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Cici Wu, *The Unfinished Return of Yu-Man Hon*, 2019 (still)

*Tsaiyun (Rosy-Cloud) Bridge / Forget Each Other in the Rivers and Lakes*, Cici Wu with Chan Hau Chun & Chui Chi Yin, Taro Masushio, Xiaofei Mo, Park Xun, Fai Wan, Emilia Wang. Hordaland Kunstsenter, 2023. Curated by Mathijs van Geest.

*Accepts Forgetting, As Well As Remembering 01*, 2022, on view at Loong Mah; New York, *Entre centre et absence*, curated by Olivia Shao, 2022.

Installation view of *Daily* *Pictures*, Each Modern, Taipei, curated by Alex Jen, 2023.

*Unfinished Return of Yu Man Hon*, 2019. Installation view, 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale: One Escape at a Time, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), 2021. Curated by Yung Ma.

Cici Wu, installation view of ‘Unfinished Return’, Empty Gallery, 2019

Cici Wu, installation view of ‘Lantern Strike (Strong Loneliness)’, 47 Canal, 2021
Courtesy of the artist and 47 Canal, New York
Photo: Joerg Lohse

Cici Wu, installation view of *Upon Leaving the* *White Dust*, 47 Canal, 2018
Courtesy of the artist and 47 Canal, New York

Cici Wu lives and works in New York and Hong Kong. She received her BA from the City University of Hong Kong, and MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She has had solo exhibitions at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2023; 2019); 47 Canal, New York (2021, 2018); a collaborative exhibition at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Norway in 2023; and has participated in group exhibitions at the Drawing Center, New York (2023, 2020), CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France (2022), Para Site Hong Kong (2021, 2018), among others. She has participated in the 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2021) and the Yokohama Triennial 2020 Episōdo 02 (2020).

CURRENT:

u – New Project Spaces
Eyrie Alzate, Jason de Haan, Nancy Lupo, Na Mira, Malcolm Mooney, Yuki Okumura, Hikari Ono, Francesca Percival, Bea Schlingelhoff, Jo-ey Tang, Cici Wu, Bruno Zhu and u
February 23, 2024 onwards
Kunsthalle Zürich

Recent Press:
Tiffany Leung, “Cici Wu: Of Light and Shadow”, ArtAsiaPacific, issue 136, Nov/Dec 2023
Aaina Bhargava, “Artist Cici Wu on experimentation, how politics and the pandemic have fuelled her work“, Tatler
Qu Chang, “Tsaiyun (Rosy-Cloud) Bridge“, Artforum China

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2024-05-08	James T. Hong at Bonner Kunstverein
	It is light is a group exhibition featuring Ada Frände, Blalla W. Hallmann, Julia Heyward, James T. Hong, Udo Lefin, Rachel Reupke, Bernard Szajner, Camilla Wills, curated by Fatima Hellberg. It is light is a two-part exhibition realised between Bonner Kunstverein and Haus Mödrath – Räume für Kunst, from May 11 – July 28, 2024. Opening: Friday 10 May, from 7pm Read more …
2024-05-08	Raha Raissnia at Taipei Dangdai
	Raha Raissnia is participating in Before Thunders, May 10-12 at Taipei Dangdai: For the first time, Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas will present a curated exhibition within the fair co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture. Titled “Before Thunders: An Exhibition of Taiwanese Artists” the exhibition focuses on the work of a dozen largely mid-career artists selected by four curators who will participate in the Ideas Forum 2024: Zian Chen, Martin Germann, Esther Lu, and Wong Binghao. This project supports the fair’s core goal of bringing art from Taiwan from across the spectrum—from those represented by the leading galleries participating in the fair to those working largely outside the market—to greater international attention and demonstrates the fair’s ongoing interest in building partnerships with public and private organizations throughout Taiwan’s vibrant art scene.
2024-05-03	Raha Raissnia at Galerie Khoshbakht
	Raha Raissnia’s Untitled (2018) is on view at Nevers, Galerie Khoskbakht, Cologne, May 4 through 30. Galerie Khoshbakht is delighted to announce Nevers, an exhibition with works by Beth Collar, Keta Gavasheli, Nicole Gravier, Raha Raissnia and Ulrike Schulze. Nevers brings together artists who deal with the question of the representable and the unrepresentable, who negotiate the interior and exterior of reality in relation to their media. Sometimes it seems that reality is too big to be experienced as a whole, that it is perhaps also too cruel to want to experience it directly. Thus, each artist explores the question of representation and the representable, the articulable, in their own unique way by using means of alienation and translation. Read more …
2024-04-27	Doris Guo at Artists Space, New York
	Opening May 23 through August 10: Artists Space is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent work by Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, and Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Read more …
2024-04-06	Jes Fan in Weight of Mind, Hessel Museum of Art
	Artists: Kaari Upson, Jes Fan, and Lucas Blalock Dates: April 6 – May 26, 2024 Weight of Mind at Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College questions how memory is embodied and given new form in the works of three artists: Kaari Upson, Jes Fan, and Lucas Blalock. In divergent ways, their works—across sculpture and photography—examine how past experiences are transformed through different methods of translation, from molding and casting to pigmentation to digital manipulation. By thickening fragmented memories or past sensations, the artists invite the audience to examine moments of change that otherwise would be fleeting. The exhibition is curated by Thalia Stefaniuk. Read more …
2024-03-29	Artsy: The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
	Payal Uttam in Artsy: “Amid the glistening neon of Hong Kong’s iconic skyline this week, the M+ Museum façade was alight with an evocative black-and-white film by Yang Fudong—just one of many signs that Art Basel Hong Kong, and a flurry of other art events, had taken over the city… The first thing that catches your eye at Hong Kong–based Empty Gallery’s booth are Jes Fan’s sensuous organic sculptures made of hand-blown glass and carved gypsum. A rising star in the international art scene, Fan is known for taking CT scans of his body and creating printed casts of body parts to create his work. Another highlight of the booth is Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s slick kimono-shaped wall sculpture made of stitched poured silicone, a sound-buffering material. The work functions as a “noise blanket” with the thick textured surface deflecting sound. Taiwan-based Iranian American artist Raha Raissnia’s monumental oil painting inspired by experimental cinema is also a standout. Painted using the traditional method of grisaille, her ethereal painting appears to almost quiver and vibrate.” Read more …
2024-03-24	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork interviewed for BOMB
	Sound art as performance, choreography, and object. Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork by Byron Westbrook in BOMB: “Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s work occupies a singular space at a nexus of visual arts and sound composition. With a multifaceted sphere of influences that includes textiles, club music, archaeoacoustics, and choreography, she has one of the most rigorous and unique practices in what is often termed sound art. Her work manifests as a generous space for audience exploration, where sculpture, sound, and interactive installation environments live and breathe in a symbiotic collaboration with viewer and architecture. Kiyomi Gork’s first East Coast institutional solo exhibition, Poems of Electronic Air, at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center presents an expansive survey of her ideas and work. In the conversation below, I speak with her about concepts explored in the show, including participation, feedback systems, surveillance, choreography, and sonic forms as expressive metaphor.” —Byron Westbrook Read more …
2024-03-22	Jes Fan in 2024 Greater Toronto Art
	New works by Jes Fan are now on view at Greater Toronto Art, the triennial at MOCA Toronto, from March 22, 2024— July 28, 2024. The curatorial team includes MOCA Curator Kate Wong and two invited guest curators, Ebony L. Haynes and Toleen Touq. Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24) is the second edition of MOCA Toronto’s recurring triennial exhibition, which was conceived in 2021 to look more closely and consistently at artistic practices with a connection to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Featuring a constellation of twenty-five intergenerational artists, duos, and collectives, GTA24 looks back as much as it looks forward. The exhibition presents work made between the 1960s and the present, allowing the comingling of art created in different decades to provide new ways of understanding the current moment and imagining the future. Read more …
2024-03-22	Artnews: 9 Local Galleries to Know Ahead of Art Basel Hong Kong
	Harrison Jacobs, in Artnews: “With Hong Kong Art Week set to take off Monday, art world jet-setters are officially en-route and eyes are squarely on the coastal metropolis… The Covid years, as Empty Gallery director Alexander Lau told ARTnews in an email, were initially “shattering,” but isolation infused energy into the city, as it “gave every Hong Konger a reality check on how to move forward with life, both philosophically and emotionally.” The result, numerous art dealers told ARTnews, is a renewed focus on strengthening the city’s cultural ecosystem through new institutions, galleries, and nonprofit art spaces, as well the confidence to invest in and elevate local artists. “We’ve noticed more of a willingness to take meaningful risks with programming, beyond the typical more commercial route of transplanting blue-chip art trends to Hong Kong,” Lau said of the city’s galleries.” Read more …
2024-03-18	Jes Fan in 2024 Whitney Biennial
	Empty Gallery congratulates Jes Fan on his participation in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, Even Better Than The Real Thing. The Seventy-one visionary artists and collectives in the latest chapter of the exhibition—Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing—will follow in the footsteps of hundreds of Biennial artists before them to interpret our current landscape and tell stories, spark discussion, and comment on issues across a variety of media and disciplines. The curators of the 2024 Whitney Biennial are Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes. Even Better Than The Real Thing will be on public view starting 20 March 2024, with previews from 12 through 17 March 2024. In The New York Times, read Siddhartha Mitter’s coverage: Whitney Biennial Picks a ‘Dissonant Chorus’ of Artists to Probe Turbulent Times. Read more …

Sound art as performance, choreography, and object. Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork by Byron Westbrook in BOMB: