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A leading contemporary art gallery located in Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore.

SHANGHAI | BEIJING | SINGAPORE

Founded in 1996, ShanghART Gallery is one of the first contemporary art galleries established in China. With spaces in Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore, ShanghART has been a driving force of the development of Chinese contemporary art for the past twenty years. Working closely together with over 40 artists, ShanghART regularly participates in the major international art fairs and collaborates with important art institutions in China and from all over the world.

12/08/2026

This exhibition brings together two recent series: Antarctic Ice and Polynesian Coral Atolls, both painted over the past three years. The Coral series turns to the atolls and turquoise lagoons of Polynesia, capturing landscapes shaped by coral populations at different life stages, driven by ancient volcanic activity. Building on the method developed in the Ice series, the artist uses straight lines and curves to distinguish stillness from movement, while colour and light become central—exploring how air and water affect their appearance. The rhythmic hues on the canvas are not only re‑creations of nature but also carry traces of contemplation, excitement, dizziness, and poignant fragility.

Wang Qifeng’s paintings bridge the gap between natural landscapes and how we perceive them, blending emptiness and fullness, lines and colours, and subtle layers of tone. By distilling scenes from nature, he turns painting into a space where reason meets instinct. At the same time, his work asks deeper questions about how we view nature today: in a world filled with scientific imagery and social media images, and in the era of the Anthropocene, how can art help us see nature differently? And can personal spiritual practice offer a new way to respond to a natural world that has been so heavily impacted and consumed? These works reflect the artist’s evolving style and show that painting can still inspire and challenge us, far beyond just aesthetics.

Wang Qifeng: The Deep Blue of Time
Curator: Aimee Lin

Exhibition Dates: 7/17-8/29 (Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00-18:00)
Location: ShanghART M50, Building no.16, 50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai

08/08/2026

ShanghART SUHE is currently presenting the group exhibition “House Tree Person,” on view through August 21. Artist Zheng Yiran’s 鄭亦然 work “Temporary Structure” is featured in the exhibition. “Temporary Structure” continues Zheng‘s long-term exploration of collective negotiation, non-verbal communication, and the emergence of group dynamics. The work had its premiere at the Wallach Art Gallery in New York this past May. For its presentation at ShanghART SUHE, the piece employs a set of movable stools and a series of open-ended performance scores as its framework, inviting participants to place, move, combine, and rearrange objects within a shared space, continuously responding to the environment, one another, and the evolving situation on site.

Image1-5: Zheng Yiran, “Temporary Structure,” 2026. Performance score documentation at ShanghART SUHE.
Performers: Lu Yu Yu Lu (artist and initiator), Lü Zhouda (co-curator)

Artists: Chen Xiaoyun, Chen Zihao, D**g Bingqing, Gao Lei, Li Qinyang, Liu Lijuan, Liu Yucen, Lu Yu (initiator), Wilhelm Sasnal, Zhang Meng, Zheng Xue, Zheng Yiran
Duration: July 10 - August 21, 2026 (Weds. - Sat. 11:30-18:00 Tues. By Appointment)
Venue: Room 204, Suhe Haus, No.30 Wen’an Road, Jing‘an District, Shanghai

05/08/2026

Wang Qifeng: Deep Time Blue | The Ice Series

ShanghART M50 is currently presenting Wang Qifeng’s solo exhibition Deep Time Blue, focusing on his work over the past three years, with the Ice series at the main exhibition hall. This series takes the floating ice and fragmented ice around the Antarctic continent as its primary subject. Through layered gradations of blue, the works create a visual measure of time—where human time, painting time, and geological time converge on the canvas. The artist treats these ice blocks as independent living beings, painting their “portraits,” thereby forming a dialectic between temporal scale and visual experience.

On the canvas, ice presents a paradoxical texture that is at once solid and fluid—appearing as if solid yet simultaneously melting—pointing to the ongoing tension between formation and dissolution. Wang Qifeng’s practice is rooted in a metaphysical trinity of “nature–I–painting.” He simulates the natural processes that shape landforms through his brushwork, reproduces the material structure of the natural world with his chosen media, and distills layers and contrasts of scenery on the canvas. The works reconcile nature and perception through emptiness and fullness, line and colour. They are both a distillation of nature and an attempt to respond to “deep time” through personal spiritual practice.

Wang Qifeng: The Deep Blue of Time
Curator: Aimee Lin

Exhibition Dates: 7/17-8/29 (Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00-18:00)
Location: ShanghART M50, Building no.16, 50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai

installationview ContemporaryPainting

03/08/2026

Liang Shaoji was born in Shanghai in 1945. From 1986 to 1989, Liang Shaoji studied soft sculpture from Maryn Varbanov at China Academy of Art who was one of the world‘s leading tapestries. In the late 1980s, Liang started experimenting with silkworms. For more than thirty years, he has been indulged in the interdisciplinary creation in terms of art and biology, installation and sculpture, new media and textile. His Nature Series sees the life process of silkworms as creation medium, the interaction in natural world as his artistic language, time and life as the essential idea. His works are fulfilled with a sense of meditation, philosophy and poetry while illustrating the inherent beauty of silk.

Nature Series No. 106, composed of 24 silk mirrors, spread gently on the ground. The mirrors are veiled by silk. These pieces give flashes of light and brings a cloudy and well-proportioned atmosphere. When audience moves around, the lights and shades of the mirror keep shifting, like glittering stars. Immersed in the space that is fulfilled with the interaction between human and nature, the universe starts to work.

Image 1-5: Liang Shaoji, Stars Rotate as People Move / Nature Series No. 106, 2015, Mirror, silk,10.5 × 312 × 311 cm (in 24 pieces) | Each 60 × 60 cm

Guo Gong & Liang Shaoji Dual Solo Exhibition “Soliloquize” is currently on view at ShanghART Beijing through August 8th.
Duration: 2026/7/3 - 2026/8/8
(Tue. - Sat. 11am - 6pm, Sun. and Mon. Closed)
Location: ShanghART Beijing
261 Caochangdi, Airport Side Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

01/08/2026

Zheng Xue ZHENG Xue郑雪 , born in Chongqing in 1996, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Department of Oil Painting at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2019, and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the same department in 2024. She currently lives and works in Chongqing. Her recent research primarily explores the relationship between the female body and domestic space from the perspective of women's labor, investigating the invisible and ineffable embodied oppressiveness and complexity of women's daily domestic life through an examination of the materials commonly used in housework and the distinctive qualities of labor itself.

“Dreamt of You Covered in Yellow Mud” and “Caress” both take inspiration from the artist's observations of land labor across different seasons in the Sichuan-Chongqing region. The method of cultivating corn during the Spring Equinox prompted Zheng Xue to engage in a non-verbal dialogue with the maternal generation's farming life through mimetic action. After the autumn harvest, the fields are left with piles of ash from burnt straw. The artist employs bodily materials such as base cloth, gauze, bamboo weaving, paste, and straw ash, using their ambiguous and sensual interrelations to emphasize the embodied flesh of women and the specific perceptual experiences associated with it.

Image1-2: Zheng Xue “Dreamt of You Covered in Yellow Mud”, 2026, mosquito net canopy, glutinous rice paste, soil, cotton greige fabric, needle, 100(H)×204×171cm
Image3-4: Zheng Xue “Caress”, 2026, bamboo weaving, unbleached cotton fabric, cotton gauze, cotton thread, needle, straw ash, bean paste powder, glutinous rice paste, 190(H)×150cm
Image5: View of "House Tree Person"

Artists: Chen Xiaoyun, Chen Zihao, D**g Bingqing, Gao Lei, Li Qinyang, Liu Lijuan, Liu Yucen, Lu Yu (initiator), Wilhelm Sasnal, Zhang Meng, Zheng Xue, Zheng Yiran
Duration: July 10 - August 21, 2026 (Weds. - Sat. 11:30-18:00 Tues. By Appointment)
Venue: Room 204, Suhe Haus, No.30 Wen'an Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai

29/07/2026

Liu Yi’s Liu Yi 刘毅 solo exhibition After the Reflection Leaves the Water is currently on view at the UOB Art Space from June 10 to November 15. As the first Emerging Artist of the Year of the UOB Ink Art of the Year Award in 2024, this exhibition also marks the first solo presentation organized by UOB China for an award recipient. The show brings together cross‑media works in ink, video, painting, and installation, featuring the painting‑and‑video series Morning and Dusk, and No More alongside a new installation work also titled After the Reflection Leaves the Water.

Morning and Dusk, and No More originates from the artist‘s residency in Cyprus, where she recorded slow, subtle moments of daily labour and family care, revealing the weight and texture of life itself. The new painting‑installation After the Reflection Leaves the Water pushes the inquiry further into contemporary image‑based questions: once images depart from their original contexts and enter circulation, editing, and re‑viewing, does reflection still equate to representation, or has it become fabrication? As reality is continuously translated into images and signs, can we still tell whether the world casts its shadow, or whether the shadow is now manufacturing the world? Together, these two threads converge on a fundamental question of authenticity for our time.

28/07/2026

Material narratives of Guo Gong and Liang Shaoji converge upon twisted rebar—discarded remnants bearing profound symptoms of contemporary epochs. Serving as structural skeletons for modern architecture, rebar embodies human construction desires while confronting catastrophic impermanence. Shedding original mechanical support, randomly bent metallic wreckage exposes fundamental material fragility. Speaking through objects, Guo Gong translates forms of discarded wreckage into African Blackwood in Portrait of Rebar (2016). Dense, profound classical hardwood replaces metallic ruin, extending fragility within solemnity. Facing identical metallic scars, Liang Shaoji wraps ruins with life in Floating Life (2026), using silk to ”soothe trauma.“ Ceaseless filaments gradually envelop sharp edges; thousands of taut, ethereal threads bridge overlapping metallic gaps, transforming into soft biological arcs. Yielding and deforming under immense pressure reveals profound, hidden ”calligraphic expression“ within rebar. Fragmented lines wandering randomly through space freeze ultimate postures of ruin in singular, decisive instants.

Image 1: Guo Gong, The Portrait of Rebar No.14-17, 2016, Rose wood, Various dimensions, 4 pieces
Image 3-6: Guo Gong & Liang Shaoji, Floating life, 2026, Rebar, silk, Various dimensions, 3 sets
Image 2&7: Installation view, “Soliloquize”, ShanghART Beijing, 2026

Guo Gong & Liang Shaoji: Soliloquize
Duration: 2026/7/3 - 2026/8/8
(Tue. - Sat. 11am - 6pm, Sun. and Mon. Closed)
Location: ShanghART Beijing
261 Caochangdi, Airport Side Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

27/07/2026

Shards of ice, in the cold grey light of the sky, gleam with the deep blue that belongs only to ancient glaciers.

An artist sees them in their final moments before they vanish.

Back in his studio, he paints their portraits. The brief encounter and the long labour of depiction bring him a new awareness—of the vast, profound depths of deep time, and of his own human time, so shallow and so near, flickering past.

Wang Qifeng: The Deep Blue of Time
Curator: Aimee Lin

Exhibition Dates: 7/17-8/29 (Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00-18:00)
Location: ShanghART M50, Building no.16, 50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai

image 1-5: Wang Qifeng, The Deep Blue of Time, installation view at ShanghART M50, 2026.

PaintingProcess ContemporaryPainting

24/07/2026

The Passage is presented in the corridor of ShanghART M50, a transitional space within the gallery. Running parallel to the exhibitions in the main gallery, the project embraces this unconventional setting as a site for exploring more diverse exhibition formats. As a passage connecting different spaces, it is neither the beginning nor the end of an exhibition, but a place where lingering and passing coexist. As its name suggests, Passage refers not only to physical movement through space, but also to processes of transition, circulation, and arrival. Rather than treating each exhibition as a complete and self-contained outcome, the project approaches every presentation as a pathway toward new ways of seeing, thinking, and engaging in dialogue.

The first chapter of The Passage, Shared in Distance, takes two concurrent exhibitions in London and Shanghai as its point of departure, seeking to establish a distant yet tangible connection between the two cities. What visitors encounter in The Passage is only one half of the exhibition; the other half exists in another city, awaiting imagination, perception, and response. The works explore themes of separation and connection, displacement and synchrony, inviting viewers to position themselves at the seam between two times and places—to sense presence through absence and imagine the whole through a fragment. In this way, The Passage is more than a corridor linking different spaces; it becomes a medium for viewing, communication, and exchange, grounded in the belief that what remains unseen continues to exist and resonate across distance.

Shared in Distance

Curator: Ren Baiyu
Exhibition Dates: 7/17-8/29 (Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00-18:00)
Location: ShanghART M50, Building no.16, 50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai

Artist: Hu Chenyu Hu Chenyu , Jin Jinjin 金今今 JinJinJin , Liu Tong 刘通 ,Zheng Que Zheng Que
Co-produced

21/07/2026

Zhang Meng 张萌 , born in Tianjin, China, in 1983, received her doctoral degree from the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe in Germany. She currently lives and works between Stuttgart, Germany, and Beijing. Zhang Meng‘s wax experiment paintings draw from her dreams, memories, and myths, as well as fragments and moments from her everyday life. She seeks to enter her inner world and subconscious, using the chance connections between mundane life fragments to reveal the fragility of existence. Her painting becomes a means of articulating the intersections among reality, the psychic realm, and visual imagery. In 2022–2023, Zhang Meng was awarded the Stiftung Kunstfonds grant in Germany, and in 2020, she was an artist-in-residence at Plüschow Castle in Germany.

“I Walked Through the Park and Met the Death” takes its inspiration from a childhood memory and was realized in collaboration with the TextielMuseum in Tilburg. Compared to working on paper, textile art demands a greater investment of time, craftsmanship, and mechanical operation—yet it also bestows upon the work a new kind of bodily tactility: at once soft and resiliently substantial, imbued with the density of time itself. The use of translucent yarns creates extensive transparent areas on both the front and reverse sides of the piece, allowing viewers to directly glimpse its internal structure, thereby engendering a peculiar aesthetic sensation—as if they were witnessing an “error” or “dislocation,” a glimpse of something that was meant to remain hidden.

Image1-3: Zhang Meng “I Walked Through the Park and Met the Death”, 2025, wool, transparent yarn, cotton thread, Edition of 2, 160(H)×204cm
Image4-6: View of “House Tree Person”
Courtesy of the artist and Tabula Rasa Gallery

Artists: Chen Xiaoyun, Chen Zihao, D**g Bingqing, Gao Lei, Li Qinyang, Liu Lijuan, Liu Yucen, Lu Yu (initiator), Wilhelm Sasnal, Zhang Meng, Zheng Xue, Zheng Yiran
Duration: July 10 - August 21, 2026 (Weds. - Sat. 11:30-18:00 Tues. By Appointment)
Venue: ShanghART SUHE, 30, 204 Wen’an Road, Jiang’an, Shanghai

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