Press

‘Spotlight: Artist Lawrence Lek Melds Video-Game Technology and Eerie Films to Peer Into Our A.I.-Dominated Future’, Artnet News, 15 June 2022

Claire Li, ‘Talking with Lawrence Lek about Architecture, Geopolitics, and placing Nepenthe Valley within the exhibition Post-Sinofuturism’, The Art Newspaper China, 2 June 2022  [Chinese only]

‘Fourth VH AWARD Grand Prix Winner - Lawrence Lek’, e-flux, 11 November 2021

Jyni Ong, ‘Lawrence Lek talks simulation art and his interest in the ambiguity between two paradoxes’, It’s Nice That, 12 January 2021


Kareem Ghezawi, ‘Sci-Fi Lullabies: Lawrence Lek's AIDOL 爱道OST’, The Quietus, 03 December 2020


Andrew Ryce, ‘AIDOL OST: The arresting soundtrack to a film about a world dominated by AI’, Resident Advisor, 27 November 2020


Tom Faber, ‘The futuristic visions of multimedia artist Lawrence Lek’, Financial Times, 18 November 2020


‘Lawrence Lek in conversation with Alex Quicho’, CURA.35: The Changing World, Fall-Winter 2020-2021


‘Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD) Artist Talk with Lawrence Lek’, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington and Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 09 June 2020 [video]


Vladimir Shlygin, ‘Empathy for the Machine: Inside Lawrence Lek’s Virtual Worlds’, Strelka Mag, 15 May 2020


Caterina Riva, ‘AI, Celebrities and Singapore: An Interview with Lawrence Lek’, so far, 11 March 2020


Matt Turner, ‘Lawrence Lek - Using AI to Question What Art Is’, Hyperallergic, 11 February 2020


Henry Broome, ‘Lawrence Lek – interview: ‘AI could become the ultimate content creation mechanism. It could also signal the death of the author’’, Studio International, 16 May 2019


Michael Eby, ‘Lawrence Lek: AIDOL 爱道ʼ, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2019


Stephanie Bailey, ‘Review: Lawrence Lek’s 2065 at K11’, Artforum Summer 2018


‘Dystopia lands in London’s Docklands’, Gabrielle Schwarz, Apollo Magazine, 26 July 2018


‘CONVERSATIONS: Alvin Li & Lawrence Lek on 2065’, Mousse Magazine, May 2018


Josh Feola, ‘Yin: Lawrence Lek’s Geomancer OST’, RADII China, 29 December 2017


Anya Harrison, ‘All Systems Go: Lawrence Lek’s Geomancer’, Flash Art Issue 316, 5 December 2017


Henry Broome, ‘The weird + eerie: an interview with Lawrence Lek on crossing the line + exposing the deeply embedded through VR’, AQNB, 13 June 2017


Gary Zhexi Zhang, ‘Where Next? Imagining the dawn of the 'Chinese century’’, Frieze Magazine, 27 April 2017


‘Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017: Neither One Thing or Another’, this is tomorrow, 29 March 2017


‘CHECK MARKS: Lawrence Lek and Cécile B. Evans’, Mousse Magazine 55, October-November 2016 [print only]


Jacob Proctor, ‘Review: Glasgow International 2016’, Artforum, Summer 2016


George Kafka, ‘ScareBnb: Step into Kode9 and Lawrence Lek’s eerie post-human hotel’, FACT, 6 June 2016


Harry Thorne, ‘In Focus: Lawrence Lek - A Utopian World in Progress’, Frieze Issue 175, 23 October 2015


Nora N. Khan, ‘Simulation as Institutional Critique:  Lawrence Lek's 'Unreal Estate'’, Rhizome, 27 August 2015