Agenda - sinokultur

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sinokultur would like to invite you to a private tour & Apéro of the exhibition GAZING BACK on Tuesday, January 13th at 6pm at Anggrek Agency in Zurich.

The exhibition brings together thre three contemporary Chinese artists Moyan Wang, Ronghui Chen and Zeyuan Ren. They are working in photography, video and sculpture whose practices reflect on displacement, identity and cultural perception shaped by life abroad. 

Instead of presenting China through a Western lens, the exhibition reverses the perspective and invites Swiss audiences to encounter how the West is seen, remembered and questioned from Chinese viewpoints. By foregrounding lived experience over representation, “Gazing Back” creates a space for reflection on belonging, migration and the shifting dynamics of the cultural gaze.

MOYAN WANG was born in China in 2000 and is currently an MFA student at UNC Chapel Hill. Working with ceramics, painting and sculpture, she explores the intersections of personal experience, cultural memory and generational trauma within the Chinese diaspora. 

RONGHUI CHEN was born in 1989 and is based in Shanghai. His long term photographic work focuses on the emotional and social impact of China’s urban transformation on individual lives. 

ZEYUAN REN was born in 1997 and lives and works between Shanghai and Ningbo. Working across video, installation and performance, his practice is rooted in lived experiences of movement between coasts and in states of liminality shaped by geography and history.

DARIO Veréb curated this exhibition. He was born and raised in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland and currently works as the Chief Photo Editor of the “NZZ am Sonntag”. He organized “Gazing Back” as his Graduation Project for the Asia Society Switzerland’s Gen A Program, aimed at preparing the next generation for the Asian Century.

After the tour with the curator Dario Veréb, you are invited to an Apéro offered by Anggrek Agency. The tour is held in English.

Date: Tuesday, January 13th 6-8pm, doors opening at 5.45pm

Location: Anggrek Agency, Turbinenstrasse 46, 8005 Zürich

For tickets click here.

The artist Ni Dao Dao would like to invite you to his exhibition "Between Snow & Rabbits" from 19 December to 5 March, 2026 at Akku Uster .

This solo exhibition unfolds from the perspective of ecological diaspora and queer ecology, tracing the interrelations among climate crisis, identity, and the fragile coexistence of living beings. The point of departure is a set of A5-sized advertisement boards the artist collected in Vienna—promotions for a local snow-clearing service company. 

What begins as a simple curiosity becomes a poetic inquiry into the material reality of global warming.These advertisement boards, fragile and utilitarian, are repurposed into tactile poems. Wrapped and sewn with vegetable paper and textiles, each surface bears the trace of long nights of repetitive labor. Every stitch becomes a delayed prayer for those—human and nonhuman alike—silently affected by a warming world.

Another installation features small car air-freshener trees, each coated in layers of urushi lacquer and ash, forming a grey, mist-like forest. The urushi—a natural tree resin rooted in Chinese tradition—embodies both ecological wisdom and cross-cultural continuity, speaking of preservation, mourning, and protection.

On the floor, a constellation of Swiss chocolate rabbit boxes, also repeatedly lacquered with ash and urushi, takes form. These rabbits serve as metaphors for non-binary identity, evoking the ancient verse from Ballad of Mulan.

This project is supported by sinokultur.

Date: 19 December - 5 March 2026

Location: Stadthausplatz, Uster