UCCA Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce that it will host seven exhibitions at UCCA Beijing and two at UCCA Dune in 2025. In Beijing, UCCA will first present Korean American artists in the Great Hall.Annika YiThe solo exhibition focuses on the artist's exploration of human sensory experience, science and social issues using biological materials and technologies, followed by the internationally renowned pioneer of spatial imaging art - Swiss artistPipilidi Rist, and famous video artists who play an important role in the development of contemporary Chinese artYang FudongThis is the most comprehensive display of Yang Fudong’s work to date, and also the artist’s first large-scale institutional solo exhibition in Beijing.

In addition, UCCA Beijing will present the first African female artist to win the Turner Prize and the winner of the 2023 Maria Lassnig Award - British artistLubena Himidmasterpieces, and Chinese painters active in the field of contemporary artChen Ke,sculptorLiao FeiWith Japanese ArtistsTanaka KokiUCCA Dune will continue to focus on exploratory and groundbreaking artists, and will also feature emerging artists who will re-examine the current social and artistic value systems with unique projects.Hu Yinpingsolo exhibition, and the late Singaporean-British artistLin JinThis is his first solo exhibition in mainland China, focusing on his unique insights and in-depth exploration of the universal characteristics of form and space in Eastern and Western art traditions.

Annual Exhibition

Beijing

UCCA Center for Contemporary Art

Annika Yi

UCCA Beijing

2025.3.22 – 2025.6.15

This exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of the artistic practice of Korean-American artist Annika Yi in Asia. Over the past decade, Annika Yi has attracted much attention from the international art world for her so-called "biopolitics of the senses," an exploration of how culture and biology shape sensory experience. The exhibition will feature her latest works as well as a selection of her early works, presenting a comprehensive view of her unique artistic world.

Using organic and ephemeral materials such as bacteria, scents and tempura flower, Annika Yi skillfully captures the subtle changes in human emotions and perceptions. Based on the fragile yet tenacious interdependence between living things, the artist considers tenacious creatures such as ants and soil microorganisms as co-creators, and incorporates existential questions such as life, death and decay into her works, emphasizing the mutually beneficial symbiosis between all life forms. Through the exploration of the senses, Annika Yi's practice focuses on the individual experience and insights of non-human entities such as machines, fungi and seaweed, challenging the anthropocentric view. Rooted in meticulous research in biology, technology and philosophy, the works on display present these studies to the audience in a tangible and emotionally alive form, inviting people to interact closely with the world beyond the human. By collaborating with experts in various fields including scientists, architects and perfumers, the artist's works urge us to re-examine our own place in a wider and interconnected ecosystem.

The exhibition is co-organized by UCCA and Samsung Museum of Art, and co-curated by UCCA curatorial consultant Peter Yi Li and Samsung Museum of Art curator Lee Jin-ya.

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Anicka Yi was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1971 and currently lives and works in New York. She has had solo exhibitions in institutions around the world, including Metaspore (Pirelli Bicocca Hangar Art Center, Milan, 2022); Modern Commission: Anicka Yi: In Love with This World (Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London, 2021); Life is Cheap (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2017); Jungle Stripes (Friedrich Arum Museum, Kassel, 2016); Digital Spit 7,070,430K (Kunsthaus Basel, Basel, 2015); You Can Call Me F (The Kitchen, New York, 2015).

Important group exhibitions include "New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century" (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019); "May You Live in Interesting Times" (58th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2019); "Electronic Body" (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2019); "Dream of Form" (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017); 2017 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2017); "Climate Zone 8, What Is Art Doing?" (11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2016) and "At the same time... suddenly, then" (12th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, 2013). Yi is the recipient of the 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and the 2016 Guggenheim Hugo Boss Award. Her work is included in several public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, the Rubell Family Collection, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Pipilidi Rist

UCCA Beijing

2025.7.19 – 2025.10.19

Internationally renowned Swiss artist Pipirodi Rist will make full use of the spatial structure characteristics of the UCCA Great Hall to present her new video installation works to Chinese audiences. These commissioned works will continue Rist's forward-looking and sharp video language style, integrating her consistent eco-feminist concerns and Taoist natural views on the perception and understanding of the symbiotic state of life, guiding the audience to constantly switch perspectives between the micro and macro worlds, exploring the continuous interaction and circulation of body mechanisms, food consumption, digestive processes and farming activities in contemporary ecosystems, and inviting the audience to feel the power of "total art" that includes multiple media such as video, installation, and sculpture.

This exhibition will present a site-specific work created by the artist for the UCCA Grand Hall, as well as the artist's most representative selected works that echo this work, and make full use of the museum's public areas and unconventional exhibition spaces. In an open exhibition experience full of humor and fun, it provides people from all walks of life and the public of all ages with a full range of multi-sensory experience of entering the artistic world of Pipilidi Rist. This exhibition is curated by UCCA curator Fang Yan.

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Pipilotti Rist was born in 1962 in Grubbs, Switzerland, and currently lives and works in Zurich. From 1982 to 1986, he studied commercial art, illustration and photography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and subsequently studied audiovisual communication (video) at the Basel School of Design. Since the mid-1980s, Rist has become an important figure in the international art world and his work has been widely exhibited around the world.

Recent solo exhibitions include: "Electronic Idyll" (Fire Station, Doha, 2024); "Into Your Eyes" (Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2022); "Big Heart, May You Be My Neighbor" (Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, California, 2021-2022); "Your Eyes Are My Island" (National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 2021); "Open My Glade" (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 2019); "Pixel Forest" (LUMA Foundation, Arles, France, 2018); "Sip My Ocean" (Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2017-2018); "Pixel Forest and Worry Will Dissipate" (Fine Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, USA, 2017); "Pixel Forest" (New Museum, New York, 2016-2017); "Your Saliva Is My Sea of Wetsuit" (Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, 2016).

Yang Fudong

UCCA Beijing

2025.11.15 – 2026.2.22

Yang Fudong’s work has groundbreaking significance in contemporary Chinese visual creation practice. In 2002, his first film, Strange Paradise, premiered at the 11th Documenta in Kassel, Germany, showing a new narrative and visual sensibility that runs through the multi-style inheritance of contemporary aesthetics. In the monumental work Seven Sages in the Bamboo Forest created five years later, he poetically expressed the confusion of his contemporaries at the beginning of the millennium. As his film creation gradually developed into installation works that sometimes included traces of film production, Yang Fudong’s subsequent works expanded cinematic thinking to the fields of space and multiple times.

As Yang Fudong's most comprehensive solo exhibition to date and the first institutional solo exhibition held in Beijing, this exhibition will present the first part of Yang Fudong's "Library Film Project". The project began after "Seven Sages in the Bamboo Forest" and is his ongoing exploration of creating a film that can accommodate a certain complex reality - especially when this reality is both real and constructed. Drawing inspiration from his childhood experiences in the rural eastern suburbs of Beijing, this exhibition presents Yang Fudong's video narrative that closely interweaves the past and the present, the public and the personal. The exhibition is co-curated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari and UCCA Curator Liu Qianxi.

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Yang Fudong was born in Beijing in 1971 and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art. His solo exhibitions held in internationally renowned art institutions and galleries include "Infinite Peaks" (ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, 2020); "Tomorrow's Morning" (Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, 2018); "Yugong Moves Mountains" (Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, 2016); "Going in the Wrong Direction: Yang Fudong's Works" (Yuz Museum, Shanghai, 2015); "The Light I Feel" (SALT outdoor video installation, Sandhorn Island, Norway, 2014); "Yang Fudong: Strange Paradise" (Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland, 2013); "Out of Context - Yang Fudong's Works" (OCT Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, 2012); "Half of August - Yang Fudong Solo Exhibition" (PARASOL UNIT Contemporary Art Center, London, UK, 2011); "Yang Fudong: Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest and Other Stories" (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, 2010);

"Yang Fudong: The General's Smile" (Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2008); "Don't Worry, Tomorrow Will Be Better" (Kunshausen, Vienna, Castello di Beverly, Turin, Italy, 2005); "Five Films" (Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA, 2004), etc. His films and video installations have been exhibited in many art galleries and important art institutions around the world, such as Suzhou Museum (2019), Guggenheim Museum, New York (2017), Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris (2016), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2013), Tate Liverpool (2007), Tate Modern, London (2004), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2003), etc. He has also participated in the 12th Lyon Biennale (2013), the 11th Sharjah Biennial (2013), the 17th Sydney Biennale (2010), the 52nd Venice International Art Biennale (2007), the 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2006), the Liverpool Biennial (2004), the 50th Venice International Art Biennale (2003), the 11th Kassel Documenta (2002), the 4th Shanghai Biennale (2002), the 7th Istanbul Biennial (2001), etc.

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Lubena Himid

UCCA Beijing

2025.1.18 - 2025.4.27

As the first solo exhibition of British artist Lubena Himid in China, this exhibition will review the important stages of her creative career over the past four decades. Himid is a leading figure in the British Black Art Movement in the 1980s and is known for her paintings and installations that challenge mainstream historical narratives. The exhibition will present a series of important works by the artist from the 1980s to the present, including "Fashionable Marriage", "The Naming of Money", "Feast Car" and "Plan B" series. These expressive works poetically retell history through speculative fiction. The exhibition will explore the core themes of her creation for a long time - the slave trade and the black experience, gender perspectives and language systems, and present her various forms of painting practice, including wall paintings, human standees, ready-made objects, overpainting on furniture, and sound installations. Lubena Himid is the winner of the 2023 Maria Lassnig Award. This exhibition is curated by UCCA curator Luan Shixuan.

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Lubaina Himid was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania in 1954 and currently lives and works in Preston, UK. She is a FRA, CBE, and Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. She has won numerous awards, including the Turner Prize in 2017, the Maria Lassnig Award in 2023, and the Susan Dill Booth | FLAG Art Foundation Award in 2024. Himid has exhibited in the UK and around the world. His important solo exhibitions include: "Roadblocks" (Hollybush Gardens Gallery, London, 2024); "Go with the Flow" (FLAG Art Foundation/New York, Austin Contemporary Art Museum/Austin, Texas, 2024); "Street Vendor" (Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2024); "Weaving Time/Deep Water" (Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE, 2023); "What Does Love Sound Like?" (Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, UK, 2023); "Too Many Dreams" (Musée Cantonale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2022); "Water Has a Perfect Memory" (Hollybush Gardens Gallery, London, 2022); Lubena Himid (Tate Modern, London, 2021); Spotlight (Tate Britain, London, 2019); Grab Test (Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands, 2019); Lubena Himid (CAPC Contemporary Art Museum, Bordeaux, France, 2019); Working from the Bottom Up (New Museum, New York, 2019); The King’s Gift (Musee d’art contemporain au region d’occitanie/pyrénées-mediterranés, Sérignan, France, 2018); Our Kisses Are Petals (BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2018).

Recent group exhibitions include: Now is the Time: Artists Reconstructing the Image of Blackness (Philadelphia Museum of Art/Philadelphia, The Box/Plymouth, National Portrait Gallery/London, 2024); Entangled Pasts, 1768 to the Present (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2024); Women in Revolt! (National Galleries of Scotland/Edinburgh, Tate Britain/London, 2024); A Fine Tooth Comb (HOME, Manchester, 2023); A Herculean Task! Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s (Touchstone Gallery, Rochdale, Manchester, 2023); A Paradise for All? (Stanley & O’Connor, London, 2024); Deli Burton Gallery, Leeds, 2023); Being and Belonging (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2023); The Divided Self: Heritage, Memory, Belonging (Herbert Gallery, Coventry, UK, 2023); The Return (Musee contemporain d’Occitanie/Pyrénées-Mediterranean, Sérignan, France, 2023); Thinking Historically in the Present (Sharjah Biennial, 2023); uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things (Liverpool Biennial, 2023). Himid’s work is held in numerous museums and public collections including the Tate Gallery, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; Kisterfors Museum, Norway; Musee Cantonale de Lausanne, Switzerland; Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK; British Council, Arts Council England, UK Government Art Collection; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Museums Liverpool; Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester; and Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA.

Chen Ke

UCCA Beijing

2025.5.17 - 2025.9.7

Looking back on her career as a painter since the early 2000s, Chen Ke’s works often evoke a kind of collective resonance, even though her paintings are usually focused on certain dreams and individual situations. In her early works, she often depicted cartoon-like little girls, a paradoxical embodiment of the artist herself and a generation that also grew up in an expanding consumer economy. In the "Bauhaus Girls" series that began in 2020, the artist selected some female characters from the image archives of the famous German school Bauhaus based on her own perceptions and memories. This exhibition will present the latest creations in this series, with nearly twenty paintings showing her ideas and expectations for the female heroes of that once utopian moment. The profound meanings implied in these works are further highlighted against the backdrop of the UCCA exhibition hall and the 798 Factory, which were designed by the Dessau Design School (formerly the Bauhaus Design School during World War II) and the city of Dessau, the last active place of the Bauhaus. By incorporating archival materials and site-specific elements, Chen Ke further deepens this connection line. The exhibition is curated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari.

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Chen Ke was born in Sichuan Province in 1978. She received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in oil painting from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2002 and 2005 respectively. She currently lives and works in Beijing. Recent solo exhibitions include “Bauhaus Girls – Theater” (Holden Gallery, Paris, 2023); “Unknown Female Artist” (C5CNM Space, Beijing, 2020); “Chatting with Dad is Serious” (Yuz Museum, Shanghai, 2018-2019); “Dream Dew” (Holden Gallery, Hong Kong, 2016); “Dense Forest – Recent Works by Chen Ke” (Star Gallery, Beijing, 2015). Some of her group exhibitions include “Coherence and Diversity: New Forms of Contemporary Painting” (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2024); “Long Museum 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition: Portraits” (Long Museum, Shanghai, 2023); “Yuz Foundation Selected Chinese Contemporary Art” (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2021); “Reading Raindrops: Documentary Exhibition of Western Artists” (Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum, Yinchuan, 2017); “Chinese Whispers: Uli Sigg Collection” (Museum of Contemporary Art, Bern, Switzerland, 2016). Her works are included in many institutional collections, including the Wallingden Museum in the Netherlands, the Uli Sigg Collection in Switzerland, the Francks-Süss Collection in the UK, the BSI Art Foundation in Switzerland, the Yuz Museum in Shanghai and the Long Museum in Shanghai.

Important group exhibitions include "New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century" (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019); "May You Live in Interesting Times" (58th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2019); "Electronic Body" (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2019); "Dream of Form" (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017); 2017 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2017); "Climate Zone 8, What Is Art Doing?" (11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2016) and "At the same time... suddenly, then" (12th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, 2013). Yi is the recipient of the 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and the 2016 Guggenheim Hugo Boss Award. Her work is included in several public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, the Rubell Family Collection, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Liao Fei

UCCA Beijing

2025.5.17 - 2025.9.7

Liao Fei's creation begins with thinking about existence and doubts about himself, aiming to approach the "essence of things" through creative practice. His works show the existential problems of things themselves through the external form of art and the materiality of daily materials. Liao Fei faces artistic creation with a rational attitude, creating a perceptual intensity based on thinking logic and abstract concepts. His works transform the logical sense of mathematical systems into visual language, and through the minimum, almost only direct expression of language, let us experience the presence and limits of mathematical, logical and abstract things. As Liao Fei's largest institutional solo exhibition to date, this exhibition will systematically sort out the artist's early works including "One-way Sculpture" (2017) and "Arrangement Generation" (2018), as well as important creative clues that continue to this day. At the same time, the artist will design and transform the exhibition space itself according to the characteristics of the work. This exhibition is curated by UCCA curator Zhang Nanzhao.

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Liao Fei was born in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province in 1981. He graduated from Shanghai Normal University in 2006 and currently lives and works in Shanghai. His recent solo exhibitions include “Xingxia Temple” (Vanguard Gallery × Daigo Art Center, Shanghai, 2023); “External” (Flower Hall Project, Shanghai, 2021-2022); “Is All This Random?” (OCAT Shanghai, 2021); “Expansion” (Vanguard Gallery × Zero Hour Art Center, Shanghai, 2018); “Flatness” (Shanghai Museum of Glass, 2016).

Some of the group exhibitions include "Danger Collection" (Macalline Art Center, Beijing, 2024); "Endless Green Mountains: Crossing the Mountains and Seas" (Osaka Cultural Center Tempozan, Osaka, 2024); "Silent Thunder" (UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2021); "Continuing/Discontinuing Tradition: Chinese Video Art" (Salamanca Art Center, Tasmania, Australia, 2021); "In Manifestation or Concealment" (Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum, 2018); "Border: Topology of Geopolitics" (OCAT Research Center, Beijing, 2018); the 11th Shanghai Biennale "Why Not Ask Again? Argument, Counterargument, Story" (Shanghai Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2016-2017).

Tanaka Koki

UCCA Beijing

2025.9.27 - 2026.1.4

Koki Tanaka's diverse artistic practice covers video, photography, site-specific installations and intervention projects. He is good at visualizing the multiple contexts hidden in daily behavior and revealing the meanings therein. The artist's early works centered on ready-mades, and explored how to break away from the routine of life by experimentally using everyday objects. Starting with "Nine Hairdressers Cutting One Person's Hair at the Same Time (Second Attempt)" in 2010, he created a series of "collaborative" projects - organizing temporary groups for a certain reason, aiming to reveal the group dynamics in micro-societies and temporary communities. Since the "3.11" Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, Koki Tanaka has begun to organize, plan and shoot a series of works centered on Japan and about the relationship between people, which he calls "collective action" like a film director. This exhibition will systematically sort out and present the artist's artistic practice over the past decade. Dozens of works, including his early installation works, will be exhibited, and new video works supported by UCCA will also be exhibited for the first time. The exhibition is curated by UCCA curator Zhang Nanzhao.

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Koki Tanaka was born in Tochigi, Japan in 1975 and currently lives and works in Kyoto. In 2000, Koki Tanaka received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tokyo Zokei University and in 2005, he received a Master of Arts degree from Tokyo University of the Arts.

Major solo exhibitions include "Fragile History (A Road Movie)" (Seonjae Art Center/Seoul, Migros Museum/Zurich, 2020/2018); "Uncertain Tasks" (Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou, 2019); "Temporary Research (Working Title)" (Gazelle Graz, Graz, 2017); "Ceramic Artists and Poets" (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2016); "Tanaka Koki: Possibilities of Being Together, and Practice" (Mito Museum of Art, Mito City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, 2016); "Fragile Narrator" (Deutsche Bank Museum, Berlin, 2015); "Abstract Narrative-Shared Uncertainty and Collective Action" (Japan Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2013), etc. His works have also been widely exhibited in group exhibitions and biennials, including "Antibodies" (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2021); "Even in the Dark, I Sing" (São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, 2021); "Every Step in the Right Direction" (Singapore Biennale, Singapore, 2019); "The Age of Love" (Aichi Triennale, Aichi Prefecture, 2019); "Action!" (Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, 2017); "Long Live Art" (57th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2017); "Traces of Survival" (UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2016); "M+ Ongoing: Moving Images" (M+, Hong Kong, 2015), etc. Koki Tanaka's works are collected by many art museums, including M+ in Hong Kong, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan, and Van Aibel Museum for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands.

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Hu Yinping

UCCA Dune

2025.4.27 - 2025.10.12

Hu Yinping's artistic practice guides us to rethink the current social and artistic value system and explore new possibilities for the existing status quo between labor and life in a wonderful world made of wool and knitwear. Hu Yinping's conceptual project "Hu Xiaofang" is both an "artist brand" and a "social experiment". It questions the inherent production and trade logic in the economic system and society. The project began in 2015 and was originally intended to establish a more meaningful and autonomous environment for elderly rural women. Over time, this project unexpectedly provided a platform for these women who had devoted their lives to their families and had almost no chance to engage in art to release their subconscious expressions. Hu Yinping initially only ordered knitted or crocheted wool products from women living in her hometown in Sichuan. The artist's original intention was not to start an art project, but to give the time of these women, including her own mother, the value it deserves. Their efforts are not only underestimated in life, but are now exploited by cheap purchases in online markets and export systems. With the anonymous platform of "Xiaofang" company, Hu Yinping quietly provides financial support for their creative handwork. Hu Yinping's works inspire viewers to re-examine the value of "female crafts" and "female time", providing people with an unexpected and subversive unique perspective. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of this important art project, this exhibition is inspired by thinking about the future and exhibits a series of immersive mixed media works commissioned by UCCA and created by the "Xiaofang Community". This exhibition is curated by UCCA curator Rong Siyu.

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Hu Yinping was born in Sichuan in 1983. She received her master's degree in sculpture from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2010 and currently lives and works in Beijing. Some of her solo exhibitions include "Hu Yinping Solo Exhibition: Hu Xiaofang and Qiao Xiaohuan" (Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, 2022); "Snow White Dove" (Arrow Factory Space, Beijing, 2018); "Tourist" (IAER, Italy, 2017); "Xiaofang" (Arrow Factory Space, Beijing, 2016); "Thank You" (No. 3 Space, Chengdu, 2016). Participated in group exhibitions including "Stories of Merchants" (Gallery Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, 2023); "The Sigg Collection: Contemporary Chinese Art" (Songyin Art Space, Seoul, 2023); "Year after Year: The Energy and Art of Animals" (Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, 2023); "Incredible Action" (A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, 2022); "Runaway! Female Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art" (Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway, Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Austria, Gamler Strand International Art Center, Copenhagen, 2022); "Endless Clothing" (X Art Museum, Beijing, 2021); "Body Vision" (Yun Art Museum, Shenzhen, 2021); "Curtain" (Para Site, Hong Kong, 2021); "Airport Biennale" (Guangzhou, 2019); "Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art" (Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, 2019); "Annual of Contemporary Chinese Art" (Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, 2018); "Sweet Home" (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2017).

Important group exhibitions include "New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century" (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019); "May You Live in Interesting Times" (58th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2019); "Electronic Body" (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2019); "Dream of Form" (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017); 2017 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2017); "Climate Zone 8, What Is Art Doing?" (11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2016) and "At the same time... suddenly, then" (12th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, 2013). Yi is the recipient of the 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and the 2016 Guggenheim Hugo Boss Award. Her work is included in several public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, the Rubell Family Collection, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Lin Jin

UCCA Dune

2025.10.26 - 2026.4.12

Lin Jin is a Singaporean-British artist who uses sculpture and printmaking as her medium to explore the interaction between form, rhythm and light. She moved to the UK in the 1950s and studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Slade School of Fine Arts. Lin Jin often uses wood, stone and metal materials, fully demonstrating her deep interest in ancient visual culture and architecture. This unique creative perspective is particularly due to her travels to various Asian countries from 1956 to 1996. As Lin Jin's first institutional solo exhibition in mainland China, this exhibition will fully present the artist's sculptures and printmaking creations, showing how Lin Jin has continuously broken through cultural boundaries in her life experience, focusing on exploring the universal characteristics of form and space in Eastern and Western art traditions, and inviting the audience to meditate and dialogue between materials and abstraction. This exhibition is curated by UCCA curator Zhang Nanzhao.

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Kim Lim was born in Singapore in 1936 and died in 1997. She moved to London at the age of 17 to study at Central Saint Martins School of Art, and then studied printmaking and sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. Two major solo exhibitions of her work will be held simultaneously in autumn 2024: Kim Lim: Between Spaces, a retrospective at the National Gallery Singapore, and Dega: Grandina: Notebooks of Kim Lim, at the Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Switzerland, marking the first presentation of her work in a European museum. Kim has previously held solo and group exhibitions at institutions such as the Wakefield Hepworth (Wakefield, UK, 2023-2024), Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK, 2024), Whitechapel Art Gallery (London, 2022), Barbican Centre (London, 2022), Tate Britain (London, 2021), STPI Gallery (Singapore, 2018), and Camden Arts Centre (London, 1999). She has also participated in the 13th Taipei Biennale (2023) and the 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023). Lin Jin's works are collected by important institutions such as the National Gallery Singapore, the Arts Council Collection of Great Britain, the Tate Collection in the UK and the M+ Museum in Hong Kong.

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