UCCA, Beijing From January 19 to May 5, 2019, UCCA presents Qiu Zhijie: Mappa Mundi, the first exhibition after a complete architectural renovation of UCCA’s Main Hall designed by OMA, and the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s Mapping the World Project to date. The exhibition includes 30 large-scale, ink-on-paper maps alongside freestanding objects, an AI software work, and, notably, Map…

By Monica Merlin Yin Xiuzhen (born 1963) works primarily in installation, but also painting and other media. As one of the most established experimental artists in China since the 1990s, her work explores issues of globalisation and cultural identity, interrogating the role of the local, the individual and the environment while exploring the connections between…

By Zoe Zhang Bing Last October, when Liang Shaoji’s exhibition Back to Origin was on show at ShanghART Gallery in Shanghai, I was coincidentally reading Catching the Big Fish (2006), David Lynch’s book on meditation and creativity. In it, the American film director says: ‘Ideas are like fish… if you want to catch the big…