Recent exhibitions:
Pet Show
Exhibition time: From December 7, 2024 to March 9, 2025.
In this diverse world, are pets quietly becoming perfect and loyal companions to humans in their unique way? The exhibition ‘The 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 world of image art full of fun, love and warmth 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.
Digital Jester: A Grotesque Carnival in Binary Code
Through the works of Privitera, 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 three groups of digital photography works by Pietro Privitera, ‘Digital Jesters’ interprets in an ironic way the contemporary fear of the end of artificial intelligence. 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 the grotesque and the absurd, 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: 2024. 11.7 – 2025.2.16 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 a deep 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 field 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: 2024.10.13 to 2024.1.12 In an era of information overload, what exactly is a real ‘good dream’? Is it a short-lived 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, artists simulate the dilemmas of contemporary urban life, inviting viewers to rethink how to establish personal time and independent spirit in a technology-driven society. The artist’s creation focuses on the screen-based present life, and the exhibition unfolds in a theatrical manner, presenting the complex reality and psychological state of contemporary society.
Just as the exhibition title ‘System of Dreams’ suggests, it indicates the systematic characteristics of modern life and the dreams we create within the system. Viewers will experience the interweaving of dreams and daily life in the reconstructed context by the artist. Chen Wei constructs an immersive audio-visual environment through photography, video, installations, and sound works, enabling viewers to directly experience the profound impact of digital life. In this space, viewers are not only observers but also participants, facing the bombardment of blue light and digital information, perceiving how technology deeply shapes our emotions and behaviors. Through this immersive experience, the artist guides viewers to think about how technology and time shape us in modern life and how to face the impact of such systems on daily life. ‘Three in One’ Exhibition Dates: 2024.10.13 to 2024.1.12 In a world increasingly dominated by similar digital image and construction tools, how should creators create? Many of Li Weiyi’s works originate from reflections on decades of a designer and image maker’s career, such as the various cruelties in the image-making industry, and the efficiency and delays of images as a medium in communication. The title of the exhibition ‘Three in One’ comes from the works exhibited and also mirrors the three parts of the exhibition: the ‘Three in One’ practical chair that transforms art classics, the ‘Flower Arranging Practice’ on the 3D scanning cross-section, and the floating image of the drowning girl ‘Sisters in Water’. These three works are different aspects of the artist’s creative practice and also outline their background, character, and environment, just like a trinity, integrating into this portrait of Li Weiyi. Opening Hours: 01/01-11/03 Monday Closed all day; 11/06-12/31 Monday Closed all day; 01/01-11/03 Tuesday-Sunday 10:30-22:00 Open; 11/06-12/31 Tuesday-Sunday 10:30-22:00 Open; 11/04-11/05 Closed all day. Concessions: Students: Students (Master’s degree and below), please bring valid student ID to purchase student tickets at the Fotografiska Image Art Center site.Student valid certificates refer to certificates of full-time junior college students, undergraduate students and postgraduate students studying in ordinary colleges and universities, as well as student certificates of students studying in primary and secondary schools. Discount tickets.
