Exhibition program 2025

In 2025, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art will present nine exhibitions across UCCA Beijing and UCCA Dune, featuring artists from China, Asia, North America, and Europe, bringing a vibrant and multifaceted vision of contemporary art to an anticipated one million annual visitors.

UCCA Beijing

Anicka Yi
March 22–June 15, 2025
This exhibition marks this first and most extensive presentation in Asia of the acclaimed Korean-American artist Anicka Yi. For over a decade, Anicka Yi has captivated the global art community through what she terms the “biopolitics of the senses”—an exploration of how sensory experiences are shaped by cultural and biological forces. The exhibition features newly commissioned works alongside a selection of the artist’s earlier pieces, providing a comprehensive introduction to her distinctive artistic universe.

Co-organized with Leeum Museum of Art, this exhibition is curated by UCCA Curator-at-Large Peter Eleey, and Gina Lee, Curator, Leeum Museum of Art.

Pipilotti Rist
July 19–October 19, 2025
Pipilotti Rist will present a large-scale, site-specific commission for the Great Hall fully engaging UCCA’s striking public and exhibition spaces with a humorous and immersive experience welcoming audiences of all ages and backgrounds into the vibrant world of Rist’s art. In addition, a concise selection of her most emblematic works will flank the commission. This exhibition is curated by UCCA Curator Yan Fang.

Yang Fudong
November 15, 2025–February 22, 2026
Marking his most comprehensive institutional exhibition to date and his first in Beijing, this exhibition will include the inaugural installment of Yang’s Library Film Project. This project, initiated in the immediate aftermath of Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, marks the beginning of an ongoing quest to create a movie that can contain a complex reality, simultaneously real and constructed. Inspired by his childhood in the rural eastern outskirts of Beijing, the exhibition will weave together elements of the past and present, as well as the public and personal. This exhibition is co-curated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari and UCCA Curator Chelsea Qianxi Liu.

Lubaina Himid
January 18–March 27, 2025
As the first solo exhibition of British artist Lubaina Himid in China, this presentation will reflect on the key stages of her artistic career over the past four decades. A prominent figure in the British Black Arts Movement of the 1980s, Himid is renowned for her paintings and installations that challenge dominant historical narratives. This exhibition will feature a selection of significant works from the 1980s to the present, including A Fashionable Marriage, Naming the Money, the “Feast Wagon” and “Plan B” series, among others. Also highlighted will be the diversity of Himid’s artistic approach, including works on canvas, cut-outs, found objects, and sound installations. Lubaina Himid is the recipient of the 2023 Maria Lassnig Prize. This exhibition is curated by UCCA Curator Shixuan Luan.

Chen Ke
May 17–September 7, 2025
Closely watched since the early 2000s, Chen Ke has made a career as a painter whose work evokes a social sensibility even as it speaks to the specific dreams and predicaments of individuals. In 2020, she debuted the “Bauhaus Gal” series, filtering images of women from the photographic archives of the renowned German school and movement through her own feelings and memories. For this exhibition she presents the most recent iteration of this ongoing project. The poignancy of these works is heightened by the context of UCCA and Factory 798, spaces originally designed in the 1950s by a state institute in Dessau, the East German city that was home to the Bauhaus’s final iteration. Chen Ke deepens this connection with the inclusion of archival materials and site-specific elements. The exhibition is curated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari.

Liao Fei
May 17–September 7, 2025
This exhibition marks Liao Fei’s largest institutional solo presentation to date, revisiting the artist’s key early works, including the “One Way Sculpture” series (2017) and the “Permutation Generation” series (2018), and weaving together the significant thematic threads that continue to inform his current practice. The artist will design and transform the exhibition space to reflect the distinctive characteristics of his works. This exhibition is curated by UCCA Curator Neil Zhang.

Koki Tanaka
September 27, 2025–January 4, 2026
In his diverse practice spanning video, photography, site-specific installations, and intervention projects, Koki Tanaka visualizes the multiple contexts embedded in the simplest of everyday acts, revealing their deeper meaning within. This exhibition will showcase the artist’s decade-long creative practice, featuring over ten works and including his early installations alongside new video works supported by UCCA. This exhibition is curated by UCCA Curator Neil Zhang.

UCCA Dune

Hu Yinping
March 27–October 12, 2025
Hu Yinping’s conceptual project Hu Xiaofang serves as both an “artistic brand” and a social experiment to interrogate the inherent logics of production and trade within our economic systems and society. Launched in 2015, the project initially sought to create a more meaningful and autonomous environment for older women in rural villages. Through the anonymous platform of the “Xiaofang” company, Hu Yinping discreetly provides a form of economic support for the women’s creative labor. Offering an unexpected, subversive perspective, her work compels viewers to reassess the value of “women’s craft” and “women’s time.”

This exhibition draws inspiration from reflections on the future, featuring a series of immersive mixed-media works created by the Xiaofang community commissioned by UCCA. This exhibition is curated by UCCA Curator Holly Roussell.

Kim Lim
October 26, 2025–March 12, 2026
As Kim Lim’s first institutional solo exhibition in mainland China, this presentation will offer a comprehensive survey of the artist’s sculptural and print works that reflects her lifelong quest to transcend cultural boundaries. In an exploration of the universal characteristics of form and space within both Eastern and Western art traditions, viewers will be invited to engage in contemplation and dialogue between materiality and abstraction. This exhibition is curated by UCCA Curator Neil Zhang.