Breakdown Playlist is on view from October 12, 2025 until March 1, 2026 at Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing.
Artistic Director: Carol Yinghua Lu Curators: Clara Chavan, Na Rongkun Exhibition Coordinators: Rory Guan, Juri Mischler Exhibition Assistants: Li Huiyi, Cao Liyao, Li Zejun
Breakdown Playlist brings together works by sixteen artists from China and Switzerland. The exhibition is part of the 2025 cultural exchange projects commemorating the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries and grew out of the Embassy of Switzerland in China’s CH><CN Studios program. Beginning in August 2025, nine Swiss artists undertook residencies at six Chinese art institutions, namely in Beijing, Chongqing, Dehua, Yantai, Hangzhou, and Chengdu, creating new works based on local observations. Under the guidance of Carol Yinghua Lu, Director of Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, The exhibition was co-curated by young Swiss curator Clara Chavan and Inside-Out assistant curator Na Rongkun. Building on the selection of Swiss artists, they invited seven Chinese artists to participate, fostering a dialogue between emerging contemporary artists from both countries.
Jonathan Griffin has interviewed Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork for Ocula magazine. “For nearly two decades, Los Angeles-based Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork has used sound as a sculptural and architectural medium, as well as sculpture and architecture as acoustic structures to support and manipulate sound. After an early career in noise music, she sidestepped into making installations that incorporate her complex sound works to powerful and atmospheric effect.”
The Gold Art Prize, a series of five awards given biennially to AAPI and Asian diaspora artists, has named this year’s batch of winners, including Dan Lie, Stella Zhong, Morehshin Allahyari, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, and Kenneth Tam. The prize awards each winner an unrestricted $25,000.
This is the third iteration of the prize, which was launched in 2021 by adviser Kelly Huang and Gold House, a Los Angeles–based organization with a focus on the AAPI community. As with the 2023 edition, the 2025 prize is funded by the Kahng Foundation.
In a statement, Huang said, “I’m proud that the Gold Art Prize has, since 2021, championed artists from the Asian diaspora, and its mission feels more vital than ever today. This year’s awardees reflect an even broader range of diasporic backgrounds, and it’s an honor to celebrate each artist’s contributions to shaping the future of contemporary art.”
The 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial, SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, takes place from September 19, 2025 – February 28, 2026. Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork will be participating with her installation work Variations in Mass Nos. 5, 6, 7, 2024, vinyl, blowers, electronics, and speakers. Collaborators: Viola and violin, Daniel Jacobs; Cello, Zack Reaves; 3D design, Rhett LaRue.
Little Fluffy Clouds is on view at Lagune Ouest in Copenhagen, Demark from September 19 through October 18, 2025. Participating artists include: Rachel Fäth, Doris Guo, Mathias Toubro, Pol Wah Tse, Mille Qvist.
Vunkwan Tam’s solo exhibition, Clear Rivers, is now on view at Loong Mah, New York. Open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-6PM and by appointment.
Cici Wu is participating in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo with her 2023 film Belonging and Difference. The exhibition will take place from September 6, 2025 to January 11, 2026 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, with free admission. This year’s theme, Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice is inspired by the Afro-Brazilian poet Conceição Evaristo, and this year’s edition includes 125 artists and collectives.
There Is a Crack in Everything, on view from September 5 – December 14, 2025, brings together more than twenty-five international artists whose practices intertwine emotion and form with questions of belonging, identity, and memory. From visible violence to imposed silences, from damages to life to the vulnerability of surrounding environments, these artists explore the human condition in its tensions as well as its possibilities, transforming these realities into imaginings of resistance, displacement, and reinvention. This exhibition is a project of the Jewish Museum In/Out, led by its director Barbara Cuglietta, in collaboration with guest curator Martin Germann.
Raha Raissnia is participating with her film installation Solaria 2022, as well as new paintings.
The Moody’s fall 2025 exhibition focuses on the topic of biomorphism—artistic styles that use occurring patterns or shapes inspired by nature— as seen through the lens of seven international artists. Their respective work highlights the impact of new technologies and industrial manufacturing processes on ever-changing relationships between the human body and the natural world. This presentation offers a pluridisciplinary approach to the concept through works that engage with a broad range of topics, from the application of scientific research to the role of gender in society. Bio Morphe allows visitors to explore parallels between experimental artworks and contemporary issues prompted by research in science and technology.
Generations of Hong Kong filmmakers have worked to find a cinematic language that could capture an environment so marked by contingency and ephemerality. In recent years, one particularly original and sustained such effort has come from Chan Hau Chun, who has made several works blurring the boundaries between documentary and video art, and whose newest film debuted at Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery this summer. An epistolary reflection on the city, partly addressed to a then-imprisoned friend, Map of Traces (2025) unearths fragments of Hong Kong’s collective history and forms them into an image of its present. “Memory,” she writes in one letter displayed over a black background, “is like a hidden shape, waiting for the right moment to resurface.”
Empty Gallery 很高興為大家帶來紐約藝術家徐梯善在畫廊舉行的第二個個展《屏膚》。自1980年代起,徐氏的藝術創作探索訊息科學改變我們具體化經驗中情感、接收及政治輪廓的複雜方式。持續改進創作的實踐以跟上此等湧現的現象,徐氏的作品介乎於繪畫和雕塑,採用方法如UV印刷、鑄造和數碼照片處理創造處於物理與虛擬之間界限的物件。《屏膚》延伸了先是使用於展覽《刪》的創作模式,繼而在第59屆威尼斯雙年展及紐約Miguel Abreu Gallery的展出中更臻完熟,進一步拓寬徐氏的探究範疇以涵蓋生物政治學的擴展場域和數碼監控國家。
由裝置在畫廊19樓空間的六幅新畫作及一個標誌性雕塑組成,展覽《屏膚》中作品的高清表象躍動著一種安靜的威脅感。在作品如〈camera-screen-skin〉和〈double-breath 1〉中定義創作的整體光學性,曾首度在徐氏1980年代的作品中表現為擺動的掃描線(當時它們指向的是一種在屏幕虛幻空間中帶催眠性或暈眩感的吸併) ,但現已逐漸變形為無處不在的點與網孔。這些扭曲的地勢圖表現出一種降服於網絡或被其吞噬的感覺,而這個網絡在其力量與規模上皆接近迷異的幻覺。在這些圖案中疊蓋的是具像影像元素(身體部份的碎片,肉質褶皺和神秘小孔),它們的匿名性似乎指向把獨立主體簡約為可量化和可控數據的抽象單位這簡化過程。以有色矽膠形塑的未分化肉身物質,從這些表面冒出和鑽入,又或從當中滲出。這些元素訴說著物質軀體在一個它開始顯得日益過時的時代中頑固的存在。在這個時代中它只能以黏稠固態現身,被粒子化卻不能完全分解進符號資本的液態流。作為一個整體,這些作品似乎訴說著一種糾纏,一種來自當代主體置身在一個無處不在、又無處可尋、看不見但摸得到的網絡中,其神經生物學性的糾纏。這些作品表達著一種世俗的反烏托邦主義,在當中消費和愉悅(實際上,經驗自身的基礎)與監視、身體監管和更微妙的生物政治控制形式,皆是密不可分。它們在對身體監控和控制的關注這層面上,可回溯徐氏在1980年代末的作品,當中首次明確地表達了科技系統與官僚系統的交結。
展覽的重點作品〈phone-breath-bed 3〉是早前於第 59 屆威尼斯雙年展中展出的一系列雕塑作品的第三件。這件混雜結構作品結合醫院病床、個人計算設備和生命維持系統的元素,可說是徐氏對軀體與設備裝置之間的交接最深沉的探索。一個帶輪的金屬支架上躺著一具透明聚碳酸酯軀體,並用上矽膠鑄件和類似觸控屏幕的印刷面作點綴。在作品核心的概念中,是把醫療產業與功利主義考量連接到現代UI/UX設計中優化界面的深層邏輯。〈phone-breath-bed 3〉作品中的人臉(能聯想到死亡面具)與暴露的體腔召喚來閾限空間,在當中軀體創傷和身體衰退的分雜效應折疊進及強化了屏幕吸併的世界——數據中心與停屍房之間那不自在的交叉點。
在一個歷史性的時刻(1980年代)當徐氏許多藝術同行仍在匆忙追趕舊有影像循環系統影響之時,他對其時剛出現的數碼領域所會帶來的結果獨度的關注(不是對所謂新媒體單純的拜物主義,而是考慮到它對人類經驗不斷變化本質的多方面暗示)早已冠其先見之譽。《屏膚》重整這脈絡的探索,冀與科技樂觀主義的脈衝處於最低潮的時刻產生共鳴。在這樣的一個時刻,數碼民主曾被淹沒的威權主義充分顯現,但當中主體過於糾結,過度消化和量化,以致無法看清外界。有一種幾乎是無意識的擺盪,在網絡屏幕誘人的流暢性與有形軀殻多餘的意識之間,越過其自身淘汰而頑固地繼續存在。徐氏的創作或許比任何其他在世的藝術家都更清楚地表達出物件(或許甚至是物質本身)當從一個壓倒性消極政體虛擬地深陷進一種官僚主義控制論而要面對自身糾結之時所處於的這種不穩定和矛盾的狀態。但也許,甚至比這更重要的是,徐氏的創作代表了一種持續不斷卻永遠不會完成的嘗試,試圖理解和規劃當前經驗的本體。然而,不是從一個假構的全知定位或透過一種分析方法的研究手段來實踐,而是作為一種對內在的掌握,在液態流動和身體,數據,與屏幕之間。