My City is Yours  is an invitation into a world of neon, street dance and pop music; a city both familiar and warped, real and virtual. Enter the exhibition via a replica 1960s Beijing cinema foyer, and exit through a homage to a popular Sydney yum cha restaurant. 

Designed by the artist and Beau Architects of Hong Kong, the exhibition takes the form of a cityscape. It’s a space of play and self-reinvention, where cosplayers and hip-hop dancers take over sidewalks in Fukuoka and New York. It’s a city of screens and pixels, mediated by gaming technologies, VR and the metaverse. It’s a city under construction, where neighbourhoods are razed overnight and workers compete for jobs with robots.

The exhibition is made possible with the support of the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. Along with Magritte, also at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Julie Mehretu, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Cao Fei is part of the Sydney International Art Series, bringing the world’s most outstanding exhibitions to Australia, exclusively to Sydney.

more info: AGNSW

Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) proudly announces its third major exhibition of the year, Cao Fei: Tidal Flux, opening to the public from June 22 to November 17, 2024. This exhibition marks MAP’s first solo show dedicated to a female artist and its first major exhibition of moving images and media art since the museum’s inception. For artist Cao Fei, this marks her inaugural large-scale mid-career retrospective in Shanghai, and one of her largest solo exhibitions ever staged globally.
Curators: Nancy Spector / Tan Xue / Yang Beichen
Exhibition Design: Beau
more info: MAP

“Cao Fei: the future is not a dream” is the Chinese artist's first solo show in Latin America and presents four sets of works with themes that analyze how the rapid social changes of the XNUMXst century, crossed by the intensive use of technologies, has been affecting subjectivity and human experiences.

The themes guiding the exhibition are: “Manufacturing and globalization”, “The past and present of the virtual world”, “Memories of socialism and sci-fi” and “Urbanization and dystopia”. The objective is to introduce Fei's production to the Brazilian public from works that explore media such as video, photography and installation.

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Pinacoteca Contemporânea

An in-depth reflection on the speed of change, the relationship between tradition and future. Her work draws a line that crosses thousands of years and takes us into the next millennium.

Interaction between reality and fantasy, real and virtual, memory and future characterise the exhibition Cao Fei. Supernova, dedicated to a leading figure on the international scene. The show, curated by Hou Hanru and Monia Trombetta, presents, together with two crucial films by the artist, Haze and Fog (2013) and La Town (2014), works appreciated by international audiences, her latest works: the film Nova (2019), a science fiction film that tells the timeless story of Hongxia, the neighbourhood where Cao Fei lives, reinvented and set in the future; the virtual reality work, The Eternal Wave (2020) produced in collaboration with Acute Art, which continues the journey begun by the artist with her previous digital works, in which she continues an exploration of the virtual, reality and self-perception with technology; and Isle of Instability (2020) commissioned the latest creation made by the artist in her home in Singapore, in which she explores the psychological repercussions of the pandemic and isolation, a work that explores the social realities of everyday life in this period.

The works on display at MAXXI are part of an articulated installation itinerary that starts from the real and at times private places of the artist’s life, contemporary China, neighbourhood, studio and home and looks out onto a threatening and surreal virtual future. 

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Maxxi:
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