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Refocusing on the Medium: The Rise of East Asia Video Art

The exhibition proposes a re-examination of the artists approach to the video medium rising from East Asia and contributes to the global history of video art as a transnational contemporary art medium.

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C-PLAN | Luka Yuanyuan Yang Solo Exhibition: Shanghai Low

The exhibition unfolds through the narratives of four video works and a collection of images and archival materials. Revolving around Luka's latest series Women's World, which recreates overseas Chinese women's memories in 20th-century Cantonese opera theaters, movie sets, and nightclubs.

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C-PLAN | Liao Fei: Is Everything a Contingent Occurrence?

Shifting from questioning the nature of "matter" to the dualistic system of human cognition, then to geometric mathematical experiments, Liao Fei’s art practice deduces the existence and operative patterns behind the "material world" of our perception and experience through abstract and sensual art scene expressed in common mathematical and physical logic.

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UN / CONVENTIONAL OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Exhibition 2020

OCAT Shanghai collaborates with KADIST to launch this exhibition and artist residency project as the seventh edition of our endeavor, marking the first presentation at the new OCAT Shanghai venue.

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Space Discipline: Some Buildings (after Reform and Opening Up) and Some Architecture (after the Expo in Shanghai)

Space Discipline is a tangible presentation of a long-term research project initiated by the curator, which is based on the two scenarios: one, a typical building that' memorable to the architect; the other the architectural work once he/she became an architect.

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Zhang Ding: High-Speed Forms

The inaugural exhibition at the OCAT Shanghai re-evaluates the Modernist legacy of linearity, revisits a number of important subjects and motifs in the artist’s 15 years of practise, and further develops the core elements of movements, motions, and emotional or atmospheric sculptures.

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I Hear Your Dreams: Contemporary Art from Norway

The exhibition presents seven works create by five leading contemporary Norwegian artists who are actively engaged on the international stage. These five artists share a certain commonality in the medium they adopt. The story that brings these artists' works together takes sound and time as its conduit and revolves around dreams, subconscious and memories.

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Remapping Reality: Selected Video Collection from Wang Bing

“Remapping Reality” marks the first comprehensive presentation of Wang Bing’s collection of Chinese video art from the post-Olympic era. In this moment of historical rupture, the exhibition attempts to take the collection as a point of departure to develop a new narrative framework.

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with/against the flow: Contemporary Photographic Interventions

OCAT Shanghai is delighted to present the exhibition with/against the flow: Contemporary Photographic Interventions from April 17 to June 20, 2021. This exhibition is part of a series on contemporary photographic interventions organized by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and is co-curated by Florian Ebner and Christin Müller.

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2014 OCAT-Pierre Huber Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition

Since July 2014, a board composed by more than one hundred members with expertise and insight into Chinese media art has selected eight finalists to take part in "The 2014 OCAT-Pierre Huber Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition".

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Degeneration

OCAT Shanghai is proud to present the group show DEGENERATION. This exhibition explores the concept of continuity and rupture in Contemporary Art, through the works of the ten most representative young artists working with different media in Mainland China.

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The Ballad of Generation Y

As the latest installment of OCAT Shanghai’s annual OCAT Young Artist Project, this year’s exhibition is curated by media art curator Zhang Ga. The exhibition incorporates video, electronic devices, installations, documentation, as well as other medium and visual tropes.

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Dragon Liver Phoenix Brain – Eight Emerging Artists

Being part of the OCAT Shanghai annual young artists project, this exhibition will also be the last exhibition of the year and is organized by Mr. Colin Siyuan Chinnery, a curator long devoted to the research of contemporary Chinese art.

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The Circular Impact: Video Art 21

The exhibition curated by Dai Zhuoqun features a sample of Chinese video art since 2000, showing 21 artists whose primary medium of practice has been moving images, with works spanning 21 years from the beginning of the 21st century to the present.

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Artists Zhu Changquan & Wang Changcun Dual Solo Exhibition

Born in 1980s, both media artists think outside of the frameworks of traditional art domains by adopting scenario simulation, microscopic simulation, computer programming, electronic music, and other languages to present young artists’ different perspectives in observing the world and new means of engagement with everyday life.

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8102 – On Reality

As the sixth installment of our annual emerging artists exhibition series, 8102 presents a realistic landscape of the narrative and evaluative peculiarities, the imaginative visions, of Chinese artists from the ‘80s and ‘90s generations.

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On Struggling to Remain Present When You Want to Disappear

The concept of “real” goes beyond the simple definition of truth, to encompass and question the norms and perceptions associated with both tangible and intangible forms of existence, thereby allowing the viewer to re-investigate the actual implications of “The time of the Real” we are in.

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Infrastructural Territory: The Spatial Foundation of National Discourse

The exhibition is presented through installations, photographs, models, videos and other mediums in exploring the symbiosis between infrastructure and landscape, as well as their shared practices and cross-disciplinary overlaps among the sub-branches of architecture, urban planning and landscape design on the subject on “infrastructure”.

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The Grand Voyage: A Man Upside Down

The exhibition will take the audience into the mesmerizing vertigo space of “a man upside down” unveiled through multi-channel videos and mechanical installations.

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Investigate It

In July 2015, architects Lu Andong, Feng Lu, and Dou Pingping convened Gewu, a workshop on design and research, in the old city of Nanjing, using the Hualugang district as a site to conduct field research on architectural theory and design.

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The Distant Unknown – Contemporary Art from Britain

The curator Jiang Jiehong invites five British artists to initiate a dialogue that explores the notion and our understandings of ‘distance’ through video, photography, sculpture, sound and installations.

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Moments and More: Documents of Culture Pavilion [wén huà guǎn] Online Art Project

The exhibition is co-organized by OCAT Shanghai and the online art platform Culture Pavilion [wén huà guǎn], producing expansive offline presentations of the art practices occurring on social media, by which, the exhibition hope to open the discussions on the symbiotic relationships between art practices, app technology, online exhibitions and offline presentations.

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Follow_Me: New Narratives in Contemporary Photography, China – Switzerland

OCAT Shanghai presents Follow_Me - New narratives in contemporary photography, inviting 10 young photographers from China and Switzerland. This exhibition features works using the language of photography to build layers of overlapping narrations.

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Muntadas Video Works

OCAT Shanghai is proud to present Muntadas Video Works, a historical survey of Antoni Muntadas's works in medium of video which aims to recover and praise the valuable contribution of this extraordinary multidisciplinary artist, considered one of the most influential figures in conceptual art and research art practices at international level.

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Frontier: Re-Assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics

The exhibition invites more than thirty famous contemporary artists who employ video, installation, performance, photography and documentary language in rich expressions of their artistic thinking on regionality.

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Crossovers – A Filmic Exploration of History, Stories and Human Remains

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Present·Being – the Video Works of Wang Gongxin over 20 Years

OCAT Shanghai is pleased to present media artist Wang Gongxin’s solo exhibition, Present·Being – the video works of Wang Gongxin over 20 years. This exhibition is a continuation of OCAT Shanghai’s supports for the medium of media art, its historical inquiries and encouragements of proactive experimental spirit.

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Playback: Selected Works from the Pierre Huber Films & Videos Collection

As one of the projects celebrating the 10 years anniversary for the OCAT, the curator Guido Styger looks into the film and video collection of the collector Pierre Huber and his nearly four decades of experiences.

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Modernism Revisited – A Retrospective Exhibition of Feng Jizhong and Wang Da-hong

Modernism Revisited discloses the most important projects of these two fundamental architects, such as Feng Jizhong's Square Tower Park and Helou Pavilion, Wang Da-hong's Private Mansion on Jianguo South Road, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and National Palace Museum, and includes drawings, models, archival material like photographs, texts and other documents.

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Metamorphosis – Mirror

This exhibition is entirely dedicated to the work of two eminent photographers, marking the commitment of OCAT Shanghai towards photography as a crucial medium within the practice and language of contemporary art.

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LANDSEASKY: Revisiting Spatiality in Video Art

OCAT Shanghai is proud to present LANDSEASKY: Revisiting Spatiality in Video Art, a group show bringing some of the most interesting and challenging video artworks from 17 international contemporary artists to 3 countries in a major Australia-Asia tour.

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The Garden of Forking Paths: Exploring Independent Animation

A large part of the exhibited works has been selected from the first Shenzhen Biennale of Independent Animation. OCAT Shanghai has added to the list other animation artists and placed their works within a critical and theoretical frame in which the city of Shanghai is a crucial crossroad of cultural experiences and a platform for international dialogue.

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Trespassing: Yang Zhenzhong's Solo Show

This exhibition provides a medium and a site to approach the artist, while also forming an entity by converging the artist's chronology with his presence.

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Quote out of Context: Solo Exhibition of Yang Fudong

Over 50 of Yang Fudong's major photography works and one video installation will be exhibited, showcasing his achievements from his early career to now.

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Stubborn Image – Geng Jianyi Solo Exhibition

The works presented in this exhibition are aligned with Geng Jianyi’s attitude on making “non-artwork” throughout his artistic practice. The viewing experience of this exhibition aims to provoke the viewer’s reflection on the liaison between everyday life, time, entirety and isolation.

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Public Program | Video Artworks Exchange Week by Young Generation Artists from China and Korea

South Korea and China has opened the 2021-22 year of cultural exchange. OCAT Shanghai is going to hold Video Artworks Exchange Week by Young Generation Artists from China and Korea to promote artistic exchanges and understanding between the two countries. Nine artists from China and Korea will discuss and share their new video works around the themes of "Tao Learns From Nature, One Nature is not the Other" and "Objects in Mirror are closer than they Appear".