Events
2024 events highlights
Strange Wonders: Jizi and pioneers of contemporary ink from China
The exhibition encompasses a broad and impressive range of works from Jizi’s oeuvre from sharply angular, energetic abstract ‘mindscapes’ to vastly extending scrolls asserting a persistent and concerted creative exertion during his lifetime. This presentation brings his work into view for audiences unfamiliar with the artist, allowing us to appreciate his distinctive oeuvre within the historical development of contemporary ink and its hybrid evolution.
Yique’s Way — Mutuality in Extremes
The exhibition "Yique’s Way - Mutuality in Extremes" chronicles Yique's artistic evolution leading to the polarizing?East London Socialist Core Values. It explores his dialectical and Daoist-inflected approach, delving into human experiences within social constructs and in relation to existential themes. Yique challenges societal norms, encouraging viewers to engage with the complexities of mutuality and extremes in contemporary discourse.
Rain on the Platform - Tan Lijie, Selected Works (月臺過雨-譚荔潔展覽)
Held from 6 May to 7 June 2024, this exhibition showcased video and other photographic works by the artist Tan Lijie evocative of multiple shifting encounters between lived realities and enchanted realms. The intersectional multi-dimensionality of Tan’s work gives rise to subtly transporting atmospheres as well as unfolding relays of indeterminate thought and feeling.?
Enchanted Realities – Tan Lijie Selected Works
This exhibition showcases videos, photographs and assemblages by the Chinese contemporary artist Tan Lijie representing imagined coexistences between lived realities, enchanted realms, reveries and dreamscapes.
Dis-/Continuing Traditions
The exhibition showcases contemporary video art from China. Although all of the exhibited works make use of present-day globally prevalent digital-reproductive technologies in addition to disjunctive defamiliarization, collage-montage and assemblage techniques generally characteristic of post/modernist and contemporary art, each can also be interpreted as maintaining significant relationships with China’s distinctive Daoist, Buddhist and Confucian cultural traditions.
New China/New Art
This exhibition showcases a diverse range of video works by the latest generation of artists with a working relationship to Shanghai and Hangzhou. All of the works involve encounters between internationally established approaches to art-making and local forms of cultural thinking and practice.