Exhibitions

Steadfastly Raise the Standards in Nonproductive Construction

Group Exhibition 6 November - 30 December 2018 In sync with the mission to commit fully to urban industrial production, the People’s Daily editorialised against waste in nonproductive construction, the ancillary facilities of the productive kind, in a series of articles which had titles such as: “Turn Consumer Cities into Producer Cities” (17 March 1949); “Close Cooperation Between... Read more

LIU Ren: Time

Solo Exhibition 8 September - 21 October 2018 LIU Ren’s third solo exhibition at Don Gallery features his most recent series of “straw-paper-brick-paintings,” in which he develops a profound understanding of portraying literary, historic, philosophical themes with polemical essences and poetic nuances. Over the last ten years, LIU has mined the archives of English vocabularies mapped with dictionary... Read more

Condo Shanghai: Don Gallery + Ghebaly Gallery | Dialogue Between HU Weiyi and Yoshua OKÓN

Project 7 July - 12 August 2018 As part of the first edition of Condo Complex in Shanghai, a gallery swap between locally-based galleries and international partners, Don Gallery and Ghebaly Gallery from Los Angeles co-host the dialogue between Chinese artist HU Weiyi and Mexican artist Yoshua OKÓN about their video works. As keen observers of human... Read more

HU Zi: Stone Flesh

Solo Exhibition 12 May - 30 June 2018 “Smoky grey-blue eyes like pietra serena, a Grecian nose, a gently curved forehead, a razor-like cheekbone, purple-veined lips, a jaw of perfect shape, long chestnut hair, luminous, radiant skin dedicated to papaver rhoeas and Carrara marble. Any closer. Slender legs, from his knees to thighs and chest, an ascending curve,... Read more

ZHANG Ruyi: Profile

Project 27 - 31 March 2018 Don Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of ZHANG Ruyi’s solo project “Profile” at Discoveries, 2018 edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong. ZHANG’s artistic practice embeds itself in nothing less than the logic of life. It is centred on the relationship between ego consciousness, physical space, and mundane... Read more

HUANG Fangling: Weightless

Solo Exhibition 24 March - 29 April 2018 a.f.art theatreFangling’s second show at Don Gallery, “Weightless,” revolves around the conjunctures of alienation and theatricality, the boundaries of dramatic experience, and the contingencies of the actual world. In a series of videos and photographs, Fangling extends her use of performance as a conceptual fulcrum—deploying it as intervention to foreground... Read more