Nan Ke Gallery, founded in 2022 and based in Shanghai, China, is a research-driven contemporary art gallery. The gallery is committed to continuously exploring the boundaries of contemporary art, with a long-term focus on the artistic practices and discursive production of Chinese artists within complex social realities and global contexts.
Nan Ke Gallery’s exhibitions and projects engage with critical issues emerging from both Chinese and international contemporary discourse, emphasizing the interrelations between curatorial practice, academic research, and social realities. The gallery approaches curating as an open process of knowledge production, situating artistic practices within intersecting structures of history, politics, culture, and individual experience, and framing art as a mode of critical inquiry and response to the present.
The gallery represents artists whose practices address a wide range of concerns, including queer studies, feminism, identity politics, geopolitics, historical research, technology, and media practices. Through exhibitions, publications, research initiatives, and public programs, Nan Ke Gallery actively extends artistic practices into broader public discourse and academic contexts.
Nan Ke Gallery values long-term collaborations with its artists and works closely with collectors, curators, and researchers. The gallery is dedicated to fostering a platform for sustained, critically engaged practices, contributing to the ongoing formation of contemporary art history.