Zhenchen Liu 刘真辰

Where Everything grows

Curator : Myriam Kryger

June 3 – October 5, 2026

Born in Shanghai in 1976, Liu Zhenchen (刘真辰) works across painting, installation, and digital media. Through ongoing experiments with transformation, transfer, and recomposition, he develops images from both digital and vegetal materials, translating them across a range of supports. His practice engages the relationship between nature and technology, body and perception, through processes of combination and transmutation. He operates through singular methods, inventing and closely guarding his own protocols in an approach that verges on the

alchemical.

Where All Things Grow brings together two major series, Kaleidoscope and Panacea, which at first appear to diverge. In Kaleidoscope, Liu Zhenchen works from a limited set of digitally processed images to generate an open field of variations, developed across different materials.

Presented in circular formats, the works explore the shifting possibilities of the digital realm, extended through optical effects that unsettle perception. Panacea, by contrast, is rooted in the vegetal. Working with medicinal plants drawn from the Chinese pharmacopoeia—now

expanded to include fungi—the artist gathers, grinds, then prints and recomposes living matter. The works redeploy its forms, texture, pigments, and properties.

Between these two bodies of work runs a shared impulse: to open the field of perception andsensation, to re-enchant the world, and to act—almost shamanically—on the viewer.