Events: Opening

Wong Ping is one of the most eccentric artists of our time. The bright colours and garish sound effects of his animated videos are reminiscent of retro video games or music videos, his visual language moves on the border between shock and humour. Inspired by everyday observations, Wong Ping creates disturbing and crude narratives that challenge conventional concepts of human desire, obsession, shame, isolation, or repressed sexuality.

On the occasion of his solo exhibition Earwax 耳屎, curated by Hou Hanru and opening at Times Art Center Berlin on Friday, March 4, 2022, the Hong Kong-based artist Wong Ping presents a selection of video works at Videoart at Midnight, Kino BABYLON on Friday, February 25, 2022 at midnight.

The exhibition Más Allá, el Mar Canta (Beyond, the Sea Sings) explores the Chinese diaspora in Central America and the Caribbean as a starting point to consider systems of kinship and ontologies of encounter.

Times Art Center Berlin presents the group show Angst, Keine Angst. The exhibition focuses on the present global state of collective fear and anxiety and will unfold in three chapters.

Curated by Ariane Beyn

The exhibition Readings From Below explores how artists engage us in new readings of our complex present by making use of the virtual potentials of archives.

Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai

Times Art Center Berlin presents Zhou Tao’s solo project “Winter North Summer South”, developed from the commissioning of Guangdong Times Museum in 2019. Having spent nearly two years in between the oasis and the Gobi village, the artist captured modernist obsessions and utopian desires to turn deserts into habitat.

Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai and Xiaoyu Weng

Departing from a fictitious encounter of three artists in 1979, the exhibition tells stories of women who search for their artistic voices, and whose identities haunt them while empower them—regardless of their various cultural, geographical and historical contexts.

Curated by Tan Yue

The exhibition Racing Gravels assembles a series of new works by video artist Kan Xuan, informed by her parallel career as a commercial video director. The artist’s singular visual lexicon merges playful subtlety with metaphorical profundity, articulating vivid situations filled with contradictions: a metaphor for living in the society of the spectacle amidst rapid commodification and technological acceleration.

Times Art Center Berlin presents Episode III: The Politics of the Self of its inaugural three-part exhibition The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, co-curated by Hou Hanru and Xi Bei.

Times Art Center Berlin presents Episode II: Towards Autonomy of its inaugural three-part exhibition The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, co-curated by Hou Hanru and Xi Bei.

As a newly founded experimental space for contemporary art from China in Berlin, and the first parallel institution set up overseas by an Asian art museum, Times Art Center Berlin opens to the public on 30 November, 2018 with the exhibition The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, co-curated by Hou Hanru and Xi Bei.