2026 ART021 Shanghai
BANK is pleased to announce its group presentation at this year's ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, featuring works by Bernard Childs, Geng Yini, Duyi Han, Olivia Jia, Jiang Cheng, Lin Ke, Liang Hao, Michael Najjar, Sun Yitian, Nik Kosmas, Tang Song, Wang Rui, Wenjue, Patty Chang, Zhang Yibei, and Zhifan. The presentation spans painting, sculpture, installation, video, and photography.
Bernard Childs (1910-1985) explored perception and natural phenomena between figuration and non-figuration through fluid geometry and saturated color fields; BANK's 2026 Armory Show presentation of his 1970s paintings offered a renewed encounter with this postwar painter who remained independent of any single school.
Duyi Han's (b. 1994) works on view reflect his enduring engagement with the intersections of science, psychology, and architecture. He is currently presenting the concluding exhibition of his residency at VILLA tbh.
Lin Ke (b. 1984) works through screen captures and software misuse in his "ghost technology" practice; his participation this year at Auckland Art Gallery and West Bund Museum both traced his practice as a representative Chinese new-media artist.
Liang Hao (b. 1988) reconstructs painting's technicality around the relationship between hand, gaze, and thought. His new works here continue to explore the tension between dark surfaces and reflection on smooth canvas, echoing his solo projects at Gallery Weekend Beijing and Basel Social Club earlier this year.
Olivia Jia (b. 1994) depicts imagined books and relics in nocturnal tones, exploring diasporic identity and belonging.
Jiang Cheng (b. 1985) has built a bodily painterly language through his "U" series since 2018, generating images at the threshold between "seeing" and "not-seeing." The new works here continue the series shown in his solo presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong earlier this year.
Sun Yitian (b. 1991) employs collage to cut and reassemble found imagery from consumer culture, revealing the absurdity and desire beneath the glossy surfaces of manufactured objects through fragmented visual displacements.
Michael Najjar (b. 1966) documents space exploration and terrestrial adventure through photography, examining the relationship between technology and reality-simulation. His solo exhibition Morphing Equilibrium is currently on view as part of the inaugural season of Fotografiska Shenzhen.
Nik Kosmas (b. 1985) works across sculpture, installation, and digital media, examining the tensions between bodily discipline, technological development, and contemporary existential conditions.
Tang Song (1960-2022) called himself an "action artist." As co-author of the Dialogue action at the 1989 "China/Avant-Garde" exhibition and a key participant in the pivotal moment of Chinese avant-garde art, his practice insisted on action rather than performance, and his paintings are records of his distinctive action-driven brushwork.
Wang Rui's (b. 1989) new works distill her recent creative journey: deep blues record melancholy and introspection, while incandescent reds capture the vitality of pain transformed; pencil and paper cutouts preserve the ungovernable contingency of hand meeting material-evidence of human warmth.
Patty Chang's (b. 1972) Falling at 1120 Ft. Above Sea Level (2000) is a roughly two-minute performance video shot on the 89th floor of the World Trade Center. Dressed in a suit, the artist repeatedly falls and rolls on the floor, placing the absolute height of the skyscraper in tension with the body's loss of control, echoing her ongoing inquiry into vulnerability, body politics, and the boundaries of identity. Her latest solo exhibition, surfacing, is on view at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, engaging the ocean as a physical, geopolitical, and symbolic space to surface forgotten histories of Chinese fishing villages along the Pacific coast and unrecorded collaborators.
Wenjue (b. 2001) collides three-dimensional rock-like bas-reliefs with two-dimensional painting through the physical accumulation of pigment; the works presented here belong to the same series as his current institutional debut Homo Ludens at TANK Shanghai.
Geng Yini's (b. 1982) new works draw from natural motifs, unfolding the sensuous imagery of her "Summer Solstice" series through a mix of mulberry paper and oil paint.
Zhang Yibei (b. 1992) unfolds her sculptural propositions through the exchange between material, artist, and concept, presenting the series commissioned by UCCA Clay; she has also just presented a personal project at Art Basel Paris.
Zhifan (b. 1993) distills a channel of hyper-temporal perception from aerospace heritage, archaeoastronomy, and scientific illustration.
