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Galerie Urs Meile is happy to invite you for the solo exhibition PALE WORLD of Chinese artist Chen Sixin from September 6 until October 25, 2025 at their Rämistrasse location in Zurich.
The exhibition brings together a series of paintings and installations in which the artist examines the figure of the ghost as a symbol shaped by globalization and filtered through personal memory, internet culture, and popular imagery. Reflecting on this traditionally Western archetype from an Eastern perspective, he explores the tensions between escapism and haunting, using the ghost as a metaphor for absence, memory, and psychological entrapment.
Chen Sixin (*1995, Guangzhou, China) lives and works in Chongqing, China. He graduated from Guangdong University of Technology in 2017 and received his master’s degree from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2021. His work draws on posthumanist thought and visual culture, blending surrealist elements from old comics and cult films. Rejecting linear narratives, his practice embraces fragmented ideas and subconscious responses, creating poetic, ambiguous worlds between reality and fantasy.
Chen Sixin, Search Search Cold Cold Sad Sad, 2025, colored pencil on linen, 148 x 167 cm
Dates: September 6 – October 25, 2025
Location: Galerie Urs Meile, Rämistrasse 30, 8001 Zurich
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
The Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne is holding its first solo show of collage works by Chinese artist DING LIREN from June 13 - October 26.
The artist Ding Liren will be present for the opening of his exhibition at the Collection de l'Art Brut on 12 June at 6.30pm.
Ding Liren was born in 1930 and grew up in a rural area of Jiangsu province in eastern China. At the age of five, he developed a passion for insects, especially grasshoppers, mosquitoes, bees, butterflies, dragonflies and locusts. He would spend time observing the way they flew and listening intently to their calls, buzzes and whistles. He and his school friends also hunted for beetles and made little wooden shelters for them.
Ding’s curiosity for nature led him to study biology, although he harboured an obvious interest in fine art. In the late 1950s, he joined an entomology research centre, where he devoted his time to painting insects. Insect painting is a fully fledged genre of traditional Chinese art: entomology labs commonly hire artists to produce scientifically accurate depictions of insects, and the resulting works may be displayed in natural history museums. Ding spent several years producing standardised, naturalistic paintings of dried specimens, working eight hours a day.
Ding later taught decorative arts: first at a school in Shanghai, and then at a university in Guangdong. When he retired, he reconnected with his first love: insects. He no longer seeks to reproduce them faithfully, but instead to capture their movements and their vital energy. He uses collage, a technique he taught himself, as his medium of expression, working with illustrations and advertising images cut out from magazines.
The 39 works on display at the Collection de l’Art Brut, all on loan from the artist, depict beetles and grasshoppers. Their varied forms, postures and colours reflect the distinctive features of each subject.
Opening: Thursday, June 12, 2025, 6:30pm
Location: Collection de l'Art Brut, 11, av. des Bergières , Lausanne
Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist will open her exhibition "Your Palm is My Universe" at the Center for Contemporary Art UCCA in Beijing on July, 19th 2025.
In a solo exhibition centered on newly commissioned video installation works, internationally acclaimed Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist takes on the spatial dynamics of UCCA’s Great Hall. These creations further expand Rist's pioneering and incisive visual lexicon, seamlessly integrating her enduring ecofeminist perspectives with Taoist philosophical reflections on nature and the interconnectedness of all life.
The exhibition invites viewers to shift fluidly between intimate microcosms and sweeping macro-perspectives, exploring cycles of ongoing transformation that govern bodily mechanisms, food consumption, digestion, and cultivation within today’s complex ecosystems. A dynamic journey into Rist’s “Total Art,” this exhibition encompasses video, installation, and sculpture in a profound sensory experience.
Rist will present a large-scale, site-specific commission for the Great Hall fully engaging UCCA’s striking public and exhibition spaces with a humorous and immersive experience welcoming audiences of all ages and backgrounds into the vibrant world of Rist’s art. In addition, a concise selection of her most emblematic works will flank the commission. This exhibition is curated by UCCA Curator Yan Fang.
Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Grabs, Switzerland; lives and works in Zurich) studied commercial art, illustration, and photography at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1982 to 1986. She furthered her studies with audio visual communications (video) at the School of Design in Basel. Since the mid-1980s, Rist has been exhibiting her work worldwide and became a central figure within the international art scene.
Date: 19. July to 19. Oktober 2025
Location: UCCA Beijing, 798 Art District, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District
On Wednesday, October 22 at 6.30pm sinokultur invites you to join our Salon with photographer Nici Jost, graphic designer Sonja Zagermann and gallerist Isabel Balzer.
The three of them will be presenting and discussing the publication of Nici Jost's new book Silent Pink. The talk will be moderated by Isabel Balzer from the gallery see you next tuesday.
With Silent Pink, artist Nici Jost publishes her second book on the color pink, a consistent continuation of her long-standing artistic research. Building on the Pink Colour System from Instinctive Desire (2019), Jost expands it with two new shades developed during a six-month stay in Shanghai. Over 300 pages of photographs and pink everyday objects from China are combined with texts by Dr. Isabel Balzer, Diyi Morgenthaler, and Chinese artist Chongyin Yuan to form a transcultural color-space archive.
The publication is released by tria publishing platform, made possible with the support of sinokultur and the gallery see you next tuesday. Silent Pink reveals how color makes cultural difference perceptible – powerful, poetic, and precise.
The talk will be held in English.
Date: Wednesday, October 22 from 6.30 to 9.30pm, doors open at 6.15pm
Location: sinokultur, Klosbachstrasse 109, 8032 Zurich
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