In this lecture, the artist will walk us through her work from different points in her career, from Fountain andIn Love, to Configurations, and share her years of exploration and reflection on her Asian female identity. Pauline Yao, curator at M+, Hong Kong, will introduce the artist and engage in a short conversation afterwards.  You can find Pauline's essay on Chang's latest work on: 姚嘉善 評 张怡 / BANK ARCHIVES

THE SPEAKERS

•   Patty Chang 张怡

Patty Chang is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, and installation. She has held solo shows at institutions such as the MOMA in New York; the New Museum in New York; the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2009 she was named the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow of Visual Arts at the American Academy in Berlin and she is a 2014 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Chang’s latest project, The Wandering Lake, was recently featured in the 11th Shanghai Biennial 2016 and will be the focus of a solo show at the Queens Museum in NY in October 2017.

•   Pauline Yao 姚嘉善

Pauline J. Yao is Lead Curator, Visual Art at M+, the new museum for twentieth and twentieth-century visual culture being built in Hong Kong. She has held curatorial positions at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and worked as an independent curator and writer in Beijing for six years, during which time she helped co-found the storefront art space Arrow Factory. A co-curator of the 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Yao is a regular contributor to Artforum, e-flux Journal, and Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art and her writings on contemporary Asian art have appeared in numerous catalogues, online publications and edited volumes. She is the author of In Production Mode: Contemporary Art in China (Timezone 8 Books, 2008) and co-editor of 3 Years: Arrow Factory (Sternberg Press, 2011). 

The International Sculpture Center will host a TASK Party with Oliver Herring on April 30, 2017 from 2-5PM. Celebrate International Sculpture Day with this exciting improvisational art party at Mana Contemporary. Join us for an evening of collective art making, imagination, and fun. We provide the materials, you bring your creativity! Anything is possible. 

BANK is happy to announce artist Maryn Varbanov's participation in 'No.2 DAYABAO HUTONG: The 20th Century Chinese Art' exhibition in Guardian Art Center. No.2 Dayabao Hutong is both the exhibition title and the background itself. It is the first attempt in Beijing to present the story of this historical site in a historical context. The exhibition shows the participation of this group of artists with the previous site of Dayaobao Hutong. This period of art history has been a foundation for 20th Chinese art development.

BANK is pleased to announce artist Chen Zhe's participation in the exhibition Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Three Shadows Photography Award opening on 9 June and continues through 5 August, 2018. Three Shadows Photography Art Centre organized the exhibition by selecting the most representative young artists in the past ten years to exhibit their works. The exhibition narrates in a non-chronicle of structure to present the multiplex practice of Chinese young photographic artists in the past ten years.It is also a review and summary of the ten years achievements of the Three Shadow Photography Award. The exhibition will reveal the individual growth and self concerns of 38 young photographers and artists in a personal perspective. At the same time, the audience is invited to comprehend beyond the static definition of photography, to muse on the visual sensory that photography offers. It also sets a scene helping the audience understand how Chinese photographers and artists work with the media of “photography”, the orientation and boundary to push forward.

BANK is proud to announce artist Lin Ke's participation in FRONT International:  Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. The first edition of the Triennial opened on July 15th and continues through September 30th, 2018. Lin Ke showcases his latest AR (Augmented Reality) project "I am here." at Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Cleveland. Six images are presented as wallpaper works placed strategically around the museum's staircase, from the first to fourth floor. Visitors are invited to use their smartphones to download the app "Layar" - and by scanning the wallpaper, augmented reality technology allows them to discover hidden additional works in the space. In this interactive installation the artist probes the act of 'viewing' in terms of exhibition conventions as well as of our increasingly dependency on experiencing through the prism of smart devices. The title "I'm here" proposes the question "Where is 'I'?"  through the first-person perspective.

BANK is proud to announce artist Xu Bing's solo exhibition Xu Bing: Thought and Method will open at UCCA on 20th July and continue through 18th October. Curated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari and independent curator Feng Boyi, this will be the artist’s most comprehensive institutional exhibition in Beijing, showing major works drawn from his artistic career since the 1980s. 

BANK is proud to announce artist Heidi Voet's work When All the World Is A Hopeless Jumble is presented at PLAY, a headstrong city festival featuring 40 artists such as Paul McCartney, Lawrence Weiner, Pierre Bismuth, Martin Creed, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Pipilotti Rist, Wim Delvoye, Carsten Höller, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno etc. The festival is organised from 23 June till 11 November 2018 taking over the centre of Kortrijk, Belgium.

BANK is pleased to announce artist Chen Zhe's participation in the exhibition Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Three Shadows Photography Award opening on 9 June and continues through 5 August, 2018. Three Shadows Photography Art Centre organized the exhibition by selecting the most representative young artists in the past ten years to exhibit their works. The exhibition narrates in a non-chronicle of structure to present the multiplex practice of Chinese young photographic artists in the past ten years.It is also a review and summary of the ten years achievements of the Three Shadow Photography Award. The exhibition will reveal the individual growth and self concerns of 38 young photographers and artists in a personal perspective. At the same time, the audience is invited to comprehend beyond the static definition of photography, to muse on the visual sensory that photography offers. It also sets a scene helping the audience understand how Chinese photographers and artists work with the media of “photography”, the orientation and boundary to push forward.

BANK is pleased to announce artist Geng Yini's participation in the opening exhibition Assembling at chi K11 art space Shenyang. The two curators Lu Mingjun and Zhang Hanlu assembled 31 well-known artists from around the world including Northern Road Art Union, Northern Art Group, Dokuyama Bontaro, Geng Yini, Hai Bo, He Xiangyu etc and 6 art groups founded in Northeast China for the exhibition. The exhibition aims to trace the spirit of contemporary art experiments in Northeast China and for the first time comprehensively explore the value and status of Northeastern art and culture in the system of contemporary art.

BANK is pleased to announce artist Lin Ke's participation in the exhibition A World in a Grain of Sand : Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Deometries opened on 28 April. The exhibition invites curator and LEAP magazine Editor-in-Chief Robin Peckham to explore and array the corporate collection of the Fosun Group, administered by the Fosun Foundation. Through the relationship between three aspects of this theme—Architecture and the Body, Network Ecologies, and Capital and Labor - the exhibition analyzed the social geometries reflected by the art ecology, a microcosm for external society as a whole.

BANK is pleased to announce artist Marc Lafia's solo exhibition Making Sense, opening on 24 April and continues through 5 September, 2018. Lafia's recent sculptural work will be installed in the windows and on the walls of 1GAP Gallery. His work examines network culture and the ways it changes our relationship to our memories and our bodies, from one of representation to presentation.

BANK is pleased to announce artist Chen Zhe's participation in the exhibition Prix YISHU 8 CHINA: 2018 Finalists' Exhibitionopening on 21 April and continues through 12 May, 2018. Including photography, installation and video, Chen Zhe's "Towards Evenings: Six Chapters" directs our attention to the “dusk”, the time between day and night, a transient and sentimental period that alters the nature of space. 

BANK is pleased to announce artist Lin Ke's participation in the exhibition AMNUA Curatorial Research Program Part 1 - Curatorial Identity opened on 20 April and continues through 3 May, 2018. The exhibition will discuss how paintings should be reviewed in the present days. Participants include directors, curators, designers, writers, and artists with a focus on new media, performance, photography, and installation. Unlike master paintings and outsider paintings, they start with contemporality and problemetics. 

BANK is pleased to announce artist Lin Ke's participation in the exhibition Presence:Young Artists Exhibition opened on 7 April and continuing through 27 April, 2018. This exhibition is presented on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the China Academy of Art. It provides an opportunity to review the education of new media art in the past 17 years and to highlight its value. More than 50 artists present the works they selected, including photography, video, internet, animation, sound, mechanics, and interactive devices.