LiLi 丽丽 Nacht is a Chinese-American painter, performance artist, and educator based in Berlin. Her work is rooted in meditation, ritual, Daoist/Buddhist philosophies, and 山水 (shan shui or mountain water) ink painting traditions.

Nacht creates environments, abstract forms and fluid compositions that transcend the literal, inviting viewers into a space of reflection and connection with their inner world. Her work also engages with social practice, creating opportunities for people to gather and explore the tensions between chosen vs. inherited identities, reimagine historical narratives, and foster collective unlearning.

Nacht is a founding member of the MengCheng 梦城团 Collective, a queer collective of Asian-American artists from the American South with a focus on resource dissemination, archive making, intergenerational dialogue, communal healing, and empowerment. She is currently researching the ancient Chinese oracle tool and book of wisdom I Ching, which emphasizes the law of eternal change and transformation. She also explores 山水 (shan shui) ink painting techniques and materials—in particular, 留白 liu bai, or “leaving white.” With this compositional method, negative space is intentionally used to represent an internal state or as a blank web for projecting the imagination—an emptiness that is not truly “empty.”