Double Fly Art Center (established 2008) was founded by nine artists who all graduated from the China Academy of Art, Department of New Media Art, in Hangzhou. Double Fly uses the title of "Art Center" to organize and produce projects that are seemingly related to contemporary art.
They specialize in a great variety of artistic media and formats: traditional ones including Chinese ink and sketches, and new ones including modern dance and 3D animation. As multi-media artist Wang Twoball has commented on Double Fly: "They are sometimes precise and sharp on problems of the social system, sometimes carefree and happy, separate from the noise of the world. They do not deliberately maintain a high profile, but always attract attention. They are natural stars, gaining approval from both their audience and experts." Their members maintain their individual artistic practices, but the group often appears together at different types of events and settings, such as art openings and public spaces frequented in daily life. Here they perform actions that may appear confusing or ironic. For example, they once posed as bank robbers to steal building materials from a bank that was under construction; they groaned like porn stars while getting foot massages; they used computer games to form a rock and roll band and performed live; they shot their own MTV-style content to help sell records; and much more.
They do not think their activities have any connection with artistic creation, so when they are invited to art shows, they always transform the exhibition hall into a space for play rather than the display of artworks.
Solo Exhibitions:
2019
No Flashy No Forget 3, Double Fly In Search of Lost Time The Stockman of LOVE, de Art Center, Beijing, China
2017
The Bro Generation, de Sarthe Gallery, Beijing, China
Run Peachland Run, SNAP, Shanghai, China
2016 Double Fly 108 Deaths, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2015
Double Fly Egg-crushing Tournament, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Double Fly's Klein Blue, Space Station, Beijing, China
Double Art Centre Right Means the Narrow Escape for Poets, As Good As Water, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, AMNUA No.0 Hall, Nanjing, China
2012
Double Fly 24 Hours Naked Painting Competition, Shanghai Jiashan Road, Shanghai, China
Double Fly, The Way To Go! - Sounds Like A Real Name, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010
Double Fly Palace, Space Station, Beijing, China
2009
Who Care About the Future, M50, Shanghai, China
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024
Vanguard Onward, Vanguard Gallery 20th Anniversary Special Presentation, Shanghai, China
2021
"Double Fly Art Center" Video Bureau, Beijing, China
On the Road- Nomination Exhibition of Chinese Artists & Forum of Young Art Critics, Shenzhen, China
2019
SOCIETY GUINDANCE PART II , UCCA, Beijing, China
Shanghai Document- uniform motion, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
2018
#YOU #ME #ourSELFIES, Videotage, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2016
WE: A Community of Chinese Contemporary Artists, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China
2015
15 Rooms, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Live At, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, China
The BANK Show - Vive le Capital, Bank, Shanghai, China
2014
Resolution, SNAP, Shanghai, China
Watch Your Steps, SNAP, Ming Sheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
AMNUA International Project - IN｜OUT Source, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
Tomorrow's Party, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China
My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Art, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Pandamonium - Media Art From Shanghai, Momentum, Berlin, Germany
2013
The 14th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, Space Station, Beijing, China
Fuck Off 2, The Groninger Museum, Holland
Different - China's Experimental Exhibition of Young Artists, CAFA Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2012
Strayed Representation, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Just What Is It About The End Of The World That Makes It So Appeling?, V Arts Center, Shanghai, China
SEE/ SAW Schedule and Collective Introduction, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China
Conscious Folly, AM Art Space, Shanghai, China
The First CAFAM · Future Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2011
Gallery Hotel Art Project, Gallery Hotel, Beijing, China
Catch The Moon In The Water, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
The Third Party - An Exhibition In Three Acts: A Group Celebration!, Platform China, Beijing, China
2010
Screenage Art Document Exhibition - EMOTION, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
Get It Louder: SHARISM, Shanghai 800 Show/ Sanlitun SOHO, Shanghai/ Beijing, China
Jungle - A Close-Up Focus On Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China, Beijing, China
Art Fairs/ Biennales
2021
BOOMERANG-OCAT Biennale 2021, Shenzhen, China
2015
Art15 Art Fair, London, UK
The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2014
Art Beijing, Beijing, China
You Won!, The Armory Show, New York, USA
Melbourne Biennale, Melbourn, Australia
IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum, Moscow, Russia
2011
Double Fly Art Gallery, 2011 SH Contemporary Special Project, Shanghai, China
Be With Me, House of Electronic Arts Basel, Basel, Switzerland
