王礼军 Wang Lijun

Wang Lijun (b. 1982, Hunan, lives and works in Beijing) completed his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. Wang's art practice, spanning sculpture and installation, is rooted in his life experience and revolves around the physical and living spaces. Illuminating the folds of space, his work attempts to reexamine an individual's relationship with its surroundings, the material world, and society.

Wang Lijun's works have been featured in The Xinjiang International Art Biennial (2024); Guangzhou Triennial (2023); The 9th Biennale City of Urbanism Architecture (2023); Datong Sculpture Biennale (2018). His solo exhibitions have been shown at Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou); Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing). His works have been included in recent group exhibitions at The Pool by X Museum (Shanghai); OCT Art & Design Gallery (Shenzhen); Today Art Museum (Beijing); Times Art Museum (Beijing); Museu do Oriente (Lisbon); Rome's National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rome).

米歇尔·德布鲁安Michel de Broin

Michel de Broin (b. 1970, Canada) uses sculpture, installation, video and performance to initiate reflections on public, social and political spheres through metaphor and analogy. By associating and juxtaposing everyday objects, radically transforming their meaning, the Canadian artist invents systems that engage forces which attract, repel, or support each other. His work focuses on defining the functioning of human relationships as a set of actions that induce and respond to one another.

His work has been exhibited recently in the 17th Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, France; the Contemporary Museum of Art Saitama, Japan; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France; the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; the Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg. His work is held in several museums and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada; the Art Gallery of Ontario; the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; the FRAC Poitou Charentes, France; and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany.

曹舒怡Cao Shuyi

Cao Shuyi (b. 1990 Guangzhou, lives and works in New York) graduated from Fudan University and Parsons Schoolof Design, New York. She explores alchemical approaches to material, matter, and osmosis of knowledge. By merging hand-crafted and digital artifacts, moving images, and soundscapes, she constructs assemblages as investigations into heterogeneous materials and temporalities.

Her recent solo and duo exhibitions include: “Ardor for Unconformity” (11th Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine, Quebec, 2024); “Undercurrent Softness” (Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai 2023); “Strange Strangers” (Para Site, Hong Kong, 2023). Her works have been included in group exhibitions at acclaimed institutions, such as He Art Museum, Foshan (2023), TAG Museum (Qingdao), Aranya Art Centre, Beidaihe (2023), Para Site, Hong Kong (2023), Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing (2023), Chronus Art Centre, Shanghai (2022), Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai (2021), Today Art Museum, Beijing (2021), NARS Foundation, New York (2021).

张移北Zhang Yibei

Zhang Yibei (b.1992, born in Heilongjiang, lives and works in Beijing). graduated with a Master’s degree in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art（RCA）in London and a Bachelor's degree in Sculpture form University of the Arts London（UAL）. Her practice starts with a proposition rethinking the relationship between artist, material, and ideation. Yibei has been honored at the 2019 Tomorrow Sculpture Awards and shortlisted by the Huayu Youth Award in 2021. She is also the recipient of Longlati Foundation's Artist-in-Residence Program 2022–23.

Her recent exhibitions include solo exhibition“Yibei Zhang: Please No Helmet”(Longlati, Shanghai，2024)“A Vase In Everything” (BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai, 2021) and group exhibitions “BODILY REACTION: VITALIZING THE BARE LIFE” (Taikang Space, Beijing, 2023); “The Disconnect Generation” (Song Art Museum, Beijing, 2022).

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