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You are invited by Helai Art Gallery to visit the exhibition IN HER OWN WORDS from October 11 – October 31, 2025.

In "Her Own Words" is an exhibition that traces how leading female artists and authors transform, articulate, and affirm identity through art and language. Timed with autumn, a season of transition and renewal the exhibition unfolds across two
rooms, each revealing a distinct way of living, belonging, and creating.

Room I: Voices Abroad
Displacement as Transformation
This gallery space presents artists whose lives and practices unfold beyond theborders of their birth countries: Alexandra Lavizzari, Huang Jia, Xu Ying, and Zhuwei. For each, migration is at once rupture and rebirth, a process of carrying memory while shaping new identities across unfamiliar landscapes. Their works resonate with the dualities of distance and belonging, exile and reinvention.

Anchoring the room is Alexandra Lavizarri 1000 Briefe für Rodin. Through her words and imagery, Lavizzari reclaims narrative in dialogue with history, transforming correspondence into a deeply feminine act of authorship. Her work
bridges literature and visual art, creating a chorus of voices abroad—each piece a testament to the transformative power of migration.

Room II: Voices at Home
Rootedness as Transformation
The inner gallery turns inward, illuminating artists who remain deeply embedded in their homelands and communities: Priyanka, and Hehongyu. Their works speak from within—rooted in familiar landscapes, cultural traditions, and daily rhythms of
life. Transformation here is not born of displacement, but of the capacity to question, nurture, and reimagine identity from within one’s own cultural ground. 

Curated by Miao He

VIP Vernissage (Invitation Only): Saturday, October 11, 2025 · 16:00

Location: Helai Art Gallery, Hammerstrasse 21, 8008 Zürich

Galerie Urs Meile is pleased to announce "A Pre-Arranged Life", the first solo exhibition in Zurich by the emerging Chinese artist Miao Miao @miao______miao from Sep 12-Nov8.

The opening is on Friday, September 12 from 5-8pm at the Ankerstrasse 4 location in Zurich.

As a leading voice among the young generation of Chinese artists, Miao Miao’s practice moves fluidly between painting, sculpture, and installation. The exhibition introduces a new body of paintings, a sculptural ensemble alongside the artist’s signature paravents, a format currently receiving renewed attention in the contemporary art discourse.

In A Pre-Arranged Life, artist Miao Miao constructs a world composed of two intertwined realms: “People” and “Landscapes.”

The “People” section continues her exploration of the Paravent format—a medium she has used to examine the anonymous figures encountered in daily life. These individuals, often clad in uniforms, are fragmented, flattened, and recomposed, their faces reduced to blocks of color. They are strangers from the artist’s urban surroundings, but through imaginative projection, they become carriers of borrowed identity—an amalgamation of “them” and a speculative “me.”

In contrast, the “Landscapes” are drawn from Miao’s travels and everyday observations: waves under city lights, quiet moonlit paths, streets and trees. These scenes are devoid of human presence, yet subtly personified. They are rendered with a different rhythm and touch, offering a visual and emotional counterpoint to the figures on the folding screens.

Rather than opposing elements, “People” and “Landscapes” together form a web of pre-arranged life fragments—structured yet intimate, constructed yet familiar. Through this interplay, viewers are invited to find traces of themselves, to contemplate their own relationships with strangers and settings once passed by.

Miao Miao (b. 1986 in Henan, China) graduated from the Fine Arts Department at Henan University, China in 2009. She currently lives and works in Beijing. 

Dates: Sep 12 – Nov 8, 2025 

Location: Galerie Urs Meile, Ankerstrasse 4, 8004 Zurich