Nguyễn Minh Thàn proposes an oeuvre softer in appearance, more peaceful, with a floating and poetical sensation. It is strongly tied to Buddhism, where the human or physical representations may vary, yet where the soul is unique.

Nguyễn Quang Huy has a close relationship with women and he has paid various tributes to his mother and mother figure. His birth in a pagoda may explain his preoccupation with the concept of life and life cycles.

The wish for toys to have their enlarged models may quite possibly originate from cartoons we saw during our childhood, when huge heroes saved the world and became our idols. As we hold various beliefs during different stages of our life, we sometimes make large sculptures based on our idols. This is called monumentality.

Zhang Feng — new sculptor, Qiao Yong — Visual artist, Zheng Xiaofeng — Senior planner

"Coding"

Liu Lei

Hidemi Shimura

Roland Darjes

The work of Rose Tang is a study of the anonymous.

Rose Tang understands that the unknown facets of a subject’s life are as necessary to a portrait as shading and perspective. Shadowed pasts are not illuminated but, through her black and white images of gritty interiors and decaying emotional landscapes or passing family histories, simply referred to with compassionately given space. As Rose Tang’s body of work continues to grow, the shadows appearing in each frame begin to join through a collective culture that exists both in the artworks and outside in real-world China to portray the author, subject and country in their overall complexity. (by Pete Bradt)

curated by Zane Mellupe // exhibition in collaboration with island6

Social workers, sex workers, businessmen, drag queens. Men who meet for a moment of pleasure, men who commit to each other for life, men who marry women and have men on the side. These are the subjects of GAY SHANGHAI, an exhibit of photos and writing by Wayne Salazar at Yongkang Lu Art. This show presents the first public display of images and text from a book Salazar is creating about gay life in Shanghai. Come meet the artist in person and if you like, you too can be included in the project. Lalas and trannies especially welcome!

curated by Zane Mellupe

When you look at people on the street what do you see, their age, their gender?  There is a population of people that only allow the world to see a part of who they are.  This series is about taking larger than life wooden portraits of gay Chinese out on the street to allow the public to interact with them.  The community now can playfully intermingle with a group of people that usually remain invisible.

curated by Zane Mellupe

There, he is sitting on a bench in Fuxing park. I passed him by three times, at 9.23am , 2.46pm and 8.12pm. He had been sitting there forever - I would like to think. But he brought his kids to school. And had a thought. He signed high-rise real estate contract. And had a thought. He cooked the dinner for his wife. And had a thought. (by Zane Mellupe)

The exhibition features Park Deok Sun “ The law of frontality” and Tommy Kha’s "What's my line?"

curated by Darja Lin

Take “Pingze Hundred Family Surnames,” the pinyin tones of the over five hundred surnames constituted the long curve in the image. And the curve, just like the stock market in 2007, rises steadily. However, audiences who have the common knowledge of this Chinese piece should know that, “Hundred Family Surnames” was composed in Song Dynasty. The surname of the royal family was “Zhao;” understandable that it was listed first in the text. Therefore, the order of the surnames was by and large determined based on the statuses and populations of each particular surname.
Amid the steadily rising, prospering delusion hides conflicts of hierarchy; is it sufficient in telling the sentiment within it all?

curated by Alexis Kouzmine Karavaîeff and Darja Lin

... takes us on an intimate journey of three Latvian artists' self-portraits.

...about the contrast of new and old...

A solo exhibition of Robert Davis

Like many people, I didn’t realize what it meant that Shanghai would host the world expo.

curated by Zane Mellupe

A short retrospective of COMPANY

Li Mu 李牧
Xu Zhe 徐喆
Tao Yi 陶轶
Zhao Junyuan 照骏园

COMPANY is a cross-border practical artist group that tries every possible way to get access to the public space. The artists express their understandings and feelings about the city directly to the public
by changing the order and state of the daily routine, and exploring the relationship between art and the city.

Returning to Chen Zhenfang Studio

Before the birth of the Yongkang Lu Art, there was Chen Zhenfang’s studio on the narrow Yongkang Lu. Chen, now a woman in her 60s, once engaged in fashion design, Gua Sha treatment, housing rentals as well as other professions. She began painting as an older woman. Her paintings, of various styles, almost disappeared with the recent reconstruction of Yongkang Road.
This important exhibition, Chen’s first, is a great opportunity to become familiar with her work and transport the viewer once again to Chen Zhenfang’s studio that she gave up two years ago.
Zhang Lehua, a young video artist, began documenting Chen, her work and her interesting daily life from the summer of 2006. Four years later, Zhang is showing his documentary for the first time in conjunction with the debut exhibition "Returning to Chen Zhenfang Studio."

Sleeves reveals the volatile nature of human beings and responds to the marginalized feminine art form.

curated by Cai Zhenxing and Zane Mellupe

TODAY I AM YOUR FRIEND

A conceptual art piece by Maximilian Erbacher
opens in Shanghai, China following similar exhibitions in Munich, Germany 2009 and Pècs, Hungary 2010. The multilayered, time-based art project that takes place in public and private spaces negotiates the contradiction of being a friend for only a day.

Come by to Yongkang Lu 40 or call Maximilian and he will be there to do what a friend needs to do. Look for Max's phone number on flyers posted within a 3-5 kilometer radius of Yongkang lu.

PROCEDURE
Anyone and everyone may participate.
All that’s required: come, sit in the waiting room and fill out a brief questionnaire; pick a spot on your body you’d like to have photographed and/or consult with the Photo Practitioner about what to select; sit/stand/squat/bend/lean/relax during a short photo session; and then wait to have your photo memento printed and assembled; leave with your VIP pass as a photo donor.

20-80 Kilometers/H 

Presenting Huazi (real name: Wang Sheng), born in Shandong province, China.
Likes playing with writing and painting.  

the meaning is added

Christin Kalweit
Daniele Mattioli  
Wang Lin
Sha Qin   
Zhu Ye
Rose Tang
Guan Yiming  
Yang Xinsheng  
Zhou Zuyao  
Wang Zhengyu
Chen Yifeng
Pan Su  

Asphalt Concrete

At Yongkang Lu Art 83
one white cherry tree with a flag on the road

Who pays the hidden costs of growth?
This exhibition explores in detail the pressures put on individuals, families and communities through different artistic mediums, and from local and foreign artists?perspectives. From recent scandals to ever present problems, the artist unique approach tells us for once in a while to take a deep breath and consider where we currently stand.

The exhibition presents:
Lei Hua (CN)
Sha Qin (CN)
Virginie Lerouge Knight (FR)
Wang Lin (CN)
Daniele Mattioli (IT)
Zane Mellupe (LV)
Kaspars Podnieks (LV)
Krišs Salmanis (LV)
Rose Tang (CN)

curated by Zane Mellupe

C Individuals by Christophe Demaitre and Christin Kalweit

At Yongkang Lu Art 72
YK art space

C individuals - sea individuals - see individuals - is an exhibition of the artworks of Christophe Demaitre (Be) and Christin Kalweit (De). The exhibition reveals two different approaches of the perception of interaction between an individual and a crowd.
Christophe has focused his work on portraying the crowd as a singular individual mass. The principal of his vision is to suggest that all individual elements assume equal importance. There is no central control and no autonomy within his composition.
Christin’s work is highlighting the different individual emotional relationships that occur within a confluence.  She draws particular attention to the unique elements of the singular individual, whether it is their emotions, mood, behavior or creations. She reveals the interaction between the singular entities in order to show the greater unity.

curated by Zhu Ye and Zane Mellupe

aQuarium by Liu Dao

At Yongkang Lu Art 47
island6 shack

“Shush” she said and met herself for the 1389th time.