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Bruno Zhu Chisenhale Gallery 22 November 2024–2 February 2025 London
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Mechanisms of desire, identity, and ideology inform the work of Bruno Zhu. Influenced by fashion design, publishing and scenography, Zhu works in the space of fiction to rewrite agency, authorship, consumption and power. His object-led installations implicate the audience as cultural agents with the power to produce their own meanings. Comprising a series of purpose-built rooms, Zhu’s Chisenhale Gallery commission and first institutional exhibition in the UK, spatialises different states of thinking, being and feeling. Through the lens of public and private, the commission negotiates ornamentation and abstraction, inflation and deflation, with Zhu proposing a new model of display. A reader, co-edited by Zhu, will be developed alongside his commission.

Bruno Zhu lives and works between Portugal and The Netherlands. Selected exhibitions include: Everybody is Crazy, What Pipeline, Detroit (2023); O Quilombismo, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2023); Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2023); I am not afraid, Cordova, Barcelona (2022); Myth Makers: Spectrosynthesis III, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2022); Domestic Drama, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2021); and Shhhhhhh, UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund), Oslo (2020). He is a member of A Maior, a curatorial program set in a home furnishings and clothing store in Viseu, Portugal.****

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Chisenhale Gallery is a leading non‑profit contemporary art gallery in London’s East End, located on Chisenhale Road in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, near Victoria Park and the Hertford Union Canal. The gallery occupies the ground floor of a former industrial factory building, historically associated with CHN Veneers, a furniture and veneer manufacturer, which forms part of the broader Chisenhale Art Place complex shared with Chisenhale Studios and Chisenhale Dance Space.

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64 Chisenhale Road
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Chisenhale Gallery contemporary art institution in London United Kingdom
Chisenhale Gallery
64 Chisenhale Road, London, United Kingdom
+44 20 8981 4518
http://www.chisenhale.org.uk

Opening hours
Wednesday – Sunday
12 – 6pm
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