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 will be participating with her film installation Solaria 2022, as well as new paintings.
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.”
Cici Wu’s current exhibition at Rockbund Art Museum, running through September 28, has been covered recently:
Artists: Ryoko Aoki, Robert Beck / Buck, Anne Eastman. Zon Ito, Yoshiro Furuhashi, Takeshi Miyakawa. Monique Mouton, Tam Ochiai, Hiroyuki Oki, Ayano Shibata, Stephen Sprott, Chinatsu Yasuhara, Cici Wu Dates: August 2 (Sat) – August 31 (Sun), 2025
Troedsson Villa is pleased to announce a group exhibition at The Pawnbroker’s Museum in Nikko, Japan. Organized by Anne Eastman and Tam Ochiai, the exhibition is titled Zureta, a word that refers to something being slightly off, displaced, out of sync, or shifted just enough to catch our attention. Whether by design or accident, when an idea, person, place, moment, or material is dislocated, the resulting imperfection opens up countless possibilities. The artists in this exhibition respond to these shifting realities. Each work points toward a fugitive memory of a place or a sense of self dislodged from its point of origin.
“Located far from the city center, on the south side of Hong Kong Island, Empty Gallery is tucked into the upper floors of a commercial skyscraper. The black-and-white projection of Chan Hau Chun’s Map of Traces (2025), the sole work and namesake of the artist’s first solo exhibition with Empty, provides the only illumination in an otherwise dark, echoey space. The film’s cloistered presentation, with the feeling of a sparsely attended microcinema screening, heightens the intimate, hushed, and quietly demanding quality of its content.”
Cici Wu is participating in 47 Canal’s Summer Screening Program, which opens July 9 and runs through August 15, 2025. Other participating artists include: Martin Beck, Danielle Dean, Andrew Hawkes, Elle Pérez, Sung Tieu and Zheng Yuan.
Clementin Seedorf are excited to announce a solo exhibition of photographs by Doris Guo, ‘Visitor’ opens on Friday 27 June from 6-9 pm in Cologne, and will be on view through 8 August 2025.
madame leniou returns—briefly—to Athens, to a domestic space: a 1936 apartment designed by Dimitris Pikionis, everything you ever wanted. Convince yourself that’s what you want. After a brief winter and unnaturally sunny but cruel spring she comes back to a life she used to have. The lifestyle spoiled. The spoils of lifestyle. […]
Participating artists include: Steve Bishop, Anna Clegg, Ian Law, Erasmia Kadinopoulou, Will Sheridan Jr., Vunkwan Tam, Constantin Thun
opening in Athens: Saturday 07 June, 2025, 3–7pm. Open through June, by appointment.
Galerie Khoshbakht is thrilled to announce the opening of the exhibition Portrait II – presenting works by Beth Collar, Behrang Karimi, Mitchell Kehe, René Kemp, Yoora Park and Raha Raissnia.
“With this exhibition we are presenting our programme to New York City. Bringing together a group of artists undoubtably will put things into perspective. Lively conjugations, visual languages, memories, material histories; they fold into each other, dragging one another by the hand. The system will be put in place. However, living these ways of instituting, putting the distant thinking on the side and allowing our own lived experience to take centre, we slowly come to the realization that institutions and programs, no matter how they express themselves, are a beautiful thing; not because we must be critical of them but because we live in them.”
Opening: Friday, May 23, 6–8 pm May 24 – June 28, 2025
Empty Gallery榮幸呈獻《靈時小屋》。小屋位於畫廊入口大廳左側的獨立房間內， 不定期展示來自不同時空和背景的創作，讓觀者對單件作品進行深度思考。該計畫有別於我們的恆常展覽，旨在從常規項目的邏輯、思維及壓力中開闢新的空間。展覽穿越遙遠距離，在無限微觀細節中爬梳，並每次委託文字工作者撰寫論文，以動態的視角從多層面討論作品，從而照看我城獨特的歷史與社會環境。
《靈時小屋》的名稱靈感來自精神時光屋：在漫畫家鳥山明筆下，精神時光屋是一個時空膠囊式的異次元自我修煉空間。項目藉此探索一種植根於非西方哲學的思辨性認識論，用於在懸崖峭壁般的全球化文化中漫步。
《靈時小屋》原為2018年至2021年間於皇后博物館開展的合作項目。博物館憑著共襄盛舉的精神，將其名稱及概念無限期交付Empty Gallery使用。
在第二個展覽中，小屋將聯手三藩市灣區最具影響力的藝術家和電影製作人之一Jordan Belson，展示他的一系列繪畫作品。Belson作為Harry Smith、Oskar Fischinger和John Cage的同代人，致力探索宇宙結構，並視擴展人類意識為終生任務，而他的創作亦源於這些抱負。Belson受到神秘主義和科學的深刻影響，發展出一套獨特的視覺語言，包括振動模式、幾何圖案和放射狀線條，表達他對超越主義運動的願景。
Belson的《孔雀之書》（Peacock Book）繪畫創作於1950年代初期，當時他正處於創作醞釀期，開始逐漸形成他後來最為知名的抽象電影風格。他運用墨水和粉彩，在中國紙上以書法般的筆觸完成作品，充滿活力和幻像般的動感——紙上彷彿上演著整部Belson電影，畫面似乎來自天外並轉瞬即逝，通通被濃縮進某個時刻的視覺密度之中。
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Jordan Belson（1926-2011）是二十世紀前衛電影的重要人物。他年輕時學習繪畫，1946年獲得加州大學伯克利分校的藝術學位。他最初以畫家身分取得成功，在1940年代末於三藩市現代藝術博物館和紐約古根海姆博物館（當時稱為非具象繪畫博物館）展出作品。然而，1950年之後，他定居在三藩市的北灘區，主要專注於電影製作。儘管他在餘生仍繼續創作繪畫和素描，但他再也沒有公開展出過這部分作品。
