Past
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Wang Rui: Silver Grey Death
6 Nov 2022 - 20 Jan 2023 BANK is pleased to present Wang Rui’s second solo show at the gallery, “Silver Grey Death”, opening on November 6. The exhibition is titled after the debut novel by writer Yu Dafu. At the time that he wrote the story, he was in his 20’s and depressed. Through writing the... Read more -
Magical Realism Revisited
6 Nov 2022 - 25 Feb 2023 Magical Realism is a term largely attributed to a 20th Century literary genre best represented by South American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Borges and Isabel Allende, but in fact it was coined by the German photographer, art historian and critic, Franz Roh in 1925 to describe paintings that blended... Read more -
Alvin Ong: Private Pleasures
20 Aug - 24 Sep 2022 BANK is pleased to present 'Private Pleasures', Alvin Ong's debut exhibition in Shanghai. Characterised by fluid compositions and surrealist forms, Ong's dreamy paintings fuse the external world with the internal, continuing his interest in the physicality of the body and explorations of introspection, longing and loneliness. Throughout the surfaces of... Read more -
Busui Ajaw : Mother of the World
2 Apr - 25 May 2022 BANK is pleased to present our newly formed project space, THE VAULT where we will incubate smaller format experiments in global visual culture. The new project space is designed in collaboration with MORE Architecture, the designers of BANK’s original gallery space on Anfu Road. We are excite to inaugurate THE... Read more -
Michael Lin & Heidi Voet : doublespeak
2 Apr - 25 May 2022 BANK 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 well as Voet and Lin's continued shared interest in cultural appropriation, semiotics and colorful social engagement. Lin's practice conflates painting... Read more -
Sun Yitian: Fly only when the shades of night gather
10 Nov 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 Sun Yitian takes Hegel's beautiful metaphor of philosophy as inspiration for her much-anticipated second solo exhibition at BANK. The owl has always been a sagacious creature in Western mythology due to its close association with Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom. Hegel claims that (the owl) wisdom takes wing with... Read more