Curatorial Works

wild walls

Wild Walls presents works from Roy XR Chen’s G Series, framing graffiti as a living archive shaped by time, erosion, and repeated intervention. Moving between the roles of graffiti artist, observer, and recorder, Chen depicts walls, streets, and toilets as layered surfaces where fresh paint, decay, and residue coexist. The exhibition positions graffiti as a contemporary mural practice—both a contested public act and an evolving archive of urban memory.

8.27.2022 -10.21.2022

Curator: Nara Huang

Artist: Roy XR Chen

2022 Beijing biennial

2022 Beijing Biennial “Symbiosis” brings together seven exhibition units across three venues to explore coexistence—between human civilization and natural ecology, and between digital technology and creative design—framing Beijing’s art ecology through both spatial diversity and historical continuity.

12.30. 2022 - 3.12.2023

Head of Exhibition Text : Nara Huang

weaving of times

Weaving of Times opens into Kebeyo Chen’s vivid dream-logic world, where eyes, braids, and pomegranate seeds recur as symbols of memory, growth, and inner change. Blending childhood recollection with imagination, the works blur dream and reality into surreal imagery. Braids stretch like connective threads across space and time—linking inside and outside, past and future, and the fragile interval between sleep and wakefulness.

7.15 - 8.30.2022

Curator: Nara Huang

Artist: Kebeyo Chen

floating works

Floating Works frames Kang Shixin’s painting as an art of transformation, echoing Sun Wukong’s “seventy-two changes” as a metaphor for freedom and emotional flux. Shifting from narrative figuration to bold, abstract color and fluid imagery, the works let characters and symbols remain unstable—changing across time and in the viewer’s eye. Across drifting figures, conflict, flowers, and rivers, the exhibition becomes a journey through life’s continual ebb and flow.

3.13 - 4.24.2022

Curator: Nara Huang

Artist: Kang Shixin

beneath the skin between the machines

Beneath the Skin, Between the Machines examines how technology reshapes bodies and social systems as “machine” expands into data, code, and algorithms. Moving between what is quantified “beneath the skin” and the infrastructures that operate “between the machines,” the exhibition invites viewers to reconsider how we touch machines, how machines read us, and where art stands within an increasingly calculable technological reality.

1.15 - 4.24.2022

Exhibition Handbook (CN/EN) Translator & Editor: Nara Huang

send yourself nowhere but shanghai

Joan Cornellà’s first large-scale museum solo exhibition in China presents new acrylic paintings and sculptural installations that extend his signature dark humor into expanded scenes and settings. With bright palettes and deceptively cheerful smiles—borrowed from advertising and safety-video imagery—Cornellà stages absurd, pandemic-era “journeys” where fantasy and reality collide. The works invite laughter first, then unease, using polished surface and bizarre backdrops to sharpen his critique of contemporary life.

12.11.2021 - 3.23.2022

Curator: Nara Huang

Artist: Joan Cornellà