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 …
From 5 to 11 September 2025, Dead to Rights *1 will screen across multiple UK cities. Centred on a modest photo studio, the film intertwines the brutality of Nanjing in 1937 with the testimony of images. For British audiences, this history does not belong to the familiar landscapes of the Second World War; it appears …
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 …
Jonathan Miles is an artist, writer, curator, and educator based in London. He currently teaches at the Royal College of Art. His practice spans painting, fiction, and critical theory, often seeking dialogue between image and text to challenge fixed narratives and structures of meaning. Jonathan Miles is the kind of person you remember quietly. He …
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 …
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 …
In the world of Korean picture books, Rury Lee (이루리) is often hailed as an idol of the genre. A writer, translator, editor, and publisher, Rury co-founded the publishing house BookGoodCome with his wife, Lee Soon-Young. Together, they have devoted themselves to creating and publishing picture books that bring comfort and healing to readers. His …
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 …
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 …
The book on Yin Zhaoyang:Landscape into Shanhe is a compressive overview of a sustained and impressive practice which opens out a transpersonal account of a Chinese response to Western aesthetic modernity, as well as the Chinese Classical tradition.
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 …
Is the elsewhere a discernible place, or a circulation of the potential arrival of place? Anyway, this might be a state that is outside of immediate visibility, but there is nevertheless, a sense of something being there. It might even be the shape of the ‘yet to come’ looking back or a gaze of the …
The English edition of “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountain” will soon be published by Unicorn Publishing Group, through the agency of China National Publications Import and Export (Group) Co., Ltd. The book is the winner of Chinese Mao Dun Literature Prize, the top honour of literature in China. The original edition of the …
“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 …
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 …
Anthony McCall：Solid Light Tate Modern 27 June 2024 – 27 April 2025 “I find that I am now asked a particular question that used not to come up: ‘Are you making sculpture or are you making films?’ The way that this question is phrased puzzled me for some time, for it seemed to me …
“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 …
Maarten Van Aken’s works exude a profound power, a force that gently urges you to pause and contemplate. As you gaze upon them, the world seems to halt, and time loses its pulse. These are tranquil moments, bathed in light and warmth, where stillness reigns supreme.
The interweaving of diverse lines and the direct collision of colours bring about various morphological transformations. The exhibition “BODilY” uses the body as a medium to explore its complexity and diversity through multiple artistic expressions. The body here is a concrete representation of the individual and an abstract symbol of society, culture, and history, becoming …
Barbie®: The Exhibition Design Museum 05 July 2024 – 23 February 2025 The Design Museum currently presents a captivating exhibition celebrating 65 years of Barbie’s design evolution. The exhibition highlights Barbie’s enduring influence and offers a nostalgic and inspiring experience for fans. It emphasizes Barbie’s rich design history, showcasing her as a global icon …
“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.” –Gaston Bachelard 「即使是孩子生活中的一件小事，也是該孩子世界中的一件大事，因此也是一件世界事件。」——加斯頓·巴什拉 When Phillipe Aries wrote ‘Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life’(1960) it developed a notion that the concept of childhood was a modern development dating as late as …
19 June – 3 November 2024 Dulwich Picture Gallery, London This summer, Dulwich Picture Gallery is set to host a landmark exhibition featuring the Yoshida family. Spanning three generations and two centuries, this exhibition will be the first of its kind in the UK and Europe, focusing on the evolution of Japanese printmaking through …
18 Jun – 1 Sep 2024 Hayward Gallery, London They were all assembled there. Not purely a history but an assembly of the dead with a sense of voices being released. Voices from the deep. What the exhibition presents is the possibility of releasing these voices in a rich tapestry of becoming. We can see …
The book launch for Professor Jiang Jiehong’s The Conformed Body: Contemporary Art in China, published by Brill, will include a presentation by Professor Jiang Jiehong (Birmingham City University), remarks by Professor Chris Berry (King’s College London) and Dr Wenny Teo (The Courtauld Institute of Art), and a panel conversation moderated by Dr Panpan Yang (SOAS …
Text by Jonathan Miles “Everything we see could also be otherwise. Everything we can described at all could also be otherwise.” —-Ludwig Wittgenstein. Tractatus Heraclitus said that thinking was walking into the strange. This exhibition begins with walking in a dimly lit corridor. Each spectator holds a small torch with which to navigate the …
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” —-Virginia Woolf Sometimes even a small exhibition can be employed to through light on fragments of an artist life and this exhibition draws together works collected as part Courtauld Gallery, offering a …
The British Museum, in assembling drawings and letters from the last thirty years of Michelangelo‘s life have provide insights into his aesthetic development over this duration. As a devout Catholic, he is presented to be increasingly pre-occupied with the state of his own soul and it is the medium of drawing that is most intimately …
Euan Uglow might be seen as the finest exemplar of the tradition of Euston Road painting but then this places a limit on how he might be considered twenty-four years after his death. In his later years his somewhat spartan method of painting, was infused by a sensual use of colour that connects radiance to …
Guy Brett always appeared to defy art world fashion. He was involved with the short-lived Signals Gallery (1964-1966) and with this the newsletter publication. This enterprise drew together many artists from Latin America, Asia and Europe and so it became subject to the different influences of these continents. It should be described as a …
A gallery is designed to pass through as if it might stand in for the imaginary staging of historical passage. They are invariably crowded places, so passage is often interrupted or straited rather than smooth and continuous. If it is sculpture, there is a circulation around it, as if to steal a better view or …
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