Exhibitions

Slow Down to Hurry Up

1690 Art Collection Space, Shanghai, China 21 Sep - 31 Oct 2024 External Projects 1690 Art Collections Space, in collaboration with BANK, presents the works of eight young artists from China and abroad, whose works either embody moments of immersion in the world of solitude. For example, Alvin Ong's works represent the private, everyday, and intimate moments of a young urbanite's day; or they... Read more

Geng Yini: The Dwarf Planet That Has Been Demoted

13 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Shanghai Curator / Leo Li Chen Pluto was once considered the ninth planet in our solar system, but in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefined the criteria for a “planet,” resulting in Pluto being downgraded to a “dwarf planet.”Geng Yini has titled one of her new works “Dwarf planet that... Read more

Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.: Single-Celled Humans

13 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Shanghai BANK is pleased to announce that Payano’s first solo show Single-Celled Humans in the VAULT. Payano’s visual arts practice spans his biographical imprints and multicultural heritages that rise to the surface of his “heavy collages” of visual renderings in painting, ready-made objects, image, collage and sculpture. Working between studios in... Read more

Zhang Yibei: PLEASE NO HELMET

Longlati, Shanghai, China 11 Sep - 25 Oct 2024 External Projects Artist Zhang Yibei (b.1992, Daqing) has officially unveiled her solo exhibition “Please No Helmet” at Longlati. This marks her debut institutional solo exhibition and signifies the conclusion of Longlati’s residency program. Centring on psychological themes that she has been exploring in recent years, Zhang employed her distinctive sculptural language to... Read more

Oliver Herring: Herring as Nureyev as Nijinsky as Faun

302 Bowery, New York, USA 6 - 15 Sep 2024 New York As part of Armory Off-Site, between September 6th and 15th, BANK will take up residence inside the old Patricia Field store at 302 Bowery to present Herring as Nureyev as Nijinsky as Faun, a solo performance developed during the COVID pandemic. The performance will be presented alongside related movement drawings... Read more

ôˈgəst August 

6 - 20 Aug 2024 It’s been one of the hottest summers in decades. (With god-to-be-real global warming, the upcoming summers are sure to break more records) And now the Paris Olympics, American presidential debacle, and Middle East apocalypse have just made it even hotter. It's time to cool the temperature down. So, ice up... Read more

Andrew Chapman: Seeing in Normal Circumstances

2 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 Shanghai In Seeing in Normal Circumstances, an initial glance may appear to be the offerings of some type of collective: possibly, a group show of artists pivoting around a rolodex of thematic drivers. What belies this, however, is a particularly solitary and singular practice. One in which the artist’s hand, or... Read more

Shi Hui: White Meditation

2 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 Shanghai It is with great honor that BANK presents its first solo show of the contemporary living legend, Shi Hui. Running concurrent with Shi's presentation at the 2024 Venice Biennale, BANK celebrates Shi's longstanding contributions to the arts of China and the world with a cross-section of her creative output that... Read more

Chico da Silva: Amazônian Legend

23 Mar - 16 May 2024 Shanghai BANK is proud to present Chico da Silva: Amazônian Legend, the first solo exhibition of this seminal Indigenous Brazilian artist in Asia. This historic show focuses on three of this late, self-taught master’s signature themes— fish, birds, and dragons. Chico da Silva (also known as Francisco da Silva, 1910-1985) was... Read more

Bai Yiyi: Comet Drifting Away

23 Mar - 17 May 2024 Shanghai In those humble times, no one’s name will be remembered. Heart fulfilled, photos taken, and can we still murmur any memories? – Kidney 'Where is love?' BANK is honored to present 'Comet Drifting Away', Bai Yiyi's debut solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in Shanghai. In this fleet... Read more

Liang Hao: Doubled Bifurcation

He Art Museum, Foshan, China 19 Dec 2023 - 25 Feb 2024 External Projects The gestures that keep recurring in Liang Hao's paintingsmake it difficult for us to recognize the emotions andmotives of the figures. Although the scenes are placed ia modular structure and industrial lighting, the absenceof context eradicates the meanings and makes themobscure. This is probably a mockery of the reality thatconstantly... Read more