Heart of the Tin Man

2017 M WOODS

Heart of the Tin Man

2017 M WOODS

This summer, M WOODS becomes a site dedicated to the digital age. Heart of the Tin Man brings together works by twelve artists consciously revealing, investigating, or subverting current Internet or technological practices. Drawn predominantly from the M WOODS Collection and the post-internet focus of co-founder Michael Xufu Huang, the exhibition includes virtual reality, digital mechanics, and interactive works to stimulate our senses of sight, smell, touch, and sound, and to register emotion within a contemporary world increasingly governed by algorithms, measurements, and marketing.

40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976-2017) - Three Shadows 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition

Duration：2017.06.28－2017.08.27

Invited Curator：巫鸿 Wu Hung

Executive Curator：沈宸 Shen Chen

Venue：Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing

Address：155 Caochangdi,  Chaoyang District, Beijing City

BANK is pleased to announce Chen Zhe‘s participation in 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976-2017) - Three Shadows 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition, featuring selected works from her first photography series The Bearables. This exhibition, opening on Jun 28th and continues through August 27th, is divided into four sections: “The Rise of Unofficial Photography (1976–1979)”, “New Wave Photography (1980-1989)”, “Experimental Photography (1990-2006)”, and “The Development of Experimental Photography Organizations (2007-present) ”. The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the work of important Chinese contemporary photographers from the mid 1990s on, as well as related historical material.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Chen Zhe’s practice is often restored as an ongoing process of exploration, discovery, and research. In her early work where the physical self-destruction of her subjects is identified as an act of spiritual cleansing, Chen Zhe searched after the possibility of “another way of telling" by expanding her photographic observations with a collection of journals and letters.

Chen Zhe (b. 1989) is a photo-based artist born and based in Beijing, China. She received her BFA in Photography and Imaging from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in 2011. Chen is the recipient of the Three Shadows Award (2011), Inge Morath Award from the Magnum Foundation (2011), Lianzhou Festival Photographer of the Year Award (2012) and the Xitek New Talent Award (2015). Her work has been included in public and private collections and exhibited internationally at Unseen Photo Fair, Contact Photography Festival, Fotohof Gallery and Tokyo Photo, as well as at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Musuem and the Power Station of Art in China. Chen was subject of TV documentary films “Chinese Viewfinder” (2013) produced by ARTE, France and “China Through the Lens of Youth” (2014) produced by NHK, Japan. Her debut publication “Bees” was selected as one of the best books of 2012 by Photo-Eye and Feature Shoot, and her latest book “Bees & The Bearable” was awarded the Best Photobook of the Year by Kassel Fotobook festival in 2016.

Chen Zhe's interview with the  Three Shadows

https://v.qq.com/iframe/player.html?vid=p0515f02ozp&width=670&height=502.5&auto=0

How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken

2017 BANK-MABSOCIETY

BANK is pleased to announce Heidi Voet‘s participation in How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, curated by Wim Lambrecht, opening at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Belgium on June 23rd and continues through October 1st. Lambrecht’s interest in the ephemeral and in transient and temporary art forms is the starting point for this exhibition, in which Heidi Voet will show A whole new world a go-go, a mixed media installation created in 2008 which utilizes Chinese erotic magazines and construction material.

EXHIBITING WORKS

In A whole new world a go-go, Voet appropriates erotic “fine art photography” magazines found on newsstands in Shanghai then folds them, as Japanese origami, to form bouquets of flowers. These nude women’s status as symbols of desire is re-deployed as their symbolic equivalent - flowers. Voet’s flowers are presented in a vessel carved from cinder blocks. This masculine construction material and perhaps referent to China’s massive urbanization efforts is feminized by both the flowers that inhabit it and the sleek historical forms that Voet shapes them into. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

HEIDI VOET (b. 1972, Belgium)  is recognised for her playful and provocative practice. She splits her time between Asia and Europe, often using resources and references from both areas for conceptual fodder in her work. Her artistic enterprise can be characterized by a wondrous engagement of everyday life and materials. Her work has been showcased at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai; MoCA, Shanghai; Hangzhou Fiber Art Triennial; IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels; L&M Arts, Los Angeles and CAC Lithuania. Her work is also on permanent display at chi K11, Shanghai.

Oliver Herring’s everexpanding body of work ranges from early sculptures made by knitting with Mylar tape to experimental videos, and to complex photosculptures. Since 1998, Herring has regularly involved other people in his work, the best known being his community TASK events. 

For his solo project in Xi’an, Herring expands upon the success of recent participatory projects in Chengdu and Wuzhen. Taking choreography as the core direction and process, he will shoot a series of short videos involving local Xi’an participants including dancers and nondancers of both genders to produce a work unique to Xi’an. In addition to a familiar range of materials such as body paint, food dye, glitter and flour, the Xi’an project incorporates a new interest in clothing as costume. Throughout the period of the exhibition, the lower ground gallery at OCAT Xi’an will function as an open studio. Visitors can drop in a get involved at any time.

BANK is pleased to announce Chen Zhe's participation in the group exhibition, “Without Leaving Any Traces” at Mocube which opened on May 18, 2017, and will continue through July 10th.

This exhibition encompasses paintings, photography, video art and new media installation of six artists, that aims at addressing the ambiguity in the approach and path of artistic practice, its mediation with degrees of reality, as well as the point of contact between the artist’s exception and the viewer’s reception. In a present when artistic discourses overlap, the choices and position one takes on the path from “here to there” in one’s art practice shapes the status of art.

“It’s easy to not leave any traces if one doesn’t walk, but if one has to walk, it’d be much more difficult not to leave any traces” is not only an analogy for the ineffability of art practice, but addresses the suspense beyond imagery. 

Curator 策展人: Xn Office
Venue: MoCA Pavilion, Shanghai 上海当代艺术馆 艺术亭台

Participating Artist: aaajiao, Chen Yujun, Chen Yufan, Cheng Ran, Christophe Demaitre, Golnaz Fathi, Gao Lei, Guo Ke, Hu Renyi, Huang Lei, Li Jingxiong, Li Qing, Liao Fei, Lin Qing, Liu Wa, Liu Yue, Liu Zhuoquan, Lu Chao, Ni Youyu, Qi Lei, Shang Yixin, Song Dong, Tong Yixin, Wang yi, Wu Di, Wu Juehui, Yang Mushi, Yang Xinguang, Yu Ying, Zhang Ding, Zhang Jiaxing, Zhou Yilun, Zhu Xi

OLIVER HERRING | 奥利弗·赫林

2017.04.08 - 2017.05.17

Homecoming: Katherine Behar, Oliver Herring, Julia Jacquette, Yashua Klos

Venue：Leubsdorf Gallery
Address: Hunter West Building, 132 East 68th Street, NYC
Organized by 组织者: Sarah Watson with Jenn Bratovich

The exhibition marks the inauguration of a new initiative, also entitled “Homecoming,” developed in collaboration with the MFA Student Organization, and designed to foster connections between current Hunter MFA students and Hunter MFA alumni in a variety of ways, including an annual exhibition in the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery.  This year’s inaugural Homecoming exhibition offers the opportunity to highlight the work of just some of Hunter’s internationally recognized alumni artists, allowing our current students to gain a greater understanding of their practice in advance of the visits, interviews, lectures, and tours that are part of the broader initiative.

With the rise of artificial intelligence, social web, and gaming, the process of adopting newly invented personae is nothing unusual in popular culture and daily life. Immortal stand-ins for the self, for feelings and intelligence, and for values and beliefs have expanded our lives. After Us looks at the original personae that artists are animating: ones that amplify current social conditions and speculate on potential future states.

As the first major show that KAF and the New Museum co-present in China, the exhibition is ambitious to bring together an international group of artists and emerging artists from China, manifesting KAF’s role in promoting contemporary Chinese art and cultural exchange. Featured artists layer virtual or imagined states onto the present through the use of surrogates, proxies, and avatars – which appear in works of sculpture, installation, photography, performance, video or in the form of augmented reality or virtual reality.

The exhibition is curated by Lauren Cornell, Curator and Associate Director of Technology Initiatives at the New Museum, who is supported by Chinese curator Chen Baoyang, appointed by KAF as Assistant Curator.

From: k11artfundation.org

Participating Artists: Chen Youyin, Da Yu, Deng Wei, Dong Jinling, Feng lipeng, Gao Lei, Guo Mengyao, Huang Zhenwei, Jiang Li, Jin Shan, Jing Xiaolei, Li Zi, Liu Chengrui, Liu Ren, Liu Zhaowu, Luo Dan, Ma Lili, Ma Lihua, Pan Chenmiao, Peng Yun, Qiu Guangping, Ren ri, Shen Dapeng, Sheng Tianhong, Su Zhe, Sun Mou, THEY, Ta Ke, Tao Damin, Tian Xiaolei, Tu Xi, Wang Enlai, Wang Guojun, Wang Li Wei, Wu Jian’an, Xia Shan(Li Hao), Xiongxiong Work, Xu Na, Yao Peng, Ye Linghan, Yu Yiwen, Zhan Rui, Zhan Yintong, Zhang Lin, Zhang Xiangxi, Zhao Fulin, Zhao Shuhong, Zhao Xiaoxiao, Desktop Research Art Group, Zhang Yunyao

OCAT Shanghai is pleased to present Dragon Liver Phoenix Brain – Eight Emerging Artists on December 10, 2016. Being part of the OCAT Shanghai annual young artists project, this exhibition will also be the last exhibition of the year and is organized by Mr. Colin Siyuan Chinnery. The eight participating artists are Chen Zhe, Hu Xiangqian, Li Liao, Lin Ke, Lu Pingyuan, Nabuqi, Shen Xin and Yu Ji who work in video, photography, sculpture and performance. The isolation or proximity between artists' works shall be a major factor in this exhibition.

The Editorial is a research-led inquiry into the expanding role and network of independent contemporary art publishers in Asia and their international impact through a curated series of public events, exhibitions, and discussions.

The Editorial at the Taipei Biennial 2016 is a partnership between the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Vernacular Institute, and Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. It was initiated by Ingrid Chu and Kit Hammonds.

Installation, bookshop, performances, screenings, and discussions with:

C&G Artpartment (Hong Kong); Craig Cooper (Hong Kong/UK); Frances Horn (Belgium/Mexico); Kao Jun-Honn (Taiwan); Lee Yen-Yi (Taiwan); Beatrix Pang (Hong Kong); Sharmini Pereira (Sri Lanka/USA); David Senior (USA); ruangrupa & Friends (Indonesia); Charwei Tsai (Taiwan/Vietnam); Heidi Voet (Brussels/Taipei); Jason Wee (Singapore); White Fungus (New Zealand/Taiwan); Brian Kuan Wood (Taiwan/USA); Jun Yang (Austria/Japan/Taiwan); Yuling Zhong (Hong Kong)

My Art Guides Venice Meeting Point takes place during the four days of the Venice Biennale openings May 9-12 at the Navy Officer’s Club, just round the corner from the Arsenale entrance. This year, for the first time, Mara Sartore Lightbox director and My Art Guides editor-in-chief has worked in collaboration with MAP Office (Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix), artist duo based in Hong Kong, at the selection of artists on display. The exhibition features Patty Chang's recent project, Invocation for a Wandering Lake, which has also been exhibited exhibited at the 11th Shanghai Biennale Why Not Ask Again.

Featuring Artists:
Patty Chang 张怡
Heman Chong 张奕满
MAP Office
Mariana Hahn
Benedetto Pietromarchi
Ignazio Mortellaro
Olivia Mc Gilchrist
Davidoff Art Initiative
Jorge González and Monica Rodríguez
Romina de Novellis

BANK is delighted to announce Lin Ke's participation in Saved by the Web?  featuring works by Hasan Elahi, Lin Ke, and Eva & Franco Mattes, all artists whose work is result of an engagement with the internet. 

The exhibition poses the title question based on Charlotte's Web and Saved by the Bell, both of which are built on direct interaction networks before the Facebook era, then dials up to current time and presents the different facets of our no-touch digital networks inviting the audience to the unhappening "Saved by the Web".