Through moving images and sound, digital and mixed-media artist Xilichen Hua establishes new modes of coexistence, responsiveness, and governance. In her four-channel moving image piece Fragile Harmony: An Ecofeminist Call (2026), she takes a distinctly ecofeminist worldview, connecting gendered oppression and environmental destruction. Although the scenery of the films comprising Fragile Harmony take cues from …
Walking into the V&A’s galleries feels less like entering a fashion exhibition and more like stepping into a carefully orchestrated dream. The exhibition is titled Schiaparelli:Fashion Becomes Art — a proposition that unfolds not through theoretical exposition, but through the narrative of objects arranged across space and light, inviting visitors to arrive at that understanding …
London’s March auction week opened at full throttle. After Sotheby’s delivered a white-glove Modern & Contemporary Evening Sale the night before, attention shifted swiftly to Christie’s, where the house staged a marathon evening combining three auctions on 5th March: 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale, The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, and Modern Visionaries – …
Text by Michael Kurtz Safehouse 1 is a terraced house off Rye Lane. While much of Peckham is fast gentrifying, the building has been kept in a state of suspense – rented out for exhibitions and film shoots for over a decade and meanwhile left slowly to decay. As described on the venue website, …
Our relationship with salt has many aspects. Its existence may predate us by billions of years, yet we have such a strong relationship with it. Beyond seasoning our food, we can taste a single grain in a bottle of water, we smell it by the sea, and we feel its grainy texture when we handle …
“She has long since taken up the fight.” — Marianne Pitzen, Director of Frauenmuseum Bonn 「她早已投入這場抗爭。」 —— 瑪麗安娜·皮岑，波恩女性博物館館長 In 1989, at the opening of the China Avant-Garde Exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Xiao Lu fired a gun at her installation Dialogue. At that moment, she did not yet speak the language …
For Chinese multimedia artist and visual storyteller Qingyuan Liang, the poetry of life is written in the margins. Moments that pass unnoticed, words that go unspoken, emotions that take time to unfold. In these she is well versed. With a body of work comprising illustration, painting, and artist’s books, Liang pursues narratives of transience, healing …
Light is the source of all life. It’s something we learn at school: without light, plants can’t photosynthesise, and no animals that rely on them, including humans, can survive. Fang Liu incorporates this thinking into her curation of the cyanotypes in the exhibition ‘Luminous Flesh — Objects Between Presence and Absence‘. We seldom think of …
Entering the exhibition hall of Wayne McGregor:Infinite Bodies, the human form is reconfigured through technological elements, visual effects, and sound. Body, movement, dance, technology, Wayne McGregor has spent three decades exploring the subtle transformations between the human body and technological forces. As Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, Artistic Director of Studio Wayne McGregor, and …
1-21 November 2025 InJoy Art Space, Shanghai Intimate Transgressions is an international group exhibition initiated and curated by Fion Gunn. It aims to collaborate with artists worldwide who are concerned with equitable expression for individuals and collectives, women’s rights in particular. Through unique artistic languages, the exhibition reveals phenomena of infringements upon women’s rights …
Turner & Constable — Rivals & Originals Tate Britain 27 November 2025 – 12 April 2026 One of the most extraordinary coincidences in the history of British landscape painting is undoubtedly the near-simultaneous appearance of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) and John Constable (1776–1837). Born less than a year apart, the two artists opened …
Through a materially attentive approach, visual artist Chun Ding explores how memory and transformation are inscribed upon both surface and skin. Her practice relieves the traditional photo processing technique of cyanotype of its technical symbolism to instead pursue a kind of sensory reflection, asking us to sit a while and consider how light permeates and …
Frieze Week may have come to an end, but London’s art pulse shows no sign of slowing. From under-the-radar gems to major blockbusters, our editorial team has selected five must-see exhibitions that prove the city’s creative energy extends far beyond the fair. Frieze藝術週雖已落幕，但倫敦的藝術脈動仍在持續。從隱而不顯的珍藏到眾人矚目的大展，我們精選出五個值得關注的展覽，因為這座城市的創意熱度遠不止於藝博會的一週。 Kerry James Marshall: The Histories Royal Academy of Arts 20 September …
The poetics of memory, longing and diasporic experience take centre stage in Xiao Ge’s practice. Drawing on spatial symbolism and heritage traditions, the multimedia artist–primarily working in video, installation and digital forms—constructs contemplative visual environments where absence, fragmentation, and distance become tools for narration. 記憶的詩意、遷徙的惆悵、流散的體驗，在葛霄的藝術實踐中交織成深邃的景致。這位擅長影像、裝置與數位媒介的創作者，運用空間隱喻與傳承的智慧，構築出令人沉思的視覺場域。在這裡，空缺、碎片與距離都化作敘事的筆墨。 In a video piece, created as part of her series …
“Mythological Journey—A Dialogue Across Time and Space” presents a contemporary artistic interpretation of the essence of Chinese and Western mythology. The featured artists of this exhibition are Irish artist Fion Gunn and Chinese artist Shoran Jiang. The two artists, from different cultural backgrounds, have connected through art in London, engaging in cross-cultural exploration through imagery, …
Zhengwei Fan combines layered watercolors and pencil on paper as a meditative form of image-making. With a background in illustration and visual storytelling, the artist has stated that, “Drawing is, for me, a way of dwelling. It is a slow, tactile practice that keeps me close to what is fleeting and fragile.” His practice is …
The renowned art historian E.H. Gombrich once noted in the second half of the twentieth century, 「Ours is a visual age. We are bombarded with pictures from morning till night.」 This signifies a continuous enhancement in the efficiency of information transmission, with traditional methods of information replication and dissemination, predominantly led by written language, facing …
Ziyi Xiong’s curatorial focus takes as its subject the liminal intersection of presence and absence, the encounter of the spiritual and the material, the ephemeral and the transcendent. Through her multidisciplinary background in Art Management and Policy Practice, Xiong approaches the exhibition space as an immersive lived experience that not only relies on the emotional …
Most of us think of fog as an inconvenience; it grounds flights and makes driving dangerous. But there’s also something magical about getting lost in it, when you can barely see what’s in front of you, animals and buildings appear out of nowhere, and you have to take a leap, or should that be step, …
Alexandra Baraitser and YU Xiao She Paints Still 3 Sep -4 Oct 2025 Tiderip x Mandy Zhang Art London She Paints Still is a dual-venue exhibition initiated by two Chinese female gallerists based in London. It focuses on the sustained painting practices of women artists navigating different life stages, cultural contexts, and artistic languages. …
Nelson Qin curates from his drive to discover and give voice to emerging artistic generations and to present their work with and from new perspectives. Challenging the predominance of the white cube exhibition space, Qin seeks to push beyond the limits of conventional static presentation models, experimenting with new approaches while developing a diverse portfolio …
In the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy, sound is both a medium of transmission and a way of being. Even when its source fades, the echo remains; when space becomes a resonating chamber and the body begins to vibrate with it, the individual and the world, past and present, are joined anew through the experience of …
Mocube BEIJING Duo exhibition by Jonathan Miles, Xu Chenxi Curated by Deng Ting 09 Aug – 14 Sep 2025 Opening: 4pm, 09 August 2025 In celebration of a decade since its founding, MOCUBE presents The Softening of All Edges, a thoughtful and visually poetic duo exhibition by Jonathan Miles and Xu Chenxi, on view from …
Yoshitomo Nara 10 Jun – 31 Aug 2025 Hayward Gallery, London Yoshitomo Nara’s children do not smile. They glare, pout, sulk – or stare straight back at you with unsettling clarity. These wide-eyed, child-like figures, so central to Nara’s practice, have long evoked a range of contradictory responses: tenderness, defiance, vulnerability, and strength. They …
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting 20 June – 7 September 2025 National Portrait Gallery, London I was thinking about the way that faces come to us, like messengers from the elsewhere. As messengers they come and go, flickering in the light afforded by the day. They appear then as arrested light, as if bearers …
The British Museum Presents Ukiyo-e Master Exhibition: Hiroshige and the “Open Road” Between Cultures In 2025, the British Museum launches Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road, a landmark exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), one of Japan’s most influential and beloved ukiyo-e masters. This is the first major exhibition on Hiroshige …
To help bridge the cultural access gap, international charity Art Explora has partnered with the British Museum to launch Time Odyssey. This ambitious programme will offer free museum visits to over 100,000 children aged 7 to 11 across the UK over the next three years. The programme not only covers museum admission but also offers …
This spring, in Geneva, Phillips will unveil a glittering homage to design history and timeless craftsmanship. The Geneva Jewels Auction: IV, taking place on 12 May 2025 at the Hotel President Wilson, offers collectors and connoisseurs an extraordinary opportunity to acquire rare and historically significant jewels—each a reflection of the artistry and cultural resonance that …
Cartier V&A South Kensington, LONDON 12 April – 16 November, 2025 As spring sunshine fills the streets of London, it is the perfect time to step into a beautifully curated exhibition rich in culture and history. The Victoria and Albert Museum’s major spring exhibition, Cartier, captures the spirit of the season with timeless elegance …
Bluerider ART Mayfair London 20th March – 18th May 2025 Like a messenger from a dream, the machine drifts lightly through the folds of time and space—at once familiar and strange—radiating a quiet, mysterious beauty. Barcelona-based artist Riera i Aragó employs seemingly ordinary symbols—airplanes, propellers, submarines, and boats—to evoke humanity’s enduring desire to explore. …
當我們第一次看到許晨茜的作品時，彷彿置身於某種熟悉卻難以言喻的夢境。那些畫面似曾相識，如舊時記憶的微光，在腦海中浮現又迅速隱去。這種介於認知與誤識之間的朦朧感讓人不禁思考：這種熟悉感究竟從何而來？它是視覺經驗的殘影，抑或是藝術史深處的回聲？ When we first encounter Chenxi Xu’s work, it feels like stepping into a dream—one that is at once familiar and impossible to name. The images seem to flicker like distant echoes of memory, surfacing for a fleeting moment before dissolving into silence. In this space between knowing and forgetting, a quiet question lingers: Where …
A juxtaposition occurs by virtue of the turning of the opening page of the listed works of catalogue for the Oskar Reinhardt Collection at the Courtauld. As both collections were formed in a similar time frame, they find a seamless resonance across the spectrum of works exhibited. The first painting by Goya appears as …
12th February – 4th June 2025 The Courtauld Gallery This portrait of Henri Michaux (1925) by Claude Cahun, portrays him as his own double. It is an image that draws him into the orbit of Surrealist encounter with connotations of hauntology, de-centred subjectivity, and estranged otherness. Perhaps the double also serves to confirm a relationship …
As the National Gallery embarks on its third century, a brand-new space for arts education—the Roden Centre for Creative Learning—will officially open to the public on 28th February 2025. As one of the largest dedicated gallery learning spaces in the UK, the Centre will offer a wide range of free artistic activities, including creative workshops …
19 November 2024 – 26 May 2025 Dulwich Picture Gallery The title and premise of the exhibition suggests a fashionable wish to present Tirzah Garwood (1908-51) as an artist in her own right, who succeeded in getting away from the artistic influence of Eric Ravilious, her former tutor for wood engraving at Eastbourne School …
In the 1950’s and 1960’s London in common speech was called ‘the smoke’. Beginning in late 1899 Claude Monet set up his easel on his hotel balcony and then proceeded to paint views of the River Thames with all its fog-like effects. The views that are depicted show the objects of attention immersed with clouds …
“But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.” –Friedrich Holderlin “The time of abjection is double: a time of oblivion and thunder, of veiled infinity and the moment when revelation burst forth.” –Julia Kristeva 「在危險之處，救贖的力量也悄然孕育。」 ——弗里德里希·荷爾德林 「厭惡的時間是雙重的：既是遺忘與雷鳴交織之時，也是無限被遮蔽與啟示爆發的瞬間。」 ——朱莉亞·克里斯蒂娃 Dark, sombre, and stark, this is an exhibition that touches upon a grim tonal …
Design Museum 25 October 2024 – 21 April 2025 The Design Museum reveals that its major exhibition on the exceptional career of director Tim Burton has smashed the museum’s record for advance ticket sales. Over 32,000 people have already snapped up their tickets to The World of Tim Burton exhibition — before its opening …
Michael Craig-Martin Main Galleries，Royal Academy of Arts 21 September – 10 December 2024 1) This is an exhibition purely consisting of relationships to objects, and then mostly of objects close at hand or familiar. Rather than being arrangements of objects which are of the genre of still life, they are instead assemblages that are detached …
Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles is a compelling group exhibition presented by Hayward Gallery Touring, exploring the diverse and experimental ways artists are utilising textiles in contemporary art. Featuring works from 15 UK-based artists, the exhibition highlights the innovative and subversive potential of textiles, transforming familiar materials into surprising and thought-provoking artworks. The …
London, 6-13th October, 2024 The Birley Clubs, known for their deep connection to art and culture, offer a unique space where original artworks are displayed across their venues. They actively support creativity through exhibitions and collaborations, providing a platform for both established and emerging artists. This dedication to fostering artistic innovation is further exemplified by …
A letter to a friend I was thinking of such things, how one thing becomes something else to create yet another sensation of place. This is the work of an artist seized by a passion to be in this world but also to discover the yet to be encountered. Thus, the artwork invariably presents …
Silk Roads British Museum 26 September 2024 – 23 February 2025 絲綢之路，從小學起就學過，知道它蜿蜒曲折，是中西方交流貿易的重要通道。但是絲綢之路到底延伸到哪裡？絲綢之路連接了哪些地方，又帶來了多大的影響？大英博物館特展《八方絲路：萬里共芳華》一一為觀眾呈現了出來。 The Silk Road is something we have learned about since primary school—its winding, meandering path, and its role as an important route for trade and cultural exchange between East and West. But where exactly does the Silk Road extend? What places does …
The exhibition “Faith in Vision: Dual Exhibition of Fan Zhen and Xie Shan” will be held at the International Art Center of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in September 2024. The exhibition aims to showcase the purely sensory visual creations of these two artists in recent years. Fan Zhen and Xie Shan’s works lie …
National Gallery Until 27 October 2024 “Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.” –Georges Didi Huberman 「圖像包圍著我們：它們向我們敞開，也對我們關閉，彷彿在我們內心喚起了一種可以稱為『內在體驗』的東西。」 ——喬治·迪迪·於貝爾曼 The exhibition, Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look, is organised around a …
Rong Bao, one of the most prominent emerging contemporary artists from China’s new generation, is a true ‘art hopper’ leaping between mediums with bold creativity. Her work spans sculpture, painting, video, and installation, where she transforms the everyday into something extraordinary. Bao reshapes familiar objects to expose the absurdities and contradictions hidden in daily life. …
Curious and explorative, the Mermer series delves into the everyday and mundane feeling so commonly experienced in our technological world, but enhanced by the pandemic: our direct facing and relationship with screens. While the total lack of colour and the black and white nature of the paintings emphasise the contrast between the projected light on …
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London 20 July – 26 August 2024 What is the inaugural impulse for the undertaking? A visual transcription of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies and with this a rapture of vision, or the torment that Monet experienced due to having cataracts which caused the loss or greatly diminished sight? By drawing together …
It looks like the poster for a suspense film—a sweep of arching red velvet curtains cascading into the frame from beyond, extending downward. The formally dressed man is shown only halfway—nothing is complete—including the exhibition title, Manque, Objet Petit ‘a’. On August 19, 2024, Huiyu Lan curated an exhibition titled Manque, Objet Petit ‘a’ at the …
“Every single thing he owns makes up one great collection. In him this passion shows its true face, the stern Indian expression that lingers on, but with a dimmed and manic glow, in antiquarians, researchers, bibliomaniacs. Scarcely has he entered life than he is a hunter. He hunts the spirits whose trace he scents in …
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