Lu yanping
Born in China
Live and work in Paris, France
In 2019, she entered the École Supérieure d'Art du Nord-Pas-de-Calais and obtained her Master’s degree in Fine Arts with honors in 2021. During her studies, she worked with a wide range of materials—including clay, wood, wire, paper, food, and eggshells—to create sculptures and installations.
From 2022 to 2025, her ceramic works were exhibited in several French cities and selected for international competitions in France, Poland, Germany and Spain. Her piece Teapot and I was acquired by the City Museum of Siegburg in Germany.
From September to November 2024, she completed her first artist residency in Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, a town renowned for its ceramic heritage. There, she deepened her exploration of the Strange Teapot series—reimagining the teapot as a sculptural form that transcends function. By deconstructing and innovating the spout, body, and handle, she questions conventional notions of domestic ceramics, aiming to find a new visual and philosophical balance between utility and poetry, structure and spirit. Her teapot series was also selected for the International Young Ceramic Award in Diessen am Ammersee, Germany.
Influenced by Daoist philosophy, especially the idea of harmony through opposites in Laozi and Zhuangzi’s writings, her broader practice is committed to exploring various forms of balance in the world. In addition to innovating functional ceramics, she also creates conceptual sculptures that reflect on social phenomena and emotional undercurrents, with the hope of evoking empathy and offering gentle humanistic care through her work.
COMPETITION& RESIDENCY
07/2025-01/2026
Watching the goats, sculpture, Esplugues Angelina Alós International Ceramic Biennial,
Can Tinturé Museum, Barcelona, Spain
06/2025-10/2025
Teabowl, ceramique, The 2 nd International Tea Bowl Competition,Wrocław, POLAND
05/2025
Selected by the Young Ceramic Award, Dießen am Ammersee, Germany
09-10/2024
Selected by the Residency project of Saint-Quentin-la-Potteries in France
02/2024
Selected by the 5 th International competition of ceramic in Siegburg, Germany
06/2023
Selected by the International Tea Cup competition Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty ,Poland
07/2022
Selected by the -competition "Les inutilitaires", Galerie of the Arts of fire ,Rouen,France
Exhibition Collective
05/2025-06/2025
Strange teapots, sculpture, Exihibition-competition of Young Ceramic Award, Dießen am Ammersee, Germany
04/2025
Strange teapots, Exihibition of residency, Saint-quentin-la-poterie, France
05/2024
A set of ceramic sculptures, Duo Exibition de PAOPAO, Ovision Paris, Paris, France
02/2024-04/2024
My teapot and I, sculpture, The 5 th International competition ceramic of Siegburg,Museum minicipal of Siegburg, Germany
11/2023-12/2023
A set of ceramic sculpture, Exhibition of TEA OR COFFEE?, Guebwiller, France
05/2023-06/2023
A set of ceramic sculpture, Exhibition Art in the city, Bruay-La-Buissière, France
07/2022-09/2022
Le pot d'air, ceramic, Exhibition-competition "Les inutilitaires", Galerie des arts du
arts of fire, Rouen, France
COLLECTIONS
02/2024
My teapot and I, ceramic, stoneware, 2022
Collected by The Municipal Museum of Siegburg,Germany
04/2025
Strange teapot, ceramic, stoneware, 2024
Collected by The city Saint-quentin-la-poterie,France