2025.06.17 - 2025.08.05

Feng Shan: Site, Relic, Atlas

The Rehearsal Project: A Solo Exhibition Series

Duration
June 17 - August 5，2025
Opening hour
Tuesday - Sunday 10:00-17:30
Address
Taikang Art Museum, 1F Taikang Art Museum, Building 1, Yard 16, Jinghui Street,Beijing Taikang Group Building
Artist
Feng Shan
Curator
Xin Yunpeng

Through casting, cutting, and reassembling various materials, Feng Shan extends cartographic symbols into physical space, transforming them into markers that can be perceived bodily. Shapes of animals, plants, words, arrows, and rivers are pieced together and layered with geometric forms, evoking the hazy presence of lived experience.

Site, Relic, Atlas resists a centralized viewpoint; it is not a work to be contemplated from a distance, but rather an open “atlas of memoriesˮ dispersed throughout the space-something to be passed through, not gazed upon. This defiance of traditional sculptural aesthetics lies not only in the workʼs assemblage-like nature, but also in Fengʼs treatment of form. Her emphasis on planar projection-what might be called an anti-sculptural way of seeing—uses “silhouettesˮ to carve out real space, activating the viewerʼs imagination of presence.

Feng renders these dark-toned materials with delicacy, turning them into “cut objects,ˮ “stretched objects,ˮ “sculptural objects.ˮ The hues, fixed through chemical reactions with copper sulfate or silver nitrate, crystallize into black or silvery “scabsˮ on the surface-traces of time congealed in air, imbuing rational public space with an enigmatic, otherworldly quality.

The Rehearsal Project

“The Rehearsal Project” is not only a theater space that is both public and private, but also an experimental time for adjusting experience and feedback. As an exploratory artist solo exhibition plan of Taikang Art Museum, it will inherit the tradition of Taikang Space 51m² project and “Sunlight Pavilion Series”, take Taikang Art Museum CBD public space as a new coordinate, continue to promote the presentation and research plan of outstanding artists; continue to promote the exploration of the value construction of Chinese contemporary art subjectivity; continue to accompany the fresh artistic practice to grow together.

Other Information

ABOUT CURATOR
Xin Yunpeng

Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a Master’s degree in Art in 2016, Xin Yunpeng has been engaged in contemporary art practice since 2007. He currently lives and works in Beijing. His works mainly take the form of installations, videos, and site-specific projects.
Recent solo exhibitions include The Winds Howl Cannot Silence the Grass (MouMou Space, Beijing, 2024); Multi-Minds (Gravity Art Museum, Beijing, 2023); Simultaneous (de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong, 2022); and Friendship First, Competition Second (C5CNM, Beijing, 2020).
Selected group exhibitions include Zhilan: A Glance in Urban Garden (X Museum, Shanghai, 2024); STUDY II: Natural History, Alternative Knowledge and Deep Learning (ShanghArt, Beijing, 2024); Engaging with the World: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Since the Dawn of the 20th Century (Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, 2023); and M+ Sigg Collection: Another Story (M+, Hong Kong, 2023).
ABOUT ARTIST
Feng Shan

Born in Shijiazhuang in 1985, Feng Shan graduated from the Sculpture Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2012 and obtained her master’s degree from the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. She currently lives and works in Beijing.
Feng Shan’s artistic practice, characterized by a restrained formal language and a delicate yet intricate use of materials, delves into the complex relationships among emotion, trauma, memory, and the social environment. Guided by a keen intuition, she captures the essence of reality, or constructs allegorical fictions through sculptural forms of her own making. Her works are not merely static sculptures or installations; they unfold as dynamic expressions of emotion. Within them, feelings and memories are rewoven, while the subtle influences of social contexts on individual psychology are quietly revealed. Through this process, Feng Shan transforms the intricate interplay between personal emotion and social reality into a powerful visual expression, inviting the viewer to wander between the realms of reality and imagination. Her work reflects on the tension between the individual and society, memory and forgetting, trauma and healing—demonstrating the potential of contemporary art to articulate emotion and engage in social critique.

Solo exhibition

2025
Site Relic Atlas TAIKANG ART MUSEUM Beijing China
CITY WORK DawanArt Espace Paris France
2024
Shell in the Ghost Okra Homa Projects Beijing China

Group exhibitions

2025
“ The Fantastic Belt ” sandwich gallery Bucharest Romania
2024
““All Tomorrow’s Parties” wind H Art Center Beijing China
Buzz ～ Buzz ～ Buzz ～ LINSEED Shanghai China
I Tossed a Two-sen Coin into The Air PETITREE ART Shenzhen China
2019
Elegy: Five Desire Mechanisms of Nostalgia A+ Contemporary Shanghai China