aaajiao

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  • aaajiao
  • Birthdate: 1984
    Birthplace: China | Shaanxi
    Gender: Male
    Lives and Works in: China | Shanghai
    About:
    Active online as a media artist, blogger, activist and programmer, aaajiao is the virtual persona of Shanghai- and Berlin- artist Xu Wenkai. aaajiao's art and works are marked by a strong dystopian awareness, literati spirits and sophistication. Many of aaajiao's works speak to new thinkings, controversies and phenomenon around the Internet, with specific projects focusing on the processing of data, the blogsphere and China's Great Fire Wall. aaajiao's recent projects extend his practice to various disciplines (among them, architecture, topography, and design) to capture the pulse of the young generation consuming cyber technology and living in social media.

    aaajiao's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world, upcoming and recent shows include "Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today", The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston (2018); "unREAL", Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel (2017); "Shanghai Project Part II", Shanghai (2017); "Take Me (I'm Yours)" , Jewish Museum, New York (2016), Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano (2017); "Overpop", Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2016); "Hack Space" (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Amira Gad), K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong and chi K11 art museum, Shanghai (2016); "Globale: Global Control and Censorship", ZKM | Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2015); "Thingworld International Triennial of New Media Art", The National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2014); and Transmediale, HKW | Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2010).

    He was awarded the Art Sanya Awards in 2014 Jury Prize and was nominated for the first edition of OCAT-Pierre Huber Art Prize in 2014.
  • Biography
  • Solo Exhibition/ 个展
    Diaspora as History, June 2022, Liste with Tabula Rasa Gallery, Basel / 离散作为历史,Liste与Tabula Rasa画廊, 巴塞尔
    I was dead on the Internet, May 2022, Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin/ 我死于互联网, 2022.5, Wannsee Contemporary, 柏林
    I was dead on the Internet, Sep 2021, Lianhua Apartment, Shanghai / 我死于互联网, 2021.9, 铜仁路联华公寓, 上海
    Deep Simulator, Jun 2021, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London / 深渊模拟器, 2021.6, Tabula Rasa, 伦敦
    Deep Simulator, Nov 2020, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin / 深渊模拟器, 2020.11 意大利都灵里沃利城堡当代美术馆
    URL is LOVE - A Digital Retrospective, July 2020, Cyberspace, Tabula Rasa Gallery / URL是爱 - 数字回顾, 2020.7, 线上展览, Tabula Rasa画廊
    Cave Simulator, May 2020, Shanghai, Aike / 洞穴模拟器, 2020.5, 上海, 艾可画廊
    a'a'a'jiao: an ID, Apr 2019 Shanghai, HOW Art Museum / a'a'a'jiao:一个ID, 2019.4 上海, 昊美术馆
    bot, ,Sep 2018 Berlin, House of Egorn / 观察者, 2018,9, 柏林, House of Egorn
    Gluttony, Jan 2018 Chengdu, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space / 暴食 2018.1 成都, 千高原
    User, Love, High-frequency Trading, May 2017 Shanghai, Leo Xu Projects / 用户、爱、高频交易 2017.5 上海, Leo Xu Projects
    Remnants of an Electronic Past, Aug 2016 CFCCA Manchester / 电子遗留物, 2016.8 曼彻斯特,华人艺术中心
    Remnants of an Electronic Past, Jun 2016 OCAT Xi'an / 电子遗留物, 2016.6 西安OCAT
    aaajiao - Untitled Dec 2015 Beijing, Gallery Yang / aaajiao - 不确定 2015.12 北京, 杨画廊
    Alias: aaajiao Jan 2015 Shanghai, Leo Xu Projects / 代号:aaajiao 2015.1 上海, Leo Xu Projects
    The Screen Generation @ 9m² -Museum Feb 2014 Shanghai,9m² Museum ( Goethe Open Space) / 屏幕一代@ 9平方美术馆 2014.2 上海,9平米美术馆(歌德开放空间)
    The Screen Generation Dec 2013 Shanghai,chi K11 art space / 屏幕一代 2013.12 上海,K11艺术空间
    The Screen Generation - Prequel Nov 2013 Beijing,C-Space / 屏幕一代-前传 2013.11 北京,C空间
    Placebo Nov 2011 Shanghai,OtherGallery / 安慰剂 2011.11 上海,其他画廊
    Cybernetics Sep 2010 Shanghai,V Arts Centre/ 控制 2010.9 上海,视界艺术中心

    2023
    Apr 2023 Topologies of the Real: Techne, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen / 真实的拓扑, 深圳当代艺术与城市规划馆, 深圳
    Apr NFT Poetics of the immaterial from certificates to blockchains, Centre Pompidou, Paris
    Feb 2023 YOU AS ME HOLD THE GAZE, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai / 你和我, 保持凝视, 昊美术馆, 上海
    Feb 2023 I KNOW – On the aesthetic of truth, feralfile.com
    Feb 2023 Symphony of All the Changes: The 7th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou / 化作通变——第七届广州三年展,广东美术馆, 广州
    Feb 2023 Art From ElsewhereLagosCiudad de México, Mexico

    2022
    Sep 2022 The Archival Impulse: An Exercise in Counter-Narrative and Counter-Memory, Aike, Shanghai / 档案冲动: 反叙事和反记忆的操练, 艾可, 上海
    Sep 2022 Cloud Walkers, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul
    Aug 2022 Forming Communities: Berliner Wege, KINDL - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
    June 2022 The Connection - Beijing Bucharest The Hague, Billytown, Hague / 连接 - 北京 布加勒斯特 海牙, Billytown, 海牙
    Jan 2022 Multiple Copies - Readable Multiplex Landscape, Tainan Art Museum, Taiwan / 多重副本—可讀取的複數存在景觀, 臺南市美術館, 台灣

    2021
    Dec 2021 Boomerang: OCAT Biennale 2021, OCAT Shenzhen, OCT Art & Design Gallery, OCT Ecological Square / "飞去来器"OCAT双年展, OCAT深圳馆/华·美术馆/华侨城生态广场 
    Nov 201 Rehearsing the Future, ALIEN ART CENTRE, Taiwan / 預演未來, 金馬賓館當代美術館, 台灣
    Sep 2021 SET UP YOUR PROFILES, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul / 设置你的档案, 科瑞纳艺术博物馆, 首尔
    Aug 2021 Adorable Big Brother, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju / 可爱老大哥, 国立亚洲文化殿堂, 光州
    July 2021 No Thing is Waiting, Zabludowics Collection, London / 无事不登三宝殿, Zabludowics Collection, 伦敦
    Apr 2021 https://piecesofme.online/aaajiao, Transfer and left.gallery  
    Apr 2021 UNDURCHSICHTIGES SPIEL, Goethe-Institut China, Beijing / 不透明游戏, 北京德国文化中心·歌德学院
    Mar 2021 THE PEACH SPRING BEYOND THIS WORLD, Âme Nue, Hamburg, / 世外桃源, Âme Nue, 汉堡


    2020
    Dec 2020 PLAYER OF BEINGS, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai / 游戏的人, McaM明当代美术馆, 上海
    Sep 2020 Immaterial/Re-material: A Brief History of Computing Art UCCA Beijing / 非物质 / 再物质:计算机艺术简史 尤伦斯艺术中心, 北京
    Sep 2020 Ars Electronica In Kepler's Gardens -A global journey mapping the 'new' world, Linz / 在开普勒的花园里 - 描绘 "新 "世界的全球之旅, 林茨
    Mar 2020 WE=LINK - TEN EASY PIECES,Online: http://we-link.chronusartcenter.org / WE=LINK:十个小品, Online: http://we-link.chronusartcenter.org
    Feb 2020 Facing the Collector. The Sigg Collection of Contemporary Art from China Castello di Rivoli
    Museum of Contemporary Art,Turin / 直面收藏家, 来自中国的希克当代艺术收藏 Castello di Rivoli
    Museum of Contemporary Art, 都灵
    Feb 2020 Art Is Still Here: A Hypothetical Show for a Closed Museum M WOODS, Beijing / 艺术还在:一场闭馆期间的展览 木木美术馆, 北京

    2019
    Dec 2019 SYNCHRONICITY, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen / 共时, 坪山美术馆, 深圳
    Sep 2019 The Return of Guests - Selections from the PSA Collection Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum,Shanghai / 客人的到来——上海当代艺术博物馆馆藏展, 上海
    Sep 2019 A.I. Goooooooooogle infiltration Efremidis gallery, Berlin / 人工智能, Goooooooooogle 渗透 Efremidis gallery, 柏林
    Sep 2019 "The Kind Stranger" UNArt Center, Shanghai / 可善的陌生 UNArt艺术中心,上海
    July 2019 Open Codes. Connected Bots Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai / 开放代码. 连结机器人 新时线媒体艺术中心(CAC),上海
    July 2019 I Sing the Body Electric David Zwirner, HongKong / 歌唱带电的身体 卓納画廊, 香港 
    July 2019 Nine Journey Through Time Yuz Museum, Shanghai / 经由时光的九次旅程 余德耀美术馆, 上海
    July 2019 Afterimage: Dangdai Yishu Lisson Gallery, London / 余像: 当代艺术, 里森画廊, 伦敦
    June 2019 13th Cairo Biennale, Egypt / 第十三届开罗双年展, 埃及
    June 2019 Artificial Intelligence and Intercultural Dialogue, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg / 人工智能和跨文化对话,俄罗斯国家冬宫博物馆,圣彼得堡
    Mar 2019 CHINA LANDSCAPE: SELECTIONS FROM THE TAIKANG COLLECTION 2019 798 Beijing/ 中国风景:2019泰康收藏精品展, 北京798
    Mar 2019 The Evolution of Communication, Design Society, Shenzhen / 语言的窸窣, 设计互联, 深圳
    Mar 2019 New Art History: 2000-2018 Chinese Contemporary Art, MOCA Yinchuan, China/ 新艺术史:2000-2018中国当代艺术, 银川当代美术馆
    Jan 2019 Chinternet Ugly, CFCCA, Manchester / Chinternet Ugly, 曼彻斯特,华人艺术中心
    Jan 2019 Chinese Whispers - Neue Kunst aus der Sigg Collection,Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK),Vienna / Austria / 中国私语 -乌利·希克收藏展, Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK),维也纳 / 奥地利 

    2018
    Dec 2018 Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan /1989年到今天:网络时代的艺术,密歇根大学艺术博物馆, 密歇根
    Nov 2018 Bad Code, Power Station of art, Shanghai / 有毒, 上海当代艺术博物馆, 上海
    Nov 2018 GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP, MODEM, Debrecen / 全控制和言论控制, MODEM, 匈牙利德布勒森
    Sep 2018 GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP, The National Library of Latvia,Latvia / 全控制和言论控制, 拉脱维亚国家图书馆, 拉脱维亚
    July 2018 Brilliant City (Reprise) ,David Zwirner, HongKong / 璀璨都市(复现),卓納画廊, 香港 
    June 2018 GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP, The National Library of Technology, Prag / 全控制和言论控制, 国家科技图书馆, 布拉格
    May 2018 Take Me (I'm yours) Villa Medici, Rome / 《带我走(我是你的)》Villa Medici, 罗马
    Apr 2018 A World in a Grain of Sand: Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Geometries - An Exhibition Drawn from the Fosun Foundation Collection, Atlantis Sanya / 复星基金会收藏展 一沙艺世界:探索社会几何形态, 三亚•亚特兰蒂斯
    Apr 2018 Chinese Medicine in America: Converging Ideas, People, and Practices, New York, The Museum of Chinese in America / 中医在美洲:聚合思想,人,和实践, 纽约, 美国华人博物馆
    Apr 2018 Nine Journeys Through Time, MIlano, Palazzo Reale / 经由时光的九次旅程, 米兰, 大皇宫
    Feb 2018 Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston /1989年到今天:网络时代的艺术,美国波士顿当代艺术中心 ICA Boston
    Jan 2018 Access Through a Detour, Beijing, Magician Space / 迂回进入, 北京, 魔金石空间

    2017
    Dec 2017 Future Life Handbook, Guangzhou, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art / 未来生活手册, 广州, 专厂当代艺术馆
    Nov 2017 Take Me (I'm Yours) Milan Pirelli HangarBicocca / 《带我走(我是你的)》(由Hans Ulrich Obrist、Roberta Tenconi、Chiara Parisi策展),米兰 Pirelli HangarBicocca基金会
    Oct 2017 The Ecstasy of Time - Reframing the Medium of Knowing, Shenzhen, He Xiangning Art Museum / 时间的狂喜——重塑认知的媒介, 深圳, 何香凝美术馆
    Sep 2017 Take Me (I'm Yours) in BIENALSUR, Buenos Aires / 《带我走(我是你的)》(由Christian Boltanski和Hans Ulrich Obrist策展),首届BIENALSUR南美洲双年展,布宜诺斯艾利斯
    Jul 2017 Being Information, Shanghai, SSSSTART / 没有信息是中立的, 上海, SSSSTART
    Jun 2017 Heart of the Tin Man, Beijing, M WOODS / 锡人的心脏——木木馆藏中的后网络艺术, 北京, 木木美术馆
    Jun 2017 A NEW BALLARDIAN VISION, New York, Metro Pictures / 新巴拉德视角, 纽约, Metro Pictures
    Jun 2017 "unREAL", Basel, Haus der elektronischen Künste / 《非真实》,瑞士巴塞尔电子艺术之家(HeK) 
    Apr 2017 GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP, Estonia, Tallinna Kunstihoone / 全控制和言论控制, 爱沙尼亚, Tallinna Kunstihoone
    Apr 2017 Body Media II, Shanghai, Power Station of Art / 身体·媒体II, 上海, 上海当代艺术博物馆
    Apr 2017 Shanghai Project Chapter 2 Exhibition: Seeds of Time, Shanghai, Himalayas Museum / 时间的种子 - 上海种子第二章, 上海, 喜马拉雅美术馆
    Apr 2017 All Happens after Sunset... , Shanghai, MoCA Pavilion / 在日落后发生... , 上海, 上海当代艺术馆艺术亭台
    Apr 2017 Create Spaces, Chengdu, Luxelakes·A4 Art Museum / 创造空间, 成都, 麓湖·A4美术馆
    Apr 2017 Moments and More: Documents of Culture Pavilion [wén huà guǎn] Online Art Project, Shanghai, OCAT / 朋友圈+:文化馆线上艺术计划展, 上海, OCAT
    Mar 2017 Nominations, Three Rooms - International Touring Exhibition of Young Media Artists, Shanghai, Chronus Art Center / 三个屋子——青年媒体艺术家国际巡展 提名展, 上海, 上海新时线媒体艺术中心

    2016
    Dec 2016 A Strong Gale in the Dark Forest, Caochangdi, Chuangxinyi Internet Bar, Three Supermarkets, Beijing / 林暗草惊风, 草场地创新意网吧及三家超市, 北京
    Dec 2016 The 3rd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen / 第三届深圳独立动画双年展, 深圳
    Nov 2016 Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA / "时间的转身:当代亚洲艺术与思考",Spencer美术馆,堪萨斯
    Oct 2016 "Ethics of Technology" Beijing Media Art Biennale, Beijing / "技术伦理" 北京媒体艺术双年展, 北京
    Sep 2016 OVERPOP, Shanghai, Yuz Museum / 波普之上, 上海, 余德耀美术馆
    Sep 2016 Take Me (I'm Yours) New York, Jewish Museum / 带走我, 纽约, 犹太人美术馆
    Jun 2016 The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China ,Beijing, Minsheng Art Museum / 中国当代艺术年鉴展, 北京, 北京民生现代美术馆
    Mar 2016 The Mud of Compound Experience, G/F, No. 98 Apliu Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong / The Mud of Compound Experience, 香港九龙深水埗鸭寮街98号底楼
    Mar 2016 HACK SPACE, Hong Kong, K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space / HACK SPACE, 香港, K11 Art Foundation 临时展览空间
    Mar 2016 Heavy Artillery, Australia, Rabbit Gallery / Heavy Artillery, 澳大利亚, 白兔美术馆

    2015
    Dec 2015 The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China ,Beijing, Minsheng Art Museum / 中国当代艺术年鉴展, 北京, 北京民生现代美术馆
    Oct 2015 Globale: Global Control And Censorship - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe / 全控制和言论控制 - 卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心, 德国
    Aug 2015 Stereognosis Zone Guangzhou,Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art / 触知区 广州, 红专厂当代艺术馆
    May 2015 Fusion: Chinese Modern And Contemporary Art Since 1930s Wuhan, Wanlin Art Museum of Wuhan University / 聚变:1930年代以来的中国现当代艺术 武汉,武汉大学万林艺术博物馆
    May 2015 The 2nd "CAFAM Future" Exhibition: Observer-Creator · The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art HongKong, K11 / 第二届CAFAM未来展:创客创客·中国青年艺术的现实表征 香港, K11
    May 2015 Frieze New York Frame, New York / Frieze纽约Frame单元, 纽约
    Apr 2015 No Apple No Show - Part II Shanghai, We Gallery / 用户展——第二部分 上海, 我们画廊
    Apr 2015 VOID - there's nothing more left, but a little trace from human beings Beijing, Ginkgo Space/ 虚空——禅意之维 北京, 今格空间
    Feb 2015 The Tell-Tale Heart, Chi Art Space, Hong Kong / "泄密的心",Chi Art Space,香港
    Jan 2015 The 2nd "CAFAM Future" Exhibition: Observer-Creator · The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art Beijing, CAFA Art Museum / 第二届CAFAM未来展:创客创客·中国青年艺术的现实表征 北京, 中央美术学院美术馆

    2014
    Dec 2014 2014 OCAT - Pierre Huber Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition The Truth About Entropy Shanghai, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai / 2014 OCAT皮埃尔•于贝尔奖入围展——熵之真相 上海, OCAT当代艺术中心上海馆
    Nov 2014 Ministry of Truth II - The Factitious and its Realm Beijing, Boers-Li Gallery / 真相部II——再造界域 北京, 博而励画廊
    Nov 2014 Cosmos - Limited and Limitless, Existence and Co-existence Shanghai, 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum / 多重宇宙——有限与无限 存在与共存 上海,二十一世纪民生美术馆
    Aug 2014 The 12th National Art Exhibition - Experimental Art Beijing,Today Art Museum / 2014 第十二届全国美术作品展览 实验艺术展区 北京,今日美术馆
    July 2014 Metamorphosis of the Virtual 5+5 Shanghai,chi K11 art museum / 虚拟蜕变5+5 上海,chi K11 美术馆 
    July 2014 Silence - the 1990s Paris,Balice Hertling / 沉默——1990年代 巴黎,Balice Hertling
    June 2014 Thingworld - International Triennial of New Media Art Beijing,The National Art Museum of China / 齐物等观——国际新媒体艺术三年展 北京,中国美术馆 
    Mar 2014 PANDAMONIUM - Media Art From Shanghai Berlin,Momentum / PANDAMONIUM 又一次发声 ——来自上海的媒体艺术 柏林,Momentum
    Mar 2014 Transience - Intractable Objects Beijing,Taikang Space / 电光火石——桀骜不驯的对象 北京,泰康空间

    2013
    Nov 2013 The West Bank Architecture and Contemporary Art Biennale Shanghai / 西岸建筑与当代艺术双年展 上海
    Nov 2013 Reading Shanghai,Leo Xu Projects / 阅读 上海,Leo Xu Projects
    Jul 2013 Lost In The Labyrinth New York,Harvestworks / 迭走迷宫 纽约,Harvestworks
    May 2013 Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money - Art After Social Media Era Shanghai,chi K11 art space / 真实、美、自由和金钱——社群媒体兴起后的艺术 上海,K11艺术空间
    Mar 2013 SHANGHAI SURPRISE - A GROUP SHOW ON CONTEMPORARY ART IN SHANGHAI Shanghai,chi K11 art space / 上海惊奇——场关于上海当代艺术的群展 上海,K11艺术空间

    2012
    Sep 2012 ART DIALOGUE CITY - 2ND EDITION N-MINUTES VIDEO ART FESTIVAL Shanghai/ 艺术对话城市——第二届N分钟影像艺术节 上海
    Sep 2012 Solar Plexus London, Space Station Sixty Five / 太阳神经丛 伦敦,65空间站
    Jun 2012 Whatever You Want - New Media Art Show Beijing / 任我行——新媒体艺术展 北京
    Jun 2012 Solar Plexus Shanghai,V Arts Centre / 太阳神经丛 上海,视界艺术中心
    May 2012 OVERLOOK Shanghai,Magda Danysz Gallery / OVERLOOK 上海,MD画廊

    2011
    Dec 2011 "One World" Exposition - Chinese Art in the Age of the New Media Hongkong,Videotage / 平行世界 香港,录映太奇
    Aug 2011 Augmented Senses - A China-France Media Art Exhibition Shenzhen, The Oct Art&Design Gallery / 感知增生——中法媒体艺术交流展 深圳,华•美术馆
    Jun 2011 TransLife: Media Art China 2011 - International Triennial of New Media Art Beijing,The National Art Museum of China / 延展生命:媒体中国2011——国际新媒体艺术三年展 北京, 中国美术馆
    Jun 2011 Augmented Senses - A China-France Media Art Exhibition Shanghai,The OCT SUHE CREEK GALLERY / 感知增生——中法媒体艺术交流展 上海,华侨城苏河湾艺术馆
    Jun 2011 Be With Me, Basel Liste 16 / 与我同行 巴塞尔 Liste 16
    Apr 2011 +Follow Shanghai, Museum of Contemporary Art / +关注 上海,上海当代艺术馆
    Apr 2011 From Interaction to Micro-Sociology: The Dual Thread of Media Intervention into Art in The Netherlands and China Beijing, Art ISSUE Projects / 从互动到微观社会学:荷兰/中国媒体介入艺术的双重线索 北京,艺术Art ISSUE Projects
    Mar 2011 Words and Dreams Shanghai,18 Gallery / 文字与理想 上海,外滩18号

    2010
    Sep 2010 Resonance Shanghai,18 Gallery / 共鸣 上海,外滩18号
    Sep 2010 Creators Project Beijing,798 / 创想家计划 北京,798
    Sep 2010 a world which is being built! Shanghai,V Arts Centre / 一个世界正在建设中!上海,视界艺术中心
    Feb 2010 Transmediale Berlin / 转译媒体节 柏林

    2009
    Dec 2009 Sweet Future Shanghai / 甜蜜的未来 上海,局门路436号
    Nov 2009 Fantastic Illusions - Media Art Exhibition of Chinese and Belgian Artists Belgium,Shanghai / 完美幻觉——中国比利时媒体艺术交流展 上海,比利时
    Sep 2009 New Media Archaeology Shanghai,DDM / 新媒体考古 上海,东大名创库
    Apr 2009 Art Beijing 2009 Thematic Exhibition- Art Unforbidden Beijing / 艺术北京,"诗意·日常"——中国年轻艺术家群展 北京

    2008
    Oct 2008 Shift Festival Switzerland / Shift艺术节 巴塞尔
    Oct 2008 eArts Festival Shanghai / 上海电子艺术节 上海
    Sep 2008 Virtual City (New Power – China Contemporary Art Biennale 2008) / 虚城计 2008"新动力•中国"当代艺术双年展 上海
    June 2008 Synthetic Times Public Education Project Beijing
    July 2008 Mini Summit on New Media Arts Policy & Practice Singapore
    Apr 2008 SEWN Segment Space Shanghai

    2007
    Nov 2007 Microwave Internationl Media Art Festival Hongkong / 微波国际媒体艺术节 香港
    Nov 2007 Long March Beijing
    Oct 2007 eArts Festival Shanghai / 上海电子艺术节
    Oct 2007 SEWN Segment Space Beijing
    Aug 2007 Getitlouder Beijing / 大声展 北京
    Jul 2007 Zhangjiang science, technology and culture festival Shanghai
    Jun 2007 THE MOBILE LAB Borderline Festival Beijing
    May 2007 CIGE multi media arts international lab forum Beijing
    May 2007 Media Art in China Exhibition Series 1999-2007 Beijing,Arario Gallery / 可持续幻想?中国媒体艺术展览系列之1999至2007 北京,阿拉里奥画廊
    Apr 2007 V2 Deaf07 Netherlands / V2 Deaf07 荷兰

     


  • Exhibitions
    • You as Me, Hold the Gaze
      Feb 17, 2023 - Oct 12, 2023
      Curator: Xu Tianyi
      Artists: Markus Lüpertz, aaajiao, LLND, Oreet Ashery, Darren Almond, Hu Yun, Carsten Nicolai, Li Binyuan, Lee Yongbaek, Lin Ke, Lin Tianmiao, Liu Wei, Shi Yong, Lu Lei, Tong Wenmin, Tobias Rehberger, Yang Jiecang, Ye Linghan, Yu Ji, Zhang Peili, Zhou Xiaohu, Li Liao, Lee Bul
      • Group Exhibition, How Art Museum
    • a’a’a'jiao:an ID
      Apr 27, 2019 - Jul 14, 2019
      Artist: aaajiao
      • Solo Exhibition, HOW NOW
  • Artworks
  • Articles
    • You as Me, Hold the Gaze

      My age, my beast, who will ever

      Look into your eyes.

      And with his own blood glue together

      The backbones of two centuries?

      Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) wrote down the poem The Age (1923) at the beginning of the 20th century. While expressing his visions and hopes for the age, it also shed light on the conflicts between "poet and his time". In another poem he wrote later, it read: "No, I am no one's contemporary". (1924)

      The Age as quoted in Giorgio Agamben's What Is the Contemporary? and Alain Badiou's The Century . In What Is the Contemporary?, Agamben explained "The contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness. All eras, for those who experience contemporariness, are obscure." Badiou, when quoting the poem at the end of the 20th century, pointed out that Mandelstam's "beast" as a newborn and fragile presence was doomed to be transient. What Badiou was trying to break was exactly this "backbone". 

      It is widely acknowledged that the 20th century was a century of division. And to gain insights into such "division" takes not only knowledge of what happened in this century, but also of what the people of this century were thinking. If we merely label things that happened without probing into what the people of the century were thinking, we can neither get to truly know the present nor prevent things from repeating themselves. In this same logic, this century would have nothing to with the "future" since its very beginning. 

      You and I as people of some experience of the contemporary are the minimum unit to constitute the complex and multi-layered veins of time of contemporaneity. Hence we shall not follow linear time to describe the nature of things. The exhibition on view, as celebration of the fifth anniversary of the HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), features over 30 pieces of installations and videos by more than 20 artists both at home and from abroad including Lee Bul, Liu Wei, Zhang Peili, Lin Tianmiao, Markus Lüpertz and Carsten Nicolai. Different from the usual curatorial approach that follows a linear timeline to present the works within museum collection, the exhibition follows the principle of "contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time". Under the title "You as Me", "you" and "I" are the core of the dialogue with the space, to fill up the absence of subject and scene, reflect upon the tragedies of the century, build connections between contemporary events and past reference, define time from a sociological perspective, treat the "contemporary" as a dividing point between the past and the future, disrupt and reverse language on the cultural level through social installation, rethink of the cultural representations beyond the physical body to confront the fragmented digital world, and morph into an organic life form that cannot be written off in this digital world. 

      However, the attempt to construct non-linear histories through creative reassemblages of time is in itself trapped in the modern view of history. The underlying narratives among different works are merely judgements based on information fed to us from the outside. You and I need to firmly hold our gaze so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.

    [Synopsis] You as Me, Hold the Gaze

    By Xu Tianyi 2023-06-13

    My age, my beast, who will ever

    Look into your eyes.

    And with his own blood glue together

    The backbones of two centuries?

    Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) wrote down the poem The Age (1923) at the beginning of the 20th century. While expressing his visions and hopes for the age, it also shed light on the conflicts between "poet and his time". In another poem he wrote later, it read: "No, I am no one's contemporary". (1924)

    The Age as quoted in Giorgio Agamben's What Is the Contemporary? and Alain Badiou's The Century . In What Is the Contemporary?, Agamben explained "The contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness. All eras, for those who experience contemporariness, are obscure." Badiou, when quoting the poem at the end of the 20th century, pointed out that Mandelstam's "beast" as a newborn and fragile presence was doomed to be transient. What Badiou was trying to break was exactly this "backbone". 

    It is widely acknowledged that the 20th century was a century of division. And to gain insights into such "division" takes not only knowledge of what happened in this century, but also of what the people of this century were thinking. If we merely label things that happened without probing into what the people of the century were thinking, we can neither get to truly know the present nor prevent things from repeating themselves. In this same logic, this century would have nothing to with the "future" since its very beginning. 

    You and I as people of some experience of the contemporary are the minimum unit to constitute the complex and multi-layered veins of time of contemporaneity. Hence we shall not follow linear time to describe the nature of things. The exhibition on view, as celebration of the fifth anniversary of the HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), features over 30 pieces of installations and videos by more than 20 artists both at home and from abroad including Lee Bul, Liu Wei, Zhang Peili, Lin Tianmiao, Markus Lüpertz and Carsten Nicolai. Different from the usual curatorial approach that follows a linear timeline to present the works within museum collection, the exhibition follows the principle of "contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time". Under the title "You as Me", "you" and "I" are the core of the dialogue with the space, to fill up the absence of subject and scene, reflect upon the tragedies of the century, build connections between contemporary events and past reference, define time from a sociological perspective, treat the "contemporary" as a dividing point between the past and the future, disrupt and reverse language on the cultural level through social installation, rethink of the cultural representations beyond the physical body to confront the fragmented digital world, and morph into an organic life form that cannot be written off in this digital world. 

    However, the attempt to construct non-linear histories through creative reassemblages of time is in itself trapped in the modern view of history. The underlying narratives among different works are merely judgements based on information fed to us from the outside. You and I need to firmly hold our gaze so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.

    Related Artists aaajiao , LLND , Oreet Ashery , Darren Almond , Hu Yun , Lee Bul , Li Liao , Carsten Nicolai , Lee Yongbaek , Li Binyuan , Lin Ke , Lin Tianmiao , Liu Wei , Shi Yong , Markus Lüpertz , Lu Lei , Tong Wenmin , Tobias Rehberger , Yang Jiecang , Zhang Peili , Yu Ji , Ye Linghan , Zhou Wendou , Zhou Xiaohu ,









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