“Condition↔Reaction: Young Artists in China and Their Work” is a video-based project organized by LEAP magazine. Through a feature documentary, it offers a portrait of Chinese artists born after 1976. Alongside this is a selection of 15 video works from 11 young artists that reveal their creators’ individual responses to and rebellions against the status…

During Art Basel Hong Kong, LEAP magazine and the DSL Collection join hands for the video project “Not a Gallery.” At the Modern Media booth, number S9 near the VIP entrance, we have mounted an exhibition without a single tangible artwork: using their mobile devices instead, the audience may visit the DSL Collection’s virtual museum…

On May 11, 2013, LEAP, UCCA, and the China Independent Film Association jointly organized a screening of the film Three Sisters, followed by a discussion with director Wang Bing moderated by film crit…

While there is increasing global and regional attention being paid to contemporary art from Southeast Asia, there are concerns that the development of art criticism and art institutions continues to lag behind the spectacle of biennales and the art market. This past April, LEAP invited Singapore-based art critic Lee Weng Choy to Beijing discuss some…

Born in France in 1974, the sound artist Yannick Dauby initially began his research and creative work in music, which have substantially expanded into improvisation, electro-acoustic composition, and ethnomusicology. He continues to engage with natural, urban, and industrial environments in an on-going series of sound recordings that find their way into his music arrangements, CD…

Dino is the stage name of Liao Ming-He, born in Taipei in 1976. He was active in the rock and roll scene by the time he was in middle school, and played bass for the band The Clippers in his later youth. He is also considered a pioneer in his use of primal analog electronics…

In the ink wash paintings of the American immigrant Yun-Fei Ji, the equivalent of nostalgia appears as the reflection and examination that follows the rejection of modernity, not as an aesthetic decision based on questions of cultural identity. His works bear the marks of his generation, as well as a critique of reality. Together, the…

If the title “Interweaving” is intended to convey a state of intermingling, then that is approximately the feeling that Li Qing’s solo exhibition ultimately gives the viewer: an encounter with intricate and gentle obscurities. At the very least, I am not able to use clear or precise words to summarize my sensations and feelings. To…

New York is one of those places that are meant for the birth of legendary art moments. “Taiping Tianguo” exhibits the artistic creations— all produced in New York in the 1980s— of four Chinese artists of different backgrounds. The show takes its name from the title of one of artist Martin Wong’s paintings (itself based…

Luxury Logico was formed in early 2010 by two artist collectives: Chang Keng-hau and Chang Geng-hwa’s Luxury and Ken Chen and Llunc Lin’s Logico. These four men, all barely in their 30s, together created the group’s foundation, utilizing their own respective specialties in terms of concepts and execution, ultimately orchestrating high-tech machine-software interactions to produce…

“Unclaimed Objects” features just that: a random assortment of bric-a-brac the young Fujianese artist Yang Jian found on the street, and then brought into the gallery to form this solo exhibition at Where Where Art Space. The modest collection of items in the show was collected between 2005 and the present. They range from the…

In line with the sculptor and installation artist Yang Xinguang’s predilection for referencing classical Chinese, the title of his third solo exhibition at Boers-Li originates in an excerpt from Journey to the West: “As the saying goes, the warrior avoids unnecessary combat; but once I start there’ll be no mercy.” Indeed, the works scattered throughout…

Liu Xinyi’s work is instantly recognizable from within the art environment of China today: an adeptness and integrity of the expression of form, subjects with a high degree of political sensitivity, and a (so far) clear continuity of a personal logic, with touches of obvious yet tempered slyness and dry humor. Liu’s first solo exhibition…