Xu Bings first UK solo exhibition
27 Nov 2003 - Jan 2004
Launching Chinse Arts Centre's new galleries on 27 Nov 03 is an installation by the leading New York based artist, Xu Bing, taking the form of specially constructed bird cages covered with his trade mark calligraphy, placed in the centre’s 125 square metre main gallery.

Home
16 Jan 2004 - 22 Feb 2004
What significance does 'home' have for people living in a world that is becoming increasingly transitory? Where geographic boundaries are constantly shifting and people forever moving, where cultures and identities are moulded and re-moulded.

Whodunnit? by Ming Wong
12 March - 9 May 04
The Gallery of Chinese arts Centre will be transformed into a theatre to present Whodunnit?, a video piece by London based Singaporean artist Ming Wong.

People used to Dream about the Future
21 May – 18 July 04
People used to Dream about the Future presents two ongoing projects Objects of Demonstration by Hong Kong curatorial group Community Museum Project, and Assembly Hall by Beijing artist duo Shaoyinong and Muchen.

Far Away, So Close
30 July – 12 Sept 04
Having exhibited the work of Guo Wei in our touring exhibition, Representing the People (1999) we are delighted to be showing his new work alongside that of his friend and mentor He Duoling.

Happy and Glorious
24 Sept – 21 Nov 04
Chinese Arts Centre will be presenting the first full-scale exhibition of the bad boys of Chinese art, Cai Yuan and JJ Xi (aka ‘madforreal’) in September 2004.

Water Works
3 Dec 04 – 13 Feb 05
Beijing based artist Song Dong uses performance, photography, video and installation to explore ideas of transience, perception and the ephemeral nature of existence. His works are acute observations and critiques of the current political, social and economic changes that are transforming China into a freewheeling capitalist environment.

Persistent Visions by Erika Tan
25 Feb – 24 April 05
Erika Tan will be working with super 8 film taken and donated to the Moving Image Archive at the Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol. The filmic explorations cover vast regions, from Malaysia to Kenya, The Suez Canal to Hong Kong, the political to the personal.

O Zhang
First Step exhibition
Horizon
27 Jan 05 - 1 May 05
The West's self-conscious fascination with contemporary China reverberates through Zhang's portraits

Re-fashion
6 May – 17 July 05
The curators of Re-fashion have announced their selected designers; Maria Chen Pascual, Julian and Sophie, Justin Oh, for this exhibition, opening on 6 May 2005.

Raymond Yap
First Step exhibition
5 May – 7 August 2005
Raymond Yap’s work speaks of the mark of national identity and the desire to migrate. Passport stamps evoke a high speed world of commerce, technology and migration, melting issues of cultural identity with thoughts of painting.

Reassurance
28 July – 2 Oct 05
This exhibition marks the curator’s, Yeu Lai Mo, personal commitment to the practice of four emergent artists and the issues their work evokes. Artists: Susan Pui San Lok, Erika Tan, Mayling To, and Jen Wu.

Patty Chang
21 Oct – 23 Dec 05
Patty Chang’s visually arresting, and at times disturbing videos and performances, simultaneously titillate and cause discomfort Euridice Arratia, Art Asia Pacific.

British Art Show 6
28 Jan – 2 April 06
Works by fifty artists and artists’ groups, selected from contemporary artists living and working in the UK. Artists exhibiting work at The Chinese Arts Centre: Saskia Olde Wolbers, Enrico David, Mark Leckey and Claire Barclay. The most ambitious survey of recent British art arrives in Manchester.

Re-Visit Chinese Arts Centre
13 – 30 April 06
Chinese Arts Centre would like to invite you to view our exhibition archive footage. Since we opened our new building in November 2003 Chinese Arts Centre has exhibited some of the most exciting and innovative artists from the Chinese Diaspora. The gallery will house a montage of video, installation and learning resources with a dedicated reading and activity area suitable for both adults and children.

Wen Wu
First Step exhibition
16 February – 15 May 2006
Wen Wu is primarily a painter whose art-work is about the perception of beauty. Her work utilizes historical movie stars that have become embedded in our culture as icons of another age.

Lam Tung Pang
First Step exhibition
May 16 – August 15 2006
Lam Tung Pang’s paintings are harmonic interplays of forms, colours and textures. Lam juxtaposes objective realism with imaginative surrealism.

Golden
12 May – 2 July 2006
Susan Pui San Lok is an artist and writer whose practice includes installation, sound, video and text-based works. For Golden, her first major solo UK exhibition, she has been commissioned to develop new work as part of an ongoing series exploring notions of place, nostalgia, and aspiration in migration and diaspora.

Cockaigne - Gayle Chong Kwan
14 July – 24 September 2006
Gayle Chong Kwan’s new series of twelve photographs are the latest contribution to the Fourteenth Century myth of a glutton’s paradise. In the land of Cockaigne all work is forbidden, hams grow on trees, houses are roofed with pies and rivers run with wine.

Kai-Oi Jay Yung
First Step exhibition
9 August – 14 November 2006

Doodles and Bloblettes
Incorporating images from Chinese newspapers, lottery tickets, quotes from Buddha to Beckham, exchanges overheard on bus journeys and food wrappers, Jay Yung uses the everyday mediums of biro, acrylic & crayon to render abstract shapes that express the politics of subconscious scatological.

Weng Man
First Step exhibition
15 Nov 2006–15 Feb 2007
Weng Man creates a rich fusion of East and West, exploring the duality and the contradictions of being split between two cultures.

Out of Nowhere
13 Oct - 23 Dec 2006
Out of Nowhere presents new work by collaborative artists Neil Conroy and Lesley Sanderson, continuing an exploration of dislocation and ‘the foreign’ through their evocative use of portraiture. Neil Conroy and Lesley Sanderson collaborative work uses photography, video, installation and drawing.

Collective Identity
12 January – 1 April 2007
A Group Exhibition - Jointly curated by Joshua Jiang and Chinese Arts Centre. Since 1949, mass assemblies have become a familiar and prominent phenomenon during numerous political movements, especially the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76), which has made the ‘collectiveness’ far outweigh its literal meaning. Collective Identity has been reflected and reinterpreted consistently as one of the most significant motifs in contemporary art practice. The exhibition will include contemporary artworks by Hu Jieming, Liu Dahong, Miao Xiaochun, Shao Yinong and Mu Chen, Wang Chuan, Wang Jinsong.

Jessica Tsang
First Step exhibition
15 February – 14 May 2007
By reintroducing some old fashioned inventiveness into her practice, Jessica attempts to alter the remit of the tight dialogue by playing with the tension between the qualities of a painted image, and the qualities of the physical structure it occupies.

Chain - He Chengyao, Annie Hsiao-Ching Wang & Amy Cham
13 April - 17 June 2007
The foundation of a new life happens inside a woman’s body. This maternal relationship gives a mother a unique role in affirming the family connection. Chain is an exhibition, which explores the social and personal interpretation of motherhood as well as discovering family links.

The Pivotal Decade - Hong Kong Art 1997-2007
30 July-30 Sept 2007
The year 1997 marked the end as well as beginning of Hong Kong’s modern history. The Pivotal Decade tells an indigenous story uniquely of Hong Kong and represents, from an artist’s viewpoint, what has changed or remained unchanged in the first decade under Chinese rule. Featuring painting, sculpture, photography and installation, this seminal exhibition is the first to present Hong Kong art in a retro-thematic approach.