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
ZHI Foundation in Beijing has opened a new exhibition inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, on view from May 20 2025 through March 30 2026. Participating artists include Fei Erqi, Wang Hui, Yu Zhiding, Gai Qi, Mai Trung Thu, K.C. Chww, Cheung Pak Kan, Wing-Tong Lee, Luigi Ghirri, Robert Mapplethorpe, Martin Wong, David Rappeneau. Liu Xiaodong, Liu Ye, Elizabeth Peyton, Kai Althoff, Yuichi Yokoyama, Izumi Kato, Wang Xingwei, Urs Fischer, Anri Sala, Mika Rottenberg, Allison Katz, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Sanya Kantarovsky, Yu Nishimura, Chen Fei, Firenze Lai, Tao Hui, Raphaela Simon, Brook Hsu, Sasaoka Yuriko, Taro Masushio, Hiroka Yamashita and Henry Shum.
A new wallpaper and three wall-based works by Tishan Hsu are on view at the exhibition “360°: why we paint?” at BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol and Sun Man, running from 16 May to 12 October 2025. A collaboration between BY ART MATTERS and Il Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Italy, the exhibition presents over a hundred works by 39 artists internationally.
Drawing inspiration from Butoh, the artist’s show at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, features collages of queer bodies
“We know we’re in a haunted house: Slug Sex (2025) – a video projection of two encircling slugs – is our first sight in ‘The Garden of Loved Ones’. Its cast light catches in the cobwebs of the gallery’s darker corners. The slug who deigns to top pushes out a goopy blue phallus that runs the length of its body, slugs being a hermaphroditic species. And this, being a Richard Hawkins joint.
Around the bend hang the 2012 ‘Ankoku’ collages, exhibited in that year’s Whitney Biennial. These compositions – hastily cut archival materials and notes taped intuitively beside printouts and calligraphy – mimic the notebooks of Tatsumi Hijikata, founder of the postwar Japanese dance form Butoh. Their posthumous publication disclosed how Hijikata approached choreography with a collage-like glom, pasting gestures torn from Western art history books alongside handwritten directives. Bruce Baird and Rosemary Candelario write in The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance (2019), Butoh – which roughly translates to ‘waltz of darkness’ – is a loosening of signification that champions ‘arbitrary chains of movement [and] diseased or socially dispossessed peoples, or bodies in pain’.”
Born in New Zealand and now based in Los Angeles, the artist Emma McIntyre is no stranger to frequent travel. But the vibrant art scene of Hong Kong, the site of her second exhibition with David Zwirner, is a bit farther afield than even McIntyre ever imagined herself. Titled Among my swan, a name she’s borrowed from Mazzy Star, the show demonstrates the artist’s taste for chromatic abstractions that transcend the limits of language. “By introducing the swan motif,” McIntyre told Richard Hawkins last month, “I can connect to all the painted swans in art history.” She does so using oil paint alongside unconventional materials like oxidized iron, a gambit, Hawkins says, that suggests McIntyre’s granular attention to her artistic forbearers. “I think the difference is your investment in the history of painting,” he says, “but also how closely you look at other paintings.” Fresh off his own show at Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery, The Garden of Loved Ones, he and McIntyre got on a Zoom to discuss their shared obsessions: Baudelaire, art historian Michael Levey, and painting with your body, literally.
Cici Wu: Lanterns from the Unreturned marks the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition, bringing together key works from the past decade and centering on a new large-scale, site-specific commission of the same name.
Central to the exhibition is Lanterns from the Unreturned (2025), a newly commissioned site-specific installation occupying the museum’s East Staircase. Originally built in 1933 for the Royal Asiatic Society, the building was repurposed in the 1970s to store confiscated books during the Cultural Revolution. Wu reanimates this forgotten history through arrangements of lanterns in book form, handcrafted from bamboo and conservation-grade paper traditionally used in rare book restoration. These sculptures line the staircase’s windows and interior, echoing the bundled books that once filled the space. The installation imagines a spectral return, volumes drifting back into the building as flickering presences, alive with the possibility of being read once more. At dusk, the lanterns begin to glow, casting inward and outward light, illuminating the museum’s East Staircase like a vertical scroll. Visible from Huqiu Road even after the museum’s operation hours, these fragile vessels hold space for the unspoken and the unreturned, allowing stories once silenced to shimmer faintly back into view.
The exhibition is organized by X Zhu-Nowell, Executive Director and Chief Curator and Karen Wang, Assistant Curator and Researcher at Rockbund Art Museum.
On view through September 28, 2025 and a year-long, site-specific installation.
As part of Oslo Open ’25, Doris Guo and other artists will be opening their studios from April 26-27 this weekend.
As the roof caved in on the empire of the US dollar, a son of the diaspora returned to an art market buzzing despite censorship and mass exodus. Enter the Chinese century?
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Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, lives in an area of my mind with high green hills and banquet halls and concrete residential towers whose balconies jut like vertebrae along spines made of stone. Wild boar roam the hills in the dark. Political prisoners in the Stanley jail bake in humidity and sweat without any air-conditioning. Jet-lagged from New York, I was taking a nap one afternoon in our hotel on the southern coast of Hong Kong Island, and was dreaming that someone I loved was handing me a piece of paper. I began pulling at it with both hands – it was blank, no message – until I felt someone kissing my face.
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。
