Exhibitions

PSFO: Fitness of All

UCCA, Beijing, China 21 Nov 2014 - 4 Jan 2015 External Projects Polit-Sheer-Form transforms the UCCA Gala and Benefit Auction 2014 into a state banquet in blue as a preface to their largest exhibition in China to date. “Polit-Sheer-Form: Fitness for All” is the largest survey by any Chinese art institution of the groundbreaking, five-member collective’s nine-year career. An expansive yet concise... Read more

Fang Wei: Assassin

15 Nov 2014 - 11 Jan 2015 Shanghai Assassin marks Fang Wei’s first solo show in two years with a survey of ambitious large scale works on canvas as well as an array of works on paper and other objects that help to define his distinct oeuvre. Taking the stealth character of the assassin as his departure point... Read more

Teach us To care and noT To care Teach us To siT sTill

15 Nov 2014 Shanghai (Did you learn more than you have been taught?) What are the effects of education, organized society, and communication technology on individual creativity and expression? How has social media, smart device dependency, and the ceaseless flow of information not only shaped emotional subjectivity but human behavior, faith, and notions of... Read more

POLIT-SHEER-FORM!

Queens Museum, New York, USA 1 Nov 2014 - 8 Mar 2015 External Projects Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO) is an art group founded by artists Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua, and curator and critic Leng Lin in 2005. PSFO concern themselves with the world and focus on the construction of the mental world. They think, talk, travel around and have fun, etc.,... Read more

Ouyang Chun: DETRITUS

16 Sep - 16 Nov 2014 Shanghai “Mud is the building block of our world... it is a repository of human memory” -Ouyang Chun BANK is proud to present Detritus, Ouyang’s first solo exhibition at BANK and his first solo show of sculptural work in Shanghai. Ouyang Chun’s expressive, childlike paintings helped to position him as one... Read more

XXX A photographic peep show

6 Sep - 6 Nov 2014 XXX A photographic peep show featuring: Jean-Christian Bourcart, Hong Lei, Ellen Jong, Lin Zhipeng, Daido Moriyama, Anders Petersen The depiction of sex in art, whether subtle or explicit, romantic or raw, realistic or fantastical, is timeless. XXX focuses on a selection of some of the world’s most acclaimed international photographers... Read more

Chen Tianzhuo: PICNIC PARADISE BITCH

19 Jul - 31 Aug 2014 Shanghai Chen Tianzhuo latest, multi-screen, video works presented here are elements that inform the artist’s long-format, staged opera epic ADAHA, which will be released next year. In PICNIC, a work made in collaboration with dancer Beio, a strange, possessed spirit that comes alive through a psychedelic hallucination, contorts against an alter... Read more

Wang Jiaxue: Tired Romantic

19 Jul - 31 Aug 2014 Shanghai Wang Jiaxue spent her last year in the ‘New Classicism’ studio under the direction of Liu Renjie. Her work is the result of an exacting technique, intense concentration and a morbid imagination. Wang’s canvases look like they could’ve been unearthed from the Middle Ages with their gothic imagery, and smoothly... Read more

Liao Guohe: Instant Morality

18 May - 19 Jul 2014 Shanghai BANK is pleased to announce the opening of Instant Morality, Liao Guohe’s second solo exhibition in Shanghai featuring new paintings and installation works made specially made for this occasion. Liao Guohe continues to expound obscure, satirical criticism about contemporary culture through his signature, discordant yet enchanting painting style. The title... Read more

Xu Bing: Reading Room

18 May - 19 Jul 2014 Shanghai Reading Room: Launching The Book about Xu Bing’s Book from the Ground MABSOCIETY is honored to launch The Book about Xu Bing’s Book from the Ground, edited by Mathieu Borysevicz and published by MIT Press / Mass MoCA (English) and Guangxi Normal University Press (Chinese). On this occasion BANK’s project... Read more

Topophilia

15 Mar - 24 May 2014 Shanghai As cultural identity becomes more and more malleable in the age of globalization, what makes one “Chinese” or any other ethnicity for that matter? Cultural identity has become dependent not only upon where one is from, but also where one is now, and in what company. Many artists have made... Read more

Ground Floor Up

24 Jan - 15 Mar 2014 Shanghai Red is the warmest of all colors, the color of prosperity and joy but also of temper or anger. Red is the color of Mars, known as the God of War. It symbolizes passion- ate love. RED brings you enthusiasm and interest, energy, action and confidence, it makes you go... Read more