Exhibitions

Wang Rui: Silver Grey Death

6 Nov 2022 - 20 Jan 2023 Shanghai 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 Shanghai 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 Shanghai 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 Shanghai 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 Shanghai 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