The Chinese Avant-Garde in Paris
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21 May 2026 - 15 Aug 2026 |
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10:00AM (Thu) |
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Alisan Fine Arts |
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Free admission |
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21 May 2026 - 15 Aug 2026 |
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10:00AM (Thu) |
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Alisan Fine Arts |
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Free admission |
Marking its 45th anniversary, Alisan Fine Arts presents a year-long “Then and Now” programme. Running in parallel with the “Then” exhibition in Central, this exhibition at Alisan Atelier maps the “Now;” it brings together 4 contemporary artists who take inherited materials, images, and ideas and transpose them into contemporary spatial, material, and conceptual frameworks.
Li Donglu (b. 1982) draws on classical Western draftsmanship alongside Chinese pictorial thought, orchestrating light, colour, and precision to open contemplative, cosmological vistas. Yao Qingmei (b. 1982) redeploys archival film, performance, and installation to meditate on time, loss, and the body within public ritual and structures of power. Shi Qi (b. 1978), hand-paints rice paper in ink and colour, then meticulously folds and mounts it to canvas, blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, between action of creation and spiritual exploration. Qi Zhuo (b. 1985) reworks traditional sculptural lineages through glass, metal, and repair, pairing humour with critique to probe authenticity and cultural transfer.
Together, these practices show how memory becomes material and how tradition becomes a generative constraint, reframing inheritance as invention in the present tense.
Born in Guangdong, China in 1982. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and from the Painting Department of École des Beaux-Arts de Versailles in France. Since 2004, he has lived and worked in Paris, France. From 2009 to 2010, he was an artist-in-residence at the Château de Padiés, Lempaut, France. Over the years, he has exhibited more than 30 solo and group exhibitions, including two major group exhibitions in 2024: The Writings of Today are a Promise for Tomorrow, Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Guang Mei: L’église des Cordeliers en échos, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China / École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon, France.
Born in Yueqing, Zhejiang, China. She entered École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Limoges in 2007 and graduated in 2013 from École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Villa Arson Nice with DNSEP (Master) degree in Fine Arts. She subsequently won numerous awards, including Young Chinese Artist of the Year from Porsche in Shanghai (2017); 68th Jeune Création Prize in Paris (2018); Asian Cultural Council New York Fellowship (2022). Major solo exhibitions were on view at Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2014) and West Bund Museum in Shanghai (2023). She has also exhibited and performed at institutions such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Haus der Kunst in Munich, Biennial of Jeune Création européenne, Shanghai Biennale, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing. Her works are part of public and private collections, including Centre Pompidou Collection, Fonds Municipal d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris; Direction des Affaires Culturelles de la Ville de Marseille; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; Taikang Space, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou.
Born in 1978 in Wenzhou, China, Shi Qi is a Paris-based female artist whose art seeks to reveal poetic relationships. After graduated at Department of Experimental Painting at Chinese Academy of Art in Hangzhou (2001), Shi moved to France in 2002, where she continued her training in new media and video at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris-Cergy (2002-2005). In the following year, her video installation works were exhibited at Centre International de la Mer in Rochefort, France. During this time, she travelled in Europe and the United States while maintaining annual visits to China. Since 2017, she has delved into three-dimensional creations using ink and paper as composite materials. Over the years, she has participated in 15 solo and group exhibitions, held in cities such as Paris, New York, Munich, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang. Her works are collected by China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.
Born in 1985 in Fuxin, Liaoning, China, and now lives and works between Paris, France and Jingdezhen, China. Qi Zhuo went to France in 2006 and graduated with honours from the Le Mans School of Art and Design (with a DNSEP diploma), before completing the KAOLIN postgraduate program at ENSA Limoges in France and the Geneva University of Art and Design in Switzerland. He has held more than 40 solo and group exhibitions over the years, including Méditation, Centre céramique contemporaine, La Borne, France (2018), and recent groups exhibition at Maison Guerlain, Paris; Musée le Carroi, Chinon; National Museum Adrien Dubouché, Limoges; Musée de Salagon, Mane. He has also participated in several artist residency programs, including those of the Martell Foundation in France.
