LI YI-FAN / 李亦凡
We are delighted to have realised several projects with Taiwanese artist Li Yi-Fan, who was born in Taipei in 1989 and now lives and works in Amsterdam. In 2026, he will present his work at the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Li Yi-Fan's practice is marked by a uniquely personal, conceptually rigorous approach that challenges our habitual ways of seeing, feeling, and telling. In an age where the boundaries between image, identity, and information are constantly shifting, Li offers not only new techniques but new questions—about perception, subjectivity, and the possible futures of human expression. Li’s works often integrate game engines and real-time rendering technologies, allowing him to improvise intricate 3D animations with performative immediacy. Li Yi-Fan describes his creative process as the depiction of a death struggle between artist and software, from whose resulting decaying corpse a narrative work gradually emerges. By using a video game engine Li Yi-Fan reflects not only on the peculiar suspension of time in video games but also on the increasingly detailed desires that emerge from the possibilities of increasingly complex technological tools.
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Exhibitions and scholarships (selection)
Li Yi-Fan studied new media at the National Taiwan University of the Arts and fine art at the National Normal University, both in Taiwan.
His most recent solo exhibitions include SAVE AS (2023) at the VT Artsalon in Taipei and Shelter of CHAOS.zip (2019) at the Digital Art Center in Taipei. He has also been featured in group exhibitions such as Dreamscreen (2024) at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, ICC Annual (2024): Faraway, So Close at the NTT ICC Museum in Tokyo, and Hardcore Drive at the TOFU Space gallery in Copenhagen. In 2026, Li Yi-Fan will present his work at the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
He has received several awards, including the 2024 Golden Harvest Award and the 2022 Taishin Arts Award.
Cooperations with EIGEN + ART (selection)
2026
Taiwanese Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2025
What is Your Favorite Primitive, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin
- first solo presentation of his work in Germany
His video work What Is Your Favorite Primitive (2023), for example, takes the form of a satirical tech keynote presentation, in which a protagonist grapples with the ethical and societal questions embedded in software tools designed for image production. Through this work, Li reflects on how images reshape modes of communication and how emojis might transmit emotional meanings that surpass individual perception. At its core, the piece speculates whether image technologies might one day project an as-yet-unrealized totality—constructing a new politics of life and death.
Filmstills from What Is Your Favorite Primitive (2023):
