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。