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 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

Ding Li Solo Exhibition: April 12th, No. 106, 2879 Longteng Avenue

 

After a long winter with the challenging situation of COVID-19, MadeIn Gallery is pleased to present on April 12th 2020 its first exhibition after re-opening to the public: a solo exhibition by Ding Li, titled “April 12th, No. 106, 2879 Longteng Avenue”. The exhibition marks the second solo show of the artist in MadeIn Gallery. In the form of an exhibition, the gallery will recreate Ding Li’s studio and present his working condition, along with the new painting series by the artist and its process of creation.  

 

Under the environment of the global pandemic and economic turbulence, China is gradually recovering, though the long battle against the virus is not yet over. The current health crisis has impacted greatly on people’s living situations and daily routines, and inevitably it has also affected the art industry and community, as many galleries, museums, and institutions including MadeIn Gallery were forced to temporarily close down. Given this background, since March 17th artist Ding Li has moved his studio into MadeIn Gallery, where he returns back to work and creation and will be open to the public during the exhibition period. MadeIn Gallery also goes on live on ZOOM to present the event online.

 

 

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Artist | Ding Li

Exhibition Period | 2020.4.12-5.30

Opening | 2020.4.12 16:00-19:00

MadeIn Gallery | No. 106, 2879 Longteng Avenue, Shanghai

 

During the exhibition, Ding Li will continue to work on his portrait series. Reflecting on the artist’s own aesthetic criteria, these internet-sourced portraitures are processed digitally then painted as sketches. The voluminous brushstrokes produce a three-dimensional effect through the gradation of colors. While the painterly style obscures the individuality of the subject’s facial feature, the abstract lines form a figurative picture filled with energy and inner emotions, pulling away from the sense of alienation between strangers. In the current hard times when we are social distancing but our future as humankind has never been so closely connected, the series of portraitures have been given new meaning in the current context. 

 

The exhibition title “April 12th, No. 106, 2879 Longteng Avenue” is intended to emphasize the temporality and spatiality as well as the site-specific nature of this initiative, focusing on the artist’s currently living and working situation, while dealing with the chaos and uneasiness facing a current crisis and our unknown future. The exhibition space will present the artist’s studio in its raw and undecorated condition, inviting audiences to together explore Ding Li’s studio and his practice.

 

As the epidemic of COVID-19 in Shanghai is stabilizing, MadeIn Gallery is very pleased to open to the public again, by appointment only. You're welcome to make an appointment with us by email to visit the gallery. In order to follow the epidemic prevention rules, please wear a face mask while visiting. You'll also be asked to show your Shanghai QR code and provide your personal information, we will take your temperature and other when you enter the gallery. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. 

 

Our upcoming exhibition, Ding Li's solo exhibition, will open on the 12th of April, and we will be installing until the 11th. During that period suprises will be waiting for the visitors! It has been a long time since we've seen you and we have been missing you. Looking forward to seeing you again.

 

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Gallery opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00-19:00

Shortlisted for the first Sigg Prize, Shen Xin is featured in the exhibition “Sigg Prize 2019” at M+ Museum, in Hong Kong, where she presents her work Provocation of the Nightingale. In addition, a selection of video works by Zheng Yuan are currently on view in “Be In a Half of Maze”at CAA Art Museum, in Hangzhou.

 

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Sigg Prize 2019

Exhibition Period: 2019.12.7 - 2020.4.13
Curator: Pi Li
Artists: Hu Xiaoyuan, Liang Shuo, Lin Yilin, Shen Xin, Tao Hui, Samson Young
Venue: M+ Pavilion, Art Park, West Kowloon Cultural District

The "Sigg Prize 2019" exhibition presents work by the six artists shortlisted for the prize: Hu Xiaoyuan (Born 1977, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. Lives and works in Beijing), Liang Shuo (Born 1976, Tianjin. Lives and works in Beijing), Lin Yilin (Born 1964, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Lives and works in New York), Shen Xin (Born 1990, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Lives and works in Minneapolis and Amsterdam), Tao Hui (Born 1987, Yunyang, Sichuan Province. Lives and works in Beijing), and Samson Young (Born 1979, Hong Kong. Lives and works in Hong Kong). These artists encompass different generations and geographies and work across a range of mediums, including sculpture, site-specific installation, video, and performance. Their practices articulate clear perspectives on topics that defy easy categorisation, and the work featured in this exhibition addresses pressing questions that resonate across contexts.

 

 

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Be In a Half of Maze

Exhibition Period: 2019.12.4 - 2020.1.3
Curator: Liu Tian
Artists: Feng Bingyi, Tang Chao, Wu Ding, Zheng Yuan
Venue: Basement of the Gallery, CAA Art Museum, 218 Nanshan Rd., Hangzhou

"Be in a Half of Maze" organized by CAA Art Museum in Hangzhou presents a selection of video works and projects by young Chinese artists.

Winners of the 2018-2019 Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” were announced at Shanghai Exhibition Center on the 7th of November, 2019. They include Chen Baoyang, Liu Xinyi, and MadeIn Gallery artist Liu Wa and Miao Ying.

 

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Miao Ying attends "Lunar Phases"

Lunar Phases

Exhibition Period: 2019.11.13 - 12.4
Artistic Collaborator: Bibi Zhou
Curator: You Yang, Lucia Liu
Artists: Liang Chen, Liang Manqi, Liu Shiyuan, Miao Ying, Tao Hui
Venue: UCCA Lab, 798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing

The exhibition is named after “Lunar Phases”. Five representative phases of the lunar phases are run through the exhibition in the form of five art project spaces.

 

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Miao Ying attends "ZHANG PEILI, GENG JIANYI's STUDENTS"

ZHANG PEILI, GENG JIANYI's STUDENTS

Exhibition Period: 2019.11.25 - 12.1
Director: Zhou Tiehai
Curator: Fan Li
Artists: Zhang Peili, Geng Jianyi, Lu Lei, Jiang Zhuyun, Guoxi, Miao Ying, Lin Ke, Li Ming, Lu Yang, Yi Lian, Zhang Liaoyuan, Feng chen, Deng Yuejun, Liu Guoqiang, Zhang Ding
Venue: Westbund Art Center, N1, 2555 Longteng Ave., Xuhui District, Shanghai

The works of professors Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi and thirteen of their outstanding students are exhibited within the 2019 "Art and Design Education: Future Lab", presenting a periodical review on the teaching of new media in the China Academy of Art.

 

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Miao Ying and Wang Newone attend "TO OTHER SHORES: ON TECHNO-SINOFUTURISM, AI ARTIST BOTS AND NEW SILK ROADS"

TO OTHER SHORES: ON TECHNO-SINOFUTURISM, AI ARTIST BOTS AND NEW SILK ROADS

Exhibition Period: 2019.11.30, 20:00-23:00 PM
Curator: Pauline Doutreluingne, Petra Poeizl
Artists: Cheng Ran, Lawrence Lek, Lu Yang, Miao Ying, Solveig Suess, Yin-ju Chen, Wang NewOne
Venue: ACUD Kino, Veteranenstrasse 21, 10119 Berlin

TO OTHER SHORES: On techno-sinofuturism, AI artists bots and New Silk Roads imagines a world that is expanding into plural entities by the introduction of new technologies, always flirting with the idea that they might be overruling the world, as we know it. Seven chosen works of artists and filmmakers of Chinese descent delve into intergalactic fantasies, the illusion of the real, uterus superheroes, Sci-Fi entanglements, futuristic infrastructures, algorithms and networks on a planetary scale.

 

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XU ZHEN® attends "James Cohan: Twenty Years"

James Cohan: Twenty Years

Exhibition Period: 2019.11.1 - 12.20
Artists: Helene Appel, Firelei Báez, Kathy Butterly, Simon Evans™, Omer Fast, Spencer Finch, Michelle Grabner, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Federico Herrero, Yun-Fei Ji, Byron Kim, Mernet Larsen, Richard Long, Teresa Margolles, Josiah McElheny, Beatriz Milhazes, Lee Mullican, Jordan Nassar, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Scott Olson, Katie Paterson, The Propeller Group, Matthew Ritchie, Hiraki Sawa, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Elias Sime, Robert Smithson, Tabaimo, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Fred Tomaselli, Bill Viola, Grace Weaver, XU ZHEN®
Venue: Tribeca and Lower East Side gallery spaces, 48 Walker St. & 291 Grand St., New York

James Cohan is pleased to present James Cohan: Twenty Years, a special group exhibition celebrating the gallery's twentieth anniversary. On view from November 1 through December 20 at James Cohan's Tribeca and Lower East Side gallery spaces, the exhibition features new or historical works by every artist in the current program.

 

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XU ZHEN® attends "Corner Square Montage"

Corner Square Montage

Exhibition Period: 2019.11.23 - 2020.2.22
Producer: Sui Qun
Curator: Lu Mingjun
Artists: Hardcore Raver In Tears, Chen Chieh-Jen, Chen Tong etc., Gong Jian, Hu Wei, Lang Xuebo, Li Liao, Li Yu + Liu Bo, Shi Qing, Tang Xiaohe, Wang Jianwei, Wu Hao, Xu Tan, Xu Zhen, Zhang Ding
Venue: Surplus space, Culture Shore, 2th floor Building F, Wuhan Living Room, No.8 Hongtu Avenue, Wuhan

This exhibition curated by Surplus Space art director, Lu Mingjun presents a selection of works by Tang Xiaohe, Wang Jianwei, Chen Chieh-Jen, Xu Zhen, Zhang Ding, Shi Qing, Gong Jian, Li Yu + Liu Bo, Lang Xuebo, Li Liao, Hu Wei and Wu Hao etc. The exhibition attempts to generate a new kind of montage and political power through the collision of the works, combining various medias, languages and styles from different periods.

 

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Zheng Yuan attends "THE MESH"

THE MESH

Exhibition Period: 2019.11.8 - 12.13
Curator: Alvin Li
Artists: Julian Charrière & Julius von Bismarck, Liu Shiyuan, Nicholas Mangan, Farah Al Qasimi, Timur Si-Qin, Tao Hui, Tong Yixin, Xu Jiawei, Zheng Yuan
Venue: chi K11 art museum, B3, K11 Art Mall, 300 Huaihai Road Central, Huangpu District, Shanghai

The exhibition NOWNESS Experiments: "The Mesh", a moving-image exhibition is produced in collaboration with NOWNESS. Running from November 8th till December 13th, 2019, The Mesh features a special presentation of The Night Journey (a collaboration between video art pioneer Bill Viola and the USC Game Innovation Lab) and two large-scale multimedia installations by London-based collective Marshmallow Laser Feast. These projects run alongside D.E.E.P.(Disaster of Extra Epic Proportions), a moving-image installation exhibition curated by Alvin Li. The exhibition will be accompanied by a program of public screenings of nominated films for NOWNESS China New Talent Awards.

 

 

Shen Xin attends "NEITHER BLACK/RED/YELLOW/NOR WOMAN"

NEITHER BLACK/RED/YELLOW/NOR WOMAN

Exhibition Period: 2019.09.28 - 04.01
Curator: Nikita Yingqian Cai, Xiaoyu Weng
Artists: Chang Wen-Hsuan, Dachal Choi, Chitra Ganesh, Jane Jin Kaisen, Iris Kensmil, Sylbee Kim, Mai Ling, Laura Huertas Millán, Sara Modiano, Mai-Thu Perret, Thao Nguyen Phan, Arin Rungjang, Shen Xin, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Wang Zhibo, Luka Yuanyuan Yang & Carlo Nasisse, Mia Yu
Venue: Times Art Center Berlin, Brunnenstr. 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

Neither Black/Red/Yellow Nor Woman is rooted in the conceptual reenactment of works and archives of the artists Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), Pan Yuliang (1895-1977) and Trinh T. Minh-ha (b. 1952). All three of them have inspired artists, writers, cultural practitioners, and intellectuals of different generations to imagine and produce their own world images. Departing from a fictitious encounter of the three protagonists in 1979, the exhibition tells stories of women who search for their artistic voices, and whose identities haunt them while empower them—regardless of their various cultural, geographical and historical contexts. Their travels take them along colonial memories before and after the Second World War and through chaos induced by the ideological camps of the Cold War. Conflicted histories and individual narratives were pushed into the background by the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc, but re-emerge as contemporary paradoxes: East and West, North and South are spectral doubles of each other; democracy and totalitarianism become two sides of the same coin. Against this background, the exhibition is conceived as a conversation between “them” merging with “us”, as a polyphony of cross-border storytellers who juxtapose historical materials with fictional constructs and speculate beyond categorisations of gender and culture.

 

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Shen Xin attends "Materializing Memory: Contemporary Video Art from China"

Materializing Memory: Contemporary Video Art from China

Exhibition Period: 2019.09.05 - 10.11
Curator: Ellen Larson
Artists: Chen Dandiz, Lin Ke, Liu Yujia, Shen Xin, Sun Wenhao
Venue: University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Materializing Memory presents the work of five young Chinese artists, all born after 1980. These artists are part of China’s balinghou and jiulinghou (post-1980 and post-1990) generations. Unlike earlier practitioners, they came of age following the dramatic economic and cultural reforms of 1978. Through the medium of video art, these artists explore contemporary Chinese society during a period of profound technological and urban transformation. Their work is deeply informed by the Internet, rapid economic development, international communication and exchange, as well as opportunities to earn advanced degrees abroad. These videos document personal and collective experiences. Some record individual feelings of boredom and isolation, while others investigate broader social contradictions and complexities within China and beyond. Together, these works illustrate the plasticity of contemporary experience, and ask what it means to remember during a time when progress accelerates the urge to forget.

 

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Shen Xin and XU ZHEN® attend "FREE PRISM, Video Wave"

FREE PRISM, Video Wave

Exhibition Period: 2019.09.25 - 11.17
Curator: Dai Zhuoqun
Art Director: Zhou Li, Liu Ke
Artists: Zhang Peili, Xu Tan, Wang Jiangwei, Wang Gongxin, Yang Zhenzhong, Chen Xiaoyun, Jiang Zhi, Yang Fudong, Kan Xuan, Zhou Tao, Xu Zhen, Cao Fei, Fang Lu, Lu Yang, Li Ran, Chen Zhou, Shen Xin
Venue: OCT Boxes Art Museum, Guang Dong Province, China

"Free Prism Video Wave" traverses the changes in Chinese video art over the past 30 years from beginning with the liberation of ideology and enlightenment since the 1980s to the global consumerism era nowadays, inviting 17 artists who active in different periods and influential as well as representative in the field of video creation. The exhibition tries to pass through the longitudinal timeline and emphasizes the investigation of outstanding creative individuals, which not only traces back to the rich folds and facets of history, but also presents the refreshing and exciting ideas brought about by the current social and technological process.

 

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XU ZHEN® attends "Encounter - Shanghai Urban Space Art Season"

Encounter
Shanghai Urban Space Art Season

Exhibition Period: 2019.09.29 - 11.30
Curator: Fram Kitagawa
Venue: Yangpu Waterfront, Shanghai, China

SUSAS 2019 is honored to have Mr. Fram Kitagawa, the art director of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale and Setouchi Triennale, as its artistic director who curates the entire event under the theme of Encounter. The program includes 20 permanent public artworks standing in various spots of the 5.5km long Yangpu Waterfront, which is enclosed by Yangshupu Road on its north, Huangpu River on its south, Qinhuangdao Road on its west and Dinghai Road on its east, as well as 5 artworks whose proposals we are now publicly calling for. Besides, a temporary exhibition will be held at the main exhibition area which used to be Shanghai Dockyard.

 

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XU ZHEN® attends "Pal(ate)/ette/"

Pal(ate)/ette/

Exhibition Period: 2019.09.20 - 10.31
Curator: Josef Ng of nrm
Artists: Cai Dongdong, Cai Yuan & Xi Jianjun, Chen Wei, Chen Yufan, Chen Yujun, Cheng Ran, Gao Lei, Gao Ludi, Gao Weigang, Guo Hongwei, Jiang Pengyi, Jiang Zhi, Jin Shan, Li Jingxiong, Li Qing, Li Tingwei, Liu Jianhua, Liu Weijian, Liu Yujia, Lu Zhengyuan, Lu Chao, Lv Song, Ma Ke, Jennifer Ma Wen, Nabuqi, Ni Jun, Ni Zhiqi, Ouyang Chun, Peng Wei, Qin Qi, Qiu Jie, Shao Yinong & Mu Chen, Shen Fan, Shen Liang, Shen Ruijun, Shen Shaomin, Shi Jinsong, Shi Yiran, Shi Zhiying, Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Song Yuanyuan, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Tang Nannan, Wang Jiaxue, Wang Yi, Wang Yuyang, Wang Zhibo, Wu Di, Wu Shanzhuan & Inga Svala Thorsdottir, Xu Zhen®, Xue Feng, Yan Heng, Yan Lei, Yang Jian, Yang Yongliang, Zhang Ding, Zhang Lehua, Zhang Yexing, Zheng Guogu, Zheng Lu, Tant Zhong, Zhou Wendou, Zhu Jinshi, Zhu Xinyu
Venue: SGA, Shanghai, China

Pal(ate)/ette/ will show artworks throughout Three on the Bund with the exhibition`s core display in SGA. Curated by nrm, Pal(ate)/ette/ reflects the spectrum of associations of the homonyms Palate and Palette; a synthesis of the senses – taste sight hearing smell and touch – and presenting Three on the Bund as a cultural whole.

 

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XU ZHEN® attends "THEN"

THEN

Exhibition Period: 2019.09.11 - 01.26
Curator: David Williams
Venue: White Rabbit Gallery, 30 Balfour St, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia

THEN celebrates the great adventure of White Rabbit’s first decade: ten exciting years of showcasing the creative energy, daring and technical accomplishment of Chinese contemporary art. The gallery’s tenth anniversary exhibition presents works by more than 60 artists, all produced during the first ten years of Judith Neilson’s private collection (2000-2010). Some were highlights of the very first White Rabbit exhibition, in 2009.

DING LI IN GROUP EXHIBITION "THE KIND STRANGER"

THE KIND STRANGER

Exhibition Date: Aug. 24-Oct. 20, 2019
Artist: Xu Wenkai, Bi Rongrong, Cédric Van Parys, Chen Zhou, Ding Li, Feng Bingyi, Fito Segrera, Geng Jianyi, Guo Cheng, Hefin Jones, Hu Jie, Hu Jieming, Ji Wenyu & Zhu Weibing, Jin Shan, Li Shan, Li Ke, Liu Ren, Liu Yi, Louisa Galiardi, Marc Lee, Maya Kramer, Nick Ervinck, Onformative, Liao Yijun, Rena Giesecke, RMBit, Shi Yong, Shi zhiying, Su Chang, Xu Weijing, Wu Yiming, Xiao Jiang, Xu Zhe, Yan yi, Yutaka Makino, Zhang Ding, Zhang Haimeng & Zhang Xiaojing & Yan Zhongrui & Feng Kai & Lu Yunbo, Zhang Liaoyuan
Curatorial Team: Yan Xiaodong, Long Xingru, Bo Zhifei, Zheng Yunhan, Liu Jing, Zhang Yingying, Chen Xian
Venue: UNArt Center, No.150 North Nanquan Road, Pudong, Shanghai, China

Titled as "The Kind Stranger”, the show aims to reflect and to some degree respond to the new conditions and scenarios of contemporary human society driven by the accelerating technological revolution. The entire exhibition is based on a fictional scenario: “The Kind Stranger”, as the protagonist of the story, is a character who lives “post-singularity”. The exhibition is reminiscent of an investigative scene in which the “private collections” of this “kind stranger”, whether in physical or digital forms, are uncovered. The site remains ambiguous in its temporal or spatial anchor, whilst inviting the audiences to locate, even orient the items, the text, the sound and vibe, even him/herself, as part of the story to enjoy a psychological retreat from the year 2019, and the city Shanghai

 

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LIU CHENGRUI IN GROUP EXHIBITION "180 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN CHINA"

180 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN CHINA

Exhibition Date: Aug. 19 - Nov. 24, 2019
Chief Curator: Christopher Phillips
Curators: Terry Bennett, Chen Shen, Zeng Huang, Wang Chunchen
Seminar Moderator: Wu Hong
General Coordinator: Li Xin
Venue: MOCA YIN CHUAN, No.12, HeLe Road, Xingqing Qu, Yinchuan Shi, Ningxia Huizuzizhiqu, China

 

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LIU CHENGRUI IN GROUP EXHIBITION "AUDIOVISUAL OBSTRUCTUONS"

AUDIOVISUAL OBSTRUCTIONS

Exhibition Date: Aug. 10 - Sep. 10, 2019
Curator: Wang Paopao
Artists: Cheng Xinhao, Feng Chen, Huang Yongsheng, Liu Chengrui, Ma Hanjiao, Pu Yingwei, Sun Yu, Xu Zhe, Zhang Wenxin, Zhu Changquan
Venue: P-P-P-P, Room 306, Gery Office Building, No.256, Caochangdi, Beijing

"Here are 11 video works by 10 artists, but I have placed them in a "hearing" loop and arranged them in such a way that only one video will be audio-visually synchronized at any given time; all other videos will be played in silence, so that the viewer will have to follow the lead of the audio and look at everything with their ears." - Wang Paopao 2019.7.29

Opening: Aug. 28, 2019 3:30 - 7:00 PM
Exhibition period: Aug. 28, 2019 – Oct. 19, 2019
Venue: KWM artcenter, 201, East Tower, World Financial Center, No.1 Dongsanhuan Zhonglu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Artist: Chen Ying

KWM artcenter is pleased to present Chen Ying’s first Beijing solo exhibition from 8.28-10.19 2019. The exhibition presents 8 new oil paintings. Chen Ying’s most recent work further investigates his interest in abstraction offering an array of aesthetic possibilities for the audience.

The crash of figures, abstract scenes shaped through overlap and transformation, the blurring of lines between concrete and abstraction, along with the uniqueness of his aesthetics, left a deep impression on the audience when Chen Ying hosted his solo exhibition “Reality & Regeneration” in MadeIn Gallery in 2017. In the subsequent two years, Chen has continued to explore the relationship between figures, styles, perspectives, colours and materials.

Throughout the exhibited works, as well as diversion of perspectives and transference of vision, certain relationships which derive from, catalyse, entangle and are designed amid figurative construction, lines, materials and colours, are formed. Canvases are imbued with various shapes and lines, as a result of which, the structure and strength of his working process comes into being. The constant shifting of perspectives, combined with the clash, deformation, extrusion and deviation due to geometric figure’s correlative induction and counteraction, delivers an elasticity and fluidity to the painting.

Diverse figures, styles, perspectives, colours and materials drawn by Chen Ying are partly designed, partly by accident. Shape, colour, dynamic relationships and structure interplay and evolve, organically and by chance, bringing about an energetic playfulness. At the same time, the artist mingles daily emotion and aesthetics into the works, without limitations and through deliberate implication, presenting abundant changes and movement composed through duplication, different frameworks, visual tussles and conflicts.