Lin Ke's Swimming, a commissioned work for G Museum in Nanjing, is the artist's largest and most ambitious Sky Painting made to date. Sky Paintings is a series that the artist produced as a response to the conundrum of how to paint in the age of digital technology. Here Lin has resurrected a discarded image file of a sea of swimmers as a mammoth mural that becomes an architectural intervention in the space of the G Museum. The original image file has been edited so that only the essential components remain, creating in the artist's mind a perfect painting. We see gleeful swimmers cavorting in an all over composition and ocean of checkered marks. In Photoshop the bottom layer is marked by a checkered pattern, signifying that no more pictorial information exists. Over the original image the artist as also painted lines to articulate some of the swimmers and their movements. The work blown up to scale is reminiscent of the ceilings of Roman cathedrals with angels flying above, except here the artist has used industrial materials and state of the art UV printing techniques. The angelic quality of the swimmers is even more pronounced by the G Museum's mammoth space and birds view of the city which the artwork both obscures and accentuates.

BANK is honored to announce that Jin Shan's participation in the dual exhibition "trance" at HOW Art Museum Shanghai with the opening on Dec 19. The show features a spontaneous state of “trance” the two artists presented during a time of changes. Works on show are mostly recent works by Jin Shan and Zhao Yang and encompass a mix of media including painting, sculpture and installation. Within the non-linear intersections developed by time-space construction and self-expression, the two artists resorted to different (images of) bodies in the attempt to explore for a unique spiritual path of cultural modeling and new possibilities to envisage the uncertain.  

BANK’s delighted to announce the release of the new exclusive "outer space portfolio box“ of the artist Michael Najjar, who will be the 1st artist in the outer space. The box assembles 12 selected key artworks from the highly acclaimed 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 series. The series deals with the latest developments in space exploration and the way they will shape our future life on Earth, in Earth’s near orbit and on other planets. The ongoing series started in 2011 and currently comprises over 60 artworks. Works from the series have been exhibited internationally in numerous museums, biennials and galleries in the past years. 

BANK is happy to announce that artist Geng Yini’s participation in Jimu Art Museum in Shen Yang. Geng Yini is among representative artists from North China in their debut show. 

BANK is happy to announce that artist Michael Najjar's work will be showcased in the group show Space Works, which is part of the Backlight 2020, Related Realities photographic art event. Space Works explores and tests our relationship with outer space. It consists of contemporary artworks addressing the themes of hope and opportunity as well as the threats and suspicion that we associate with the infinite universe beyond our home planet.

BANK is happy to announce that artist Tian Zhuo participates in Vitality of Variable, a group show organised by Hao Art Museum(Wenzhou) . 

BANK is thrilled to announce Heidi Voet's solo exhibition "06myflipside" at Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei. The series of textile works "I was made to be with you" derives its title from a text on a second-hand T-Shirt. Each work consist of multi-layered quilted banners using slogans and imagery collected by the artist found at second-hand T-shirts, handwritten notes, and hacked computer data as source material. The representation of undervalued, domestic labour is combined with the lucrative activity of computer hacking. Personal information which constitutes our sense of privacy and self is conflated with slogans found on T-shirts which establish the wearer's identity in public. Her sculptural ‘vase portrait’ series further questions digital personas by using hacked and leaked personal data to create portraits of victims of identity theft. Instead of using traditional sculptural techniques, an array of seemingly unrelated objects is brought into play to form an image which elusively resembles a human bust; a replica vase, a sports ball cast in concrete, a wig that imitates the hairstyle of the presumed victim.

BANK is thrilled to announce that Stefan Larsson, aka AUJIK, is hosting a series on 'NOWNESS presents'. For a time, we thought that humanity was already invincible and that the future was reasonably advanced. The year 2020, during the largest "quarantine" ever experienced, the human race has been forced to isolate themselves and re-examine whether the "future" will ever be the same. Through a selection of his own works as well as others, Larsson shows his attitudes towards the mega-city, the machine and his signature sci-fi audiovisual aesthetic.

BANK is very happy to announce that artist Chen Zhe participates in the group show Peer to Peer at Shanghai Center of Photography. Peer to Peer is a group show of 14 artists, selected by 14 curators from across the UK and China. A snapshot of the state of art in UK and China today. Forming the centre of LOOK Photo Biennial 2019. The exhibition has been showed across Open Eye Gallery and the vaulted basement of St.George's Hall in Liverpool. 

In this exhibition, Chen Zhe shows excerpts and backstage works of Towards Evening on different walls. Study of a Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, on the main wall, is a triad of texts, illustrations and photos. It also shows the artist's recent works anxd a research drawing board for her new works Mechanism of Eveningas a companion. 

BANK is extremely proud to announce the upcoming exhibition "OrnAmenTumEtKrimMen" by South African artist and activist Kendell Geers (Johannesburg, 1968) curated by Danilo Eccher, which will open to the public on Monday 21 September 2020. This show brings together some recent creations in tandem with Geers' more iconic past works.

BANK is happy to announce Zheng Haozhong's participation in "Beside the Fields"-Local Art Project which invited 13 local long-term residents, regardless of origin or occupation and age to participate. At the same time, 15 artists who have long lived in the vicinity of Ke Art Museum were invited to participate in this exhibition. Residents will choose which artists they would like to collaborate and discuss with to complete work together. Through this free choice of co-creation methods, we explore the future development direction and possibilities of the Rural Art Museum.

BANK is very happy to announce our artist Yanyan Huang collaborates with The Shanghai EDITION for the Christmas Tree Art Installation. 

An ardent supporter of the local art scene, The Shanghai EDITION is a gathering place for the city’s finest contemporary art and creative talents. This year, emerging contemporary artist Yanyan Huang has been invited to create an original, avant-garde Christmas tree display to grace The Shanghai EDITION’s Urban Lobby from December 9 and onwards. The visual spectacle takes inspiration from Huang’s renowned “Knowing Seasons” series exhibited atFrieze New York: Printed silk drapes, an icon of the artist’s work, is veiled over the Christmas tree, complete with decorative lighting ornaments and an elegant silk-wrapped tree topper. Each segment of the silk features her dynamic, calligraphy-like painting style – a striking design illustrated by the vibrant contrast of bold brushstrokes against the delicate silk. 

 Chen Zhe | Cover of  "40 YEARS OF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY"

BANK is very happy to announce that artist AUJIK participates in 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. The theme of 2019 UABB is Urban Interactions. It is currently showed at the Main Venues of Futian Railway Station and MOCAUP, from December 22 to March 8,2020. The exhibition consists of two sections, namely, "Eyes of the City" and "Ascend-ing City", which will explore the evolving relationship between urban space and technological innovation from different perspectives. 

Commissioned by the UABB 2019, AUJIK's latest work Spatial Bodies: Shen Zhen & HongKong(2019) is exhibited in MOCAUP "Ascending City". AUJIK applies a conceptual approach to Shenzhen, re-creating the architectural domain to something that resembles electronic components and circuits which are interconnected like a huge computer motherboard. This could be perceived as a reflection of Shenzhen's rapidly technological acceleration and status as one of the most cutting edge metropolis in the world.

BANK is proud to announce that artists Yanyan Huang and Heidi Voet are participating in "Continuous Regeneration", an art exhibition across industries with the theme on sustainable environment on view till February 16, 2020. The exhibition brings together more than 40 artists, designers and creatives from 16 countries, using paintings, installations, videos, multidisciplinary design and other forms of artistic language to address the sustainable development of art and the environment, material life, as well as topics such as energy and futureecology. Presenting these in a poetic form, the exhibition opens a discussionon the status quo of human-nature coexistence and seeks breakthroughs.

Heidi Voet 

"The plastic bag is a vessel for an ever-changing content". Heidi Voet's participating works look like tribal masks, made from weaved plastic bags. While the bag acts as a skin around the contents inside and transport items from one place to the next, masks also disguise the wearer's identity, enabling them to exhibit behaviors outside social conventions. Tribal masks are traditionally used in rites of passage from one state to the another- boyhood to man, life to death- and inevitably refer to Europe's infamous colonial legacy.

Voet repeatedly positions the plastic bag as a shifting actor in her work. The whimsical quality of the plastic bags is seen throughout Heidi Voet's earlier work. Voet imbues common, overlooked objects value and meaning - such as cheap digital watches transformed into acarpet, or Chinese magazines folded into floral arrangements- through the simple act of making and playing.
 

Yanyan Huang

Huang Yanyan’s painting practice, characterized by vital, spinning patterns and uniquely romantic colors, reflects a complex carefree mode of personal expression. Deeply influenced by the tradition of Lyrical Abstraction, and the work of Hans Hartung in the West and Zao Wou-ki in the East, Huang’s gestures and movements come together on her canvases, bringing painter’s options back into contemporary explorations; her spontaneous brush strokes, which at times look like scribbles or calligraphy, are marks that run parallel with time, constantly constructing a rich, and even immortal, personal reality.

Huang’s paintings are very large but not without intimacy. There are no overwhelming narratives related to metaphorical legends; instead, they represent a purer painting phenomenon. They resemble the histories and patterns of collective human visual experience, which subconsciously wait to be extended, deepened, and developed, and the artist’s every brush stroke and color combination is a juncture in this evolution. Even as the works embody history, Huang has a contemporary yet timeless way of removing the eternal division between content and form, and the result is a unifying object without a unified center. Sometimes, a group of forms appear before our eyes, and we can only permit the forms, which are difficult to capture, to appear and disappear. This young artist’s familiarity and integration of Baroque music, modern dance and opera, and the performative and expressive qualities of these art forms are reinforced in her painting. In fact, the existence of painting allows for the possibility of other artistic forms, and vice versa.（Text/Fuca Yuan)