Boomerang: OCAT Biennale 2021

“Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale” (since 1998) is renamed as “OCAT Biennale” at its ninth event in 2021.Themed “Boomerang”, this Biennale takes not only its name, but also its connotations, including movement principle, trajectory, and effect, referring symbolically to the current situation of the society featuring mutual influence and restraint, to the future that we can hardly hide away from, or a counterproductive result.

Gallery Group | OCAT Shenzhen

C-PLAN | Payne Zhu: MATCHPOOL

"Payne Zhu | MATCHPOOL" is the term 3 of the C-Space Project at OCAT Shanghai. The exhibition title is both the Chinese young artist's latest work and a brand new clue that encapsulates the many creative scenarios that allow viewers and the creator to revisit since 2015.

OCAT Shanghai

Kelvin Kyung Kun Park & Oliver Laric Dual Solo Exhibition

Korean artist Kelvin Kyung Kun Park’s exhibition “When Tigers Used to Smoke” at OCAT Shanghai, unfolds around the shaping of the self; for Austrian artist Oliver Laric’s exhibition entitled, “Exoskeleton” at OCAT Shanghai, his first institutional solo show in China, a trilogy of recent animation films completed between 2014 and 2021 will be presented together for the first time.

OCAT Shanghai

Songs of a Futile Journey: Silk Road Songbook Songmingyan

Silk Road Songbook (referred to as SRS) The Silk Road Songbook project challenges stereotypes about Oriental exoticism and traditional tourism by incorporating songs into the diverse landscapes of Eurasian countries along the Silk Road.The project is the focus of a chapter on Northwest China in the ongoing Silk Road Songbook project. Through innovation in sound, image and form, participants from different backgrounds and regions are reconnected under the concept of the “New Silk Road”.

OCAT Xi'an

Echoes from a Distant Time

OCAT Xi’an is proud to present Alice Wang’s first institutional solo exhibition, “Echoes from a Distant Time”, in the city of her birth. Xi’an also lies within a region that echoes numerous elements of her artistic expression and thinking – space exploration, high-tech scientific research, ancient history, arts and culture, meteorite showers, dark skies, desert, fossils, and a tradition of photography and esoteric thought.

OCAT Xi'an

2021 Research-based Curatorial Project: Shortlist Exhibition

OCAT Institute