| Date | ... closedJan 16, 2010 - Feb 28, 2010 |
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| Venue(s) |
Other Gallery (Shanghai Space) (Shanghai, China) |
| Curator(s) | Raúl Zamudio |
| Artist(s) | Carlos Amorales, Oreet Ashery, Bill Berry, Gabriel De La Mora, Cleverson De Oliveira, Erika Harrsch, Sang Woo Koh, Emma McCagg, Miguel Angel Rios, Riiko Sakkinen, Svai & Paul Stanikas, Wojtek Ulrich |
| Organizer(s) |
Other Gallery (Shanghai Space) (Shanghai, China) |
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The Metamorphosis is possibly Franz Kafka’s most well known literary work. Published in 1915, its plot dovetails on a traveling salesman named Gregor Samsa who wakes up one day in bed only to discover he has been transformed into a bug. Much has been written about Kafka’s enigmatic, proto-existential story including it being a metaphor of individual alienation in a burgeoning industrial society, as well as encapsulating the collective anxiety felt from World War I when new and efficient modes of mass killing emerged.
The exhibition titled The Metamorphosis uses as touchstone Kafka’s narrative subtext but updates it into a twenty-first century context in addressing, among other things, the effects of living in a protean, albeit unstable and polluted environment; an ever shifting cultural demographic triggered by globalization; as well as contemporary notions of identity as malleable and fluid rather than fixed and stable.
The artists in The Metamorphosis engage these themes in unique ways including Oreet Ashery and her masquerading as orthodox Hasidim; or Erika Harrsch’s conflation of a butterfly and female genitalia; or Gabriel de la Mora’s self-portraits as canine/anthropomorphic creatures rendered in human hair. In each of theses instances, and generally in works throughout the exhibition, metamorphosis becomes a framework from which to explore history, politics, religion, science, sexuality, and an array of topical themes through a plethora of media including painting, works-on-paper, sculpture, photography, video, and installation. The Metamorphosis is an exhibition of international artists that will inaugurate the Other Gallery’s new exhibition space in Shanghai. Through its global exhibition program, Other Gallery hopes to produce its own cultural and artistic metamorphosis in its host city by supporting and creating a space for the exploration of contemporary art by local, national, and international artists.
A publication will accompany the exhibition with an essay by the curator, reproduction of artworks and biographical material on the artists.
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 | Frog King at 2010 (solo) 07.31 - 09.10 Me Photo Art Gallery (Beijing, China) |
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 | Blithe Tragedy - Huang Ran Solo Exhibition (solo) 08.21 - 09.11 Space Station (Beijing, China) |
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 | 51 m2: 11# Xu Qun (solo) 08.28 - 09.11 Taikang Space (Beijing, China) (1)(9) |
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 | My Cousin from America - Tatjana Loh Solo Exhibition (solo) 07.24 - 09.17 Shanghai Beaugeste Photo Gallery (Shanghai, China) (1)(1) |
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 | French Masters Exhibition (group) 08.25 - 09.22 99 Degrees Art Center (shanghai) (Shanghai, China) (1)(11) |
 | Desire•Scar - Li Yuduan Solo Exhibition (solo) 08.22 - 09.22 Gallery Beijing Space (Beijing, China) (4) |
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 | The Trap Of Freedom - Zhang Xing Solo Exhibition (solo) 08.29 - 09.25 Chantilly Art Center (Shanghai, China) (1)(10)(6) |
 | Flower in The Mirror And Moon in The River - Chen Jiu & Zhang Jingjing Works Exhibition (group) 09.10 - 09.25 Fine Arts College of Shanghai University 99Creative Center (Shanghai, China) |
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 | Truth - Work of Ge Lei and Man Yu (group) 09.10 - 09.25 Fei Contemporary Art Center (Shanghai, China) |
 | Secondhand Scenery - Dong Wensheng Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.03 - 09.26 Chang Art (Beijing, China) (2) |
 | Watch Time Watching - Kao Chung-Li Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.04 - 09.26 Tina Keng Gallery (Taipei) (Taibei, China) |
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 | Subjective Reality (group) 07.03 - 09.30 ArtMia Foundation (Beijing, China) |
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 | The Art of Three Kingdoms (group) 08.28 - 09.30 Shun Gallery (Shanghai) (Shanghai, China) (14)(3) |
 | Garden of Pine - Also Fierce Than Tiger Ⅱ (group) 08.14 - 09.30 Tang Contemporary Art Beijing (Beijing, China) (1)(23)(1) |
 | Awakening in Puzzlement - Zhang Yongzheng's Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.04 - 09.30 New Age Gallery (Beijing, China) (5) |
 | From The Three Shadows Collection: Works By Rongrong & Inri (group) 08.22 - 09.30 Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing, China) (1) |
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 | Response - Chen Qiang, Sun Dliang, Guo Haiping Group Exhibition (group) 09.04 - 09.30 Shanghai Shengling Gallery (Shanghai, China) |
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| Shaking Up Western Art The Chinese Way (group) 08.06 - 10.05 Galerie Ling (Berlin, Germany) |
 | Art and Architecture Exhibition on Sustainable Urban Development in China (group) 09.05 - 10.05 Himalayas Art Museum Shanghai (Shanghai, China) (1)(1) |
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 | Geng Xue Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.05 - 10.06 H.T. Gallery (Beijing, China) (1) |
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 | From One to One - Li Xi Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.04 - 10.08 Art Scene Warehouse (Shanghai, China) (1) |
 | Gao Shengjie Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.08 - 10.08 Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall (Shanghai, China) |
 | Feng Feng Solo Exhibition (solo) 08.24 - 10.09 New Gallery on Old Bailey (Hongkong, China) (1)(1)(6) |
 | Wrong Way - Ning Zuohong Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.09 - 10.09 Shanghai Pictpics Gallery (Shanghai, China) (1) |
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 | The Mirror of Time (group) 08.22 - 10.10 Michael Ku Gallery (Taibei, China) |
 | Vivid As Fruit - Xu Di Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.03 - 10.10 Vanguard Gallery (Shanghai, China) (1) |
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| Contemporary Chinese Photography (group) 09.01 - 10.11 Oldenburger Kunstverein (Oldenburg, Germany) |
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 | Striking The Mountain to Shock The Tiger - An Exhibition Surveying The Creative Ecosystem For Contemporary Chinese Young Artist Groups (group) 08.21 - 10.13 Amelie Art Gallery (Beijing, China) (7) |
 | An Unexpected Tum of Events (group) 09.10 - 10.15 Osage Gallery Limited (Shanghai) (Shanghai, China) (1)(5) |
| Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990 and Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents (group) 09.07 - 10.15 Hong Kong Arts Centre (China) (1) |
 | Beyond the Border - The Chinese-Japanese Contemporary Painting Joint Exhibition (group) 09.07 - 10.15 Tangram Art Center (Shanghai, China) (1) |
 | Great Performance (group) 08.28 - 10.16 Pace Beijing (Beijing, China) |
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 | Journey to the West - Feng Mengbo Solo Exibition (solo) 09.07 - 10.17 Shanghai Gallery of Art (Shanghai, China) (1)(27) |
| Barbara Anna Husar Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.06 - 10.17 Stageback Gallery (Shanghai, China) |
 | Attitude - Jiang Zhi Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.05 - 10.17 Platform China Contemporary Art Institute Space A (Beijing, China) |
 | Positive (group) 09.05 - 10.17 Platform China Contemporary Art Institute Space B (Beijing, China) |
 | Drift - Solo exhibition of Li Qing（Madrid) (group) 09.09 - 10.19 Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain (Madrid, Spain) (1) |
 | Who’s Afraid of Red, Amber and Green? - Li Hui Solo Exhibition (solo) 07.17 - 10.24 Light Art Museum (Eindhoven, Netherlands) (1) |
 | Hope Tunnel - Zhang Huan Solo Exhibition (solo) 07.17 - 10.24 Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing) (Beijing, China) (1)(20) |
 | Munnery (group) 09.04 - 10.24 Art Channel (Beijing, China) |
 | The Feast of Trimalchio - AES+F (group) 09.04 - 10.24 Arario Gallery (Beijing) (Beijing, China) |
 | Cybernetics (solo) 09.07 - 10.26 V Arts Centre (Space 1) (Shanghai, China) (1) |
 | Dr TF Chen's Art & Shanghai Expo Art for Humanity World Tour: Shanghai (solo) 06.05 - 10.30 |
 | Shanghai Zhujiajiao International Watercolour Biennial Exhibition (group) 04.15 - 10.31 Shanghai Quanhua Watercolor Art Gallery (Shanghai, China) (1)(1) |
 | Hypnosis - Christian Lemmerz Solo Exhibition (solo) 06.26 - 10.31 Faurschou Gallery (Beijing) (Beijing, China) |
 | Here’s Fun For Everyone - Aiko Nakagawa Solo Exibition (solo) 09.10 - 10.31 Andrew James Art (Shanghai, China) (1)(11) |
 | Homeland: Painting The Moment - Painting Slowness (solo) 09.04 - 10.31 Galerie Urs Meile (Beijing) (Beijing, China) (2) |
 | This Modern World? An ‘Art as Billboard’ Project for Cool Docks (group) 09.07 - 10.31 Cool Dock (Shanghai, China) (1)(7) |
 | 2010 Shanghai Jing An Sculpture Exhibition Hiquily <Girouette Monumentale> (solo) 09.01 - 10.31 Shanghai Jing An Sculpture Park (Shanghai, China) |
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 | Gadgetry and Rites - Li Hui Solo Exhibition (solo) 08.01 - 11.01 Yuz Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia) (1)(4)(6) |
 | Textile Town Art Festival of Xi'An China (group) 10.30 - 11.02 |
 | King and Queen - Jiang Xiaochun and His World (solo) 09.04 - 11.04 Yun Gallery (Beijing, China) (1) |
 | Another Episode - The Photography of Liu Lijie (solo) 09.04 - 11.04 798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (1) |
 | Im Juri, Mo Di, Wang Tingting Group Exhibition (group) 09.05 - 11.04 FQ Projects Specializes (Shanghai) (Shanghai, China) |
 | A Thousand Stones - Richard Long Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.10 - 11.07 James Cohan Gallery (Shanghai) (Shanghai, China) (1)(6) |
 | Paradise on Earth - Shi Zhiying Solo Exhibition (solo) 09.04 - 11.13 White Space Beijing (Beijing, China) |
 | On the Empire’s Borders Chen Chieh-Jen 1996-2010 (solo) 08.28 - 11.14 Taipei Fine Art Museum (Taibei, China) |
 | CHINA PARK - Gu Wenda Solo Exhibition (solo) 05.15 - 11.15 |
 | History Lessons (group) 09.04 - 11.15 Pekin Fine Arts (Beijing, China) (1)(18) |
 | Top Secret - Flying Carpet III (solo) 08.22 - 11.15 Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery (Beijing, China) (7) |
 | China Original Art Collection Exhibition (group) 08.08 - 11.18 |
| Youth·Gardens - Group Exhibition of Wang Daishan, Xiao Fangkai (Beijing) (group) 11.03 - 11.26 Bridge Gallery (Beijing, China) (11) |
 | Anywhere (group) 05.22 - 12.31 |
 | Oriental Dream Painting Expression - Cui Jianjun, "The Twenty-First Century, The Oriental Expressionism Oil Painting" People Exhibition (solo) 04.10 - 05.15 |
