LUO MINGJUN

LUO MINGJUN | PARIS CULTURAL SPACE

ON THE WAY

EXHIBITION | 12 OCTOBER - 15 MARCH 2027

ICICLE Cultural Space Paris presents On the Way, the first solo exhibition in France by Chinese artist Luo Mingjun, curated by Myriam Kryger. A pioneering figure of the Chinese avant-garde of the 1980s and co-founder of the experimental Group O, Luo Mingjun has developed a practice shaped by artistic freedom, displacement and the refusal of fixed identities. Bringing together a selection of paintings, the exhibition explores the connections between memory, belonging and transformation.

Clouds, bowls, flowers, pins and solitary figures appear within compositions of remarkable restraint. Through successive layers, transparencies and erasures, Luo Mingjun creates images suspended between presence and disappearance, figuration and abstraction. Her paintings draw on personal experience without illustrating it directly, allowing familiar objects and gestures to carry meanings that extend beyond the individual.

Having left China for Switzerland in 1987, Luo Mingjun has continued to explore what it means to move between places, cultures and identities. From the monumental Mountains to Cross, Seas to Traverse to the No Return series, her works evoke a journey without a predetermined destination. In On the Way, painting becomes a space where memory, movement and freedom remain open to transformation.

“Presence and disappearance, memory and forgetting, displacement and freedom intersect in works that appear spare yet are complex in their construction, driven by the same necessity: to keep moving forward, without ever allowing the destination to precede the path.” Myriam Kryger, Exhibition Curator.

ICICLE CULTURAL SPACE | PARIS
35 AVENUE GEORGE V, PARIS, FRANCE

Born in 1963 in Nanchong, China, Luo Mingjun grew up in Hunan and now lives and works between Switzerland and China.

She studied at Hunan Normal University’s Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1983 as part of the first generation of Chinese artists trained after the Cultural Revolution. Throughout her career, she has explored a wide range of media, from painting and drawing to photography, video and installation, developing an artistic language in which intimate experiences take on a universal dimension.

Her work has been exhibited across Europe and Asia, including at Art Basel, and is held in major collections such as the Uli Sigg Collection, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne and the White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection in Sydney.

No Way Back I, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 190 x 130 cm. Courtesy of the artist

No Way Back II, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 190 x 130 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Red Pin Series, 2 026, Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Blue #2, 2025, Oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Fragmented Light #3, 2025, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist

I Walk Beside You #6, 2019 — 2026, Oil on canvas, 150 x 110 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Blue #4, 2026, Pastel and acrylic on canvas, 110 x 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Drifting through Eternity, 2023, Oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Fragmented Light #2, Oil on canvas, 110 x 90cm. Courtesy of the artist

PARIS CULTURAL SPACE

ICICLE opened a cultural space in Paris in 2019, dedicated to creating opportunities for exchange and discovery. Guided by a belief in the importance of encounter, the cultural programme fosters dialogue and cross-fertilisation. On the 3rd floor of the ICICLE store at 35 avenue George V, the ICICLE Cultural Space hosts exhibitions devoted to art and design, and features a uniquely diverse bookshop. Its selection spans materials and images (architecture, painting, art, crafts), words and ideas (philosophy, poetry, literature, history, sinology), and practices and tastes (tea and Tao arts, martial arts and meditation techniques).

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