Tang Contemporary Art

Tang Contemporary Art Critically-driven exhibition platform for Contemporary Chinese Art, now with locations: http://tab.fo/tangcontemporarylocations

Tang Contemporary Art was established in 1997 in Bangkok, later establishing galleries in Beijing, Hong Kong, and most recently in South Korea. The gallery is fully committed to producing critical projects and exhibitions to promote Chinese contemporary art regionally and worldwide, and encourage a dynamic exchange between Chinese artists and those abroad. Acting as one of the most progressive and

critically driven exhibition spaces in China, the gallery strives to initiate dialogue between artists, curators, collectors, and institutions working both locally and internationally. A roster of groundbreaking exhibitions has earned them international recognition, establishing their status as a pioneer of the contemporary art scene in Asia. Tang Contemporary Art represents leading figures in Chinese art including Ai Weiwei, Yue Minjun, Huang Yongping, Yin Zhaoyang, Shen Yuan, Wang Du, Liu Xiaodong, Yang Jiechang, Xia Xiaowan, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Yan Lei, Wang Yin, Wang Yuping, Yangjiang Group, Guo Wei, Zheng Guogu, Lin Yilin, He An, Zhao Zhao, Wang Yuyang, Weng Fen, Yang Yong, Xu Qu, Xu Xiaoguo, Ji Zhou, Cai Lei, Ling Jian, Liu Yujia, Zhu Jinshi, Qin Qi, Chen Yujun, Chen Yufan, and Chen Wenbo, additionally collaborating with international artists such as H.H.Lim, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Sakarin Krue-On, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Adel Abdessemed, Dinh Q.Le, Michael Zelehoski,
Jennifer Wen Ma, Rodel Tapaya, Natee Utarit, and Heri Dono.

CLOSING SOON at Tang Contemporary Beijing 1st Space - Group Exhibition - “Crowds Passing Through One Another”In a sense,...
23/06/2026

CLOSING SOON at Tang Contemporary Beijing 1st Space - Group Exhibition - “Crowds Passing Through One Another”

In a sense, this is not an exhibition of “works” so much as an exhibition of “passage.” People pass through images, and images pass through people.

In the work of Kaito Itsuki, one discerns the trace of a soul that has lingered on; in the hybrid images and narratives of Armin Boehm and Vasan Sitthiket, one hears echoes of ancient languages that have not yet faded. In the landscapes staged by Kitti Narod, Woo Kukwon, and Yoon Hyup, the covert and intricate armature of the modern city slowly reveals itself. And in the near-autobiographical tableaux of Lucas Kaiser, and Frida Wannerberger—figures and scenes that seem projected from the self—one becomes aware of something quietly radiating from within. These images are like archipelagos adrift on the ocean: now drawing close, now drifting apart. Through their continual crossings, overlaps, and displacements, they produce a faint yet persistent resonance with the contemporary world.

Plan your visit now.

Crowds Passing Through One Another

Artists: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Adel Abdessemed, Armin Boehm, Entang Wiharso, Frida Wannerberger, Gongkan, Jarupatcha Achavasmit, Kaito Itsuki, Etsu Egami, Kitti Narod, Diren Lee, H.H. Lim, Lin Yin Ting, Lucas Kaiser, Rodel Tapaya, Marinella Senatore, Mit Jai Inn, AES+F, Yoon Hyup, Sakarin Krue-On, Vasan Sitthiket, Woo Kukwon

Curator: Han Yali

🗓️ 20 May – 25 June 2026
📍 D06, 798 Art District, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dst, Beijing, China


CLOSING SOON at Tang Contemporary Beijing 2nd Space - Group Exhibition - “Radiant Phases” Artists born in the 1950s grew...
20/06/2026

CLOSING SOON at Tang Contemporary Beijing 2nd Space - Group Exhibition - “Radiant Phases”

Artists born in the 1950s grew up during a period of radical social change. Their work carries a broad historical vision and a deep concern for the human condition. Huang Yong Ping’s two early paintings from the 1980s show a dual inquiry into form and concept, while the installations Deer and Crane continue his long-running questioning of cultural symbols, life and death, and cyclical time. Mao Xuhui’s “Patriarch” series constructs an oppressive yet absurd metaphor of power through recurring images of high-backed chairs and dark frames, pointing to family ethics and social structure. Yang Jiechang’s Underground Flowers, composed of blue-and-white porcelain and ebony, explores the idea of spirit outlasting death. Shen Yuan’s The History of Nanling turns to the women and local memories of Guangdong’s Nanling region, embedding intimate stories within larger geopolitical shifts. With a cool, penetrating gaze, this generation laid the groundwork—critical and intellectual—for those that followed.

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Artists: Guan Yinfu, Guo Yuheng, He An, He Chi, Huang Yongping, Leng Guangmin, Li Qing, Lin Minghong, Liu Jianhua, Liu Qinghe, Liu Yujia, Lu Hao, Mao Xuhui, Ming Ying, Shen Yuan, Sun Yu, Wang Sishun, Xiyao Wang, Weng Fen, Xiang Jing, Xu Qu, Xue Feng, Yan Jingzhou, Yan Lei, Yang Jiechang, You Jin, Yue Minjun, Zhao Bandi, Zhang Hui, Zhao Peizhi, Zhao Zhao
Curator: Sherry Wang

🗓️ 20 May – 25 June 2026
📍 B01, 798 Art District, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dst, Beijing, China


CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong Central Space - Arik Levy & Zoé Ouvrier “Come Closer” Tomorrow (19 June) is t...
18/06/2026

CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong Central Space - Arik Levy & Zoé Ouvrier “Come Closer”


Tomorrow (19 June) is the Dragon Boat Festival, a Hong Kong public holiday, our Central Space and Wong Chuk Hang Space will be closed. Please also note that Hong Kong is currently under Black Rain Warning and T8 Extreme Weather Signal, our Hong Kong spaces are closed temporarily.

To ‘Come Closer’ is to risk intimacy. It is to blur the distance between self and other, between observer and observed, between art and life. ‘Come Closer’ is an invitation—a gentle yet daring call—to move beyond the surface, beyond the safe vantage point of distance, and to enter into spaces where vulnerability, beauty, and complexity reside. In a world that often encourages detachment—scrolling past, clicking away, looking without seeing—this exhibition asks something different of us. It asks us to pause. To notice. To lean in, with curiosity and with courage. The works gathered here do not yield themselves all at once; they require proximity. They ask for your attention, and in return, they offer encounters that are as personal as they are collective, as fleeting as they are unforgettable.

Plan your visit now.

Arik Levy & Zoé Ouvrier “Come Closer”
🗓️ 15 May – 5 July 2026
📍 10/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong

© The artist and Tang Contemporary Art


CURRENT at TangContemporary Seoul Space - Group Exhibition “Seeing, Again”Melody Park, Goyoung, Vibeke Slyngstad, Ruo-Hs...
17/06/2026

CURRENT at TangContemporary Seoul Space - Group Exhibition “Seeing, Again”

Melody Park, Goyoung, Vibeke Slyngstad, Ruo-Hsin Wu, Yasuhito Kawasaki and Yoshikatsu Ikeuchi work across distinct media and formal languages yet converge in their attention to what lies beneath the visible surface. Structured as a continuous movement rather than a fixed sequence, the exhibition unfolds as a gradual reawakening of sensory registers that have receded from view.

In the paintings of Melody Park and Goyoung, rhythm emerges not as a simple orchestration of colour, but as an immediate, perceptual encounter. Here one might recall Sontag’s call, in Against Interpretation, for an ‘erotics of art’ that resists reduction to meaning. Their fluid lines do not translate into information; instead, they register as intensities, reactivating a bodily mode of looking.

🗓️ 16 May – 27 June 2026
📍B2, 6, Apgujeong-ro 75-gi, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republicof Korea

The artist and Tang Contemporary Art.




CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong Wong Chuk Hang Space - Living Living Artist : Kila Cheung - Solo Exhibition T...
16/06/2026

CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong Wong Chuk Hang Space - Living Living Artist : Kila Cheung - Solo Exhibition

This profound contemplation on the “vitality of life” is beautifully manifested in Kila’s works Drifting House and Zero Distance. Drifting House, conceived in 2018 while the artist was living in Tokyo, was born from a profound nostalgia for home, sparking a series of works dedicated to the concept of domesticity. In the painting, a small house floats aimlessly through the cosmos. The piece was eventually acquired by a collector who hung it in his living room next to an antique clock. In November 2025, a devastating five-alarm fire struck the collector’s residential estate, resulting in numerous casualties and plunging the entire city into mourning. While the collector and his family safely escaped, they were forced to leave their ruined home behind and seek refuge with relatives. Five months later, when the collector stepped back into his home for the first time, everything remained frozen in the shadow of that tragedy five months prior.

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Living Living Artist : Kila Cheung - Solo Exhibition

Opening Reception: May 30, 4PM

🗓️ 30 May – 21 July 2026
📍 Unit2003-08, 20/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong

© The artist and Tang Contemporary Art



CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Beijing Headquarters Space - Benzilla Solo Exhibition “Protagonist”The term “Protagonist” ...
12/06/2026

CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Beijing Headquarters Space - Benzilla Solo Exhibition “Protagonist”

The term “Protagonist” derives from the ancient Greek protos (first) and agonistes (combatant), together meaning “the first actor” or “the foremost fighter on the stage.” The possession of free will, the capacity for action, and the willingness to bear the consequences of one’s choices — these are the defining traits of the protagonist. It is through such actions and decisions that narrative unfolds and meaning is generated. Born and raised in Bangkok, Benzilla draws on street graffiti and urban culture. He captures the clamor of the external world, creating vivid, densely layered visual imagery, while at the same time seeking a balance that reveals an inner innocence.

Plan your visit now.

🗓️5 Junel – 11 July 2026
📍 B5, Yard No.3, Jinhang E. Road, Shunyi District, Beijing, China


CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Beijing 1st Space - Group exhibition - “Crowds Passing Through One Another” In a sense, thi...
10/06/2026

CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Beijing 1st Space - Group exhibition - “Crowds Passing Through One Another”

In a sense, this is not an exhibition of “works” so much as an exhibition of “passage.” People pass through images, and images pass through people.

In the work of Kaito Itsuki, one discerns the trace of a soul that has lingered on; in the hybrid images and narratives of Armin Boehm and Vasan Sitthiket, one hears echoes of ancient languages that have not yet faded. In the landscapes staged by Kitti Narod, Woo Kukwon, and Yoon Hyup, the covert and intricate armature of the modern city slowly reveals itself. And in the near-autobiographical tableaux of Studio Lenca, Lucas Kaiser, and Frida Wannerberger—figures and scenes that seem projected from the self—one becomes aware of something quietly radiating from within. These images are like archipelagos adrift on the ocean: now drawing close, now drifting apart. Through their continual crossings, overlaps, and displacements, they produce a faint yet persistent resonance with the contemporary world.

Plan your visit now.
Crowds Passing Through One Another
Artists: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Adel Abdessemed, Armin Boehm, Entang Wiharso, Frida Wannerberger, Gongkan, Jarupatcha Achavasmit, Kaito Itsuki, Etsu Egami, Kitti Narod, Diren Lee, H.H. Lim, Lin Yin Ting, Studio Lenca, Lucas Kaiser, Rodel Tapaya, Marinella Senatore, Mit Jai Inn, AES+F, Yoon Hyup, Sakarin Krue-On, Vasan Sitthiket, Woo Kukwon
Curator: Han Yali

🗓️ 20 May – 25 June 2026
📍 D06, 798 Art District, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dst, Beijing, China


CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Beijing 2nd Space - Group Exhibition - “Radiant Phases” “Phase,” in physics, describes the ...
09/06/2026

CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Beijing 2nd Space - Group Exhibition - “Radiant Phases”

“Phase,” in physics, describes the state of a wave—the instantaneous position of energy within time, and the dynamic relations generated through cycles, oscillations, and shifts. Transposed into the context of contemporary art, the concept suggests how different historical experiences, forms of knowledge, and ways of seeing can overlap and resonate with one another. This exhibition brings together more than thirty Chinese artists born between the 1950s and the 2000s, treating each generation as a distinct wave in a continuous spectrum. The artists rise and fall through shifting social contexts, cultural experiences, and changes in medium, each forming their own “phase structure.”

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Artists: Guan Yinfu, Guo Yuheng, He An, He Chi, Huang Yongping, Leng Guangmin, Li Qing, Lin Minghong, Liu Jianhua, Liu Qinghe, Liu Yujia, Lu Hao, Mao Xuhui, Ming Ying, Shen Yuan, Sun Yu, Wang Sishun, Xiyao Wang, Weng Fen, Xiang Jing, Xu Qu, Xue Feng, Yan Jingzhou, Yan Lei, Yang Jiechang, You Jin, Yue Minjun, Zhao Bandi, Zhang Hui, Zhao Peizhi, Zhao Zhao
Curator: Sherry Wang

🗓️ 20 May – 25 June 2026
📍 B01, 798 Art District, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dst, Beijing, China


CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong Central Space - Arik Levy & Zoé Ouvrier “Come Closer” Coming closer is not me...
06/06/2026

CURRENT at Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong Central Space - Arik Levy & Zoé Ouvrier “Come Closer”


Coming closer is not merely a physical act; it is an emotional and ethical gesture. It is about daring to approach what unsettles us, what intrigues us, what resists easy explanation. In proximity, textures emerge. Layers reveal themselves. Stories unfold. By shifting our perspective from distant gazes to close encounters, we begin to see not only the artwork differently, but perhaps ourselves, refracted through it.

‘Come Closer’ is therefore more than an exhibition; it is an offering. It asks us to slow down, to trust the intimacy of looking, to accept the discomfort and the beauty that arise when we do not turn away. It invites us into a dialogue—with the works, with the artists, with one another, and with ourselves. As you walk through this exhibition, we hope you allow yourself to be surprised by the details, unsettled by the silences, moved by the nearness of what you encounter. We hope you take the time to linger, to draw close enough that the boundaries between art and life, self and other, begin to shift.
Above all, we hope that ‘Come Closer’ stays with you—that when you leave, you carry with you not only images and impressions, but a renewed sense of the power of nearness. May it remind us that to come closer is, in the end, to live more fully: attentive, connected, and profoundly alive.

Plan your visit now.

Arik Levy & Zoé Ouvrier “Come Closer”
🗓️ 15 May – 5 July 2026
📍 10/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong

© The artist and Tang Contemporary Art


OPENING SOON at Tang Contemporary Beijing Headquarters Space - Benzilla Solo Exhibition “Protagonist”The term “Protagon...
05/06/2026

OPENING SOON at Tang Contemporary Beijing Headquarters Space - Benzilla Solo Exhibition “Protagonist”

The term “Protagonist” derives from the ancient Greek protos (first) and agonistes (combatant), together meaning “the first actor” or “the foremost fighter on the stage.” The possession of free will, the capacity for action, and the willingness to bear the consequences of one’s choices — these are the defining traits of the protagonist. It is through such actions and decisions that narrative unfolds and meaning is generated. Born and raised in Bangkok, Benzilla draws on street graffiti and urban culture. He captures the clamor of the external world, creating vivid, densely layered visual imagery, while at the same time seeking a balance that reveals an inner innocence.

Plan your visit now.

🗓️5 Junel – 11 July 2026
📍 B5, Yard No.3, Jinhang E. Road, Shunyi District, Beijing, China


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