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BANK 10th Anniversary Show "Birthday Party!"
10 Nov 2023 - 24 Feb 2024 ShanghaiBANK was born 10 years ago out of a happy mistake. It started with the discovery of a special space, a whim, and some hutzpah. It is now a global...Read more -
Michael Lin & Heidi Voet : doublespeak
2 Apr - 25 May 2022BANK is proud to present Michael Lin & Heidi Voet: doublespeak opening on 2 April. This presentation celebrates a decade of this artist couples' working in tandem, yet independently, as...Read more -
Towards a Neo-Constructivism
25 Sep - 7 Nov 2020Constructivism, one of the 20th Century's most important movements, declared an 'UNCOMPROMISING WAR ON ART!' It attempted to break art down into its fundamental parts, challenge the legitimacy of established...Read more -
PURE BEAUTY
14 Feb - 5 Mar 2020In 1947, André Malraux proposed the idea 'Le Musée Imaginaire' (the Imaginary Museum), whereby actual artworks no longer had to be presented in a physical museum. Instead, with the advent...Read more -
NOW IS THE SUMMER OF OUR (DIS)CONTENT
14 Jul - 30 Aug 2017 ShanghaiShall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. —— Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare Summer is the season of infinite possibilities, unbridled play, and...Read more -
Heidi Voet: 500 Years
30 May - 10 Jul 2015 Shanghai“The plastic bag is a vessel for an ever-changing content” It is predicted that it will take approximately 500 years for a disposable plastic bag to fully decompose. This demarcation...Read more -
The Bank Show
29 Mar - 24 May 2015 ShanghaiIt is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of the current order of capitalism. – Fredric Jameson “The BANK Show, Vive le Capital” explores, celebrates,...Read more -
LAOWAI, Allegorist - Antagonist
9 - 13 Jul 2013 ShanghaiLAOWAI 老外 is a Chinese colloquial term for ‘foreigner’. For a culture that is overwhelmingly dominated by the Han Chinese ethnicity, laowai simply denotes those who are not Chinese, and...Read more