11, fall, 2007
Jifan Wong & Cong, I like the city with a bit distance, Rice magazine, Guangzhou, July 2006
John Millichap (ed), 3030: New Photography in China, 3030 Press, Hong Kong, 2006
My Private Broadway – 223’s photobook 2, self-published, Guangzhou, 2006
My Private Broadway – 223’s photobook 1, self-published, Guangzhou, 2005
Flowers and Fruits – No.223, Published by T&M Projects, Japan, 2019
Sour Strawberries – 2018, Editions Bessard France
In Our Secret Life – 2016, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, China
Hidden Track – 2015, Editions Bessard France
Versatile#2 – 2014, Self-published by No.223
Satellite of Love – 2012, Travel Photography Collection – Guangming Daily Press, China
No.223 – 2012, Revolution-Star, Taiwan
Versatile#1 – 2012, Self-published by No.223, China
Wild Oats – 2012, 88books, Canada
My Private Broadway III – 2011, Self-published by No.223, China
My Private Broadway II – 2006, Self-published by No.223
United Nude – 2006, United Nude
Too Magazine – 2007, Too Magazine Vol. 01 / Remix Issue / Summer 2007, China