藝術現場｜Art Scene

From 25 March to 10 April 2026, the VIP Gallery at HOW Art Museum in Shanghai presented Reconstructed Scripts — Defocus and Encounter, curated by Mengqi Ye. Featuring six artists—Chen Qiang, Fu Yao, Xie Caomin, Feng Zhijia, Jia Hui, and Kang Shixin—the exhibition critically examines the production and transformation of images. It also reconsiders the …

As the seasons turn and spring quietly arrives, London’s artistic season seems never to follow the passage of time. It remains perpetually in bloom, alive with new beginnings. Across the city’s galleries and exhibition halls, new branches seem to emerge each spring. Here, we step into a new chapter of London’s spring exhibitions in 2026. …

As one steps into Chupei Yu’s In Formation, a group exhibition at 1215 Gallery (Canada), one plunges into an atmosphere of movement and transition. The paintings have an ethical visual language and operate as part of a wider process of engenderment, which engages with complex issues of primal scenes and ancient epistemologies. Conversely, the moving …

Qishan Li works across moving image, installations, and photography to position the body not as a static subject, but as a dynamic interface between memory, form, matter, private experience and public inscription. Throughout her practice, the body is never singular. It is a site of negotiation shaped by societal expectations, yet Qishan Li continuously resists …

Energy in Eastern philosophy is understood as a subtle, vital force that flows through the universe, the body, consciousness and nature. It is a dynamic, interconnected and transformative force that animates life, emphasising balance between opposing forces to achieve harmony and enlightenment. Inside the carefully curated space of the exhibition “In Between”, such energy is …

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 …

To paint is, in itself, an act of care. Family photographs that have drifted into the second-hand market are stripped of the relations and memories once attached to them. Passing from one owner to another, they lose their sense of belonging, and slip into the state of the unsayable. It is here that Yang Xinan …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …