UCCA Center for Contemporary Art is China’s leading contemporary art institution. Committed to the belief that art can deepen lives and transcend boundaries, UCCA presents a wide range of exhibitions, public programs, and research initiatives

Qiu Anxiong was born in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in the southwest of China. There, he studied the progressive artistic practice of Ye Yongqing and Zhang Xiaogang. A bar opened by Qiu and his friends became a hub for the blossoming

Yang Fudong's natural talent in drawing led him to train as a painter and he graduated from the Oil Painting department of the China Academy of Art in 1995. However, it is film and photography that he is now best known for. Through often lateral,

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an international sound artist and professional audio investigator based in Beirut. His broad body of work extends beyond the field of art to activism, filmmaking, and scientific research, through which he examines the

Born in 1983 in Taipei, Taiwan, Joyce Ho received her M.A. in studio arts from the University of Iowa. She is an interdisciplinary artist, focusing specifically on painting, sculpture, and theater. Ho has worked as a script writer and theatre

Through his practice, Chia-Wei Hsu applies narrative convention to re-present history, myth and legend in a Southeast Asian context. In doing so, Hsu acknowledges the gulf between the past and the present, and the impossibility of accurate

Through sculpture and video, Oliver Laric explores the consumption and production of images in the age of the internet. Modifying pre-existing photographs, animations and sculptures to question authorship and originality, Laric presents that which

In Li Liao’s view, he was forced to create so-called art, seeing as he does not have any special talents. He is interested in the ordinary absurdities of reality; his understanding is that every now and then, they will poke you in your life

Lu Lei is a Beijing based artist. His works often incorperate materials and references from a bygone era: monumental towers and triumphal halls; Morse code lamps, maps of military barracks and sculptures of Mao Zedong. These are fragments of

Mika Rottenberg's video installations are full of movement, whether of human bodies, mysterious mixtures, machines, colours, or objects. Using absurdist narrative, humour, and satire, Rottenberg examines themes of labour and production in the

Angela Su is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Hong Kong. Su graduated from the University of Toronto with a biochemistry degree in 1990 and The Ontario College of Art and Design University with a degree in visual arts in 1994. She works in

Since the late 1980s, the work of Wolfgang Tillmans has combined intimacy and playfulness with social commentary, alongside his ongoing interrogation of the foundations of his most-used medium: photography. A seamless fusion of styles, subject

Robert Zhao Renhui is an international multi-award winning and multi-disciplinary Singaporean artist. His practice investigates the different modes of the human zoological gaze, i.e., how people view animals. He is interested in the history and