Exhibitions

“Never！”

22 Jul - 22 Sep 2017 A Thousand Plateaus Art Space is honored to announce that Chen Xiaoyi’s personal project “Never!” will open on 22nd, July, 2017 in the project space on the third floor of A Thousand Plateaus Art Space. The Gallery launches the project space to provide more experimental scenes for artists and allow them to be curators at the same time. There will be at least 5 projects every year. Read more

Xing’an West Art Group

22 Jul - 22 Sep 2017 In 1938, four young people Jin Yusong, Sakai Kaori, Mu yishao and Shangguan Yanqiu, from China and Japan formed an art group beyond the war boundaries, named Xing’an West Art Group. Among them, Jin and Shangguan were in fact intelligence agencies from the communist party. The complexities of their identities added a sense of legendary.
This exhibition exposes their art works, rules of group, photos and even tools for secret communications of intelligence. Why can they be revealed? The truth is, the group, and all the stories and documents as well as their works, are all made up by the contemporary artist Liu Chuanhong.
Although we know the truth, we still expect to see the group. This exhibition is a story that does not exist anymore in the strong and real time, in which the artist attempts to fight against histories with personal imaginations.
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Slow

22 Jul - 22 Sep 2017 “SLOW” Preface

Zhai Liang is an excellent storytelling artist. The object in his stories are special, such as the story of “Text”, the story of “Logic”, the story of “Narrative”, and so on. These stories are then transformed into paintings and 3-D works, pulling the audience into a field of thoughts.

Living in a rapic society, “SLOW”, the diametrically opposite way, acts as a reference for Zhai’s art. In arts and literature, “SLOW” exists in an indistinct way. Throughout history, the spiraling and forward process of times seems to be slow. Or, perhaps “SLOW” is only a yearning for idyllic family life against this rapidly changing society? His solo exhibiton is based on this clue.

In his new works, Zhai made some important shifts in his methodology of painting, where he strove to make direct association between “SLOW”and visual perception. Each detailed process of his creation acts as the reflection of his exploration in “SLOW”, is indeed a kind of practice in action. Perhaps, the edge of his works and the border of artist’s inner world are the same thing but in different dimensions? Read more

So Many Things Are Going On

6 May - 6 Jun 2017 “So Many Things Are Going On” is Zhang Xiao's first solo exhibition at A Thousand Plateaus Art Space 1000+. By applying certain materials, rearranging images and associating with words, Zhang hopes to unfold the discussion on the multiplicity of individual identity. Read more

Fiction Landspace: Bi Rongrong solo exhibition

17 Dec 2016 - 28 Feb 2017 毕蓉蓉的 “小说景观”是一组由不同媒介的作品及其相互关系组成的整体，主要由编织，绘画，以及装置三部分构成。她以自己在世界不同城市的经历为基础，从视觉感受出发，在无数的景观中选择了一些抽象化的符号，例如一幅风景的细节，一个建筑的形状，或者大街上转瞬即逝的残像所留下的色块……她将这些符号当作中国古典山水画中的笔触：首先，和笔触一样，它们也能暗示出作者的内心感受，视觉节奏，以及最为重要的，生命体验的整体记忆在下笔的一瞬间所流露的痕迹。其次，在编织，绘画，和装置作品中，这些“笔触”并不像古典山水那样的直接描绘，而是经过了手工制作的转换。于是，由内在到形式的传递通道也发生了改变，才反映出在当下的生活和内心体验。最后，她也将城市景观当作自然风景去处理，这不是一种直接描绘山水的逃避，而是来自于对当下时代身份的接受——这种接受是真正理解古代山水画所代表的，自然智慧的基础和关键。最终，毕蓉蓉的作品所构成的整体，既是她个体经验的一次升华，也为这个时代提供了一种年轻的，却又与过去相连接的感知方式。 Read more