Exhibitions

Jin Shan: Divine Ruse

20 Nov 2015 - 16 Jan 2016 Shanghai BANK is honored to present Divine Ruse, Jin Shan’s much-anticipated first solo exhibition at BANK as well as his first solo exhibition in China since 2009. Divine Ruse features a series of new sculptural works constructed out of the artist’s own secret resin concoction. Conflating references as diverse as ancient... Read more

Maryn Varbanov: Relics

20 Nov 2015 - 12 Mar 2016 Shanghai Maryn Varbanov (born 1932, Bulgaria – died 1989, Beijing) was a powerful but often overlooked fixture of the China ’85 New Wave Movement. He actively contributed to the greater Avant-Garde dialogue both as a prolific artist and a beloved teacher, influencing artists such as Gu Wenda, Liang Shaoji, and Shi... Read more

Oliver Herring

6 Sep - 1 Nov 2015 Shanghai Oliver Herring’s multi-disciplinary, globe-trotting, performative project Areas for Action makes its Shanghai debut at BANK with an on-going, open archive of new, tailor-made work in tandem with video and photo documentation of past events. Through an open call for volunteers in Shanghai Herring will create a situation for creativity in... Read more

Zhao Gang: Cocksucker Blues

6 Sep - 1 Nov 2015 Shanghai Using the historical BANK building as his inspiration Zhao Gang’s debut in Shanghai forms a ballad to the possible pasts of this city. Like the infamous, unreleased Rolling Stones’ single that this exhibition borrows its title from, Zhao’s paintings moan with a destitute sense of an unfulfilled, dirty romance. While... Read more

Hito Steyerl

18 Jul - 30 Aug 2015 Shanghai “My conviction is that, now more than ever, real life is much stranger than any fiction one could imagine. So somehow the forms of reporting have to become crazier and stranger, too. Otherwise they are not going to be ‘documentary’enough; they are not going to live up to what’s happening.”... Read more

The Body Poetic

10 Jul - 30 Aug 2015 Shanghai Read more

Polit-Sheer-Form Office in Taibei

Taipei MoCA 9 Jun - 2 Aug 2015 External Projects Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO) is an art group established in 2005 by contemporary Chinese artists Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua, and the critic/curator Leng Lin. Using the concept of a collective way of life as the backbone of their art, they hope to capture the accelerated social changes... 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 of time is a catalyst for Belgian artist, Heidi Voet’s first solo exhibition at BANK. Through flags, figurative sculptures, and... Read more

Geng Yini: God Loves Whatever

30 May - 10 Jul 2015 Shanghai “God loves whatever: be it drunkards, illiterates or the uneducated, grandparents, uncles or aunties, the conceited or the shameful, people with status or those without reputation ... they are everywhere and they are capable of anything. God loves them all!” – Geng Yini Intertwining her way through multiple mediums Geng... Read more

The Bank Show

29 Mar - 24 May 2015 Shanghai It 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, and critiques the omnipresent power of global finance through its site-specific venue, the former Bank Union building (est. 1925). From... Read more

Jin Feng: I can’t be part of your revolution

24 Jan - 15 Mar 2015 Shanghai 'I Can’t be Part of Your Revolution' is a special collaboration between artist, Jin Feng and contemporary theatre director, Huang Fengling that deploys Mount Everest, the highest place on earth, as the definitive metaphor for human aspiration. Whether it is political conquest, late-capital sport, or pure status, Mount Everest has... Read more

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