Recent exhibitions:
Pet Show
Exhibition time: December 7, 2024 – March 9, 2025.
In this diverse world, are pets quietly becoming perfect and loyal companions to humans in their unique way? The exhibition ‘Pet Show’ (from December 7, 2024 to March 9, 2025) takes pets as the theme and selects a series of artworks focused on pets. A fun, loving and warm image art world is carefully created in the exhibition space on the second floor, aiming to deepen the public’s understanding of the indispensable role of pets in daily life through the perspective of art. Through the unique perspectives of 24 artists, the emotional bond between pets and ‘us’ is delicately outlined. They are either covered with soft fluff or show agile postures… Sometimes they become family guardians and comfort people with silent warmth; sometimes they become symbols of personality and status, highlighting the unique charm of their owners; sometimes they play the role of life companions and accompany silently, spending countless ordinary and precious moments together; and sometimes, they serve as the inspiration muse for artistic creation and stimulate unlimited creativity and reverie. Pets, once a marginalized existence, are increasingly becoming a part of building human self-completeness and an indispensable role in contemporary society and popular culture. As the famous French writer Anatole France said: ‘Only by loving animals can a part of our soul be awakened.’ This exhibition is a heartfelt tribute to those silent but affectionate loyal companions in life!
Digital Jester: A Grotesque Carnival in Binary Code
Exhibition time: December 3, 2024 – January 5, 2025.
The solo exhibition ‘Digital Jester: A Grotesque Carnival in Binary Code’ by Italian artist Pietro Privitera invites the audience to explore our emotional connection with technology through the artist’s innovative digital collage works and face the irrational fears surrounding artificial intelligence in a relaxed way. This exhibition curated by Monica Bonini and advised by Andrea Baldini weaves a rich grotesque picture where humor and strangeness intersect, reflecting the absurd nature of human anxiety in the digital age. Although digital art is rising rapidly, many audiences still do not realize its potential to challenge and reshape contemporary narratives. This exhibition aims to promote people’s in-depth understanding of the relationship between art and technology and emphasize that things we regard as threats may also become sources of satire and creativity.
Through Privitera’s works, the audience is invited to rethink their views on technology and reflect on the dual nature of technology as a catalyst for progress and a source of anxiety. By focusing on Pietro Privitera’s three groups of digital photography works, ‘Digital Jesters’ interprets contemporary people’s fear of the end of artificial intelligence in an ironic way. The artist mocks the serious attitude of those who firmly believe that machines will end the current state of human life through these works. Through the hybrid biological images in the exhibition, Pietro Privitera mocks the solemnity of the doomsday prophecy of artificial intelligence in a way similar to the jester in the modern version of ‘King Lear’. His digital collage works combine grotesqueness and absurdity, transforming our worries about artificial intelligence into a cyber carnival of black humor. This exhibition aims to encourage the audience to explore our emotional relationship with technology in a playful way and reveal with laughter and mockery that artificial intelligence will not be the end of humanity: ‘The king is not wearing anything at all!’. UN/MASKED | True Self, Masked Life
Exhibition time: November 7, 2024 – February 16, 2025
After the Fotografiska Stockholm, Berlin, and New York museums, Polodina’s solo exhibition ‘True Self, Masked Life’ leads Chinese audiences into a’mirror world’ full of surrealism, symbolism, and experimental fashion elements, experiencing an in-depth exploration of self, identity, and emotion. Polodina said that the works on display in this exhibition explore how we show ourselves to others and the multifaceted nature of our hidden personalities. ‘It focuses on the roles we play and the masks we create to make the life experience of others or ourselves easier and more understandable’. This exhibition covers 150 works by Polodina, not only showing her profound skills in the fields of fashion and art photography but also leading the audience through time and space through a series of experimental works to have a spiritual dialogue with the artist. The audience will closely gaze at Polodina’s artistic talent, walk into her emotional journey, and unlock the self-extension of ‘us’ in a parallel universe.
Sweet Dream | System’s Dream
Exhibition time: October 13, 2024 to January 12, 2024
In an era of information overload, what exactly is a real ‘good dream’? Is it a brief peace of escaping reality or a re-examination of the relationship between self and the world? This exhibition provides a platform for reflection, prompting the audience to deeply discuss the complex relationship between the Internet, sleep, and humans.
Through the exploration of these themes, the artist simulates the dilemmas of contemporary urban life and invites the audience to rethink how to establish one’s own time and independent spirit in a technology-driven society. The artist’s creation focuses on the present life on screens. The exhibition unfolds in a theatrical way, presenting the intricate reality and psychological state of contemporary society. Just like the exhibition title ‘Dream of the System’, it indicates the systematic characteristics of modern life and the dreams we create within the system. The audience will experience the interweaving of dreams and daily life in the reconstructed situation by the artist. Chen Wei has constructed an immersive audio-visual environment through photography, video, installations and sound works, enabling the audience to directly experience the profound impact of digital life. In this space, the audience is not only a spectator but also a participant. Facing the bombardment of blue light and digital information, they perceive how technology deeply shapes our emotions and behaviors. Through this immersive experience, the artist guides the audience to think about how technology and time shape us in modern life and how to face the impact of such a system on daily life.
Three in One | Three in One Exhibition period: From October 13, 2024 to January 12, 2024. In a world increasingly dominated by increasingly similar digital image tools and construction tools, how should creators create? Many of Li Weiyi’s works originate from reflections on decades of careers as designers and image makers, such as the various cruelties in the image-making industry and the efficiency and delay in communication using images as a medium. The title of the exhibition ‘Three in One’ comes from both the works exhibited therein and also reflects the three parts of the exhibition: the ‘Three in One’ practical chair that transforms artistic classics, the ‘flower arrangement exercise’展开 on the section of 3D scanned objects, and the floating image of a drowning girl ‘Sisters in the Water’. These three works are different aspects of the artist’s creative practice and also depict her background, personality and environment. Like three in one, they are intensively presented as the portrait of Li Weiyi this time.
Opening hours: From January 1 to November 3, closed all day on Monday; From November 6 to December 31, closed all day on Monday; From January 1 to November 3, open from 10:30 to 22:00 from Tuesday to Sunday; From November 6 to December 31, open from 10:30 to 22:00 from Tuesday to Sunday; Closed all day on November 4 and 5.
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Recent exhibitions:Pet ShowExhibition time: December 7, 2024 – March 9, 2025.In this diverse w[...]
