BOERS-LI GALLERY was founded in Beijing 2005 by Pi Li, Chinese curator, lecturer, and since 2012 senior curator M+ museum for visual Culture, Hong Kong, and Waling Boers, Dutch curator, director BüroFriedrich, Berlin. Till 2007 called Universal Studio-Beijing, the gallery was located at Beijing’s legendary Art Zone 798. It occupied around 400 square meters. In September 2017, it opened a branch on 24 Eighty-first Street, Upper East Side, New York. 12.31.2019 the galleries closed their doors.

BOERS-LI GALLERY represented in its first ten years mainly Chinese artists from successive generations: the “unofficials” of No Name and Star Group from the late 1970s, the Beijing Abstract Movement from the early 1980s, the ’85 New Wave Movement, the New Media Movement from the 1990s, as well as the so-called “Millennials” and “Post-Internet” artists. After 2015 a broad range of international artists joined the gallery.

BOERS-LI GALLERY participated in various international art fairs such as Armory New York. Frieze New York and Frieze Masters, London en New York, Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, Art Basel Miami, USA, Art Basel Hong Kong, West Bund and Art 21 in Shanghai, Art Dantai, Taipei, Art Singapore, and various regional fairs worldwide.