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About LuYang
LuYang (@luyangasia) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 30,983 followers and 983 published posts. Recent posts average 971 likes and 17 comments, an engagement rate of 2.79%.
With 31K followers, LuYang is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. LuYang follows 1,871 accounts, so the audience is roughly 17 times the size of the list followed. LuYang carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files LuYang under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for LuYang runs to 20 words across 4 lines. Emoji sit alongside the words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for LuYang dates from May 2026.
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983 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for LuYang, 6 are carousels, 3 are videos and 1 is a single image. That mix leans toward carousels. LuYang has built a substantial archive of 983 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 32 followers for each post published. LuYang also keeps 73 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 155 words each. Words that recur across them include digital, doku, installation, through and identity. The captions tag #luyang, #dokutheillusion, #venicebiennale, #espacelouisvuitton and #deutschebankart.
The trilogy explores the dissolution of selfhood in relation to digital, biological, and spiritual systems. Across DOKU The Self (2022), DOKU The Flow (2024), and DOKU The Creator (2025), the Chinese artist employs video game aesthetics, motion-capture technology, and Buddhist philosophy to interrogate where identity resides when consciousness can be rendered, replicated, and endlessly reborn.
Special thanks to for the LED wall that made this powerful installation possible.
Shuaya is an extremely distinctive oral performance technique in traditional Chinese opera. It is often referred to as the “mouth-changing” technique of Ninghai Pingdiao opera, and is sometimes described alongside Sichuan opera’s face-changing as “face-changing in the West, teeth-manipulation in the East.” The performer holds fangs inside the mouth and, through precise control of the cheeks, lips, teeth, tongue, and breath, makes the fangs emerge, retract, turn, hide, pierce, and move inside the oral cavity. It is not simply a form of facial expression, but a traditional bodily technique that pushes the human face toward states of the monstrous, the majestic, the wrathful, and the otherworldly. 👹✨
The training for shuaya is extremely difficult. Performers must gradually accustom the mouth to sharp fangs, beginning with only a few teeth and slowly learning to control more over time. For many shuaya artists, the learning process involves repeated injuries to the mouth, gums, and tongue, yet they must continue practicing day after day until the fangs can truly be controlled as if they were part of the body. 🩸🦷
When a technique like this — originating from traditional Chinese opera, from inside the oral cavity, and requiring years of bodily training — is captured through a facial motion-capture system and then enters DOKU’s digital face, what kind of facial landscape will it generate? 🧬👁️
↘️ Lu Yang — Espace Louis Vuitton
Un sanctuaire cybernétique entre illusion et éveil. À l’occasion de la Biennale de Venise, Lu Yang présente DOKU The Illusion, quatrième chapitre de sa série consacrée à DOKU, un avatar numérique façonné à partir de son propre visage. Entre philosophie bouddhiste, intelligence artificielle et culture visuelle contemporaine, l’artiste compose une installation immersive où sculptures, miroirs et écran monumental invitent à questionner la nature du réel et les frontières de l’identité.
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A cybernetic sanctuary between illusion and awakening. On the occasion of the Venice Biennale, Lu Yang presents DOKU The Illusion, the fourth chapter of the artist’s ongoing series centered on DOKU, a digital avatar created from their own face. Blending Buddhist philosophy, artificial intelligence and contemporary visual culture, the installation combines sculptures, mirrored architecture and a monumental screen to question the nature of reality and the boundaries of identity.
📍 Espace Louis Vuitton, Venice, Italy
🗓 Through October 4, 2026
All images courtesy of Lu Yang and Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, photo credit: Ludovica Arcero
#LuYang #DOKUTheIllusion #VeniceBiennale #EspaceLouisVuitton
The presentation combines film and sculpture within an immersive, chapel-like setting, where the latest chapter unfolds on a monumental screen. Blending live action and AI-generated imagery, the work follows the avatar DOKU through shifting landscapes, exploring themes of identity and digital reincarnation.
Plan your visit to Escape Louis Vuitton Venezia and experience the work up close!
Lu Yang is Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2022.
Lu Yang – “DOKU The Illusion”
📍 Espace Louis Vuitton, Venice
🗓️ May 8, 2026 to October 4, 2026
Image credits:
1-3. Lu Yang, “DOKU The Illusion,” 2026. © Lu Yang
#LuYang #DeutscheBankArt #DeutscheBankCollection #ContemporaryArt #ArtandCulture
Nachdem die erste Ausgabe von der Kunsthalle ausgerichtet wurde, übernimmt im Wechsel nun das FOTO ARSENAL WIEN. Dort wird heute auch die Eröffnung stattfinden, unter anderem mit Videoarbeiten von Lu Yang und Live-Sets von HYPER HYPER und KAROLINA.
Ab morgen könnt ihr das ganze Wochenende lang Workshops, Vorträge und Führungen sowie eine Clubnacht in Kooperation mit den Wiener Festwochen besuchen. Nach den Opening Days sind die Installationen außerdem mitunter bis September zu sehen.
Alle Infos und das ganze Programm findet ihr über den 🔗 Link in Bio
VIENNA DIGITAL CULTURES
⇢ Opening: 21.05.226, 19:00
⇢ Opening Days:
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Fotos:
1. Film still, Lu Yang, DOKU The Flow, 2024
2. AI-assisted digital image © Sophie Publig
3. ROTOЯ - SONIC BODY, © Peter Kutin, Patrik Lechner, Mathia*s LenzFoto, © David Visnjic
4. © Thomas Dekeyser
explores the dissolution of selfhood in relation to digital, biological, and spiritual systems. Through video game aesthetics, motion-capture technology, and Buddhist philosophy, the artist interrogates where identity resides when consciousness can be rendered, replicated, and endlessly reborn.
Vienna Digital Cultures 2026 explores forms of digitally mediated togetherness and individuality under the theme: Alone or Together? The DOKU avatar, modelled on the artist’s own likeness yet untethered from any singular body or moment, embodies the condition the festival sets out to examine. Circulating continuously, visible yet elusive, present without being locatable. In this sense, THE DOKU TRILOGY suggests that what technology has made newly strange, certain philosophical traditions may have understood all along.
🗓️ On view: May 22–September 6, 2026. Tue–Sun 11:00–19:00.
📍 FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, Arsenal Objekt 19A, 1030 Vienna
Curated by
Thanks to
#ViennaDigitalCultures #LuYang #DigitalArt #DigitalArtVienna
On May 21, 2026, Vienna Digital Cultures opens at FOTO ARSENAL WIEN with The DOKU Trilogy by Lu Yang, as well as Fabian Knecht’s installation Lachen ist verdächtig.
19:00 Doors open
19:30 Welcome speeches
Following the speeches:
DJ sets by HYPER HYPER & KAROLINA
Drinks & party
In the Tank Hall, Para Bellum: Light and Sound Installation by Peter Kutin will also be on display throughout the evening.
🎟️ Free admission
📍 FOTO ARSENAL WIEN (Arsenal Object 19A, 1030 Vienna)
Credit:
Film still, Lu Yang, DOKU The Creator, 2025
#LVArtsCultureProgram #EspaceLV #Venezia #LouisVuitton
Photo credits: Ludovica Arcero / Louis Vuitton
Follow an androgynous protagonist, Material World Knight, through distinct episodes that move between conflict, transformation, and renewal, echoing samsara, the ceaseless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth across different planes of existence.
Especially in today’s complex global context and under challenging economic conditions, it is truly precious that institutions are still willing to support independent artists like myself and ensure that the work can be seen. This support fills me with more gratitude than ever toward all my collaborators.🥹🙏🪷🙏🥹
Amant understands deeply that the presentation of digital art relies heavily on technical equipment. As a non-profit art institution, they still equipped the exhibition with 4K high-lumen projectors and a 4K LED wall, striving to present the works in their most powerful state. During the installation, they even transported and arranged large stones to build mani cairns⛰️and fulfilled every request I made with admirable professionalism and dedication.🙌🏼🫶🏼🙌🏼
At the same time, a Tibetan calligraphy work by Dzogchen Pema Tashi Rinpoche, from Dzogchen Monastery—one of the Six Great Mother Monasteries of the Nyingma School, holder of the Great Perfection Longchen Nyingtik lineage—was also brought into this space, planting the seeds of liberation as it meets with every visitor.🤲🏼🪷🤲🏼
The aspiration prayer reads🔥☝️🔥:
May I become a refuge and guide for all sentient beings,
Food for the hungry, and sweet water for the thirsty,
Clothing for those suffering from cold, and cool breeze for those affected by heat,
A friend to the lonely, a helper to the helpless,
A healer and medicine for the sick, a support and a ferry for those without refuge.
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My heartfelt thanks to all museums and institutions who choose to collaborate for the very core of the work itself, to curators Tobi and Ian for their trust and commitment, and to all staff members and audiences. May my works transform into a mirror and a light, illuminating and inspiring hearts in this impermanent and illusory world. ⚡️🫧⚡️
LuYang's engagement
LuYang's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.79%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 36 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 57 to 1, with 971 likes and 17 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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Who is LuYang?
LuYang (@luyangasia) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. LuYang carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for LuYang runs to 20 words across 4 lines.
How many followers does LuYang have?
LuYang has 30,983 followers on Instagram (31K). LuYang follows 1,871 accounts, so the audience is roughly 17 times the size of the list followed. LuYang has built a substantial archive of 983 posts.
What is LuYang's engagement rate?
LuYang's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.79%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 36 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 57 to 1, with 971 likes and 17 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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Flinque files LuYang under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for LuYang, 6 are carousels, 3 are videos and 1 is a single image. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for LuYang repeatedly use the words digital, doku, installation, through and identity. LuYang's captions carry hashtags such as #luyang, #dokutheillusion and #venicebiennale. LuYang keeps 73 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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