About Chen Ying

Chen Ying born in 1982 in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province of China, majored in Scenography and graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 2010. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Chen Ying’s paintings mostly originate from real-life scenes. During his creation process, Chen integrates iconic geometric forms within scenes from his everyday life, reconstructing the image. As the three-dimensional space is constantly compressed and altered, the work under his paintbrush gradually becomes abstract. Chen’s practice presents perpetual incidental changes, and a subtle conversion between two and three-dimensional space, reality and withdrawal is revealed through the artist’s meditative perspective.

His most recent exhibitions include: “Chen Ying Solo Exhibition”, KWM artcenter, Beijing, 2019; "Extreme Mix”, Guangzhou Airport Biennale, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “Traceable”, Madein Gallery x Carlos/Ishikawa@CONDO Shanghai 2018, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2018; “Reality & Regeneration-CHEN Ying Solo Exhibition, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2017; “Form Consumption Over Substance Reflection”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2017; Scissors & Stone & Cloth, Songzhuang Museum, Beijing, 2014; “Micro Real”- China and Japan Youth Artists Exhibition, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, 2014.

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About Ding Li

Ding Li was born in 1979 in Shanghai, and graduated with a MA from the Oil Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, France (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris). The works of Ding Li are based on repeated experiments with the aim of defining a pure expression of his own in this media. His practice focuses on the exploration of painting developed from materials characteristics and presents a new visual language through the reconstruction of oil paints, spray paints, brushes and frames.

His recent exhibitions include: “Robert Song”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Wild Metropolis”, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Advent: Inventing Landscape, Producing the Earth”, Qianshao Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Extreme Mix-Guangzhou Airport Biennale”, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “The Kind Stranger”, UNArt Center, Shanghai, 2019; “The Variable and The Generating”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019; “In the Name of December 12.”, Imagokinetics Lab, Hangzhou, China, 2018; “The First Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” Nominees’ Exhibition, Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2017; “Yellspace Programme Exhibition—Partial Archive”, Yell Space, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Serendipitous Mission”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2017; "Form Consumption Over Substance Reflection", MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2017; "Information Sculpture Superhighway", MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2016; "Inventing Ritual", Bentu, Chinese artists at a time of turbulence and transformation, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, 2016; "Not Impulsive Enough Is the Devil", MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2015.

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About Lu Pingyuan

Lu Pingyuan was born in 1984 in Zhejiang province, China, lives and works in Shanghai. Lu Pingyuan‘s artworks involves a variety of media, including texts, installations, videos, paintings and others. For a few years, Lu Pingyuan concentrated his practice on the writing of “stories” as a unique type of media for art creation. These short “stories” significantly broaden the artworks’ state of existence in the real world, extend the inherent spirit of art itself. His works have been exhibited extensively in both national and international museums and biennales.

Recent solo exhibitions include: “KOLA”, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “La Malle aux Trésors”, Mansion de Hermès, Shanghai, China, 2018; “Lost Child”, ONEHOME Art Hotel, Shanghai, China; “HOME ALONe”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2017; “Hidden Treasure”, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China, 2017; “James Stanley-The Seventh Earl of Derby”, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, United Kingdom, 2016; “ON KAWARA”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2016; “Unexpected Discoveries”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2015; “Time Capsule”, Gallery Box, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011. He participated in numerous group shows among which are “Shanghai Plaza”, Shanghai Plaza, Shanghai, China, 2020; “Something Happened”, Powerlong Art Center, Xiamen, China, 2020; “Wish You a Sweeeeeet Life”, Duende Contemporary Art Museum, Foshan, China; “YES! ART FESTIVAL”, M WOODS, Beijing, China, 2020; “Illusive Particles”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2020; “PROPHESY”, Wind H Art Center, Beijing, China, 2020; “Wild Cinema”, TX Huaihai, Shanghai, 2020; “Being of Evils”, Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), Beijing, China, 2020; “Wild Metropolis”, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “The Secret of Childhood”, Luxelakes·A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China, 2019; “Advent: Inventing Landscape, Producing the Earth”, Qianshao Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Extreme Mix-Guangzhou Airport Biennale”, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “Land of the Lustrous” UCCA Dune, Qinhuang Island, China, 2019;  “Edge of the Wonderland-Thailand Art Biennale”, Krabi, Thailand, 2018; “Artist is Present”, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018; “City Unbounded-China·Shanghai Jing’an International Sculpture Project”, Jing’an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China, 2018; “This is Shanghai”, Cunard Building, Liverpool, UK, 2018; “Long March Project: Building Code Violations III - Special Economic Zone”, Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2018; “Arts in Urban Cultures”, Taikoo Li Sanlitun, Beijing, China, 2018; “*underground-children-festival”, Para Site x Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2018; “Animamix Biennale—Ballade”, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China，2018; “PLAY”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2018; “11th Shanghai Biennale”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2016; “9th Liverpool Biennale”, Liverpool, England, 2016; “A Beautiful Disorder”, Cass Sculpture Foundation, England, 2016; “Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan”, Si Fang Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2016; “3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art”, Ural, Russia, 2015 etc. Lu Pingyuan was nominated for the 4th Art Sanya for the Young Chinese Artists Award and the First Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year”.

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About Su Yu-Xin

Su Yu-Xin (b. 1991) was born in Taipei. She holds a MFA in Fine Arts from Slade School of Fine Art UCL, and works between Shanghai and Taipei. Her painting and other practices focuses on the relationships between visual language and other sensorial perceptions. Rather than painting from images or photography, Su’s work often tends to explore the complexity of a moment or a vague perception in life.Su uses painting to construct a delicate alternation of horizons, which varying distances elicit different paces of observation. The colourful layered surface and multi-perspectives in her works generate a dynamic vision within each painting.

Su’s paintings study how different rhythms, and fundamentally, the fluidity of human experience can operate and be stored inside a still imagery. In her practice, landscape is an in-between place, a traditional frontality in painting, which allows the artist to switch between figuration and abstraction, investigating the concept of new landscape- a mixture of still-life, graphs, digital calendar, fragments of text and memory. The landscape she is depicting is a field of hybrid vision and a contemporary impressionism that was never seen before this age.

Her recent exhibitions include: A Hue to Spell, KuanDu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, 2019; hic sunt leones, 798 Art Centre, Beijing, 2019; Taiwan Biennial- Wild Rhizome, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, 2018; Building Code Violation III, Special Economic Zone, Long March Space, Beijing, 2018; A World in a Grain of Sand: Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Deometries Atlantis Fosun Foundation, Sanya, 2018; Trembling Surfaces, Long March space, Beijing, 2016; Future Island, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2016; 2016 Slade Degree Show, UCL, London, 2016; Refuse: Refuge: Re-fuse, The Koppel Project, London, 2016; Small press project, University of College London, London, 2016; 2015 Slade Interim show, UCL, Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2015; etc.

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About XU ZHEN®

XU ZHEN®, founded by artist Xu Zhen in 2013, is the flagship art brand of MadeIn Company. Born in 1977, Xu Zhen is a leading Chinese artist and curator, and the founder of MadeIn Company. XU ZHEN® is committed to art creation and cutting-edge culture development. XU ZHEN® is one such initiative to offer spiritual aspirations and life experiences of the finest quality through the appreciation and collection of artworks and events produced by the brand.

Xu Zhen

Artist, Curator, MadeIn Company Founder

Xu Zhen was born in 1977, and lives and works in Shanghai. Xu Zhen has been considered as an iconic figure in Chinese contemporary art. In 2004, Xu won the prize for ‘Best Artist’ at the China Contemporary Art Award. His practice covers various media such as installations, video, painting and performance, etc. 

Xu Zhen has exhibited internationally, at museums and biennales, such as, Venice Biennale (2001, 2005), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2004), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2005), MoMA PS1 (New York, 2006), Tate Liverpool (2007), Hayward Gallery (London, 2012), Lyon Biennial (2013), Armory Show (New York, 2014), Long Museum (Shanghai 2015), Al Riwaq Art Center (Qatar, 2016), Sydney Biennial (2016), Guggenheim Museum (New York, 2017), Sharjah Biennial (2019), The Museum of Contemporary Art（Los Angeles, 2019）, among others. 

Aside from being an artist, Xu Zhen is also a curator. He co-curated together with other artists major exhibitions in Shanghai and was one of the initiators of Art-Ba-Ba (www.art-ba-ba.com), a leading online forum for discussion and critique of contemporary art in Shanghai, in 2006. In 2009, Xu Zhen established ‘MadeIn Company’, a contemporary art creation corporate, focused on the production of creativity, and devoted to the research of contemporary culture’s infinite possibilities. In 2013, MadeIn Company launched XU ZHEN® which is committed to art creation and cutting-edge culture development. In 2014, MadeIn Company established MadeIn Gallery and in November 2016 launched the first “Xu Zhen Store” in Shanghai. 

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About Yang Shen

Yang Shen, born in 1973 in Beijing, graduated from the Mural Art department of Central Academy of Fine Arts. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Yang Shen's paintings focus on the connection between personal memories, experiences, fantasies and historical times. Through continuous practice and unceasing exploration of painting language, Yang has gradually established a unique personal style. His paintings profoundly narrative-oriented, using illusory imagination to transform daily scenes into absurd and surrealistic visual experiences. He excels in juxtaposing cinematic elements, science fiction scenes and characters bearing the marks of time, to create fantastical surrealistic pictures.

His exhibitions include: “Meeting the Future – International Exhibition for Contemporary Art”, S x V Museum of Modern Art, Qingdao, China, “An Opera for Animals”, Rockbund Museum, Shanghai, China; "Supernatural”, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australis, 2018; “YANG Shen: Oddity”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2018; “Commodity & Ideology”, Klapper Hall Gallery, New York, U.S.A., 2017; “Scarcity & Supply”, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2016; “KOREA with KOREA”, OZANEAUX ArtSpace, New York, U.S.A., 2016; “John Moores Painting Prize China”, SPSI Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2012.`

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MadeIn Gallery artist Liu Wa participates in Busan Biennale 2020 "Words at an Exhibition–an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems", presenting the latest watercolor and video works Devil's Ivy(2020) and two-channel video installation Racing Thoughts (2019) in "Chapter 9:  Electricity Speaks".

Busan Biennale 2020 examines the city and tries to expand the various spectrums of a metropolitan through artistic expressions. At Busan Biennale 2020, ten fiction writers and one poet were invited to write on the characteristics of the city of Busan as a conceptual basis for selecting the artists, each responding through new commissions and existing works within the context of the exhibition.

Devil’s Ivy is a 10-min virtual reality film interrogating the increasingly blurred lines between truth and imagination during the COVID-19 pandemic. It sends the viewer on a surreal trip to the city of Wuhan under lockdown, the virus-hit cruise ship and the mass grave in New York.

Liu Wa works with drawings, paintings and video, and for the last few years, she has turned her drawings into virtual reality work. Liu presents 30 pieces of watercolor on paper of Devil's Ivy in this exhibition. 

The other work on display, Racing Thoughts, traces the artist’s aimless Internet surfing through two divergent yet complementary approaches. One the right channel, she clinically measures her real-time emotions through an EEG-based brain-computer interface. On the left channel, she blends her hand-drawn animations with the screencast, delineating her imagination with a human touch. During her Internet surfing, she comes across with fake science articles and mental health records.

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MadeIn Gallery artist Liu Wa participates in group exhibition at UCCA Beijing, "Immaterial / Rematerial: A Brief History of Computing Art", a wide-ranging overview of the evolution of computing art from the 1960s to the present, exploring topics that span from machine-learning aesthetics to digital objecthood and technological discontent. The exhibition defines its area of focus not simply as digital art in general, but art-making that actively engages with the algorithms and generative logics that undergird the field of computing.

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MadeIn Gallery artist Lu Pingyuan participates in the group exhibition "Wish You a Sweeeeeet Life" at Duende Contemporary Art Museum, presenting Don't Ask Me Who I am.

In Don’t Ask Me Who I Am the artist sprayed smiley faces on images of planet gathered from the Internet.  This series of works is about a mysterious artist from one of Lu Pingyuan’s stories. This artist was inspired at a younger age by one of the lines from The Lion King: “The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.” Then he decided to travel to the outer space and paint smiley faces on those starry planets as if they were a family smiling at the earth. He traveled on a spaceship to the cosmos and got lost in the space soon after. Don’t Ask Me Who I Am is the sketch of his plan and the beginning of this story, or at least, it isn’t its end.

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MadeIn Gallery artist Lu Pingyuan participates in "YES! ART Festival" and presents three of his latest works from the "Story" series. 

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MadeIn Gallery artists Lu Pingyuan, Xu Zhen® and Zheng Yuan participate in "Something Happend". This exhibition is the opening exhibition of Nothing Happened Gallery and gathers more than 60 works from 47 world-renowned artists. All the artworks are shown in China for the first time, ranging from painting, video, installation, sculpture, photography and more.

The exhibition will be divided into four major theme exhibitions. Lu Pingyuan's "Look! I'm Picasso!"series, Xu Zhen's Eternihty-Buddha in Nirvana, Under Heaven-0302BD0187 and Zheng Yuan's Nothing Happened are exhibited in the "+ 86" exhibition area.

Lu Pingyuan’s series of works, “Look! I’m Picasso!”, is inspired by the first feature-lengthcomputer-animated film produced by Pixar in 1995, “Toy Story”. A scene in the film presents thetoy Mr. Potato Head with his eyes, nose and mouth on the side claiming: “Look! I’m Picasso”. Theartist conceived a series of cubist paintings and sculptures in the style of Picasso and incorporatedelements inspired from the facial props of Mr. Potato Head.

"Eternity" is a series of sculptural installations that fuses together and immortalizes classics of art history and great civilizations. Statues of Greek gods or Chinese divinities and Modern Art sculptures are replicated using mineral composite, taking on the form of visual hybrids. “Eternity” brings global civilization into a broader perspective, showing through the East - West cultural impact/collision, the historical influence of the traditional Orient and the modern Occident on contemporary life.

"Under Heaven", a magnificent title filled with an authoritative sense, consists in dense cream flowers of fancy colors: strawberry red, grape purple, mocha green, milk white, chocolate black... such as a thick layer of flowery cream on a freshly baked cake. These desiring aliment colors and the creamy form are twisted together into a carved baroque jungle; the exaggerated scales of the works present an intense and extravagant gaiety.

Nothing Happened began with a video made by a minimalist. A few vehicles occasionally passed by the viewer and there were no pedestrians in sight on the highway in a freezing winter. Meanwhile, according to the real-time city simulation, a serious accident simultaneously occurred on the same highway while the photographer made this video. But in a strong favor of the minimalist aesthetic, she chose not to shoot the accident, in a way to maintain the tranquility of a cold winter day.

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MadeIn Gallery artist Xu Zhen® participates in "Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation" in Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, presenting his video work Rainbow (1998). 

Xu Zhen’s early video works focus on the body and public space. The video work Rainbow (1998) records a person’s back growing increasingly red, and throughout the entire process, the result of slaps are heard on the soundtrack but never seen. Xu Zhen uses the body as a medium to challenge the threshold which the human body can withstand; the image and the audio lead to inconsistent facts, directing the audience to re-examine the reliability of image and their own viewing experience.

 

Yang Shen’s new series “Explorer and the Jungle” continues the narrativity, and the mysterious yet grotesque atmosphere of his previous paintings. Taking the rainforest as backdrop, the new series focuses on the fictional story of a western explorer traveling in the Asian jungle, and hope to explore the relationship between human, animals and nature. The identity of explorer in the works is vague. In history, they may be scientists, colonists, artists and even spies. However in Yang Shen's paintings, as a representative of human beings, the explorer makes contact with nature, so as to explore how human beings understand and get along with nature in the process of their own civilization. By juxtaposing characters and elements that belong to different time and space in the same scene, the artist constructs a fantasy world with his painterly brushstrokes.

 

About Yang Shen 

 

Yang Shen, born in 1973 in Beijing, graduated from the Mural Art department of Central Academy of Fine Arts. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Yang Shen's paintings focus on the connection between personal memories, experiences, fantasies and historical times. Through continuous practice and unceasing exploration of painting language, Yang has gradually established a unique personal style. His paintings are profoundly narrative-oriented, using illusory imagination to transform daily scenes into absurd and surrealistic visual experiences. He excels in juxtaposing cinematic elements, science fiction scenes and characters bearing the marks of time, to create fantastical surrealistic pictures.

 

His exhibitions include: “Meeting the Future – International Exhibition for Contemporary Art”, S x V Museum of Modern Art, Qingdao, China, 2019; “An Opera for Animals”, Rockbund Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; Para Site, Hong Kong, China, 2019; "Supernatural”, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2018; “YANG Shen: Oddity”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2018; “Commodity & Ideology”, Klapper Hall Gallery, New York, U.S.A., 2017; “Scarcity & Supply”, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2016; “KOREA with KOREA”, OZANEAUX ArtSpace, New York, U.S.A., 2016; “John Moores Painting Prize China”, SPSI Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2012.

MadeIn Gallery's current exhibition "Illusive Particles" is extended till September 24th, 2020, and we are delighted to present artist Zheng Yuan's solo exhibition: "Forward, Backward" on September 30th, 2020.

 

"Forward, Backward" is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the gallery, as well as the first presentation of the final chapter for the “China Northwest Airlines” project, which has been the main focus of Zheng’s work since 2017.

 

Working primarily with time-based media, Zheng Yuan's work often operates at the intersection of fiction, documentary, essay, and investigative studies. His practice focuses on identity and evaluation and it’s ever-shifting relationship with history, power and representation. By introducing archival material, found footage and situations Zheng’s work acquires an interleaved complexity within imbricated contexts.

 

Since 2017, the artist has carried out complex and in-depth investigations starting with the “China Northwest Airlines” project. The core of this project is to revisit and rethink about contemporary China’s tremendous changes in the fields of economic reforms, diplomatic relations and geopolitics as well as the complex relationship between the subject and its external, during the time period from China’s Reform and Opening Up to joining the World Trade Organization, by using the history of civil aviation in China since 1950s as a clue perspective. From here, the artist continues to create and completes a number of works with different aspects and threads, including single-channel videos: A Brief History of China Northwest Airlines (2018), which investigates the assets of China Northwest Airlines (1989-2002), a short-lived airline company after its bankruptcy; A Failed Flight: Jiuquan Airport (2018), which is a revisit to the “Jiuquan Airport”, a relic of the briefly-existed historical period “China-Soviet Civilian Airlines”.

 

The exhibition will present two of Zheng’s latest works, The Last Step of Touch Down and Then What Have You Done in Your Entire Life?. As the finale of the “China Northwest Airlines” project, the two works will be displayed on the four large screens in the exhibition space.

 

The Last Step of Touch Down refers to the first step of walking down the gangway of an aircraft, and stepping onto the territory of another country. As the last step of the landing process, this moment also symbolizes the first step of establishing diplomacy. Therefore “the first step” was given special meaning and is always recorded by camera entirely. The last step of Touch Down includes a series of footages of national leaders, ambassadors and visiting delegations walking down from aircrafts, and extends from this action to the history of China's politics, diplomacy and the imported technology under the situation back then. This work focuses on the two stages of China intensively accepting foreign technologies: the first Five-Year Plan from 1953 to 1957 to fully accept the technical assistance from the Soviet Union; and the technology transfer from the west to China after Nixon's visit to China in 1972, under the background of sanctioning the Soviet Union. The work focuses on the history of the introduction of aviation technology and media technology in china, which played an important role in the process of globalization.

 

In Then What Have You Done in Your Entire Life?, shows the 40 years of career and the process of role transformation of the first two recipients and practitioners, who started working in the 1970s. Their experiences and consciousness have been greatly shaped by “the last step", therefore their images and words are also permeated among the footages of The Last Step of Touch Down. The two works have their own independent narratives and yet are intertwined with one another.

 

In order to present the artist’s “China Northwest Airlines” project in its integrity, the gallery will hold screening event for the other two works, A Brief History of China Northwest Airlines and A Failed Flight: Jiuquan Airport; and organize artist lectures and talks as well during the exhibition period.  

 

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About Zheng Yuan 

 

Zheng Yuan (b.1988, Lanzhou, China) currently lives and works in Beijing. He received his MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. 

Zheng Yuan’s recent solo project includes “Up in the Air”, Taikang Space, Beijing, China, 2017; “An Open Studio”, PRACTICE SPACE, New York, United States, 2016. He recently participated in group shows including “An Impulse to Turn”, Inside-Out Museum, Beijing, China, 2020; “UN/CONVENTIONAL”, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 2020; “Be In a Half of Maze” CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou, China, 2019; “The Mesh”, Shanghai chiK11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Extreme Mix – 2019 Guangzhou Airport Biennale”, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “Porsche Young Chinese Artists of the Year Nominees’ Exhibition”, Beijing, China, 2019; “65th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival”, Oberhausen, Germany, 2019; “NOW IS THE TIME – 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Wuzhen, Zhejiang, China, 2019; “his sunt leones – Gallery Weekend Beijing 2019 Up&Coming Sector”, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China, 2019; “HOW NOW: THE LIFE APP”, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence”, Eastern Suburb Memory, Chengdu, China, 2018; “OFFLINE BROWSER”, The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, 2018; “New Metallurgists”, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2018; “Long March Project Building Code Violations III Special Economic Zone”, Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2018; “Flickering Boundaries”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2018; “The Ecstasy of Time”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, 2017. His works are also screened at film festivals including the 36th Kassel Dokfest, Kassel, Germany, 2019; the 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany, 2019; 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, United States, 2017; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, 2016. He was nominated at the Art Sanya for the Young Chinese Artists Award in 2017.

As COVID-19 speeds around the world and continues to shut down more cities, people begin to consume Internet culture in order to escape the apocalyptic anxiety in 2020, allowing Internet memes to go viral across the globe. Built upon social media, 2020 Got Me Like merges everyday sentiments with classical movie scenes, and incorporates the artist’s footage during protests, turning memes into public commentary and political satire. In this eventful year, meme does more than hijacking and decontextualizing meanings, it has become a form of silent revolt against the absurd.

Moon Milk starts with a dream under anesthesia during neurosurgery and develops into a satirical critique on industrialization and gentrification campaign, which is materialized in a series of sculptural props for the video. The work interlaces the medical documentary of craniotomy and the whimsical narrative in Italo Calvino’s book “Cosmicomics,” drawing analogy between the surgical removal of brain tumor and the imaginary ritual of purifying the contaminated Moon milk. Through Italian and Chinese narrations, this work interweaves dream and reality, opening up new imagination on human agency that transcends the boundary between physical and nonphysical. 

Aphasia is an inability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. In this video, the lyrics of the music comes from using Machine Learning text generation neural networks. The artist and her research team from Cornell University used a program trained to simulate writing styles of humans, which had successfully generated text in the style of Shakespeare, to generate their own texts.

The artists and her researchers then took text data from the medieval papal bulls from popes, indulgence from prayers book, Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Animal farm (George Orwell), books of animal husbandry, Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann), Chinese online fictions (in the popular style of “Bossy, boss loves me”), and lyrics from R&B songs and Kanye West. Each text chosen by the artist represents a particular ideology. Completely generated by computer, those different blending of texts and ideologies achieves a unique style of writing.

MadeIn Gallery is honored to participate in Liste Showtime, presenting works by artist Su Yu-Xin. In addition to the online platform, Su Yu-Xin will also participate in the collaborative artist project, addressing the theme "Rewriting Our Imaginating" in the form of a poster. The poster will be shown and sold online as well as on view in public space in Basel from September 2 to September 15, 2020. 

 

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Liste Showtime

 

VIP Preview | 2020.9.11 10 am CEST - 9.13

Public Days | 2020.9.14 10 am CEST - 9.20

 

https://showtime.liste.ch/

 

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Artworks on Display:

1. Su Yu-Xin, Stream Folds #6, Crescendo, 2019, Oil and acrylic on flax, 250 x 160 cm

2. Su Yu-Xin, Sky Is an Hourglass, 2019, Oil and acrylic on flax, 200 x 160 cm

3. Su Yu-Xin, Every Day About This Time #23, 2019, Oil and acrylic on gesso board, 30 x 41 x 11 cm

 

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About Su Yu-Xin

 

Su Yu-Xin (b. 1991) was born in Taipei. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Slade School of Fine Art UCL, and works between Shanghai and Taipei. Her painting and other practices focus on the relationships between visual language and other sensorial perceptions. Rather than painting from images or photography, Su’s work often tends to explore the complexity of a moment or a vague perception in life. Su uses painting to construct a delicate alternation of horizons, which varying distances elicit different paces of observation. The colorful layered surface and multi-perspectives in her works generate a dynamic vision within each painting.

 

Su’s paintings study how different rhythms, and fundamentally, the fluidity of human experience can operate and be stored inside a still imagery. In her practice, the landscape is an in-between place, a traditional frontality in painting, which allows the artist to switch between figuration and abstraction, investigating the concept of new landscape- a mixture of still-life, graphs, digital calendar, fragments of text and memory. The landscape she is depicting is a field of hybrid vision and a contemporary impressionism that was never seen before this age.

 

Her recent exhibitions include: Solo Project “Almost No Memory”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2020; “A Hueto Spell”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 2019; “hic sunt leones”, 798 Art Centre, Beijing, 2019; “Taiwan Biennial-Wild Rhizome”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, 2018; “Building Code Violation III, Special Economic Zone”, Long March Space, Beijing, 2018; “A World in a Grain of Sand: MappingShapes and Sites for Social Deometries Atlantis Fosun Foundation”, Sanya, 2018; “Trembling Surfaces”, Long March Space, Beijing, 2016; “Future Island”, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2016; “2016 Slade Degree Show”, UCL, London, 2016; “Refuse: Refuge: Re-fuse”, The Koppel Project, London, 2016; “Small press project”, University of College London, London,2016; “2015 Slade Interim show”, UCL, Slade School of Fine Art, London,2015; etc.

After several months of space design and renovation, MadeIn Gallery's new space is now open at One Museum Place in Shanghai.

 

Address: L1-03&04, One Museum Place, 388 Shan Hai Guan Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai

Business Hours: Monday to Sunday 10:00-22:00 

 

Illusive Particles

Exhibition Period | 2020.08.22-09.21

Opening | 2020.08.22  16:00-19:00

Participating Artists |Cai Jian, Feng Zhixuan, Li Hanwei, Lu Boyu, Lu Pingyuan, Wang Ziquan, Zhong Wei

Address | MadeIn Gallery, L1-03&04, One Museum Place, 388 Shan Hai Guan Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai

Business Hours | Monday to Sunday 10:00-22:00

 

MadeIn Gallery is honored to present “Illusive Particles” the gallery’s first exhibition after its relocation at Shanghai One Museum Place, opening on August 22nd, 2020. After several months of space design and renovation, the exhibition will showcase the latest works of seven young artists: Cai Jian, Feng Zhixuan, Li Hanwei, Lu Boyu, Lu Pingyuan, Wang Ziquan, and Zhong Wei. Featuring diverse media including painting, sculpture, video installation and text, the exhibition will reflect on the current digital ecosystem and visual language.

 

“Illusive Particles” pursues MadeIn Gallery's continuous focus on virtuality and reality, digital and aesthetic evolution, and responds to the accelerated “internetting” process of global lifestyle and daily order as a consequence of the COVID-19 epidemic. The experience’s fragmentation and granulation of the Internet, livestreaming, games and datalinks are increasingly renewing current experiences, visual aesthetics as well as generation and power structures. Virtual ecosystem is not an illusion, but an ultra-real reality experience. Starting from their own working media and perspectives, the seven artists switched and jumped, copied and pasted between the virtual and the real world, creating a new visual vocabulary which freely correlates the digital ecosystem and the ultra-real experience.

 

Cai Jian's painting involves pop art and popular culture, through repeated depictions of daily objects and cultural symbols, he expands his research on images and contemporary visuals. Feng Zhixuan specializes in exploring materials and using them creatively; behind the fabricated identity of a Wenzhou Islander, he uses accessible materials to create rich contemporary myths. Li Hanwei’s CG animations excel in adopting the forms of commercial advertisements and films as metaphors, his latest work collects visual experience from a large amount of consumer products, synthesized into an unknown creature with blurred boundaries, spreading and winding in a virtual landscape. Lu Boyu's practice often manifests itself in a concise form and incorporates anti-plot narrative to create direct emotional impacts. He questions the daily order with a rebellious attitude, repeatedly scrutinizing and exploring the real world. Lu Pingyuan concentrates his practice on the writing of "stories" as a unique type of media for art creation, expanding the position of art in the real world. His latest story explores issues within technology, nature, and ethics with a surreal approach. Wang Ziquan's works are rooted in his unique observation and understanding of the Internet and the virtual world. Through narrative computer imagery, he explores the threshold values between virtuality and reality, and uses 3D software to imitate the absurdity in the physical world. Zhong Wei's practice mainly takes form in immersive installations and paintings that speak to the current vibrant but chaotic Internet-based visual language, and through appropriations reflects on the Internet popular culture, collective psychology, and social phenomena.

 

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About Cai Jian 

Cai Jian, born in Chaozhou, Guangdong in 1993, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2018, and currently lives and works between Guangzhou and Shanghai. Cai Jian's practice involves painting and installation, rooted in his interest in materials, subjects and the repetitive action in the process of painting, expanding to the research of pop art and pop culture. Through repeated depictions of daily objects and cultural symbols, Cai Jian explores materials, images and the contemporary visual culture.

Recent solo exhibitions include: “Sequenced and Reconstruction”, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts second studio showing room, Guangzhou, 2017; he participated to various group exhibitions among which: “Potential Actor Project No.14”, Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive, Beijing, 2019; “2018 China-Korean Exchange Exhibition”, Korean Cultural Center, Beijing, 2018; “The Choice of the Graduate Star”, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, 2018; “GAFA B.A. Degree show”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2018; “Eternity Infinity”, University City Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, 2017; “Inform Those Who Were Not, Instruct Those Who Were Not”，University City Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, 2017; Cai Jian was also nominated for ARTCLOUD China “THE SIGNATURE ART PRIZE”.

 

About Feng Zhixuan 

Feng Zhixuan, born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang in 1993, graduated from the China Academy of Art with a B.A. degree in Public Art in 2015 and from the Royal College of Art with an M.A. degree in Sculpture in 2018; a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, he currently works and lives between Shanghai and Beijing. Feng Zhixuan specializes in exploring materials and using them creatively, behind the fabricated identity of a Wenzhou Islander, Feng Zhixuan works in a global nomadic way. Using accessible contemporary materials to create rich myths, the artist describes his practice as "the design of monuments based on exoticism in the era of global localization”.

Recent solo exhibitions include: “Conjure a Compo Site”, Gene Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Heavenly North”, Plate Space, Beijing, China, 2019; Group exhibitions include: “A truck is parked in the grass near a tree in doubt”, Kongfuzius-Institut Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany, 2020; “Pull Up the Stake”, Qi Mu Space, Beijing, China, 2019; “Global Living Room”, Depot, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Violence in Silence”, Spectrum Art Space, Shanghai, China, 2018; “Too Much Information”, Seventeen Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2018; “The\Rehab\Lab”, Hackney Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2018; “THE COMING COMMUNITY”, The Crypt Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2017 and etc..

 

About Li Hanwei 

Li Hanwei, born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province in 1994, graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts in 2018, and currently lives and works in Shanghai. Li’s practice adopts the forms of commercial advertisements and films as metaphors. Exploring various communication methods, the artist uses CG images to establish a worldview in the fictional world where counterfeit of the real world and science fiction coexist, as a way to present the intersection between contemporary culture forms and individual identities.

Li Hanwei has participated to exhibitions such as: “Sino-Wharf: from Chinatown to Red Internationalism”, OCAT, Shenzhen, China, 2020; “Recommendations of Institutions”, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, China, 2020; “Wild Metropolis”, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Advent: Inventing Landscape, Producing the Earth”, Qianshao Con-temporary Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2019；“Extreme Mix”, Guangzhou Airport Biennale, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “The Variable and The Generating”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019; “Liquid Health”, Goethe Open Space, Shanghai, 2019; “Hunting Cycle”, MadeIn Park, Shanghai, 2018; “Shanghai Hot the Beheaded Six”, Yell Space, Shanghai, 2018; Boundary, SIVA, Shanghai, China；BABEL7, Babelsberger Strasse 52, Berlin, 2018; "Diversity", École nationale su-périeure d'art de Nice – Villa Arson, Nice, 2016. Li Hanwei nominated for “Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents” in 2020.

Li Hanwei also co-operates the online contemporary art space Slime Engine with Liu Shuzhen, Fang Yang and Shan Liang since 2017. Li Hanwei has been involved in the conception and production of several exhibitions for Slime Engine.

 

About Lu Boyu 

Lu Boyu, born in 1991 in Liaoning, China, graduated from the Visual Communication Department of the Dalian Industrial University in 2014, and currently lives and works in Shanghai. Lu’s practice often manifests itself in a concise form and incorporates anti-plot narrative to create direct emotional impacts. He questions the daily order with a rebellious attitude, so as to repeatedly scrutinize and explore the reality of the world, these continuous analyses are reflected through the composure of his works.

Recent exhibitions include: “Recommendations of Institutions”, OCAT Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 2020; “Shanghaihot The Beheaded Six”, Yell Space, Shanghai, 2018; “Serendipitous Mission”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2017; “Pixel Park: Contemporary Video Art Exhibition”, Jing’an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, 2016.

 

About Lu Pingyuan 

Lu Pingyuan, born in 1984 in Zhejiang province, China, lives and works in Shanghai. Lu’ s artworks involve a variety of media, including texts, installations, videos, paintings and others. For a few years, Lu concentrated his practice on the writing of “stories” as a unique type of media for art creation. These short “stories” significantly broaden the artworks’ state of existence in the real world, while extending the inherent spirit of art itself. His works have been exhibited extensively in both national and international museums and biennales.

Recent solo exhibitions include: “KOLA”, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “La Malle aux Trésors”, Mansion de Hermès, Shanghai, China, 2018; “HOME ALONe”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2017; “James Stanley-The Seventh Earl of Derby”, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, United Kingdom, 2016; “ON KAWARA”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2016; “Unexpected Discoveries”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2015; “Time Capsule”, Gallery Box, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011, etc. He participated in numerous group shows among which are “Wild Cinema”, TX Huaihai, Shanghai, China, 2020; “Land of the Lustrous”, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, China, 2019; “Edge of the Wonder-land-Thailand Art Biennale”, Krabi, Thailand, 2018; “Artist is Present”, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018; “This is Shanghai”, Cunard Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2018; “*underground-children-festival”, Para Site x Goe-the-Institut Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2018; “Zhong Guo 2185”, Sadie Coles HQ, London, 2017; “11th Shanghai Biennale”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2016; “9th Liverpool Biennale”, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2016; “A Beautiful Disorder”, Cass Sculpture Foundation, United Kingdom, 2016; “3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art”, Ural, Russia, 2015, etc.

 

About Wang Ziquan 

Wang Ziquan, born in Shenyang, Liaoning in 1993, currently lives and works between Hangzhou and Shanghai. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a B.A. degree in sculpture in 2017 and from the Royal College of Art with an M.A. degree in 2019. Wang’s practice is rooted in his unique observation and understanding of the Internet and the virtual world, exploring the threshold values between virtuality and reality, and using 3D software to imitate the absurdity in the physical world. By using narrative computer images, he copies and pastes between virtual and real spaces.

Recent exhibitions include: “Art Nova 100”, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China, 2019; “Fragmentation”, The Coningsby Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2019; “Material Statement”, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom, 2019 and etc.; Wang Ziquan was shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize in 2020.

 

About Zhong Wei 

Zhong Wei, born in Beijing, China in 1987, currently works and lives in Beijing. Zhong’s practice takes form in immersive installations and paintings that speak to China's vibrant but chaotic Internet-based visual language. Having compiled a massive database of memes and imagery found online, Zhong uses these ubiquitous images as raw materials for his works. After arranging these materials in countless arrays and variations using computer, the artist builds digital sketches before painting them on canvas. Zhong responds through appropriation to the Internet popular culture, collective psychology, and social phenomena. Data and composite images removed from their context are intertwined on the canvas, presenting the virtual world's unique ecosystem and visual experience.

Zhong Wei held a solo exhibition "易变░耦态 :NeメT Levé し" at de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong in 2019, and participated to the group show "Contemporary Showing Off" at de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong in 2020. Zhong Wei will also present a new installation project at PLATE Space in Beijing in 2020. His works are included in permanent collections among which: JP Morgan Chase Art Collection.

 

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About MadeIn Gallery 

MadeIn Gallery was established in 2014 in Shanghai by the contemporary art creation and curating platform MadeIn Company, a corporation founded by international influential artist Xu Zhen.

MadeIn Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of outstanding artists and projects, spurring the development of contemporary culture and international exchanges. Since its creation, the gallery has organized numerous curated, high-quality solo and group exhibitions of both emerging and established artists, becoming a unique and important art platform. MadeIn Gallery excels in discovering and accompanying young talented artists in their career,  as well as actively participating among international dialogues, in the Chinese and international contemporary art scene.

Collaborating artists: Chen Leng, Chen Ying, Ding Li, Elliot Dodd, Feng Mengbo, Gong Jian, He An, Li Hanwei, Liu Chengrui, Liu Wa, Lu Boyu, Lu Pingyuan, Miao Ying, Mo Shaolong, Payne Zhu, Pu Yingwei, Shang Liang, Shen Xin, Su Yu-Xin, Wang Sishun, Wang Newone, Xia Yunfei, Xu Dawei, XU ZHEN®, Yang Shen, Yang Yang, Zhang Lian, Zheng Yuan, Zhou Zixi.

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About One Museum Place 

Developed by Hines, the international real estate firm, One Museum Place is centrally located in downtown Shanghai and Jing’an district, adjacent to Shanghai Natural History Museum and Jing’an Sculpture Park, and seamlessly connected to metro line 13 (Shanghai Natural History Museum Station).

The tower houses 60 floors of prime office space and a retail pavilion, both overlooking the Natural History Museum and the verdant Jing’an Sculpture Park with open spaces and beautiful installations. 

Built to the highest international specifications of quality and sustainability, One Museum Place is one of the first office towers in Shanghai to receive the LEED® Platinum Certification.

The six-level lifestyle-based retail pavilion in One Museum Place features exclusive amenities. A variety of food, entertainment, leisure, and experience-driven retail stores will cater to the needs of tenants and shoppers in Jing’an district. Spacious outdoor garden terraces and artworks by renowned artists also add to the charm and popularity of the emerging one-stop retail destination.

 

After several months of design and renovation, MadeIn Gallery is pleased to inform you that we are relocating to a new address. The new space will open to the public with our inaugurate exhibition at the new location in August 2020. More information coming soon, please stay tuned.

 

MadeIn Gallery New Address:

L1-03 & 04, One Museum Place, 388 Shan Hai Guan Road, Jing’an District, Shanghai

 

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Liu Chengrui participates in "Work and Wait in Silence, Mocube Five-Year Anniversary Exhibition"

 

Work and Wait in Silence, Mocube Five-Year Anniversary Exhibition

Exhibition Period | 2020.7.18 – 2020.9.13

Curator | Dai Zhuoqun

Artists | Bu Yunjun, Chu Bingchao, Guo Haiqiang, Han Wuzhou, He Chi, He Tianqi, Huang Jiayan, Hu Qingtai, Hu Yinping, Jiang Bo, Kang Jing, Lang Can, Li Bingsheng, Lin Jiayue, Liu Chengrui, Liu Cong, Liu Qinmin, Liu Yaohua, Mao Yu, Rao Yifan, Tao Damin, Tan Yingjie, Wang Mao, Wang Xingjie, Wang Yunchong, Xia Guo, Xiao Jiang, Yan Bing, Yan Zhou, Yang Guangnan, Yang Shuangqing, Zheng Jiang, Zheng Jing, Zheng Tianming, Zhu Tian, Zhu Yingying

Mocube | 706 North two street, 798 Art District, No.2 Jiu Xian Qiao Road, Chao Yang District, Beijing

 

MadeIn Gallery artist Liu Chengrui participates in the group exhibition "Work and Wait in Silence, Mocube Five-Year Anniversary Exhibition", presenting his work "Looking for my lost finger".

 

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Li Hanwei, Shen Xin, Payne Zhu participate in "Sino-Wharf: from Chinatown to Red International"

 

Sino-Wharf: from Chinatown to Red International

Exhibition Period | 2020.07.25 - 2020.08.21

Curator | Pu Yingwei

Artists | Cao Fei, Fang Di, Hsu Chia-Wei, Lawrence Lek, Lee Kai-Chung, Li Hanwei, Liu Yujia, Musquiqui Chihying, Payne Zhu, Shen Xin, Yang Yuanyuan, Yu Cheng-Ta

OCAT Shenzhen| Enping Road, Overseas Chinses Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong

 

Li Hanwei, Shen Xin, Payne Zhu participate in the group exhibition "Sino-Wharf: from Chinatown to Red International"  conducted by OCAT Shenzhen, presenting works "Liquid Health: Creator, We Believe in the Power of Civilization, We Define Nutrition, Spiritual Beauty Instrument, Liquid Mission No.2", "LIKE Investment", "Competition of Spokesperson", "Strongholds" and "Continuing Blessings".

 

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XU ZHEN® participates in " 'C': Digital Interactive Art Experiment "

 

"C": Digital Interactive Art Experiment

Exhibition Period | 2020.07.03 - 2020.08.31

Artists | CHENG RAN x MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS, He Xiangyu, Liao Fei, Shi Zheng, Tan Tian, XU ZHEN®

Tank Shanghai | 2380 Longteng Avenue, Shanghai

 

MadeIn Gallery Artist XU ZHEN® participates in the group exhibition "C": Digital Interactive Art Experiment, presenting I am Completely Confident... and Spread B-025.

 

 

Liu Chengrui participates in the group exhibition "Stylish" 

 

Stylish 

Exhibition Period | 2020.5.30 - 7.30

Curator | Lan Qingwei 

Artists | Ding Xuewei, Guo Feng, Hu Jiazhi, Hu Yinping, Li Jing, Liu Chengrui, Shao Fengtian, Zhang Zhaoying, Zhou Wenjing

STRAW Art Center | No. 6 Zuodi Road, Rome Lake, Houshayu, Shunyi District, Beijing

 

MadeIn Gallery artist Liu Chengrui participates in the group show Stylish at STRAW Art Center, presenting Grief (2016) and a video work from the project Decade Plan (2006 - ongoing). 

 

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Liu Chengrui participate in the group exhibition "Stratification and Synthesis"

 

Stratification and Synthesis 

Two Actions and Practices in Chinese Contemporary Photography 

Exhibition Period | 2020.5.30 - 8.30

Curator | Hai Jie

Artists | Cai Dongdong, Chen Wei, Jiang Feiran, Lei Lei, Li Lang, Li Yu & Liu Bo, Liu Chengrui, Birdhead, Shen Linghao, Song Xi, Sun Yanchu, Xu Hongxiang, Yang Xinjia, Yang Yuanyuan, Zhang Jin, Zhang Lanpo, Zhang Wei, Zhang Xiao 

Xie Zilong Photography Museum, 3rd Floor, Exhibition Hall 5 & 6 | No. 387, Section 1, Xiaoxiang South Road, Yanghu Street, Yuelu District, Changsha, Hunan

 

In the group show Stratification and Synthesis: Two Actions and Practices in Chinese Contemporary Photography at Xie Zilong Photography Museum, MadeIn Gallery Artist Liu Chengrui presents Grief (2016) and Punish Proud (2014-2015).

 

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MadeIn Gallery artist Liu Chengrui is included in 99 Artists published by Judith Neilson. The book showcased ninety-nine of China’s leading artists from The White Rabbit Collection. With over 2,000 works from 700 artists, White Rabbit Gallery has become one of the world’s most significant collections of Chinese contemporary art. 

 

《 99 Artists 》

Authors | Judith Neilson, Luise Guest, David Roche (Photography)

Publisher | Judith Neilson (2019)

 

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MadeIn Gallery artist Liu Chengrui and eight of his works are included in The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader, published by Routledge. The included works are A Man from Long Ago (2013), Tiger's Mouth (2013), Shoes Repaired Shop (2012), Looking for my lost finger (2010 - ongoing), Feathers! (2009), Guazi Moves Sand-3 (2008), Decade (2006 - ongoing), Barefoot (2005).

 

《The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader 》

Editors | Teresa Brayshaw, Anna Fenemore, Noel Witts

Publisher | Routledge; 1 Edition (2019.7.29)

 

 

XU ZHEN®, Lu Pingyuan, Slime Engine, Feng Mengbo participate in "Wild Cinema"

 

Wild Cinema 

Exhibition Period | 2020.6.12 - 8.31

Curators | David Chau, Xu Zhen, Lu Pingyuan

Academic Director | Lu Xinghua

Artists | Anish Kapoor, Andreas Gursky, Amalia Pica, Donna Huanca, Damien Hirst, Danh Vō, Ding Yi, Feng Mengbo, Jeppe Hein, Kathleen Ryan, Lu Pingyuan, Lu Yang, Neil Beluofa, Neo Rauch, Peter Halley, Ryan Gander, Slime Engine, Wang Xin, XU ZHEN®, Ye Funa, Zeng Fanzhi, Zheng Huan

TX Huaihai | Middle Huaihai Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai

 

MadeIn Gallery artists XU ZHEN®, Lu Pingyuan, Slime Engine, Feng Mengbo participate in "Wild Cinema", a group exhibition of contemporary art co-presented by iag, a sister brand to ART021, TX Huaihai | Youth Energy Center and Cc Foundation. 

 

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Gong Jian participates in "Muses, Yu Gong and Compasses"

 

Muses, Yu Gong and Compasses 

Exhibition Period | 2020.6.20 - 8.30

Curator | Lu Mingjun

Artists | John Akomfrah, Chu Bingchao, Duan Jianyu, Fang Di, Gong Jian, Ho Tzu Nyen, Birdhead, Rachel Rose, Yang Fudong, Zheng Guogu

Pingshan Art Museum 3-5F | Huide Road, Pingshan District, Shenzhen

 

MadeIn Gallery artist Gong Jian participates in the group show Muses, Yu Gong and Compasses at Pingshan Art Museum, presenting 5 works from his new painting series "Muse". 

 

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He An participates in "2020 - Song Art Invitation Exhibition"

 

"2020" – SONG ART INVITATION EXHIBITION 

Exhibition Period | 2020.06.20 - 2020.08.30

Curator | Juan Zi

Artists | Bu Di, Loris Cecchini, Fu Xiaotong, Gao Ludi, He An, Hong Hao, Lan Zhaoxing, Li Nu, Li Chen, Liu Shangying, Manuel Mathieu, Ou Yangchun, SHIMURAbros, Henk Visch, Wang Guofeng, Wu Chen, Xie Nanxing, Xie Molin, Zhang Wei, Zhang Hui

Song Art | Gelasi Road, Shunyi District, Beijing

 

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He An Participates in "Consenseus - Man in the Chinese Garden"

 

Consenseus - Man in Chinese Garden

Exhibition Period |  2020.06.30 -  2020.08.15

Curator |  Shen Ruijun

Artists | He An, Liu Jianhua, Wang Sishun

Boxes Art Museum | Shunfeng Mountain Wetland Park，Shunde District, Foshan, Guangdong

 

 

 

Ding Li x Slime Engine

Duration| 2020.5.22 - Unlimited

Online Address | www.slimeengine.com/dinglixslimeengine

 

MadeIn Gallery Artist Ding Li works with Slime Engine to jointly create a new exhibition project.

 

Continuing Ding Li's exhibition in MadeIn Gallery's physical space, the exhibition will present the artist's studio on a virtual island by CG technology, inviting audiences to together explore Ding Li's studio and his practice.

 

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He An participates in the group exhibition "Form | Impression"

 

FORM | IMPRESSION

GALLERY WEEKEND BEIJING 2020 PUBLIC SECTOR

Exhibition Period | 2020.05.22 - 2020.08.20

Curator | You Yang

Artists | Daniel Buren, Cai Lei, DONG Bingqing, He An, Hu Qingyan, Hu Xiangqian, Li Weiyi, Liu Wei, Nhozagri Nhozagri, Daniela Palimari, Shen Yuan, Timur Si-Qin, Sui Jianguo, Tong Kunniao, Wu Daxin, Yang Jiecang, Ye Funa, Zhao Xu, Zheng Lu, Zheng Guogu

798 Art Zon | No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

 

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Li Hanwei and Lu Boyu participate in "Recommendations of Institutions"

 

Recommendations of Institutions

Exhibition Period | 2020.5.24 - 8.10

Curatorial Team | Curating Group of Oil Painting Department of GAFA

Artists | Li Hanwei, Lu Yubo, Sun Wenhao, Wen Jie Junjie, Yang Yang, Deng Yuejun, Jin Yanan, Liu Guoqiang, RMBit (group), Gong Xuyao, Jiang Chunlin, Wang Ziyun

Boxes Art Space | Building 11 Lan Ying Fang, OCT Habour Shopping Center, East 8 Baishi Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen

 

MadeIn Gallery Artist Li Hanwei and Lu Boyu participate in Recommendations of Institutions at the OCAT Shenzhen OCT Harbour Exhibition Site · Boxes Art Space, presenting Liquid Health: We Believe the Power of Civilization and Variant of The Barque of Dante in the exhibition.



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Miao Ying participates in X Museum Triennial and Sigg Group Show

 

How Do We Begin? X Museum Triennial 1st Edition 

Exhibition Period | 2020.5.30 - 9.13

Curator | Poppy Dongxue Wu

Artists | Chando Ao, Chen Wei, Lee Lee Chan, Chen Zhou, Cheng Ran, Cui Jie, Jes Fan, Guan Xiao, Guo Cheng, Hu Yun, Jiang Zhuyun, Jiū Society, Li Shuang, Li Weiyi, Luo Wei, Miao Ying, Mak Ying Tung 2, Pan Wangshu, Pete Jiadong Qiang, Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Sha Shuang, Wang Haiyang, Wang Xiaoqu, Meltingwang, Wang Zigeng, Xie Yi, Liu Xin, Yang Bodu, Ye Linghan, You Ada, Mores Zhan, Zhou Yan, I-Liang Cheng

X Museum | CuiGeZhuang International Financial Art Demonstration Area #11 Building, Chaoyang District, Beijing

 

MadeIn Gallery artist Miao Ying participates in the first edition of X Museum Triennial "How Do We Begin?", presenting VR video installation Happily Contained.

 

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Payne Zhu participates in the group show "Meditations in an Emergency"

 

Meditations in an Emergency

Exhibition Period | 2020.5.21 - 8.30

Curatorial Team |  Guo Xi, Luan Shixuan, Ara Qiu, Lin Luqi, Duffy Du, and Neil Zhang

Artists |  Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Musquiqui Chihying, Forensic Architecture, Han Bing, Christopher K. Ho, Joyce Ho, Hsu Chia-Wei, Hu Rui, Pierre Huyghe, Jiang Zhuyun, Oliver Laric, Amiko Li, Li Liao, Lu Lei, Shana Moulton, Qiu Anxiong, Mika Rottenberg, Angela Su, Wolfgang Tillmans, Yi Xin Tong, Wang Bing, Yang Fudong, Zhang Hui, Zhang Peili, Robert Zhao Renhui, and Payne Zhu

UCCA | Beijing 798, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Street, Beijing

 

MadeIn Gallery artist Payen Zhu participates in the group exhibition “Meditations in an Emergency” in UCCA Center for Contemporary Art from May 21 to August 30, 2020, presenting the work "Make Bad Cookies".

 

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Payne Zhu and XU ZHEN® participate in the group show "Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art"

 

Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art

Exhibition Period | 2020.5.22 - 8.30

Curator | Yang Beichen

Artists | Cao Fei, Chen Xiaoyun, Dai Chenlian, Hu Xiangqian, Jiang Zhi, Kan Xuan, Li Binyuan, Li Liao, Li Ming, Li Ran, Lin Yilin, Ma Qiusha, Payne Zhu, Shi Qing, Tang Dixin, Tao Hui, Tong Wenmin, Wang Jianwei, XU ZHEN®, Yan Xing, Yao Qingmei, Zhang Qing, Zhou Tao, Zhao Zhao

New Century Art Foundation | No. A05, 797 East Road, 798 Art Zone, Chaoyang District, Beijing 

 

MadeIn Gallery artists XU ZHEN® and Payne Zhu participate in the group show "Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art" at New Century Art Foundation, presenting Shouting and Each Is a Corporate and Each Is a Product respectively. 

 

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Zheng Yuan participates in the group show "2020 OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Exhibition"

 

2020 OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Exhibition

Exhibition Period | 2020.5.16 - 8.16

Curators | Tao Hanchen, Wang Shuman, Qian Anli (Assistant Curator)

Artists | Cheng Xinhao, Li Shuang, Lin Ke, Tang Chao, Tao Hui, Wang Tuo, Zheng Yuan

OCAT Shanghai | -1F Sunken Garden, Lane 9, Qufu Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai

 

MadeIn Gallery Artist Zheng Yuan participates in the 2020 OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artists Exhibition "UN/CONVENTIONAL", presenting works including A Successful Delivery: Poet Liaoxiaozhu, A Brief History of China Northwest Airlines, Nights of Proletarian, Dream Delivery, Nothing Happened, Game and Image Study.

MadeIn Gallery is pleased to present a selection of new works by the gallery artists for the first edition of Frieze Viewing Room, featuring paintings, sculptures, installations, and video works by Chen Ying, Ding Li, Liu Wa, Lu Pingyuan, Pu Yingwei, Shang Liang, Su Yu-Xin, XU ZHEN®, and Yang Yang. 

 

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Frieze New York Online Viewing Room

Artists | Chen Ying, Ding Li, Liu Wa, Lu Pingyuan, Pu Yingwei, Shang Liang, Su Yu-Xin, XU ZHEN®, Yang Yang

VIP Preview | 2020.5.6-5.7 

Public Days | 2020.5.8 11pm-5.16 7am CST

 

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Selected works on display:

XU ZHEN®, Part of History, 2012, Collage on canvas, fabric, mixed media, 159 x 236 cm

XU ZHEN®, Evolution-South Wall of Yulin Cave No.003, Ngil Mask, Oil on canvas, 150 x 106 cm

Lu Pingyuan, Sky Burial, 2020, Fiberglass, metal, paper, 38 x 42 cm, 9 x 6 x 5 cm (hand)

Pu Yingwei, Revolutionary Realism Font: Letter H (Ideology Cluster), 2020, Oil on canvas, image transfer, acrylic, spray paint, sticker, paintbrush, 170 x 100 cm

Su Yu-Xin, Drowning Moon, 2019, Oil and acrylic on flax, 250 x 160 cm

Liu Wa, Moon Milk, 2019, Single-channel video installation, 8'20'', Edition of 6

Yang Yang, Implanted 2, Oil on canvas, 180 x 240 cm