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Shades of Blue
Nicholas Grafia 23 May - 28 Jun 2025 Taking its title from pop culture—specifically Lana Del Rey’s haunting ballad—Shades of Blue is not merely an aesthetic cue, but a poetic threshold into Nicholas Grafia ’s evolving lexicon of queer affect, temporality, fluid identities, and speculative mythologies. As with much of Grafia’s work, the mode of entry is accessible,... Read more -
Isolated bodies, waiting for a touch
Tirdad Hashemi, Soufia Erfanian and Mahsa Saloor 2 May - 28 Jun 2025 Hua International is pleased to present Isolated Bodies, Waiting for a Touch , an exhibition by Iranian artists Tirdad Hashemi, Soufia Erfanian, and Mahsa Saloor , on view in Berlin during Gallery Weekend 2025. Intestine disorder is a condition largely caused by stress and anxiety, which Tirdad Hashemi has experienced... Read more -
Folded Nodes
Rafael Domenech 1 Mar - 10 May 2025 Hua International is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Rafael Domenech in Beijing, Folded Nodes . The exhibition takes its name from the concept of a 'folded node,' a term borrowed from network systems and diagrammatic logic. In mathematics and computing, a folded node cross-connects points that would... Read more -
Splinters of Angst Derelict
Organized by Tomas Vu and Rafael Domenech 14 Feb - 12 Apr 2025 Hua International is delighted to present Splinters of Angst Derelict , a group exhibition organized by Tomas Vu and Rafael Domenech . Featuring works by more than 40 artists—including Bale Creek Allen, Ghada Amer/Reza Farkhondeh, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Sanford Biggers, Caroline Carlsmith, Alejandro Contreras, william cordova, Aurélien Couput, Jeremy Deller, Mark... Read more -
The Song of the Earth
Caroline Bachmann, Kévin Blinderman, Chen Dandizi, Kasia Fudakowski, Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian, Tong Kunniao, Cosima Zu Knyphausen, and Juan Uslé 7 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 Hua International is pleased to present The Song of the Earth , featuring works by Caroline Bachmann, Kevin Blinderman, Chen Dandizi, Kasia Fudakowski, Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian, Tong Kunniao, Cosima Zu Knyphausen, and Juan Uslé . “The movements of the stars have become clearer, but to the mass of... Read more -
Our Eyes Felt Like Canyons
Lea von Wintzingerode 20 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 Hua International is honored to present the first solo exhibition of German artist Lea von Wintzingerode (b. 1990) in China, titled “Our Eyes Felt Like Canyons”. The exhibition will feature her latest paintings and sound installation, where visual and auditory awareness will connect; in this synesthetic experience, the internal world... Read more -
Dizzying Effect
Green Go Home, CFGNY, Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian, Yinping Hu, Cole Lu, Sung Tieu, Stewart Uoo, Isaac Chong Wai 13 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 Hua International is pleased to present Dizzying Effect during the 2024 Berlin Art Week. Taking cues from CFGNY’s recent ceramic works, this group exhibition brings together voices to explore tactile, communal moments that reference the world in introspective, critical manners. The title, “Dizzying Effect,” is drawn from cultural critic Rey... Read more -
Limitless Growth
Jenkin van Zyl 24 May - 10 Aug 2024 In Limitless Growth at Hua International in Beijing,Jenkin van Zyl draws from the world-building of his film-based project and installation,Surrender.Referencing dance marathons of the 1930s Great Depression, as well as queer nightlife and Japanese love hotels, Surrender follows the experience of rat-faced guests to the Paradise Engineering Endurance Partnership (P.E.E.P.)... Read more -
Palace of Wasted Footsteps
Jenkin van Zyl 26 Apr - 15 Jun 2024 In Palace of Wasted Footsteps , Jenkin van Zyl returns to the world-building of his recent film project and installation, Surrender . Drawing inspiration from the dance marathons of the 1930s Great Depression, Surrender follows the experience of GRACE , a rat-faced visitor to the Paradise Engineering Endurance Partnership (P.E.E.P.)... Read more -
The Night Eats All Objects
Lea von Wintzingerode with Paul DD Smith, Adrijana Gvozdenović, and Filipe Lippe/Mr. Cosmic Slop 26 Apr - 15 Jun 2024 Hua International is pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition, 'The Night Eats All Objects,' an ever evolving experiment salon initiated by German-born and Berlin-based artist Lea von Wintzingerode , which weaves together poetry, sound, social sculpture and parallel projects. Von Wintzingerode has designed this exhibition to extend her view that... Read more -
I am a camera with its shutter open
Nicholas Grafia, Rosa Joly, Lea von Wintzingerode, Sebastian Wiegand 16 Mar - 9 May 2024 'I am a camera with its shutter open' is the first line of the iconic bookBerlin Stories by novelist Christopher Isherwood. Taking the opening of Berlin Stories as the title, the Berlin-based gallery Hua International for the first time gathers young artists working in Berlin at its Beijing branch. T... Read more -
haunt
Fanny Gicquel 1 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 Hua International is pleased to announce haunt , Fanny Gicquel ’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. 'Haunting,” the cultural theorist Mark Fisher writes, “happens when a place is stained by time, or when a particular place becomes the site for an encounter with broken time.” In her first exhibition... Read more -
3
Alfredo Aceto 1 Dec 2023 - 10 Feb 2024 Following Alfredo Aceto ‘s first show with Jenkin Van Zyl in Beijing last September, Hua International is pleased to announce 3 , the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Alfredo Aceto works across sculpture, film, photography and installation to integrate abstract art with abstracted bodies or elements of figuration,... Read more -
Stairway to Seven
Vivian Caccuri 2 Nov 2023 - 3 Feb 2024 Hua International is pleased to present Stairway to Seven, Brazilian artist Vivian Caccuri ’s first solo exhibition in China. Caccuri’s objects, installations, and performances investigate the physical, affective, and sociopolitical dimensions of sound, exploring how music and movement are transformed into embodied experience. Featuring new weavings, sculpture, and sound works,... Read more -
A curtain, that is a room on Uranus
Alfredo Aceto, Jenkin van Zyl 23 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 Hua International is pleased to present A Curtain, that is a Room on Uranus by Alfredo Aceto and Jenkin van Zyl .The exhibition draws inspiration from the writings of Paul B. Preciado and José Esteban Munoz. In his canonical An Apartment on Uranus text, Preciado chronicles a metaphorical journey to... Read more -
Lace Under Top Loop Once
Gordon Hall 15 Sep - 18 Nov 2023 Performance with Gordon Hall, Leah Katz, Mickey Mahar, and Michelle Moura on: Fri, 15 Sep 5-8 pm Sat, 16 Sep 3-6 pm Hua International is pleased to present Lace Under Top Loop Once , Gordon Hall ’s first solo exhibition at the gallery following their solo booth in the Statements... Read more -
Paternal Milk
Manuel Forte 15 Sep - 18 Nov 2023 Manuel Forte 's solo exhibition, Paternal Milk , is set to open during Berlin Art Week 2023 as part of a series of curatorial projects at Hua International's Siheyuan space. The exhibition will feature entirely new paintings and installations. At its core, the exhibition explores the poetics of space, drawing... Read more -
THE JOURNEY TO CHINA
Rebecca Horn 26 May - 12 Aug 2023 The exhibition The Journey to China at Hua International Gallery is her first ever solo show in China. It is cu rated by Rebecca Horn ’s Berlin-based gallerist Thomas Schulte. In the 1970s, Rebecca Horn ’s artistic work was primarily focused on performance and body-related works as well as experimental... Read more -
My eyes like shovels
Curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio, featuring the works of Liz Craft, Augustin Katz, Franziska Lantz, Zoe Metra, Josip Novosel, Ola Vasiljeva. 28 Apr - 15 Jul 2023 In the frame of Si He Yuan a new platform place of HUA International, the gallery is pleased to present in its Berlin spaces “My eyes like shovels” a group show curated by Gigiotto del Vecchio featuring the works of Liz Craft, Augustin Katz, Franziska Lantz, Zoe Metra, Josip Novosel,... Read more -
Hollow Garden
Chen Dandizi 28 Apr - 15 Jul 2023 Hua International is pleased to present Hollow Garden, Chen Dandizi ’s first solo exhibition in Europe. One of the most celebrated young artists working in China today, Dandizi’s use of video, installation, photography, and literature intertwine to illuminate intimate, fleeting insights into natural and manmade landscapes and what they reveal... Read more -
Beijing｜Atlas of Affinities: Vol.2, Scores for Movement
Vivian Caccuri, Miriam Cahn, Zhou Chen, Shiwei Ding, Di Fang, Fanny Gicquel, Zishi Han, Gordon Hall, Wei Hu, Han Shen, Tobias Spichtig, Tomas Vu, Ulla von Brandenburg, Yingying Zhu 18 Mar - 6 May 2023 Designating multiple relational proximities, the term affinity can seem either distant or close when viewed in an atlas that links two locations. As a gallery bilocated between Germany and China, the past years have been marked by the fundamental issues related to movement, the everyday routines and exchanges that are... Read more -
Berlin | Atlas of Affinities: Vol. 2, Scores for Movement
Di Bu, Vivian Caccuri, Musquiqui Chihying, Leelee Chan, Zhou Chen, Cian Dayrit, Shiwei Ding, Di Fang, Guan Xiao, Wei Hu, Lisa Chang Lee, Han Shen, Trevor Yeung, Ran Zhang, Yingying Zhu... more artists to be announced. 10 Mar - 6 Apr 2023 Hua International is delighted to invite you to the opening of the group exhibition, 'ATLAS OF AFFINITIES: VOL. 2, SCORES FOR MOVEMENT,' at our Berlin gallery on Friday, March 10th . This exhibition showcases a diverse range of works from contemporary artists, exploring the designations of relational proximities. The past... Read more -
The Texture of My Memory
Dennis Scholl 27 Jan - 25 Mar 2023 Hua International is pleased to announce The Texture of My Memory , an exhibition of Emmy-award winning filmmaker and artist Dennis Scholl , in the upstairs showroom of the Berlin Gallery (Potsdamer Strasse 81B) on January 27, 2023 with a public reception (6-8 PM) , and remaining on view until... Read more -
The Library of Babel
Dorothea Reese-Heim 26 Nov 2022 - 11 Feb 2023 Hua International is pleased to announce Dorothea Reese-Heim ’s exhibition The Library of Babel at the gallery’s Beijing location. This retrospective, Reese-Heim’s first solo exhibition in China, will span thirty years of the German artist’s career. The Library of Babel transforms Hua International’s Beijing gallery into an experimental library. The... Read more -
Wiltopia
Tong Kunniao 24 Nov 2022 - 4 Feb 2023 Hua International is pleased to announce Wiltopia , Tong Kunniao ’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. One of the most celebrated young artists working in China today, Tong Kunniao has built a reputation for creating immersive worlds that bristle with dark humor. He uses found materials and freely samples... Read more -
Soft Machines
Alfredo Aceto, Haris Epaminonda and Daniel Gustav Cramer, Fanny Gicquel, Gordon Hall, Jason Hendrik Hansma, terra0, Franz Erhard Walther 14 Sep - 26 Oct 2022 Hua International is pleased to announce the opening of the group exhibition Soft Machines , featuring works by Alfredo Aceto, Haris Epaminonda and Daniel Gustav Cramer, Fanny Gicquel, Gordon Hall, Jason Hendrik Hansma, terra0, and Franz Erhard Walther. A historical touchstone for the exhibition is the work of the German... Read more -
now, and then
Fanny Gicquel 24 Jun - 22 Oct 2022 with the performance by Fanny Gicquel co-choreographer: Mengfan Wang dancers: Shuyi Liao, Dan Qian, Sihan Cai, Ryotaro Harada composer: Delawhere Hua International is pleased to announce now, and then , an exhibition by the French artist Fanny Gicquel. Fanny Gicquel primarily works in sculpture and installation, typically incorporating her artworks... Read more -
Atlas of Affinities: Vol. 1, The Far-Near
Nooshin Askari, Chen Dandizi, Kim Farkas, Zishi Han, Christine Sun Kim, Lucas Odahara, Johanna Unzueta, Xie Lei, et al. 29 Apr - 23 Jul 2022 Rapport, empathy, chemistry, accord, harmony—as designations of relational proximities, affinities can suddenly appear far or near when they turn up in an atlas that places them in relation with one another. The exhibition Atlas of Affinities: Vol. 1, The Far-Near tracks trajectories to, from, and outside the landmass and cultural... Read more -
Build Me a House
Isabella Fürnkäs 3 Dec 2021 - 12 Mar 2022 Hua International is pleased to announce Build Me a House, a solo exhibition by Isabella Fürnkäs. In her multi-media work, the Japanese-born French-German artist explores questions of bodily intimacy, digital relationality, and the fragility of societal structures. Build Me a House will bring together a new body of sculpture, sound,... Read more -
Green Go Home
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tomas Vu, Tianzhuo Chen, Rafael Domenech, He Tianqi, Xindi Li, Liu Yushan and Tong Kunniao 27 Nov 2021 - 19 Feb 2022 Hua International Beijing is pleased to present the Beijing edition of Green Go Home, a collaborative project initiated by the internationally acclaimed artists Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu. Together with the artists, Hua International invites local artists from China to participate in the event, creating a form of dynamic dialogue... Read more -
Notations from Somewhere
Rafael Domenech 15 Sep - 13 Nov 2021 Hua International is pleased to announce “Notations from Somewhere,” Rafael Domenech’s first solo show in Berlin. In addition to the gallery exhibition, the Cuban-born, New York-based artist, has created two parallel projects around Potsdamer Straße that highlight Domenech’s distinctive approach to exhibition-making. Rafael Domenech is at the forefront of a... Read more -
Performing Objects: Practices of the Everyday
Nadja Abt, Joan Jonas, Senga Nengudi, Olu Ogunnaike, Niclas Riepshoff, and Jasphy Zheng. 27 Aug - 13 Nov 2021 Hua International is pleased to announce 'Performing Objects: Practices of the Everyday,' a group show featuring object-oriented art, performance and dance from post-minimalism to the present. The show highlights historically influential artists such as Joan Jonas and Senga Nengudi alongside a new generation of international positions from Nadja Abt, Olu... Read more -
Imperfect Fragments of an Uncertain Whole
Rafael Domenech 22 Apr - 19 Jun 2021 Hua International is pleased to present Rafael Domenech’s first solo show in China, “Imperfect Fragments of an Uncertain Whole,” in April 2021 during Gallery Weekend Beijing. Installed in both the gallery space and Gallery Weekend Beijing’s public program area, this exhibition expands Domenech’s explorations of buildings as linguistic devices and... Read more -
do you feel the same
Fanny Gicquel 27 Feb - 10 Jul 2021 Berlin Read more -
Green Go Home
Tomas Vu & Rirkrit Tiravanija 6 Dec 2020 - 23 Jan 2021 with works by Saâdane Afif, Nevin Aladağ, Julieta Aranda, Nigin Beck, Monica Bonvicini, Rafael Domenech, Eliza Douglas, Cecilia Granara, Elizabeth Jaeger, Tony Just, Šejla Kamerić, Fabian Knecht, Daniel Knorr, Zoë Claire Miller, Jorge Pardo, Anri Sala, Alvaro Urbano, Danh Vō, Raphaela Vogel, Peter Welz and Jonas Wendelin. Hua International is... Read more -
Tropical Room
Chen Dandizi 7 Nov 2020 - 30 Jan 2021 With the greeting of this chilly winter in Beijing, Hua International is pleased to present Tropical Room, Chen Dandizi’s first solo exhibition in Beijing. This exhibition will systematically present Chen Dandizi’s recent artistic thinking and practice under the propositions of 'tropical' and 'empire”. Tropical Room implies a theme beyond 'tropics'... Read more -
Just Stay in the Cold
Tong Kunniao 10 Sep - 12 Dec 2020 Just Stay in T he Cold will be the Beijing-based artist’s first exhibition in two chapters with the gallery, as well as his first show in Berlin. In China, Tong Kunniao (*1990) is one of the most sought-after artists of a generation whose works clearly stand out from those of... Read more -
Touching Feeling
Rebecca Horn, Chen Dandizi, Fanny Gicquel, Tong Kunniao, Stella Zhong, and Zhang Yibei 29 Aug - 25 Oct 2020 How can we touch a feeling? How might sensation, memory, and personal history adopt physical forms? In its exploration of non-dualism, affectivity, and performativity, the exhibition Touching Feeling considers how flesh cannot be separated from the sensing body itself—how we perceive with and through the body, and the spaces it... Read more -
Walking in Ice
Leda Bourgogne, Zuzanna Czebatul, Fanny Gicquel, Nona Inescu, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Ariane Müller & Martin Ebner, Alvaro Urbano, and Tobias Spichtig 24 Jul - 20 Aug 2020 With works by Leda Bourgogne, Zuzanna Czebatul, Fanny Gicquel, Nona Inescu, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Ariane Müller & Martin Ebner, Alvaro Urbano, and Tobias Spichtig. XC.HuA is pleased to announce the group exhibition Walking in Ice, opening Friday, 24 July between 1-6 pm. A performance by Fanny Gicquel featuring Mickey Mahar, Maria... Read more -
A Year without the Southern Sun
Agnes Denes, Gordon Matta-Clark, Kévin Blinderman, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Neda Saeedi, Rafael Domenech, Trevor Paglen, Yalda Afsah 22 Feb - 30 May 2020 The future of humanity is in question. In response to this unprecedented crisis, “A Year Without the Southern Sun” has gathered 9 artists to investigate the relationship between decolonization and current climate change. At the core of the exhibition is the ambivalence that surrounds the Anthropocene, that is, the confrontation... Read more -
Triptych and Two Balconies
Constantin Hartenstein, Jake Kent, [{“CIBELLE”(CAVALLI}BASTOS)], Nanna Stigsdatter&Snorre Hansen, and Caner Teker 31 Jan - 8 Feb 2020 While performativity holds many promises of liberation, freedom, and direct engagement with the viewer, it also holds the existential concern that we are compelled to be on stage for each other every day, both on social media and in the flesh. This contradiction is at the heart of “Triptych and... Read more -
Passing By
Sun Cunming 17 Nov 2019 - 16 Feb 2020 “Passing By” has paid close attention to the relief that the artist Sun Cunming has experienced after a period of chaotic, bored and contradictory life anxiety. The title of the exhibition possesses a highly camouflaged meaning of the original Chinese words: It terminatively concludes all the characters, substances or events... Read more
