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Biyi Zhu is a Southeast China–born, Netherlands-based interdisciplinary artist, performer, and researcher working across video art, documentary, and technology-integrated performance. Drawing on her own lived experience, her practice explores mobility, migration, and coexistence, reflecting on how these forces shape identities, relationships, and socio-political realities. In her earlier work as a video editor and artistic director, she initiated and contributed to projects exploring collaborative storytelling, cultural exchange, and visual communication, through which she continually engaged with and reflected on the intersection of her cultural roots and personal trajectory from the perspective of migration and displacement.

Currently, Zhu investigates care and kinship through the domestic practices of traditional Chinese medicine from the Southeast Asian region, specifically Cantonese herbal soup. Through this research, she engages with non-conventional archiving, collective cultural memory, ecological imagination, and alternative narratives, as a step toward deepening her study of kin-making. Alongside video, film, and soup-making workshops as part of her research methodology, she works with performance as process, embodying and experimenting with performativity as a method to explore and materialize her understanding of kinship.

Biyi is an alumna of the Sandberg Institute (’17) and St. Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp (’24). She is a co-founder of BLOB collective (NL), alongside Dualtagh McDonnell-Grundy and Sophie Waller. BLOB has focused on exploring the intersection of body and technology. Through the fabrication of technologically bound spaces, the collective examines the physical encounter between these two entities, investigating the possibilities and limitations this relationship imposes on the body. 

Her work has been presented at Sint Lucas Antwerpen Research Week; Royal Conservatoire, Antwerp; Het Bos, Antwerp; De Signel, Antwerp; ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin; DE BOUWPUT Gallery, Amsterdam; OT301, Amsterdam; Huis Marseille, Amsterdam; Ox Warehouse, China; Macao Design Center, China;


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