Sun Xun exhibitions at the Guggenheim, Yuz Museum and Art Basel Miami Beach

Edouard Malingue Gallery is thrilled to announce Sun Xun’s selection for exhibition in a group show at the Guggenheim Museum (New York), and solo shows at the Yuz Museum (Shanghai) and the second Audemars Piguet Art Commission (Art Basel Miami Beach).

Invited to participate in ‘Tales of our Time’, Sun Xun has created site-specific work for the Guggenheim Museum that will eventually become part of the museum’s permanent collection. The show seeks to present a heterogeneous yet socially aware perspective on contemporary art in China. Specifically, the exhibition will explore the dynamics between individual narratives and collective history, whilst critically engaging with the dialogues surrounding Chinese art in an international context.

Curated by Barbara Pollack, ‘Prediction Laboratory’ is Sun Xun’s new solo show at the Yuz Museum. The exhibition is a select space for investigation and experimentation, featuring 12 of Sun Xun’s animated films that convey the artist’s major themes and imagery using a variety of mediums. By screening the films in a tunnel of light and sound, they lead the way to a pseudo-laboratory where scientific experiments may or may not be underway.

Sun Xun is additionally presenting his new solo exhibition ‘Reconstruction of the Universe’ for the second Audemars Piguet Art Commission at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016. One of his most ambitious projects to date, Sun Xun employs multidisciplinary methods in the large-scale installation, located on the Miami Beach oceanfront. In addition to 2D and 3D animation, the work includes traditional scroll paintings, ink drawings, various architectural and design elements, as well as sound.

‘Reconstruction of the Universe’ amounts to a prolonged meditation on time by bridging classical and modern art, and exploring the history and metaphysics of the world that surrounds us.

Widely considered one of China’s most talented rising artists, Sun Xun (b. 1980) has been granted several awards including the Best Young Artists award by the CCAA in 2010. He has held multiple solo exhibitions around the world, most notably at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hayward Gallery, London; A4 Contemporary Arts Centre, Chengdu; Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai; Chinese Centre for Contemporary Art, Manchester. He has also participated in numerous significant group exhibitions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Asia Society, Hong Kong; Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Skissernas Museum, Lund; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern; and Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei.