Past
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Thus Have We Seen
Artists: Mengfan Bai, Muhan Wu Curator: Yusi Xiong 29 Feb - 14 Apr 2024 Mengfan Bai and Muhan Wu have different creative approaches and styles, yet their methods and points of focus overlap quite a bit because of their attention to urban details. Their works construct unique urban spatial scenes from different perspectives, revealing some of the public and personal spatial relationships and power... Read more -
The Sting of Time
Artist：Lvhan Zeng Curator：Roxane Fu 6 Jan - 8 Feb 2024 'Time' is an eternal proposition. However, the flow of time is not always smooth and seamless. Sometimes, it rolls through the body with fine thorns, leaving wounds that touch the nerves unnoticed. Lvhan Zeng's paintings use soft and subtle brushstrokes to carefully record and depict these traces: she depicts lonely,... Read more -
Make a Sentence
Artist: Wencun Chen Curator: Roxane Fu 24 Dec 2023 - 28 Jan 2024 In Wencun's works, the element of words repeatedly appears in various corners of different art media. These words are often fragmented, residing in the viewer's vision in the form of 'glimpses', as if passing by roadside slogans in a speeding car, leaving a strong but ambiguous fragmentary impression of the... Read more -
Enrichment
Artist：Xiaochi Dong, Di Yang Curator: Roxane 7 Nov - 10 Dec 2023 The exhibition theme ‘Enrichment’ is a term from the field of zookeeping. It refers to the practice of stimulating captive animals to engage in more natural behaviors by strategically using props, food, scents, and other factors within enclosed environments. This encourages the animals to exhibit behaviors closer to their natural... Read more -
Incomplete Wonder · Everlasting Land
Artist: Meng Zhou Curator: Alexandra Grimmer 16 Sep - 31 Oct 2023 The double-chapter exhibition covers Meng's latest series of sculptures, installations and paintings. The exhibition unfolds gradually like a journey, with light and shadow flowing through the years. The artist uses fragmented materials and myths to create hazy stories, where reality and fantasy seem to unfold in a dream world. Like... Read more -
THE FLUID SANCTUARY @ Aurora Museum
Artist: Ziyun Xu Curator: Yusi Xiong 1 - 30 Sep 2023 In this exhibition, the works, predominantly in celestial blue, blur the boundary between reality and dreamscape through Xu's precise and nuanced brushwork, mirror-like reflections, and expressions of transparency, giving rise to a unique sense of surrealistic comfort. Her pieces, resembling mirrors or windows, although devoid of human figures, serve as... Read more -
The Skin
Artists: Lili Qian, Yanmeng Zhang, Zhengyuan Zhou Exhibition Consultant: Jiaxing Chao 8 Jul - 13 Aug 2023 At its start, the works from Yangmeng Zhang are from her series under the motif of Decaffeinated Love. Caffeine, known as a central nervous system stimulant, can drive away drowsiness and restore energy temporarily. Coffee, tea, soft drinks, and energy drinks with caffeine have been selling so well that Elon Musk once announced the purchase of Coca-Cola to add cocaine back into the drink. In a sense, this drink created and prevailed since the 19th century owes to several factors: high sugar, low cost, caffeine, and high advertising value; they contributed to the complete change in the meaning of drink for human beings, as desire usurped the place and became necessity. The figures in Zhang's paintings have polished, porcelain-like skin, recalling how the porcelain items exported in the last century were one of the most essential products in foreign trade, and how they were often used to portray celebrities and diplomatic figures. The porcelain figures embracing and kissing each other was the standard layout in the window of every home in the 80s and 90s. Here, the painting Endless Love is also a pair of figures in entanglement. The artist depicts a homosexual couple, one of which has an expressionless head that is cut away by the close-up shot, and isolated as if a still life painting, the empty expression points to its separation from other erotic signifiers: "Capitalism has accelerated the process of eroticization of society, by displaying everything as a commodity for all to see. These displays are useless except for sex. It vulgarizes love and turns it into pornography." In The Agony of Eros, Byung-Chul Han illustrates how, in a neoliberal society, primitive desires are eliminated and reproduced as pornography that can be circulated by capitalism. Man, Woman, and Blue shows bodies as if drawn on an iPad drawing board, while Daffodil presents plastic skin that has been transformed into still life in a similar way. In I Will Never Stop Loving You, organs and body parts that can be assembled like dolls are the keys to this configuration of eroticism, but it is also at the moment they are disembodied that they seem to struggle for the last dignity as eroticism being erased. Read more -
Dendrites
Artist: Jin Han Curator: Yusi Xiong 3 Jun - 3 Jul 2023 Jin's dynamic yet precisely planned paintings transfix viewers by employing a plethora of vivid hues, bravura brushwork. From his early depiction of individual and natural elements to his recent observation of the microcosm of the human body, and to provocative juxtaposition and layering of elements that relate to geographic and... Read more -
Evolution：Singularity
Curator: Heinz-Norbert Jocks 22 Apr - 27 May 2023 The title Evolution: The Singularity reveals that art evolves in an evolutionary way and at the same time represents the uniqueness of the artists. New things do not come out of nowhere, but build on old ones, and artistic interpretations of the real world can be expressed as a kind... Read more
