HERstory

In cooperation with TENGYANG Communication Group

Date：2022.04.24-06.26

Artists: Charlotte Eschenlohr    Lizzie SU    Violet LUO

Curators: InterCulture Curatorial Team

Host: InterCulture    TENGYANG Communication Group

Cooperation Agencies: Consulate General of the Netherlands in Guangzhou    Being 3 Gallery 

Sponsor：EKO

Artists：

Charlotte Eschenlohr

Born in Munich, studied business management and received her doctorate in commerce. She worked in investment management consulting and accountancy. Charlotte Eschenlohr lives and works in Munich, Beijing and New York. She changed to be a professional artist in 2002, and studied among others with the German artist Markus Lüpertz and the New York artist Donald Baechler. 

Charlotte is running her German studio in Munich. She also maintained a studio in NewYork from 2004 until 2012. Since 2014 she has been working in her own studio in Beijing.

Lizzie SU

Lizzie SU is a world-famous floral designer, tutor and installation designer. She obtains 32 years professional experience in floral design and has won international floral design prizes for many times. Being inspired by the relationship between nature and the universe, she creates enormous artwork to reveal the combination between flowers and mother nature with philosophy theory rooted inside. SU was invited to be in charge of floral designs on site for the Boao Forum For Asia, Welcoming banquet for the king of Sweden, Opening & Closing Ceremony for the 16th Asain games and many other large international events. She has been worshiped as a tutor by the wives of ambassadors, big entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs from many countries. Su has represented the Chinese flower art industry many times in Japan, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, Hong Kong, Europe and other places to participate in flower art competitions and serve as judges.

Violet LUO

Violet LUO is an artist and curator. She emphasizes on multimedia,  exploring how to intertwined with socio-political and technological contexts, to stimulate creative thinking and generate cultural models. In her recent works, she focuses on developing in dividual expressions, especially on the conflicts between intelligent technology and human emotions, consciousness. With the help of art, Violet uses technology as the starting point and foundation to make collages of truths and constantly raising questions.

Violet has graduated from Central Saint Martins College in London and Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. She once worked in Droog Design, and make exhibitions with the curator Renny Ramakers. Yaolan was awarded by Stimuleringsfonds in 2016, got her graduation work series exhibited in Van Abbemuseum. She's got residency supports from Swatch Art Peace Hotel and Powerlong Group in Shanghai. In 2021, Duende Art Museum put out her solo show in their main space. Her works range from paintings, books, texts, installations, films and large-scale exhibition curation, which has been collected by important art foundation and museums.

Preface:

"HERstory" instead of history (which sounds like "his story") – this pun is not new, but we chose it as the title of our exhibition, because it emphasizes so well the need of narrating and writing history also from a woman's perspective. 

Gender bias remains a major issue in many fields of life, unfortunately also in the modern art scene. How to make the art world more inclusive, diversified and equal? On the occasion of International Women's Day, InterCulture invited three outstanding female artists: Charlotte Eschenlohr from Munich, Lizzle SU from Guangzhou, Violet LUO who worked and studied in the Netherlands, to showcase a variety of different works, to question longstanding norms and to conduct an intercultural dialogue, with the hope to offer alternatives for women in art and the biotope within which they work and live.

All three artists have their own distinctive artistic styles to express their unique creative visions with skill and originality. The colors, the composition, the style and the stories are full of empowerment and wisdom, but also of female sensibility and intuition, demonstrating that the artists take pride in their gender. 

Charlotte Eschenlohr from Munich gave up her business management career for her love of art, to become a freelance artist under the tutelage of German neo-expressionist Markus Lüpertz. Her work has an unique hybrid style between figurative and abstract painting. Each image is full of tension and temptation, and speaks vibrantly of her confession and devotion to art and life.

Lizzie Su from Guangzhou is an internationally renowned master florist, instructor and floral installation artist. Inspired by the relationship between nature and universe, as well as philosophical theories from the East and the West, Lizzie Su creates countless elegant and harmonious works of art with flowers and plants. 

Violet LUO who worked and studied in the Netherlands is an artist and curator. She works with multimedia to explore how to intertwine socio-political and technological contexts, to stimulate creative thinking and generate cultural models. In her recent works, she focuses on the conflicts between intelligent technology and human emotions and consciousness. It's worth mentioning that most of her works in this exhibition were created by her in a human-computer interactive way.

In times of pandemic and war, we don't need less of intercultural exchange and dialogue but more of it. Art, as a non-verbal communication, has the unique potential to serve as a stimulus of intercultural understanding. The artists participating in HERstory tell us a great deal about her selves, her cultures, and the time they live in.

In a time of pandemic and war, our stressed minds need something beautiful, inspiring, and deeply thoughtful, something that can touch our hearts and soothe our souls. We need art to draw us into a deeper state of peaceful contemplation, to carry us from present anxiety and worries to a calming and ultimately healing frame of mind. That's what we hope you will find in the artworks of HERstory.