View of “Re-Asia Project: Prologue”
20 March 2025 –
Re-Asia Project: Prologue
“Re-Asia Project: Prologue” marks the first offline gathering following the launch of the “Re-Asia Project” announced at the Beginning of Spring (Lichun) earlier this year. The metaphor of ‘casting a brick to attract jade’ (Pao Zhuan Yin Yu) framed our dialogue – initiating with personal explorations (the ‘brick’) to draw out collaborative visions (the ‘jade’).
Tseng Chien-Ying: Regarding the Mediocrity of Others
Longlati Foundation is pleased to announce the solo exhibition Regarding the Mediocrity of Others by Tseng Chien-Ying (b.1987), which will open on March 19, 2025. The exhibition features 16 recent works by the artist, which combines the brushwork and gouache medium.
Tschabalala Self: The Illusion of the Self
The extent to which the “self” is a fabrication of power discourse, a remnant of collective consciousness, or an illusion woven under the name of “I”—how do these questions enter the inner world, infiltrate private spaces and penetrate the dreams that soak them? The exhibition “The Illusion of the Self” by Tschabalala Self (b.1990), opening on March 19, 2025, at Longlati, serves as a case where these inquiries are transformed into an inward exploration.
Sarah Buckner: Inferno Rosa
“Inferno Rosa,” Sarah Buckner’s first solo exhibition in Asia at Longlati Foundation, curated by Sun Wenjie, showcases sixteen recent paintings that are as intimate as they are enigmatic.
Henni Alftan: House of Mirrors
Henni Alftan’s solo exhibition at Longlati Foundation, “House of Mirrors,” invites the viewer to a world where the boundaries between image and representation blur.
El Otro, El Mismo
Longlati is honored to announce the opening of a group exhibition on September 10, 2024, featuring twelve artists inspired by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’ (1899-1986) poetry collection El Otro, El Mismo. Through six thematic threads, the artists will engage in a rich dialogue that explores shared dimensions of discourse. Throughout the entire exhibit, the clues of identity (social roles), contradiction (synthesis and detachment), life (personal experiences), memory (familiarity), dust (migration and color), and time (the eternal moment) are interlinked.
Yibei Zhang: Please No Helmet
Longlati is pleased to announce a solo exhibition featuring the artist Zhang Yibei (b. 1992, Daqing) on September 10, 2024.
Tide Surging on the Sea: Reading Workshop of Marine Literature
Longlati has always been devoted to examining the interplay between cultural landscapes and political ecology, as well as actively promoting the variety and viability of contemporary art. On May 12th, Longlati will collaborate with the Tag Art Museum to present a public educational event called “Tide Surging on the Sea: Reading Workshop of Marine Literature.”
Muhua Li: Alles in Ordnung
“Alles in Ordnung” will present the second residency artist, Muhua, showcasing the results of a one-year residency at Longlati. The exhibition will feature 22 pieces on canvas and wood panels, demonstrating the painting language developed during the residency.
Pol Taburet: Anamorphosis
“Pol Taburet: Anamorphosis,” curated by Longlati, represents one of the individual exhibitions proposed for the opening of Wen’an Road’s novel space.
Tomasz Kręcicki: Light as A Feather
Longlati is delighted to present the first institutional solo exhibition in Asia by Polish artist Tomasz Kręcicki on April 2, 2024, showcasing eighteen paintings created by the artist over the past year.
Wilhelm Sasnal: Under the Asphalt
Longlati Foundation is delighted to present a major solo exhibition by the Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal on November 8, 2023. This marks the artist’s second solo exhibition in China after several years and will feature over thirty recent paintings, occupying two exhibition halls.
Marina Adams: In the Garden of My Memory
Longlati Foundation is excited to present Marina Adams’s debut institutional solo exhibition in Asia, “In the Garden of My Memory,” featuring eleven large-scale acrylic and watercolor paintings and four scroll intaglio monoprints on paper inspired by Chinese folded books.
LI MUHUA LONGLATI FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE 2023 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE RECIPIENT IN SHANGHAI
Longlati Foundation is pleased to announce that Li Muhua (b. 1995) has been selected as the artist-in-residence for the 2023. She will take up residence in the Foundation’s artist studio at Bund Space in Shanghai for a year-long creative practice.
Heteroglossia#4: Creolization of Theory and Becoming strategies of “local others”
In response to the shift of forefront of thoughts and resonate with the pulse of the times, the Longlati Collection and Patronage Program was initiated in 2017 with three themes: 20th-century international women artists, minority and multi-minority cultures, and the practice of post-90s Chinese artists. These threads fall within three emerging academic fields: feminist philosophy, minority theory, and Sinophone studies.
Heteroglossia#3: The concept of “yellow” as “Sinophone trouble”
In response to the shift of forefront of thoughts and resonate with the pulse of the times, the Longlati Collection and Patronage Program was initiated in 2017 with three themes: 20th-century international women artists, minority and multi-minority cultures, and the practice of post-90s Chinese artists. These threads fall within three emerging academic fields: feminist philosophy, minority theory, and Sinophone studies.
Heteroglossia#2: Ecology of the Other
In response to the shift of forefront of thoughts and resonate with the pulse of the times, the Longlati Collection and Patronage Program was initiated in 2017 with three themes: 20th-century international women artists, minority and multi-minority cultures, and the practice of post-90s Chinese artists. These threads fall within three emerging academic fields: feminist philosophy, minority theory, and Sinophone studies.
Heteroglossia#1: The History of Women as Darkness
In response to the shift of forefront of thoughts and resonate with the pulse of the times, the Longlati Collection and Patronage Program was initiated in 2017 with three themes: 20th-century international women artists, minority and multi-minority cultures, and the practice of post-90s Chinese artists. These threads fall within three emerging academic fields: feminist philosophy, minority theory, and Sinophone studies.
Let There Be Night
Conceived from its collection, Longlati Art Center will present a group exhibition, “Let There Be Night,” on June 8, 2023, featuring the works of seven artists – who may themselves have long been in the shades of discourse (Vivian Springford, Luchita Hurtado, Robert Reed), or who constantly gazes into the dark abyss (Yayoi Kusama), or who are sensitive to observing and uncovering the hidden places (Lonnie Holley, Christina Quarles, Richard Long). The exhibition will draw on their work to reinterpret the institution’s focus on the imagery of night.
ZHANG YIBEI LONGLATI FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE 2022–23 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE RECIPIENT IN SHANGHAI
On the occasion of successfully completing its inaugural residency program, Longlati Foundation is pleased to announce that Zhang Yibei (b. 1992) has been selected as the artist-in-residence for the next year (2022-23). This month, she will take up residence in the Foundation’s artist studio at Bund Space in Shanghai for a year-long creative practice.
Su Yu-Xin: Dust that Rides the Wind
The first institutional solo show of Su Yu-Xin (b. 1991, Hualien, Taiwan; lives and works in Los Angeles) in Mainland China will be held at Longlati Foundation, Shanghai.
View of “Entangled, Ensnared, Entwined — Carol Bove, Hu Xiaoyuan, Alicja Kwade”
03 March 2023 – 15 August 2023
Entangled, Ensnared, Entwined – Carol Bove, Hu Xiaoyuan, Alicja Kwade
Longlati Spring Exhibition 2023, “Entangled, Ensnared, Entwined”, features three internationally celebrated women artists from the post-70s generation: Carol Bove (b. 1971, Geneva, Switzerland; lives and works in New York), Hu Xiaoyuan (b. 1977, Harbin, China; lives and works in Beijing), and Alicja Kwade (b. 1979, Katowice, Poland; lives and works in Berlin).
Burning at the Edges
“Burning at the Edges” features a number of large scale works recently acquired by Longlati Foundation in response to the theme of minority and multi-minority cultures, including the “Domes” series Y.Z. Kami’s (b.1956, Tehran, Iran), the jute sack works of Ibrahim Mahama (b. 1987, Tamale, Ghana), the black-and-white paintings by Adam Pendleton (b. 1984, Richmond, Virginia, United States).
View of “Tan Yongqing: Fantasy”
Tan Yongqing: Fantasy
Exhibition Dates
2022.11.09–2023.01.15
View of “Tan Yongqing: Fantasy”
Tan Yongqing: Fantasy
Curated by Yang Jian, “Fantasy” is Tan Yongqing’s (b.1990, Shijiazhuang) first institutional show in China. Driven by the idea of “Decade after Decade”, this is the first time for Longlati Collection and Patronage Program to present the stage achievements of the practices of post-90s Chinese artists since its launch in 2017, among which Tan Yongqing has long been concerned and given strong back to.
View of “Timothy Lai: Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Pa”
09 September 2022 – 30 October 2022
Timothy Lai: Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Pa
Longlati Foundation is pleased to present “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Pa”, the first institutional solo exhibition of Asian-American painter Timothy Lai Hui Ming (b. 1987, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia) and his debut in China.
View of “Manuel Mathieu: Silk Road Traveler, Lethe’s Wanderer”
09 September 2022 – 30 October 2022
Silk Road Traveler, Lethe’s Wanderer —Manuel Mathieu’s World-Building Painting Comes to China
Longlati Foundation is honored to present “Silk Road Traveler, Lethe’s Wanderer”, the solo exhibition of Manuel Mathieu (b.1986, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti) curated by Chinese artist Pu Yingwei, which marks the launch of Longlati Curatorial Exchange Program, a pioneering gesture of the foundation to demonstrate “exhibition as form” when artists are playing the role of curator.
View of “Laure Prouvost : Theatergarden and A Be(a)stiary of the Anthropocene”
16 July 2022 – 21 August 2022
Laure Prouvost: Theatergarden and A Be(a)stiary of the Anthropocene
Produced by Longlati Foundation, “Theatergarden and A Be(a)stiary of the Anthropocene” presents its collection of paintings and glass sculptures by Laure Prouvost (b.1978, Lille, France) along with an array of mediums that span installation, hand-woven tapestry and video from the artist’s recent practice.
Ma Qiusha: The Mirror(-scape) of Your Skin
Longlati Foundation is pleased to present “The Mirror(-scape) of Your Skin.” Introducing a significant part of Ma Qiusha’s (b. 1982 Beijing) “Wonderland” series commissioned by Longlati Collection and Patronage Program since 2018.
WRITERS’ ACQUISITION COMMITTEE (SHANGHAI)
Initiated in September 2021, Longlati Writers’ Acquisition Committee, Shanghai, is formed by four Shanghai-based writers, Jenny Chen, Zian Chen, Suchao Li, Evonne Jiawei Yuan, who are actively involved in the local art scene. It aims to promote the intellectual exchange between writers and emerging artists. They will organize monthly visits to gallery and museum exhibitions in Shanghai, conduct research into the works and develop acquisition proposals. Each of them will nominate artists and evaluate each other’s opinions, then make votes to make new additions to the Collection of Longlati Foundation every month.
SU YU-XIN LONGLATI FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE 2021–22 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE RECIPIENT IN SHANGHAI
Longlati Foundation is pleased to announce that Su Yu-Xin (b.1990, Taiwan) will be the recipient of its Artist-in-Residence Program for the 2021–22 cycle. She will set up her major studio in the Foundation’s new space launched at the Bund, Shanghai to conduct a year-long project of color study and painting practice.
Longlati Foundation | Building Dwelling Thinking: April Diary for Shanghai
Shanghai experienced a sudden upheaval in the past April, with the unexpected citywide lockdown seemingly becoming the new normal. The entire city found itself reluctantly trapped in uncertainty.
Four members of the Collecting Committee at the Longlati Foundation, Chen Jiaying, Chen Xi’an, Li Suchao, and Yuan Jiawei, initiated this sharing session to discuss their respective work interfaces and lifestyles during the closed-loop management process. They aimed to rethink their relationship with the space they occupy and explore the extension of self within it.
This sharing session also invited representatives from galleries collaborating with the Longlati Foundation in Shanghai, including Cai Junjun, Francois Ho, Wang Ruolin, Zhou Bingxin, and Zhang Zheyuan, to join in the dialogue.
News | Longlati Foundation’s Writers’ Acquistion Committe(Shanghai) 2021.9 Collection
In September 2021, during the process of visiting new exhibitions at galleries and institutions, four members of the Longlati Writers’ Acquisition Committee (Shanghai) noticed two female artists born in the 1990s: Zhang Yibei (born in Daqing, Heilongjiang, in 1992) and Liao Wen (born in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1994). Focusing on sculpture creation and the development of its language, they each employ conceptual or material-driven visual methodologies in their practices. However, they also incorporate elements of corporeality that exist between performance and action within the expanded field of sculpture, thereby forming an open strategy of media interchange. Based on the selection and resolution by the Longlati Writers’ Collection Committee (Shanghai), the Longlati Foundation gladly announces the acquisition of Zhang Yibei’s work “At the pinnacle of despair” (2021) and Liao Wen’s work “The Garden of Adonis” (2021).
News | Sydney Shen “Puritan Salvage Demolition Co. pencil” —— Writers’ Acquisition Committee(Shanghai) 2021 Collection
Sydney Shen (born in 1989 in New Jersey, currently based in New York) is a Chinese-American female artist who has garnered attention from the members of the Longlati Foundation’s Writers’ Acquisition Committee (Shanghai), including Chen Jiaying, Chen Xi’an, Li Suchao, and Yuan Jiawei, in their respective research practices. In her debut exhibition in Shanghai titled “Misery Whip,” presented at Gallery Vacancy in early 2021, Shen combines sculpture, installations, and immersive environments that blend human corporeal history, medical history, archaeological found objects, contemporary symbols, and science fiction narratives. These works create a mirrored reality of the real world, reflecting the tension and intricate texture of constructive practices. In her subsequent solo project titled “Cupio Dissolvi” at Liste Art Fair Basel, the artist further explores one of her signature visual languages. By magnifying and scaling ordinary everyday objects to the point of alienation and weaponization, Shen reflects on internal conflicts, divisions, and renewal within oneself.
LONGLATI FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF ITS EXHIBITION SPACE IN SHANGHAI
Longlati Foundation is a non-profit organization registered in Hong Kong, China, co-founded by David Suand Chen Zihao. It stands between the changing cultural landscape and geo-political environment, contributing to the development of contemporary art in its diversity. Longlati Collection and Patronage Program is structured around three themes: 20th-century international women artists, minority and multi-minority cultures, as well as