This fall, one of China’s most talked-about contemporary photographers, Feng Li, will be showcased at Fotografiska Stockholm with the exhibition “White Nights in Wonderland,” marking the first time an exhibition has traveled from Fotografiska Shanghai. The display features both the artist’s most iconic works and previously unseen photographs, all characterized by a unique sarcasm and set against the backdrop of urban landscapes.
Feng Li Depicts the Absurdities of Everyday Life at Fotografiska.
With a distinctive visual language and a consistently ironic undertone, the Chinese photographer Feng Li has emerged as one of China’s brightest stars in contemporary photography. The exhibition “White Nights in Wonderland” features around 200 works spanning the last 20 years of his photographic career. “Feng Li’s photographs offer us a new perspective on the world, and his ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary is unparalleled. His knack for transcending cultural boundaries and building bridges between worlds made him a perfect fit with the vision at Fotografiska.
Feng Li’s unique visual approach has earned him international acclaim across genres from street photography to fashion, with his work being celebrated from Paris to Tokyo, Shanghai to his hometown Chengdu. Using the modern urban landscape as a backdrop, he captures the enigmatic yet fleeting moments of everyday life, highlighting the absurdities of daily existence. Through his lens, we experience China’s contemporary and rapidly evolving society, often portrayed with surreal and subtle details.
“White Nights in Wonderland” is loosely organized in a chronological manner with three sections: White Nights, City Express, and What is Fashion? Each section highlights key moments in the artist’s development.
In recent years, Feng Li has collaborated with some of the world’s largest fashion houses and for international fashion magazines such as British System, Re-Edition, American Vogue, SSense, FAZ, and many others. In 2019, he created the “Fashion Eye: Paris” series for Louis Vuitton.
“White Nights in Wonderland” will be on display at Fotografiska. The exhibition is produced for Fotografiska by Jessica Jarl, Global Exhibitions Manager, Mohamed Mire, Exhibition Producer, and Holly Russell, a curator specializing in Chinese photography.

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Feng Li is an artist who observes extraordinary details from the ordinary. He uncovers the enigmatic side of reality and presents ordinary life scenes in an unusual way. Often wandering around the city, he instinctively observes people, objects and urban landscapes in an intuitive way. He directly illuminates those incredible moments with flash lights. Those scenes, sliced by flash, are eventually transformed into strange, funny, and intriguing moments frozen in time.
In recent years, Feng Li has collaborated with international fashion organizations, such as System, Re-Edition, British Vogue, SSENSE, Germany 032c, FAZ and more. In these fashion images that are usually glamorous, Feng Li’s biting wit and absurdity can still be seen.

Feng Li: White Nights in Wonderland
from August 24 to November 24, 2024
Fotografiska – Stockholm – Sweden

More info:
https://stockholm.fotografiska.com/