COMING SOON: Yang Xinguang: Dark Surfaces
From April 19 to October 11, 2026, UCCA Dune presents Yang Xinguang’s most extensive institutional solo exhibition to date, bringing together new installations, sculptures, and site-specific works shaped by his ongoing engagement with natural materials—earth, plants, and detritus—alongside steel, concrete, and paint.
Taking the ecological “litter layer” as its point of departure, the exhibition traces processes of decay, accumulation, and transformation, where organic matter and human intervention intersect. The exhibition is curated by UCCA Chief Curator Chelsea Qianxi Liu.
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“Yang Xinguang: Dark Surfaces,” the artist’s largest institutional solo exhibition to date, brings together more than ten new sets of work spanning installation, sculpture, video, and site-specific interventions to UCCA Dune.
Over the past two decades, Yang Xinguang has worked extensively with natural materials such as stone, wood, soil, and plants, alongside industrial materials like steel, concrete, and paint. In this presentation, these elements are brought into shifting relations, tracing his ongoing inquiry into material transformation and human intervention in natural processes.
Drawing on the ecological concept of the “litter layer,” the exhibition considers the hidden surface where decomposition becomes renewal, and reflects on how natural cycles are shaped, interrupted, and reconfigured.
Curated by Chelsea Qianxi Liu.
On view through October 11, 2026.
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Now open at UCCA Dune
Yang Xinguang: Dark Surfaces
On view from April 19 to October 11, 2026, this exhibition marks the artist’s largest institutional solo presentation to date, bringing together more than ten newly commissioned works spanning installation, sculpture, video, and site-specific interventions.
Staged within the museum’s cave-like architecture and surrounding landscape, the exhibition draws on the ecological concept of the “litter layer”—a site of decomposition and regeneration—to reflect on material transformation and humanity’s entanglement with the natural world.
Through subtle interventions that suspend, replicate, or disrupt natural processes, Yang Xinguang repositions organic matter as something both familiar and estranged, inviting consideration of whether human action exists within, or apart from, natural cycles.
This exhibition is curated by UCCA Chief Curator Chelsea Qianxi Liu.
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In its final weeks at UCCA Dune, “Kim Lim: Water Rests, Stone Speaks” remains on view through April 6.
The first institutional solo exhibition in mainland China dedicated to the late British-Singaporean artist traces Kim Lim’s sculptural and printmaking practice across three decades. Through works that explore form, rhythm, and light, the exhibition reveals a sustained inquiry into the expressive potential of materials—where stone seems to suggest movement, and carved surfaces hold shifting traces of light.
We invite visitors to experience the quiet dialogue of Lim‘s works with the seascape surroundings before the exhibition closes.
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UCCA is thrilled to share updates for our 2026 Exhibition Program across Beijing, Beidaihe, and Yixing.
@ucca798 , Beijing – “Yang Fudong: Fragrant River” is now extended through May 31, 2026. Carsten Holler will now run July 4, 2026 – January 31, 2027, presenting iconic works and newly commissioned site-specific installations. The year will also feature presentations by Rutherford Chang, Michael Cherney, Duan Jianyu, and John Baldessari.
@uccadune , Beidaihe – New works by Yang Xinguang and interdisciplinary installations by Katie Paterson.
@uccaclay , Yixing – Three exhibitions: “Hidden Within Matter: Zhou Xiaohu and Zhang Yibei” (spring), “Raw Modernism: Accolay Clay Today” (summer–autumn), and the first institutional solo in China by Toshiko Takaezu (end of year), highlighting both historic and contemporary ceramic practices.
We look forward to welcoming audiences to a year of rigorous and engaging contemporary art by Chinese and international artists!
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🐎🏮Getting ready for Chinese New Year! 🏮🐎
Before we break to welcome the Year of the Horse, please note that UCCA will have adjusted holiday hours across all our locations starting from Feb. 15.
As such, plan your visit accordingly to experience our current exhibitions at @ucca798 , @uccadune , and @uccaclay !
Currently presenting:
🏮UCCA Beijing
Yang Fudong: Fragrant River
(On view through May 5)
Rutherford Chang: Hundreds and Thousands
(On view through April 12)
Michael Cherney: Middle Distance
(On view through April 12)
🏮UCCA Dune - Beidaihe
Kim Lim: Water Rests, Stone Speaks
(On view through April 6)
🏮UCCA Clay - Yixing
Improvisational Drift: New Directions in Ceramics
(On view through March 1)
To stay up to date:
.cn
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A look-back at UCCA’s 2025 exhibitions:
This year, we presented 13 exhibitions across our locations in UCCA Beijing, UCCA Dune, UCCA Clay, and UCCA Edge.
From new commissions to landmark retrospects, artists unfolded explorations of memory, movement, history, the present moment, identity and more, throughout our galleries, opening up new perspectives and dialogue. Thank you to the artists, collaborators, and audiences who made our year, and onward to what’s ahead!
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Happy Holidays!
All UCCA institutions will operate at our usual hours throughout this holiday season, including New Year‘s Day (January 1, 2026).
Wishing everyone a festive and artistic holiday season!
Current exhibitions:
UCCA Beijing | ”Yang Fudong: Fragrant River“
On view through May 5, 2026
UCCA Beijing | ”Koki Tanaka: Provisional Community“
On view through January 4, 2026
UCCA Dune | ”Kim Lim: Water Rests, Stone Speaks“
On view through April 6, 2026
UCCA Clay | ”Improvisional Drift: New Directions in Ceramics“
On view through March 1, 2026
For details on hours, directions, and Public Program activities, please visit: .cn/en
Installation Highlight | “Kim Lim: Water Rests, Stone Speaks”
This exhibition brings together five prints from @kimlimstudio Lim’s “Dunhuang Series” with photographs she made during her travels in China in the late 1980s. Seen side by side, they reveal how encounters with Dunhuang’s carved forms, desert expanses, and spiritual spaces informed her lifelong search for rhythm, light, and the essence of form.
This installation, in addition to the other works presented, offer a more intitmate glimpse into how Lim—born in Singapore and based in London for most of her life—wove Eastern and Western cultural experiences into a minimalist artistic language.
On view at UCCA Dune from October 26, 2025 to April 5, 2026.
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Tonight, the moment has arrived! ✨
We are thrilled to celebrate the 2025 UCCA Gala in Shanghai, which also marks our 18th Birthday! Under the theme “Another Evolution,” we gather with an incredible community of supporters, artists, and partners to champion the future of contemporary art.
The support from tonight will enable:
-Exhibitions & public programs
-Artistic research & publications
-Children’s arts education & social initiatives
We are immensely grateful to our co-chairs, donating artists, auction support @sothebys , and all our partners. Together, we are bringing the best in art to a wider audience.
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NOW OPEN | “Kim Lim: Water Rests, Stone Speaks”
Last weekend on October 25, UCCA Dune was thrilled to open the first solo exhibition in mainland China by the late Kim Lim.
Spanning three decades of her sculptural and print work, this exhibition traces Lim’s profound exploration of rhythm, light, and the essence of material, shaped by her unique perspective across Eastern and Western cultures. Works presented include key works from across her career, including prints from her celebrated “Dunhuang Series,” alongside archival travel photographs.
Situated within the elemental architecture of UCCA Dune, her works enter a living dialogue with the natural light and seascape, dissolving boundaries between material and environment.
“Kim Lim: Water Rests, Stone Speaks” is curated by Neil Zhang and presented in collaboration with the Estate of Kim Lim (London).
On view through April 5, 2026.
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COMING SOON:
From October 26, 2025, to April 12, 2026, UCCA Dune is excited to present the first major solo exhibition by Kim Lim @kimlimstudio , tracing over three decades of the late artist’s elegant explorations in sculpture and printmaking. In her work, stone suggests the flow of water, carved surfaces capture the flicker of light, and abstraction conveys the subtle rhythms of life.
Opening this weekend at UCCA Dune, Beidaihe
This exhibition is curated by UCCA Curator Neil Zhang @neilnth
UPDATE:
This exhibition will now run through April 6, 2026.
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