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Comedy of Painting
24 Aug - 29 Sep 2024 The Comedy of Painting By Bao Dong Painting - to borrow Hegel's philosophical assertion of history - happened twice, the first as true drama, the second as comedy. In the... Read more -
LISTING Ⅱ
13 Jul - 18 Aug 2024 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present its group exhibition Listing II from July 13 until August 18, 2024. A continuation of the group exhibition Listing held in 2021, Listing II... Read more
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Kang Haitao
Green Island 18 May - 16 Jun 2024 Green Island is Kang Haitao’s (b. 1976) fifth solo exhibition at PIFO Gallery. Presenting Kang’s 25 artworks, this exhibition covers acrylic paintings on paper, photography, sketches, and manuscripts together with... Read more -
Tan Jun
East Mountain, Dong River 11 Apr - 10 May 2024 Tan Jun's first solo exhibition East Mountain, Dong River at PIFO Gallery will be held from 11 April - 10 May, 2024, his works were exhibited in the group exhibition... Read more
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Qi Xing
Once Upon a Time 25 Nov 2023 - 7 Jan 2024 Once Upon a Time by Bao Dong According to T.J. Clark, the 20th century was marked by only two significant events: modernism and socialism. These two events were interdependent, each... Read more -
Tong Kunniao
Wilted flowers, the bad bird and Q 23 Sep - 5 Nov 2023 Wilted Flowers, the Bad Bird, and Q by Bao Dong The art of today is essentially installation as what constitutes it is the fundamental elements of ready-made. Materially speaking, paints,... Read more
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Art in the Heart of Perseverance
A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Ink Artists in China 20 Aug - 17 Sep 2023 Read more -
Ode to Joy: Gillian Ayres & John McLean
16 Jun - 23 Jul 2023 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present 'Ode to Joy: Gillian Ayres & John McLean' from June 16 to July 23, 2023. Gillian Ayres and John McLean are eminent artists that... Read more
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Ni Jun
Paintings Smell Book Fragrance 22 Apr - 4 Jun 2023 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition entitled Ni Jun: Paintings Smell Book Fragrance from April 22 to June 4, 2023. Curated by Bao Dong, this exhibition is... Read more -
Julio Rondo
23 Feb - 31 Mar 2023 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present Julio Rondo’s first solo exhibition at the gallery from 23 February to March 31, 2023. Julio Rondo has constructed each work by... Read more
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Ma Ke
Monkey and Beetle 15 Dec 2022 - 10 Feb 2023 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present artist Ma Ke's solo exhibition 'Monkey and Beetle' from 15 December 2022 to 10 February 2023. The exhibition curated by Bao Dong. For more... Read more -
Enrico Bach
100/100 20 Aug - 17 Sep 2022 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present artist Enrico Bach’s solo exhibition '100/100' from 20 August to 17 September 2022. The exhibition is curated by Fang Zhiling. This is the third... Read more
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Li Jikai
Fireflies 24 Jun - 24 Jul 2022 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present artist Li Jikai’ s solo exhibition Fireflies from June 24 to July 24, 2022. The exhibition is curated by Lu Mingjun and designed by... Read more -
Liu Zhan
Illuminate 19 Mar - 5 May 2022 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present artist Liu Zhan’s solo exhibition Illuminate on 19 March 2022. As the first collaboration between the artist and PIFO Gallery, it is a major... Read more
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Listing
22 Dec 2021 - 23 Jan 2022 PIFO Gallery is presenting a collective exhibition Listing, which will be on display from 22 December 2021 until 23 January 2022. This exhibition brings together 23 works from 19 artists,... Read more -
Zhou Wenzhong
Fitzini's Temptation 6 Nov - 14 Dec 2021 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present Zhou Wenzhong’s solo exhibition Fitzini’s Temptation. It is the 1st solo exhibition of Zhou Wenzhong at PIFO Gallery. Curated by Fang Zhiling, the exhibition... Read more
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Wu Jian'an
Vision, Illusion and Acceptation, 2019-2021 26 Sep - 26 Oct 2021 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present Wu Jian’an’s solo exhibition Vision, Illusion and Acceptation, 2019-2021.It is the 1st solo exhibition of Wu Jian’an at PIFO Gallery, curated by Bao Dong.... Read more -
Ni Jun
Back in the Jungle 8 Jul - 10 Aug 2021 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present Ni Jun's solo exhibition Back in the Jungle. It is the second one-man show of Ni Jun at PIFO Gallery, showing the artist's paintings... Read more
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Kang Haitao
Astronomy of Landscape 29 May - 27 Jun 2021 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present Kang Haitao's solo exhibition Astronomy of Landscape. It is the 4th solo exhibition of Kang Haitao at PIFO Gallery since 2009, showing the artist's... Read more -
Non-Existent
The 3rd Huajiadi Biennale 24 Dec 2020 - 15 Mar 2021 The 3rd Huajiadi Biennale is presenting at PIFO Gallery in the end of 2020. Huajiadi Biennale is an ongoing curatorial project jointly initiated by Lu Zhengyuan and Duan Shaofeng since... Read more
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Qiu Jingtong
Shoot at Grapes 18 Sep - 18 Oct 2020 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present our new exhibition Shoot at Grapes from 18 September to 18 October 2020, the first solo exhibition of Qiu Jingtong. Through the comprehensive use... Read more -
Summer Exhibition 2020
15 Jul - 1 Sep 2020 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present a collective exhibition Summer Exhibition 2020 featuring a selection of artworks created by thirteen artists presented by PIFO Gallery. It provides an opportunity... Read more
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Becoming John McLean: 1939-2019
22 May - 22 Jun 2020 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition Becoming John McLean during GWBJ 2020, remarking the anniversary of the famous British artist John McLean's death. It shows the artist’s... Read more -
Enrico Bach
Deep Cover 14 Nov - 31 Dec 2019 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present you the German artist Enrico Bach’s second gallery solo exhibition in China, Enrico Bach: Deep Cover, which will include his works since 2016. In... Read more
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Abstract Art 12
30 Sep - 30 Oct 2019 PIFO Gallery focuses on the current diversified development of both abstract art and figurative art. The series of Abstract Art annual group exhibitions at PIFO Gallery is witness and platform... Read more -
Being Sharp
A Group Exhibition of Figurative Art 18 Jul - 8 Sep 2019 PIFO Gallery is now pleased to present you Being Sharp: A Group Exhibition of Figurative Art. The modernity of Chinese art in the 20th century is precisely the reason for... Read more
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Ni Jun
An Inconvenient Case 16 May - 26 Jun 2019 PIFO Gallery presents Ni Jun’s solo exhibition Ni Jun: An Inconvenient Case curated by art historian Mia Yu. Spanning over forty years, Ni Jun’s extraordinary career cannot be conveniently framed... Read more -
Franz Ackermann
21 Mar - 27 Apr 2019 PIFO Gallery is delighted to present the distinguished German contemporary artist Franz Ackermann’s first solo exhibition in mainland China. Franz Ackermann was born in 1963. He was awarded a scholarship... Read more
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Zhang Yu
23 Jan - 28 Feb 2019 PIFO Gallery is delighted to present the first self-titled exhibition of artist Zhang Yu. His recent series “Ink Feeding, Water-soaked Nanjing Daily” (2017) presented in the exhibition, not only including... Read more -
Chen Kun
30 Nov 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present the artist Chen Kun’s self-titled exhibition, which is Chen Kun’s first exhibition at PIFO Gallery. Bringing together his latest 30 works including oil paintings... Read more
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Gillian Ayres
13 Sep - 15 Nov 2018 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present the distinguished English abstract artist Gillian Ayres ’ (1930-2018) first gallery exhibition in Asia. Gillian Ayres is best known for abstract painting and printmaking... Read more -
Abstraction As Painterly Rhetoric. A Case Study Between Germany and China
Abstract Art 11 21 Jul - 2 Sep 2018 Curated by Thomas Eller, Beijing PIFO Gallery is delighted to present the annual exhibition Abstract Art already in its 11th iteration. This year the gallery brings together artists from China... Read more
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Zhang Lei
Floating Down a Nightly River 17 May - 1 Jul 2018 PIFO Gallery is delighted to present the exhibition Zhang Lei: Floating Down a Nightly River. This exhibition provides a very first survey of Zhang Lei’s practice between 2010 and 2018.... Read more -
ENCOUNTERS: John McLean • Wang Jian
23 Mar - 3 May 2018 PIFO Gallery is delighted to present the exhibition ENCOUNTERS: John McLean · Wang Jian. This show marks the beginning of ENCOUNTERS, a new and ongoing series of exhibitions bringing together... Read more
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Benjamin Appel
Flowerbed in the Cellar 3 Aug - 17 Sep 2017 Flowerbed in the Cellar is the first solo exhibition in China by German artist Benjamin Appel. Inspired by the geometry of rectangular forms, a familiar structure in daily life, the... Read more -
Kang Haitao
Kang Haitao 8 Jun - 17 Jul 2017 PIFO Gallery is delighted to present the self-titled exhibition of artist Kang Haitao. His recent works on paperboard presented in the exhibition shows Kang Haitao’s gradual trajectory towards a simpler,... Read more
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Zhang Jian
Tranquility 27 Apr - 28 May 2017 PIFO Gallery is delighted to present Zhang Jian's solo exhibition Tranquility. It has been ten years since his last solo exhibition in China. This exhibition is curated by Fang Zhiling,... Read more -
Decade: Abstract Art 10
17 Mar - 16 Apr 2017 Artists: Benjamin Appel / Gillian Ayres / Enrico Bach / Huang Jia / Huang Yuanqing / Kang Haitao / Liu Jian / John McLean / Simon Mullan / Alexandra Roussopoulos... Read more
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Liliane Tomasko
Feeling Folding 12 Jan - 26 Feb 2017 PIFO Gallery is proud to present the first exhibition in China of Liliane Tomasko - Liliane Tomasko: Feeling Folding. She has exhibited widely in US and European museums and galleries... Read more -
wang jian
nothingness was not 15 Oct - 18 Dec 2016 PIFO Gallery is pleased to present wang jian : nothingness was not. This is the first solo exhibition of Wang Jian since he began collaborating with PIFO Gallery in 2006.... Read more
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Enrico Bach
With Ifs and Buts 16 Jun - 7 Aug 2016 Enrico Bach’s paintings manifest most often through the repeated use of a dominant right angle motif, sharp forms and hard edges, all executed with extraordinary technical precision. Measure and proportion... Read more -
Poétique
The Ninth Annual Exhibition of Abstract Art 23 Apr - 5 Jun 2016 Contrary to Greenberg’s proposition that abstraction in Western modern painting would end in formalism, the most enduring, and engaging, abstract art is not merely a visual game. The renaissance in... Read more
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RETURN: Poetic Dwelling in Contemporary Art
11 Mar - 10 Apr 2016 In this era of post-financial crisis, the avant-garde and experimental, (which used to be the guiding light of modernism) seem to be losing momentum. Meanwhile, a lack of critical discourse... Read more -
LIAO Fei
“This Sentence is False” 15 Nov - 27 Dec 2015 Artist Liao Fei is fascinated with the formation of all kinds of systems, regulations, etc. That fascination can be found in his reading list, for example, his interest in Wittgenstein’s... Read more
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WANG Chuan
Always Going Home 20 Sep - 26 Oct 2015 This exhibition of recent work by Wang Chuan is a remarkable distillation of 35 years of work by an artist who is a key figure in any account of 80s’... Read more -
Inward
The Eighth Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art 19 Jun - 31 Jul 2015 Inward: the Eighth Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, will open on 19th June 2015. The exhibition includes works by artists: Kang Haitao, Ge Ziyu, Liu Jian, Liang Quan, Meng Qingxin,... Read more
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De Bug
The Sixth Minds-in-Hands 18 Apr - 17 May 2015 “Minds-in-Hands 6th ” showcases the 115 works of 44 artists, as usual, makes a public call for works about a specific topic. We have arranged to give initiative to 42... Read more -
LIANG Shuo
The Grand Topology 27 Jan - 15 Mar 2015 In this exhibition, Liang Shuo builds a topological space in the gallery. The audience enters the gallery and thus gets into a topological space. The theme “Tuo Pu Ou Le... Read more
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Tan Ping
Follow My Line 28 Sep - 26 Oct 2014 Tan Ping is an important artist who adheres to the artistic concept of “insight and the introspection” in Chinese contemporary art practice. At the time when Tan Ping takes his... Read more -
The Seventh Exhibition of Abstract Art
6 Jun - 6 Jul 2014 The exhibition of abstract art in 2014 focuses on The Moment, The Place. Discussing and presenting abstract art within globalised cultulral background is always an important issue that PIFO devoted.... Read more
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Too Smart to be Good?
The Seventh Exhibition of A+A 8 Apr - 8 May 2014 The curator BAO Dong uses ‘too smart to be good?’ to describe works of these six artists, for their sensitivity and intelligence. This is a daily word that contains two... Read more -
WU Haizhou 2013
22 Nov - 29 Dec 2013 18 artworks, which are created by Wu Haizhou, will be shown at PIFO Gallery on the 22nd November. In this essay-style solo exhibition, we will see the free-spectator-style of Wu... Read more
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Mind and Hand in Accord
The Sixth Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art 5 Jul - 5 Aug 2013 The annual project of the Sixth Exhibition Of Chinese Abstract Art Mind and Hand in Accord is held by PIFO Gallery. The artists are: Liang Quan, Wang Chuan, Tan Ping,... Read more -
WU Di
Don’t Cry, Baby 11 May - 15 Jun 2013 BABY, DON’T CRY depicts a person without limbs, a freak, hermaphroditism, variability of humans and animals. Searching for the combination of irrational things and natural things reveals a world which... Read more
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Low-Cost
The Fifth Minds-in-Hands 3 - 28 Apr 2013 The theme of “Low-Cost” continues to uphold the idea of thinking-by-hands in contemporary art practice. Low is an attitude, also a process; Cost is an appearance, also an attempt. However... Read more -
Cao Hui
24 Nov - 28 Dec 2012 Read more
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I, Pencil
22 Sep - 22 Oct 2012 “I, Pencil”, a new exhibit at PIFO New Art Gallery, opened on September 22, 2012. The exhibit examines from a new perspective the relationship between artists and the pencils in... Read more -
At Rest
The Fifth Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art 23 Jun - 31 Jul 2012 Though there are comparisons to be made between Chinese abstract art and Western abstraction in aesthetic awareness and tone, these artists have utilized traditional sources to create an abstract art... Read more
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Kang Haitao & Yu Aijun
A Burning Within & Ink 27 Apr - 26 May 2012 After 30 years of contemporary art in China, the current era has been called materialistic, hollow, post-modernist, etc. No matter what you call this era, our spirits depend on being... Read more -
Everything
The Sixth Exhibition of A+A 23 Mar - 21 Apr 2012 As PIFO Gallery’s annual exhibition, A+A adopted a biennial format in 2010. In seven years and six exhibitions, 92 artists have participated, and 25 have participated more than once. Many... Read more
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TENG Fei
Ctrl + S 18 Nov - 24 Dec 2011 Teng Fei has long been thought of as the one who “opened up” Chinese art jewelry, and China’s “first Conceptual Jewelry artist”. She has given us a definition for jewelry’s... Read more -
FAN Mingzheng
Beyond (2003 - 2011) 24 Sep - 30 Oct 2011 Fan Mingzheng is an artist from the 70’s. His oil paintings are a transition between art of the 50’s and 60’s and post-80’s art. Fan Mingzheng’s art is realistic, even... Read more
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Echo
The Fourth Minds-in-Hands 9 Jul - 12 Aug 2011 Generally speaking, the “Painting • Handwork” exhibitions can be seen as China’s response to Western art. Painting and handwork, two basic ideas of Fine Arts courses, are not only the... Read more -
Visible Soul
The Fourth Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition 4 - 30 Jun 2011 Artists: Chen Qiang, Chen Ruobing, Cao Xiaodong, Hu Qinwu, Hu Pingsheng, Huang Jia, Jiang Dahai, Li Gang, Li Lei, Liu Jian, Liu Wentao, Ma Shuqing, Meng Luding, Shang Pingjun, Tan... Read more
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LIANG Quan
Sailing - Afar 28 Apr - 29 May 2011 “Sailing ~ Afar — Liang Quan’s New Works” presented nearly 30 pieces of Liang Quan’s abstract works. Liang Quan was born in 1948 and ventured abroad in the early 1980s.... Read more -
LIU Zhiyi
A Grain of Sand 25 Mar - 24 Apr 2011 Read more
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Twittering
Guangci's Works 18 Dec 2010 - 17 Jan 2011 Read more -
Li Hongjun
Into Papers 5 - 27 Nov 2010 Read more
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Jiang Huajun
No Way 15 Aug - 12 Sep 2010 Read more -
Wu Haizhou
The Public Unknown 12 Jul - 7 Aug 2010 Read more
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Wang Chuan
Aloof from the Struggle & Aside from the Hubbub 5 - 30 Jun 2010 This exhibition shows Wang Chuan’s life and creations in recent years: “Aloof from the struggle” is a self-sufficient manner while “Aside from the hubbub” is a larger possibility in art,... Read more -
The Fifth Exhibition of A+A
30 Apr - 25 May 2010 Works presented in this exhibition not only include Easel paintings but also devices and mixed medias. Artists use traditional or all bran-new materials to paint, but different intermediums don’t let... Read more
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Unending Distance
The Third Exhibition of Abstract Art 2 - 28 Apr 2010 The exhibition aims to use continuous power to promote the development of abstract art, and keep distance with the contemporary pop, surmount the spiritual image and cultural implication as well... Read more -
XIONG Yu
Angel in City 18 Dec 2009 - 10 Feb 2010 Xiong Yu’s Solo Exhibition “Angel in City” will be exhibited in PIFO New Art Gallery. It is the third important solo exhibition after “Running on Tranquilly” in the year of... Read more
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LIU Wentao
6 Nov - 3 Dec 2009 Liu Wentao is a teacher of Central Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated from the Printmaking Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, and then he studied his master degree... Read more -
CAO Hui
Visual Temperature 25 Sep - 25 Oct 2009 Cao Hui tries to dissect human and animal and show their flesh with exaggeration. The character of his creation is the unadulterated express of bloody scene. He pushes the marks... Read more
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Where the Spirit Lives
Exhibition on the Occasion of 100th Anniversary of Abstract Paintings 24 Jul - 23 Aug 2009 Read more -
WU Di
Ameise, Ameise 5 Jun - 4 Jul 2009 This exhibition, as her first solo exhibition, will show more than thirty works during 2003 to 2009 including multi-media, installation and sculpture. She cares about the outside world, like unhappiness,... Read more
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The Fourth Exhibition of A+A
29 Apr - 20 May 2009 Being composed of paintings, multimedia, sculptures and installations, A+A Exhibition shows the booming development of China’s young artists. Some of them have been well-known, but for some of them, A+A... Read more -
KANG Haitao
Introversion and Meditation 20 Mar - 19 Apr 2009 Kang Haitao’s first large scale solo exhibition “Introversion and Meditation”will showcase the works from 1999 to 2009, take you to a spiritual tour of tranquility, to stare at the breathing... Read more
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The Third Minds-in-Hands
7 Nov - 15 Dec 2008 This exhibition aims at continuous performing PIFO’s mission to discover and support emerging artists. In the environments that part of contemporary art creation and gallery operational mechanism are doubted and... Read more -
Zhang Ning
Stone Youth 1 - 25 Aug 2008 In his work 'Taking Photos' series, the intentionally tailoring youth images in the negative of the picture are pressed back into the past by the time which reverses the white... Read more
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Towards Post-Abstraction
The First Exhibition of Abstract Art 20 Jul - 7 Aug 2008 Artists: Tan Ping, Meng Luding, Ye Yongqing, Wang Chuan, Zhu Xiaohe, Wang Guangle, Liu Wentao, Zhang Yu, Zhou Yangming, Zhang Xuerui, Hu Qinwu, Lei Hong. Read more -
Inward
Installation and Sculpture Exhibition 20 Jun - 20 Jul 2008 Read more
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The Third Exhibition of A+A
18 Apr - 18 May 2008 The First Stage Exhibition Address:PIFO New Art Studios (Suo Jiacun), B-07, Beijing International Art camp, Suo Jiacun, Cui Gezhuang, Chaoyang District Beijing Open Time: 2008.4.18~5.18 10:00—18:00 (Mondays Closed) Open Reception:... Read more -
The Second Minds-in-Hands
10 - 30 Nov 2007 Painting and Handwork’2007 will be held at PIFO NEW ART STUDIOS located in Suojiachun, Beijing, from 10 to 30 November. Painting and Handwork is another annual exhibition of PIFO NEW... Read more
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Ink Had Five Colours
10 - 30 Sep 2007 Read more -
The Second Exhibition of A+A
2 Apr - 31 May 2007 Read more
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The First Minds-in-Hands
18 Nov - 30 Dec 2006 “Painting and Handwork”, the title of the exhibition, comes from a curriculum of the Liangjiang Senior Normal School, the first of its kind in China established in 1902. The juxtaposition... Read more -
Transgression
6 Oct - 6 Nov 2006 These young artists born after the 70’s have shaken off the principles of objectivity, grand narrative and representing reality, which have been the concerns of the academy tradition, and actively... Read more