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Tianjin, just half an hour by train from Beijing, is said to be the most inconspicuous of China’s municipalities. This is perhaps surprising, given the fact that it is the first city in Northern China to be exposed to modern culture, experiencing a glamorous era in the period following 1860 when it became a treaty port. Tianjin is the epitome of modernity with “Chinese characteristics”. >> Read more

In 2019, Zheng Bo once again introduced the "workshop" into his exhibition Goldenrod held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts at New York University in Shanghai. “Eco-Socialist Garden” is a project that includes workshops, architectural models, and printed material. Zheng Bo invited a group of volunteers from different professional fields and divided them into two groups. >> Read more

Independent Art Spaces (IAS) is pleased to announce its fourth edition from 6 – 8 September 2019. >> Read more

Chenchenchen (陈陈陈, a.k.a. ccc, b. 1987) is a Chinese conceptual artist best known for his performance “The Mercy of Not Killing 2.0”, in which he hung ten construction workers from the edges of a 34-meter high tower in Wuxi. >> Read more

In this new project by Hu Qingtai at Gallery Yang’s Project Space, the artist tries to understand, capture, and describe the elusive force that is deeply hidden in the body and often emerges to make an attempt to control the limbs. There is only one work in this exhibition: A Force Spurring “Limbs” via “Head”. […] >> Read more

Doomsday prophecies have emerged since ancient times, from the Book of Revelation of the Bible, to the Millennium Crisis, to the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse. The end of days seems imminent, yet it never comes. What is the purpose of the doomsday prophecy — to serve as a warning to the world or as a means […] >> Read more

The curatorial premise for the 3rd Independent Art Spaces is part feeling, part idea: Periods of change hold distinctive creative potential. When it comes to the city of Beijing, it is a morphing environment whose only constant is its inevitable transformation. >> Read more

Ding Yi’s paintings refuse to answer, to limit or be limited. Whether small or vast, their multi-hued fields of crosses map and divide pictorial space, transparent and unguarded, beguiling with pattern. But this is no panacea for interpretation, for anything-goes opinion. Look closely at each painting and you can become familiar with them, with the individual character of the multitude of marks that compose their seeming and actual similarity, the repetitions, threads and permutations, and yet still not know them >> Read more

Throughout the summer at OCAT Personal Space is dedicated to the work of the young Beijing-based animation artist Lei Lei, and to the premiere of his latest moving image project Coming Soon. A feature-length animation, Coming Soon is the result of five years of hard work beginning in 2012. This stunning hand-crafted work of moving […] >> Read more

de Sarthe Gallery is pleased to present its first show of 2017, a solo exhibition in the Beijing Project Space entitled 'Restricted: Gaze' by acclaimed film director Ju Anqi. >> Read more