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Outpost
Liao Xiaozhou, Lou Yezi, Yang Yifan 7 Dec 2024 - 18 Jan 2025 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the group exhibition “ Outpost ” by artists Liao Xiaozhou, Lou Yezi and Yang Yifan, which is from December 7, 2024, to January 18, 2025. Amid the sweeping economic transformations and cultural waves of the 1990s and early 2000s, the post-90s generation, now entering... Read more -
Late Fragment
Gao Xiaoyi 7 Dec 2024 - 18 Jan 2025 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition “Late Fragment” by artist Gao Xiaoyi, which is from December 7, 2024, to January 18, 2025. During Gao Xiaoyi’s creations, taking family photo albums as a starting point, she repeatedly gazes upon the images of her parents in their youth and... Read more
Past
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Imaginary Lines
Ran Kai 3 Nov - 2 Dec 2024 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition “Imaginary Lines” by artist Ran Kai, which is from November 3, 2024 to December 2, 2024. The theme of Ran Kai's new solo exhibition“Imaginary Lines”serves as a metaphor for his journey of introspective exploration into the depths of his spiritual world... Read more -
Ghosts, Riddles and Antecedents
Xing Hao 3 Nov - 2 Dec 2024 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition“Ghosts, Riddles and Antecedents” by artist Xing Hao, which is from November 3, 2024 to December 2, 2024. In Xing Hao's works, the supernatural plots and spirits from classical allegories and Zhiguai fictions serve as an invisible thread, connecting Xing's entire creative... Read more -
Ridiculous Things
Yang Yang 12 Sep - 28 Oct 2024 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition 'Ridiculous Things' by artist Yang Yang, which is from September 12, 2024 to October 28, 2024. Plastic, a symbolic hallmark of modern civilization, also serves as a crucial medium in Yang's works. It not only carries the rapid advancements in technology... Read more -
Pretended Slumber
Kenix Xiaoqing Liang 12 Sep - 28 Oct 2024 Gene Gallery is pleased to present “Pretended Slumber”, a solo exhibition by Kenix Xiaoqing Liang, running from September 12, 2024, to October 28, 2024. Following the 2023 duo exhibition “Old Fire, New Spring”, this exhibition marks the second time of Liang's work showcasing at Gene Gallery. Through her allegorical paintings,... Read more
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No se
Zhao Qian 13 Jul - 12 Aug 2024 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition “No se” by Zhao Qian, from 13 July 2024 to 12 August 2024. 0. 1. A stone tastes more than delicious. 2. Drawing tooth sketches step by step. 3. Often exaggerating the absurdity of stings. 4. Went to see the dentist,... Read more -
Sleepwalkers
Angela Maasalu 13 Jul - 12 Aug 2024 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition “Sleepwalkers” by Angela Maasalu, from 13 July 2024 to 12 August 2024. Groundless alterations of reality, with continued formations of truth. Sleepwalkers by Angela Maasalu skids through these concepts, challenging the audience to find humour, compassion, and understanding within the metaphysical... Read more -
Remade Scenes
Huang Peishan 26 May - 24 Jun 2024 Gene Gallery is pleased to present Huang Peishan's solo exhibition 'Remade Scenes”, from 26 May 2024 to 24 June 2024. The legitimacy of the image as evidence has long seemed eternal for photography, yet even within a mode of creation that is a complete record of objective facts, there is... Read more -
A Long Gaze and Thousands Glances
Akiko Ueda 26 May - 24 Jun 2024 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition “A Long Gaze and Thousand Glances” by Akiko Ueda, from 26 May 2024 to 24 June 2024. One of the intriguing pleasures the concept of time carries, is that it is experienced by all beings while manifests itself in different ways... Read more
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ASPHALT
Group Exhibition 20 Apr - 19 May 2024 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the group exhibition 'ASPHALT', Artist: Catalina Milea, Chen Paian, Feng Zhixuan, Pao-Leng Kung, Guo Yage, Gao Yingpu, Gong Ziwei, Jin Jiachen, Lei Tong, Ran Kai, Wang Qianyi, Wang Xuan, Wu Yumo, Zhang Haoyan, Zhang Lingrui, Zhu Xiangmin, and Zheng Yi. The exhibition is from... Read more -
Dancing on the line
Han Xinyu 23 Dec 2023 - 4 Feb 2024 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition 'Dancing on the Line' by artist Han Xinyu, curated by Chen Junyao from December 23, 2023 to February 4, 2024. As the artist's first solo exhibition, this exhibition will present Han Xinyu's precise portrayal and control of emotions in her artistic... Read more -
Cross Ventilation
Wang Kaifan 4 Nov - 10 Dec 2023 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition 'Cross Ventilation' by artist Wang Kaifan, curated by Chen Junyao from November 4, 2023 to December 10, 2023. 'Xar mangh' -- the Mongolian word for yellow sandy area, and is a metaphor for the largest urban village in Hohhot. Several streets... Read more -
Whatever Works
Jin Zhiliang 16 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition 'Whatever Works' by artist Jin Zhiliang, curated by Chen Junyao from September 16, 2023 to October 21, 2023. Artist Jin Zhiliang humorously transforms modern life into a game, in which he constructs a graphic arena where modern appliances and the human... Read more
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An elephant in my heart
Jin Jiachen 20 Aug - 15 Sep 2023 The sky flashes with unseen meteors, and a distant herd of elephants leaves behind nineteen totems of footprints, which the owls in the forest pick up and bind into a book about the past. The first chapter of the book is dedicated to the elders - those who accept life... Read more -
Old Fire, New Spring
Kenix Xiaoqing Liang, Noah Schneiderman 21 Jul - 31 Aug 2023 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the duo exhibition 'Old Fire, New Spring' by artists Kenix Xiaoqing Liang and Noah Schneiderman, from July 21, 2023 to August 31, 2023. Organisms are in contact with each other, separated by a slippery film of skin, with stains of sweat, tears and cellular... Read more -
Pattern
Pao-Leng Kung 3 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 Read more -
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream
Guo Yage, Wang Shiwen, Liu Lu, Akiko Ueda 22 Apr - 26 May 2023 Then Manjushri said to Vimalakirti, 'Each of us has given an explanation. Now, sir, it is your turn to speak. How does the bodhisattva enter the gate of nondualism?' At that time Vimalakirti remained silent and did not speak a word. Manjushri sighed and said, 'Excellent, excellent! Not a word,not... Read more
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Neverland
Ran Kai 11 Mar - 9 Apr 2023 Ran Kai likes to gaze at the sea for a long time. This comes from the love and nostalgia caused by the separation between him and his parents during childhood. At that time, Ran Kai lived in a minority-inhabited area in Hubei, China, while his parents worked in the coastal... Read more -
Flute Dream
Han Xiuzhi 17 Dec 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 The theme of artist Han Xiuzhi's solo exhibition is a reference to Hesse's short story 'Flute Dream', in which Hesse uses poetic language to tell the journey of a teenager who is not familiar with the world and the surreal light and bizarre are intertwined with romantic lyric poetry, telling... Read more -
Long Pai Shen Ma
Chen Liang, Yu Hang 8 Nov - 7 Dec 2022 When trying to find the exact shape or clear clues, the images of Chen Liang and Yu Hang are like barriers in front of them. At this moment, following the tracks of unconscious activities, the traces of physical actions and perceptions, a labyrinth-like wilderness is between the blurred borders of... Read more -
Distorted
Shin Masaharu 11 Oct - 3 Nov 2022 Gene Gallery is delighted to announce Shin Masaharu's first solo exhibition in China, 'Distorted.' Shin Masaharu (b.1996) completed the accumulation of his creative materials by collecting standard textures and fabrics in daily life. The collection process of this material classifies and analyzes the daily environment and establishes a classification system... Read more
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Passing between reality and falsehood
Chen Paian, Doreen Chan, Cao Shu, Fei Yining, Avita Guo 26 Aug - 20 Sep 2022 In Charlie Kaufman's film Synecdoche, New York (2008), the award-winning theater director Kayton was able to create a man-made theater in a giant theater in New York City. Theatrical performances in New York City. Katen used his personal experience as the prototype of the script, reproduced the characters (including himself),... Read more -
Pantomime in the garden
Li Jiarui, Zhou Xinyu 16 Jul - 14 Aug 2022 If you, that have grown old, were the first dead, Neither catalpa tree nor scented lime Should hear my living feet, nor would I tread Where we wrought that shall break the teeth of Time. Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can... Read more -
Fantasy, on the edge of the earth
Zhang Haoyan 12 Jun - 10 Jul 2022 In Zhang Haoyan's first solo exhibition, the artist presents the results of his video and painting practice in the past two years around many specific screen images, based on iconography and traceable media communication phenomena. This solo exhibition continues Zhang Haoyan's consistent creative thinking, that is, through the archaeology of... Read more -
Romantic street dance
Bian Shaozhi, Chen Ruofan, Han Xiuzhi, Li Tingwei, Liu Jinyi, Liu Yixuan, Yu Hang 26 Feb - 31 Mar 2022 The Street： A Form of Living Together The long and narrow exhibition space，the dissociative exhibits, as entering the new space of Gene Gallery located on the Shanghai Bund, we are likely in the Scene of Hitchcock's zoom. The compression, distortion and stacking of space wrap diversified information， heading to our... Read more
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Parallel Soul: The Ultimate Guide to the natural history
Feng Zhixuan 4 Jan - 21 Feb 2022 This exhibition is a summary of Feng Zhixuan's exploration of materials in the Anthropocene as a sculptor. He uses the technique of creation as a means to resist the meticulously retouched smooth surfaces and uses the texture of the material to evoke the original sensory stimulation, each of his works... Read more -
Intertwining
Wang Hua 13 Nov - 20 Dec 2021 Wang Hua’s sculptures and installations twist, wrap and weave to map the relationship between the 'body' and its immediate surroundings here and now. She has long been concerned with the existence of the 'body' and its historical situation and location, using both durational and non-stationary materials in parallel to explore... Read more -
Air Drop (cloud landed, boulders drifted)
Li Tingwei 20 Aug - 19 Sep 2021 Quarantined in an urban city in Switzerland for three months, the artist witnessed the sense of emptiness reaching its ultimate level. No trace of life could be spotted outside of the window. The clouds in the sky and the boulders on the ground seemed to be the only beings left... Read more -
HAKUNA MATATA
Yu Hang 11 Jul - 9 Aug 2021 Comparing to the artworks Yu produced between 2014 and 2018, the ten pieces of acrylic paintings this exhibition features represent a breakthrough in the use of colors and brushstrokes. He replaced the dark, mural-like paintings with extensive use of highly saturated colors, such as bright yellow, hot pink, and sky... Read more
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Be an Artist Then?
Chen Paian 29 May - 28 Jun 2021 'Be an Artist Then?' is artist Chen Pai'an's first solo exhibition in Shanghai. Chen brings ten large-scale plane works to the exhibition. transforming Gene Gallery into an independent microcosm in which his personal aesthetic and classical painting themes are cross-referenced. Through the presentation 01 classic painting themes, these works, as... Read more -
In sight
Mao Guanshuai 17 Apr - 17 May 2021 Mao Guanshuai's practice is the art of finding and hiding. The artist is a fan of collecting fossils of animals that have been buried under the sand of the Songhua River in Heilongjiang Province for tens of thousands of years and have now been unwily salvaged in the process of... Read more -
Sunglasses in the Dark
Gao Yingpu 6 Mar - 5 Apr 2021 In the urban life under the social media matrix, highly symbolic objects or phenomena are grouped into seemingly story-like plots, and special objects or events reflect a group spirit portrait of particular reference. In the fiction of the desire for identity, the object becomes a real fragment between the statement... Read more -
Yoshio Sekine
Yoshio Sekine 26 Dec 2020 - 3 Feb 2021 Yoshio Sekine was born in Wakayama, Japan. Sekine met the influential painter Jiro Yoshihara (1905-1972) through the Jiyu Bijutsu Kyoukai (Free Artists' Association) and was involved in the founding of the avant-garde Gutai group in 1954. Sekine left Gutai and moved to Tokyo in 1959. At The 15th Yomiuri Independent... Read more
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PINK PUNK PARK
Feng Zhixuan, Liu Chuan, Yu Hang 8 Nov - 6 Dec 2020 In Yu Hang's large scale paintings, brush strokes and color block representation suggest the possibility of the collaborative construction of abstract structure background color and vague concrete outline. In the tangible and intangible pending state, the artist tries to capture the fog of fear hidden behind the collective subconscious and... Read more -
#Chicken# Loading @PUBG
Lei Tong 18 Oct - 23 Nov 2020 “LANDSCAPE” series is an unvarnished depiction of scenes from an online multiplayer game Survival of the Jedi. The idea of this series stems from my obsession with games. In Survival of the Jedi, 100 players parachute into a map, land on the ground, search for battle supplies, and kill each... Read more -
FRANKINCENSE
Cheng Tingting 29 Aug - 29 Sep 2020 When a tree is in its seedlings, does it have a chance to determine its final form and move towards its goal? Is there a chance to decide the time of leaf fall and the number of results? Humans saw this tree, standardized its shape, and determined its purpose. Thousands... Read more -
Burning Dream
Liu Guangguang 11 Jul - 11 Aug 2020 Burning Dream Author: Liu Guangguang For me, painting is like a road movie filming process on this matter. As the path extends, the scenery keeps changing, new narrative points are constantly triggered, unknown situations happen by chance, and the temptations and struggles that follow. Everyone is bound by The Times,... Read more
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Herstellen
Zhou Zizheng 23 May - 22 Jun 2020 In an era when relations of production are over-virtualized, the close connection between human beings and existing things is gradually weakened, replaced by the symbolized and standardized appeal to the explanation of production. It is a surrender to speed and time in an environment of ultra-efficient construction, and the result... Read more -
Get Up Early in the Mourning
Shang Simin 11 Apr - 11 May 2020 Shang Simin’artworks, in terms of its aesthetic schema, will make people think of 'Superflat' features at first glance: color bright, two-dimensional space and flat outline. Fictional cartoon characters and specious anthropomorphic animals make the work less serious. Therefore, from the perspective of shape and structure alone, the comic world constructed... Read more -
Hidden Box
Zhai Yi 7 - 31 Mar 2020 From the end of Jihai to the early spring of Gengzi, I have been confined at home for more than 40 days. As a resident of a city in an epidemic area, I should stay for a while longer. Fortunately, I am a person who doesn't like to go out,... Read more -
Conjure a Compo Site
Feng Zhixuan 3 Nov - 31 Dec 2019 Perhaps, the world we are about to be living in is indeed Baudrillard’s boundless desert of the real, evoking individual and collective concerns, accompanied by the virtual phantom of truth and wandering animals of simulacrum. Feng Zhixuan’s sculptures are not subversion of specific lives, but alienated signs of the real... Read more
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Pastiche Park
Liu Yixuan 7 Sep - 20 Oct 2019 Visiting A Park is not Searching for An Epiphany Author/Yixuan Liu Maybe because the 'cliche' of figurative painting created some kind of emotion to me, nostalgia becomes an inevitable element in my paintings, with a paranoid unclear, and may last a long time. My recent works shift from still life... Read more -
Mono
Isao Sugiyama, Hamada Kiyoshi 20 Jul - 31 Aug 2019 Gene Gallery is honored to announce that it will exhibit 'MONO', a two-solo exhibition of Japanese artists Hamada Kiyoshi and Isao Sugiyama, on July 20. It is also the first time that the works of Mono-Ha artist Hamada Kiyoshi have appeared in China. “Newer is better”? The Japanese post-war art... Read more -
Diagonal
Zhao Gang, Zhang Dejian 16 Mar - 30 Apr 2019 Gene Gallery is glad to announce that the exhibition Diagonal will be held from March 16th to April 30th, presenting the works of two artists Zhao Gang and Zhang Dejian. Different personalities and life experiences impelled both of Zhao and Zhang to look for inspirations as well as draw knowledge... Read more
