<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > Beijing</h1>
Lunar sample 001, witnessing the Chinese Flying Dream
Launched on 2021.2.2.27
National Museum
16 East Chang'an Avenue, Dongcheng District, Beijing
On December 17, 2020, Chang'e 5 successfully returned to Earth. On the same day, the China National Space Administration announced that part of the lunar soil would be displayed in the National Museum of Tibet for display to the public. On February 27, the National Museum held an exhibition centered on lunar sample 001. More than 40 pieces of scientific and technological objects related to the lunar exploration project, including the lunar sample 001, were exhibited, supplemented by a large number of pictures, dynamic pictures and video materials, and systematically reviewed the brilliant achievements of China's lunar exploration project.
Silent thunder
2021.3.6-5.23
UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
798 Art District, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
This exhibition focuses on a thread in Chinese contemporary art that has not been fully discussed– how Buddhism is connected to contemporary art, and what are the commonalities between this connection and traditional Buddhist art?
Chen Lizhu, Meditation Space 20191206, 2019, oil on canvas, diptych: 80 × 60 × 3.5 cm (per panel)
Chu Bingchao, "Portrait" (still frame), 2021, single-frequency image
In this exhibition, as the name of Chen Lizhu's painting refers to, she hopes that the viewer can experience a spiritual revelation or achieve a meditative state of mind when staring at abstract forms; in the artistic practice of artist Chu Bingchao, Buddhism is not only a set of theories in historical accumulation, but also an organic part of our current society.
Shao Yi, "Mo Ji Mo Ji", 2010, Wooden Mold, 53 × 29 × 29 cm
As an artist with orthodox spiritual experience, Shao Yi rejected obvious visual religious imagery in his artistic creation, and used a more personal coding language to express his spiritual concepts; Liao Fei, while speculating on the "invisible thing", realized that his reason and language had reached the boundary, so he turned his focus to the ineffable.
Liao Fei, "Extended Straight Line", 2021, Rock, Steel Plate, Cement Base, 290 × 165 × 90 cm
resonance
A tribute to Robert Frank
2021.3.6-5.2
Three Shadows Photography Art Center
155A Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, Beijing
This exhibition is the first touring exhibition since the photographer's debut at the 2020 Jimei Arles International Photography Season. Robert Frank is hailed as the man who changed the course of Western photography, and his most famous collection of 83 photographs, The Americans, is hailed as a classic of photography that subverts tradition. The exhibition presents the original Works of Frank photography collected by HIPA Gallery and artists Huang Qingjun and Rong Rong, and also gathers the works of thirteen (groups) Of Chinese photographers to display together.
Robert Frank, New Jersey, 1961. The works are collected by Jin Hongwei
Huang Qingjun, Grassland: Jiadang, Inner Mongolia, 2007
SHAOWEI
2021.3.6-3.31
PLATESPACE
No. 98, Dongsishitiao, Dongcheng District, Beijing
PlateSPACE's window status is what interests me in this art space. Although it is an old street in Beijing, there is not much historical visual information on the street. On the contrary, commercial shop signs, advertising texts and slogans have become the main vision of this typical street in the consumer era. So I made my name, SHAOWEI, the most common advertising luminous font, suspended in the space of PLATEAUSPACE. Bring the art space back to the commercial store, so that every juxtaposition of windows and the things within them is seen equally. Which piece can't be a work of art? Which can't be a product?
——Shao Wei
Meet Ukiyo Expo Edo
Exhibition of the original ukiyo-e of the Edo period
2021.3.12-5.6
Today Art Museum
Building 4, Apple Community, No. 32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
This exhibition will bring you a new understanding of ukiyo-e from the history and culture where Edo Castle is located, this exhibition will bring the audience from the busy and noisy city life to the Edo City well during the cherry blossom season, and experience the rare leisure and relaxation.
Yangzhou Shunobu, Edo Sunago Annual Event Tango no Zuzu, 1885
The 100 paintings on display are all from the collections of the Edo and Minji periods in Japan, with a total value of more than 100 million yen, and more than 95% of the works have been unveiled in Japan for the first time.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, "Guneri of Soma", 1804-1818
Cao Fei: The Stage of the Times
2021.3.12-6.6
As a representative of Chinese contemporary artists, Cao Fei is good at using multimedia - films, videos, virtual reality and installations to make surreal portrayals of the great changes in Chinese society under the wave of globalization and the individual situation in it. As the first mid-term retrospective solo exhibition focusing on artists in China, this exhibition will present his representative works of different periods and try to place his practice in the corresponding social background of various periods in China, so as to form a contrasting relationship.
Cao Fei, "Asia One" (still frame), 2018, single-band video, 63 minutes and 20 seconds. Images courtesy of the artist, Vitamin Art Space and Sprüth Magers
The exhibition will present his recent work "Asia One" (2018) and his latest project "Hongxia" (2019-2020) for the first time in China.
Cao Fei, "Whose Utopia" (still frame), 2006, single-channel video, 20 minutes. Images courtesy of the artist, Vitamin Art Space and Sprüth Magers
resurrection
2021.3.13-4.30
Center for Contemporary Tang Dynasty Art
B01 & D06, 798 Art District, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
The exhibition presents Xu Qu's new series "Resurrection" from 2020 to 2021, containing nearly 20 paintings and installations. Xu Qu's previous solo exhibition "Straight Line" at The Tang Dynasty Hong Kong Space also just ended in February. From the famous giant totem group "Moai" on Easter Island, to the spiritual figure statues of Western civilization speculation, to the political imagination of the miniature landscape in Beijing World Park, Xuqu awakens the dialectic of image and the possibility of resurrection from the distant geographical scale and the circulation field at hand.
The Holy Death, Acrylic on Canvas, 250 × 200 cm, 2019 - 2020
Dust, Acrylic on Canvas and Corrosion, 250 × 600 cm (Triptych), 2019
magazine
2021.3.13-5.5
Empty space
No. 255, Caochangchang, Airport Auxiliary Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
The exhibition will showcase a series of acrylic works on canvas created by Coluda from 2020-2021. As the title suggests, these works, which balance figurative and abstract, are a collection and recording of personal moods and wills that are mixed with sources, as well as a comprehensive reflection on topics such as painting ontology, contemporary visual experience, and daily life, and hint at the progress of the artist's approach in painting practice.
Fans Acrylic on canvas, watercolor, oil paint, paint, crayons, 2020-2021
Rapeseed, Acrylic on Canvas, Watercolor, Paint, 2020
SNAPSHOT
2021.3.13-5.2
Mailer Gallery
D10, East Street, 798 Art District, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
This is the first group exhibition of the Meiler Gallery Beijing space in 15 years since its establishment. Snapshot, literally translated as snapshot, is a perception of the state of things at a particular point in time; it also refers to photographs, which are used to freeze things that are fleeting; it is also a deliberate act of recording the trends of those particular times; it is a completely subjective intuition, an expression that is acquired by chance and has no connection. The cohabitation between galleries and artists can be described with a similar logic, and the exhibition is like a snapshot of their current situation.
Alien Work
2021.3.13-6.13
Pine Museum of Art
Grass Road, Tianzhu Town, Shunyi District, Beijing
The exhibition is a retrospective of Chinese abstract art master Xiao Qin in China and will present Xiao Qin's digital immersive works for the first time. Xiao Qin is a Chinese abstract art master who has been active since World War II, and was one of the initiators of the "Oriental Painting Society", the first artist group dedicated to abstract art in China. He founded the influential "Ponto International Art Movement" and was the only Chinese artist to launch the European modern art movement.
Xiao Qin, "Light of Hope", acrylic on canvas, 200 x 130cm, 1964
He adheres to the basis of Eastern philosophy, integrates the creative ideas developed by Western self-personality, and develops an artistic perspective and creative vision with great personal characteristics. Xiao Qin's paintings combine Eastern and Western elements and techniques, creating a place for spiritual painting in the commercial world and being internationally recognized.
Xiao Qin, "Shenguang-16", acrylic on canvas, 110 x 180cm, 2017
Endless clothing research stations
2021.3.14-5.30
X Art Museum
No. 11, Beijing Art Finance International Innovation Park, Chaoyang District, Beijing
The exhibition brings together the works of 22 designers and artists from the Greater China region and ten Southeast Asian countries. "Endless Costumes: Research Station" is curated by guest curator Jeppe Ugelvig and Wu Dongxue, chief curator of X Art Museum.
Women's Day Group , "Sewing Desires Together, Picking Up New Gaps", 2020
The exhibition explores the self-fashion and community fashion that is taking place in different locations in fashion's global supply chain, from the streets, factories and workshops to print, publishing and retail. Across domains, geographies, disciplines and systems, "Endless Clothing" outlines the practices of contemporary fashion producers who see fashion as a cultural, social and economic system in which they are engaged and respond critically.
ASAI in Monganshan China，2018， 摄影：Alex Leese
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Kannon Listen
2021.3.15-8.8
Wood Art Community
No. 38 Qianliang Hutong, No. 95 Longfusi Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
This exhibition is Ryuichi Sakamoto's largest and most comprehensive research exhibition to date, and it is also Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo exhibition at an art museum in China, presenting the artist's important creations over the past three decades and the specific site installations created specifically for this exhibition.
Sakamoto Koichi + Takatani Shiro, "Life-Well" Device,2013 Shadow: Ryuichi Maruo (YCAM)
The research exhibition will present eight large-scale sound installations co-created by Ryuichi Sakamoto and several famous artists, creating a series of multi-sensory spaces for the audience, using audiovisual language to present and describe the invisible existence that people are difficult to perceive in life.
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani "Life - Flow, Invisible, Unheard... 》，2007/2021
Beijing version (12 water tank version): Commissioned by Beijing Mumu Art Museum
Much of the material used in this installation comes from an adaptation of the original opera Life, which premiered in 1999
Photo by Ryuichi Maruo (YCAM)
Image courtesy of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM].
Virtual habitats
Memes in the mirror can be seen
2021.3.26-4.4
UCCA Lab
This exhibition hopes to establish the interaction of the traditional art circle with the crypto art and blockchain technology community for the public's understanding of blockchain culture; it will also be the first appearance of three crypto artists and their works at Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses in China. By showcasing crypto art based on art and blockchain, the exhibition conveys ideas and cultures of practical significance while helping people understand crypto art, bringing interactive aesthetics and immersive experiences.
The exhibition of red and blue lighting effects, designed by NIKO EDWARDS
Chen Baoyang, "Will Bionic People Dream of Electronic Cows", 2017, VR installation
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > Shanghai</h1>
Xun Yuanji - Zeng Jianyong solo exhibition
2021.3.5-4.5
Powerlong Museum of Art
3055 Caobao Road, Minhang District, Shanghai
Artist Zeng Jianyong is a well-known contemporary Chinese ink artist. He has many years of experience in ink painting, in this exhibition, he uses a highly recognizable personal style to bring new series of creations such as "Landscape And Water Separation" and "Zhuye"; and skillfully transforms from flat to three-dimensional, presenting multiple pulp ink figure sculptures. Through the perception of "the isolation and combination of natural space and living space" during the epidemic, the exhibition "Seeking The Distant Era" has created a multi-dimensional space painting scene for atypical ink artists.
Zeng Jianyong, "The Color of the Wild", 2021
Zeng Jianyong, "Mortal Dust", Pulp Ink, 2021
Multi-treasure court
2021.3.11-5.23
Prada House
186 North Shaanxi Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai
Theaster Gates was invited to prada's house to conceive a site-specific exhibition about his love of ceramics and the connections between his many identities, including potter, visual artist, performer, scholar, urban planner and social activist. Gates conceived a three-act narrative for the exhibition, which unfolds as the space on the second floor of the House unfolds. Between the narratives, the scenes change, and the artist's own role changes from a visitor to an interlocutor, and then to the owner of the mansion.
Black Tea and the Gifts of the World, 2020
Black Brick Rickshaw, 2013
Meng Xiaoyang: Space-time memory
2021.3.6-4.25
Eight Major Gallery
A101, Building 4, No. 50 Moganshan Road, Putuo District, Shanghai
The relationship between the past, the present, and the future is often thought to flow like a river, until the introduction of general relativity changes our view of space-time. The distinction between the past, the present, and the future, which we think of as customary, is nothing more than an illusion of continual existence, and time is like a frozen river, where past, present, and future coexist. This feeling, in Meng Xiaoyang's view, is even stronger. His works are a synthesis of the present, a mixture of tenses, where the boundaries between the past and the present and the future are blurred and coexist in painting.
Red, oil on canvas, 40*50cm, 2020
"Garden", oil on canvas, 100*80cm, 2018-2021
Twin peaks with companions
2021.3.13-5.29
Rieson Gallery
2nd Floor, No. 27 Huqiu Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai
This is the first solo exhibition of French abstract artist Bernard Pifaretti in Shanghai. The exhibition will present new works by the artist completed in his Paris studio over the past year, in Pifaretti's "moving image" style paintings, recounting the influences of film maestros David Lynch and Orson Wells, and the connections between their works.
Bernard Piffaretti, Untitled, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 140 x 140 cm
© Bernard Piffaretti. Courtesy Lisson Gallery
Pifaretti has devoted decades of his painting career to the study of his "Pifaretti System" approach. Each time he begins to create, the artist first creates a "centerline" on the canvas, divides the canvas vertically into two halves, creates an abstract composition on one side of the canvas, and then reproduces the corresponding image on the other side.
Bernard Piffaretti, Untitled, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 80 x 2.5 cm
Mountain
East Gallery
No. 2555-9 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui Binjiang, Shanghai
"Out of the mountains", as the name suggests, means that Guo Haiqiang has left from his previous creative experience to explore a new direction of artistic creation. The exhibition features a number of his new works since 2019, still sketching and still embossed, but compared with the old works in the mountains, the new works after leaving the mountains show his broader artistic vision. The most intuitive difference is that he broke through the limitations of the picture frame on the image, and on the basis of the previous aesthetic attitude of less, he added ready-made objects such as branches and hemp silk to the work appropriately.
Guo Haiqiang, "2020.5.22," 2020
Born in wildfires
2021.3.13-5.28
BROWNIE Project
Room 105, Building 6, No. 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai
Joshua Nathanson's second solo exhibition in Shanghai, titled "Born in wildfires," presents his latest oil paintings and works on paper since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, as well as mechanical installations specially designed and installed for the BROWNIE Project.
Seabed, 2020
In it, the artist uses a simple and childlike and almost insane way of expression to convey an ecstatic experience that feels new to the world at all times. These works are imbued with an unmistakable imprint of innocence, showing the artist's intricate and subtle painting techniques and the emotional cues of real nature, as well as the perfect fusion of the two.
I Love My Dog, 2020
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