What Kind of Us Does Painting Need

MadeIn Gallery No.1, 1F Sunken Garden, Lane 9, Qufu Road, Jingan

WHAT This group exhibition showcases thirteen global artists’ highly experimental and revealing paintings. The works explore how painting as a medium might refresh its power when confronted with challenges such as algorithm and post-conceptualism. The artists’ attempt at refreshing painting and giving it a new power captivates audiences just as much as smartphones and constantly…

Manifestation

MadeIn Gallery No.1, 1F Sunken Garden, Lane 9, Qufu Road, Jingan

WHAT In the Beijing-based artist’s first solo exhibition, he explores the localisation of painting within the context of globalisation, and distinctively integrates elements of ancient religious art, expressionism, and street graffiti in his creations. For him, the materiality of materials and the process of painting weigh as much as its outcome. This exhibition is a…

Dust That Rides the Wind

MadeIn Gallery No.1, 1F Sunken Garden, Lane 9, Qufu Road, Jingan

WHAT The exhibition is a systematic research on the artist’s material and conceptual language developed from a geologist’s perspective, in which she extracts and transforms earth and colour. The artist provides a way of perceiving colour and art beyond modern norms, introducing a discussion of the constantly-changing meaning that colours carry and the ideologies behind…

Zhou Zixi: Ensemble

MadeIn Gallery No.1, 1F Sunken Garden, Lane 9, Qufu Road, Jingan

WHAT Born and based in Shanghai, the artist is considered a history painter, known for his practice of allegorical narrative, absurd visual expression and subtle landscape line drawing, and for constantly pursuing hidden facts and the fate of ordinary people through his works. Rooted in his life and 'memories' of Shanghai, including his studio and…