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Times Museum Times Museum resulted from the urbanism of the Pearl River Delta and the 2nd Guangzhou Triennial in 2003 and features progressive translocal programs

Times Museum As a non-profit institution caters to the public and persists on academic independence, Times Museum aims at reaching beyond canonical programming to nurture creative processes and cutting-edge practices in the area of art, design and architecture.

I‘ll Catch You Later Participating artist: Cao Renhuo 草人火 Caorenhuo , Cong, DAZHI DAZHI , Huang Haiyan, Liang Shuni Lian...
29/08/2026

I‘ll Catch You Later 

Participating artist: Cao Renhuo 草人火 Caorenhuo , Cong, DAZHI DAZHI , Huang Haiyan, Liang Shuni Liang Shuni 梁姝妮 , Liao Guohe liaoguohe 廖国核 , Liu Sheng, Wang Yiwei 王一韦了 , Wang Ziyun, Wen Ling, Wu Qiming, Xing Wanli XINGWANLI , Zhang Ran, Zhang Zhongge, Zhao Da, Zheng Haozhong 郑皓中

Curated by Jiawen Li Jiawen （Chloe） Li , Liang Jianhua Liang Jianhua
Exhibition Dates: September 19, 2026 – January 31, 2027

Bringing together sixteen artists, the exhibition focuses on changes now taking place in painting that have yet to be adequately named. Working from their own lived experiences, the participating artists encounter the world around them in different ways. Reality, imagination, music, popular culture, local life, and public space intersect throughout the exhibition, creating a diverse and heterogeneous field. Many of these painting practices are still evolving and have not settled into a single, stable style. This openness is accompanied by a self-reflexive impulse: the artists continually reconsider the experiences and visual languages on which they rely, asking whether methods that once proved effective can still respond to a changing reality rather than gradually hardening into habitual ways of working. Through this process, the painters maintain a keen sensitivity to reality.

你们先说，我走会儿路 

参展艺术家草人火、丛丛、大志、黄海岩、梁姝妮、廖国核、刘声、王一韦、王子芸、温凌、吴启明、邢万里、张然、张中阁、赵达、郑皓中

策展人：李嘉文、梁健华
展期：2026年9月19日-2027年1月31日

本次展览邀请16位艺术家，关注绘画正在发生、尚未被充分命名的一些变化。参展艺术家从各自的生活经验出发，以不同方式面对周边世界。现实、想象、音乐、流行文化、地方生活与公共空间在展览中彼此交叠，形成一个多元且异质的现场。当中的绘画实践不少仍在变化中，并未呈现出单一稳定的风格。这种开放状态也包含着一种自反精神：艺术家不断反思自身所依赖的经验和语言，检验曾经有效的创作方法能否继续回应变化中的现实，避免它们逐渐固化为工作惯性。正是在这个过程中，画家得以保持对现实敏锐的感受力。

On the Verge of WakingArtist: Ako Goto Ako Goto Curated by Gao Zhenzhen Zhenzhen & Li Jiawen Jiawen （Chloe） Li Exhibitio...
29/08/2026

On the Verge of Waking
Artist: Ako Goto Ako Goto
Curated by Gao Zhenzhen Zhenzhen & Li Jiawen Jiawen （Chloe） Li
Exhibition Dates: September 19, 2026 – January 31, 2027
Special thanks to Vin Gallery Vin Gallery

Ako Goto’s solo exhibition “On the Verge of Waking” will be presented from September 19, 2026, to January 31, 2027. Curated by Gao Zhenzhen and Li Jiawen, the exhibition marks the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in China and brings together a series of works developed over the past two years, some of which will be completed on-site.

将醒未醒
艺术家：后藤亚子
策展人：高桢桢 、李嘉文
 展期 2026年9月19日-2027年1月31日

艺术家后藤亚子个展“将醒未醒”将于2026年9月19日至2027年1月31日呈现，由高桢桢、李嘉文策展。本次展览是艺术家在中国的首次机构个展，呈现了其近两年来的一系列创作实践，部分作品在现场制作完成。

Sharp Turn, Open Ground Series Program How Is a Place Made “Authentic”? Cultural Tourism, Artist Residencies, and Contem...
28/07/2026

Sharp Turn, Open Ground Series Program 
How Is a Place Made “Authentic”? Cultural Tourism, Artist Residencies, and Contemporary Art in Guizhou

Speaker: Ran Zhou Ran Zhou 周然

Time: 9 August 2026, 14:00–15:30

Venue: Auditorium, 1F, Guangdong Times Museum
Free admission (limited seating, first come, first served)

In recent years, Ran Zhou has co-founded Baopu·FELT, a contemporary art space in Kaili, Guizhou, where she has continued to initiate residency, exhibition, and walking projects exploring the relationships among folk cultures, intangible cultural heritage practices, and contemporary art in Southwest China. She divides her time between Guizhou and Canada, having previously spent many years moving between North America and the United Kingdom. In this edition of Radical Rise, Zhou draws on her institutional practice in Guizhou and her cross-cultural experience to discuss how local cultures are viewed, translated, and reinterpreted through the interventions of contemporary art and cultural tourism.

Public Program Series for the Exhibition “Still as a Stone: The Persistent Body in Mediation”Backstage Foregrounded — A ...
20/07/2026

Public Program Series for the Exhibition “Still as a Stone: The Persistent Body in Mediation”Backstage Foregrounded — A Reconfiguration of Still as a Stone: The Persistent Body in Mediation

Performers: Li Ran (Artist) Li Ran , Liu Dongxu (Artist), Yang Tiange (Curator) Tiange Yang , JND Architecture (Scenographer), and others

Time 26 July 2026, 16:00–17:30

Location 19th Floor, Guangdong Times MuseumOpen to visitors with proof of ticket purchase for the current exhibition.

Backstage Foregrounded, a lecture-performance, unfolds on the closing day of Still as a Stone: The Persistent Body in Mediation, moving through the exhibition galleries.

Certain gestures are inevitable: working, resting, reflecting, conversing, making with the hands, and thinking with the mind.

If an exhibition could possess a personality of its own, this performance would be its embodied reappearance at the threshold of its conclusion.

Here, many bodies come into relation—artists, curators, architects… us, you, and them.

Through a collective creation of text, sound, and site-responsive installation, what once remained backstage is brought to the foreground, while the exhibition‘s ending becomes a point of departure.

A reconfiguration of Still as a Stone: The Persistent Body in Mediation?

Keywords: Performance; Body; Semi-improvisation; Collective Work

广东时代美术馆招募“艺分子”志愿者啦！展览组：主要负责“人工对话”导览、布展工作等与展览相配合的工作。活动组：主要负责协调公共项目和活动的执行落地，也有机会根据自身经验和特长发起公共活动。社群运营组：美术馆周边社区研究、观众研究、协助社交媒...
17/07/2026

广东时代美术馆招募“艺分子”志愿者啦！

展览组：主要负责“人工对话”导览、布展工作等与展览相配合的工作。
活动组：主要负责协调公共项目和活动的执行落地，也有机会根据自身经验和特长发起公共活动。
社群运营组：美术馆周边社区研究、观众研究、协助社交媒体的传播运营等。

7月31日前，将个人简历与自述信发送至广东时代美术馆展览部邮箱[email protected] 邮件命名为“姓名-时代美术馆志愿者”。

[Special Screening] Living Through, Listening, and Responding — Collaborative Works by Wan Qing and Three Visually Impai...
04/07/2026

[Special Screening] Living Through, Listening, and Responding — Collaborative Works by Wan Qing and Three Visually Impaired Friends

Between 2022 and 2026, seven collaborative works emerged from Wan Qing’s everyday encounters with people around her—friends, family members, and longtime collaborators. Each work is jointly credited, with no fixed division of roles. Instead, the process unfolds through ongoing negotiation, individual initiative, and a shared recognition of one another‘s labor.

Living through, listening, and responding form the foundation of these relationships. As these evolving relationships cross the boundaries of individual selves, they become the true subject of the work, while in turn nurturing the needs and well-being of each participant.
This screening presents three of these collaborations: Talk Show Test (with Huiheng), Gaze (with Zeyu), and Scouting (with Chong). Scouting receives its first public screening.

Post-screening conversation: Chong, Wan Qing, Zeyu
Time: Saturday, July 11, 2026, 3:00–5:00 pm
Venue: Auditorium, 1/F, Guangdong Times Museum (wheelchair-accessible from Exit D of Huangbian Metro Station)
Tickets: RMB 48 (RMB 30 for visually impaired audience members)
* Reserve via the QR code on the poster. Payment on site. Ticket proceeds support the venue and the artists.

Poster: wanQing'r

Zhang Peili ZHANG Peili2019 Uncertain Pleasure I, 1996 4-channel, 12-screen video installation (color, mute) Courtesy of...
01/07/2026

Zhang Peili ZHANG Peili2019

Uncertain Pleasure I, 1996
4-channel, 12-screen video installation (color, mute)

Courtesy of the artist and SPURS Gallery SPURS Gallery

Uncertain Pleasure is one of Zhang Peili’s most defining video installations. Twelve monitors play simultaneously, each showing only close-up fragments of the human body — shoulder, wrist, waist, ankle — being continuously scratched until the skin reddens, without cease. This repetitive, ostensibly mundane yet increasingly aberrant bodily behaviour drives perception to its limit: the boundary between pleasure and pain is blurred, and a social psychology of living under pressure while gradually growing numb is amplified through bodily sensation. ”Uncertain“ is the work‘s animating principle — perception here is never stable, liable to reverse at any moment, and for that reason closer to something genuinely true. A pioneer of Chinese video art, Zhang Peili deploys a rigorous visual economy and an extreme bodily experience to interrogate the condition of the individual within structures of pressure — a work that, nearly three decades on, retains all its edge.

Zhang Peili born in Hangzhou in1957, graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) in 1984, where he later taught as a professor. He is also the former executive director of OCAT Shanghai.

In 1985 and 1986, Zhang organized and participated in the ’85 Xin Kong Jian (’85 New Space) exhibition and the artist collective “Chi She” (Pond Society). His first video work, 30×30 (1988), is commonly considered the earliest video artworks in China. In 2003, he established the new media department at China Academy of Art and launched the earliest new media art education programme in China.

张培力

《不确切的快感I》1996
4通道12屏影像装置（彩色、无声）
作品由艺术家和马刺画廊惠允

”Still as a Stone: The Persistent Body in Mediation“ Exhibition view
“身如磐石”，展览现场

Image by PJ
照片由彭靖拍摄

Sharp Turn Open Ground Series Program Flickering in Synchrony Across Scattered Islands: Moving Images, Human Voices and ...
26/06/2026

Sharp Turn Open Ground Series Program
Flickering in Synchrony Across Scattered Islands: Moving Images, Human Voices and Birdsong

Speaker: Tianjun (Timjune) LI Tianjun Li

Time: 4 July 2026, 14:00–15:40

Live Audiovisual Performance & Artist talk

Venue: Auditorium, 1F, Guangdong Times Museum
Free admission (limited seating, first come, first served)

Artist Timjune has spent recent years working and conducting research across diverse geographical settings, including Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, and Southern China. Through sound, light frequencies, and embodied practice, his work explores new forms of perception and connection across geographically separated spaces. For this edition of “Sharp Turn, Open Ground,” Timjune will present a live audiovisual performance alongside an artist talk.

Zhang Hui Zhang H Man and Woman No. 8, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 230×200 cm Courtesy of the artist and CLC Gallery Venture ...
22/06/2026

Zhang Hui Zhang H

Man and Woman No. 8, 2022

Acrylic on canvas
230×200 cm

Courtesy of the artist and CLC Gallery Venture CLC Gallery Venture

Zhang Hui’s naked figures are tucked into a corner of the exhibition — delicate yet forceful, like the primordial male and female at the beginning of time, nakedness their commonality. Fuxi and Nüwa, Adam and Eve: the connection is not without reason, for the painter’s forms also evoke cross-cultural pasts — shoulders broad as in Egyptian reliefs, arms hanging like handprints — and though they are utterly unclothed, their meaning exceeds what words can contain.

Zhang Hui graduated from the Mural Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and then went to the U.S. in 2000 to pursue a master’s degree at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Zhang Hui‘s pursuit of painting deviates from realism as he expresses his inner experience. This sense of distance from the object is what makes his paintings possible, and makes them serve his way of living with his emotions. Influenced by his own attitude towards life, he does not recognize the arbitrariness of the subject matter of contemporary paintings and consciously makes up for it in his own form of creation. The historical continuity of the painting tradition in contemporary times can be observed in his paintings.

张晖

《男女 08》2022
布面丙烯
230×200 cm

作品由艺术家和CLC画廊惠允

“Still as a Stone: The Persistent Body in Mediation”Exhibition view
“身如磐石”，展览现场

Image by PJ
照片由彭靖拍摄

Soft Rules: Amy Ching-Yan Lam Artist TalkArtist Amy Ching-Yan LamSpeakers in Conversation Nikita Yingqian Cai, Zian Chen...
02/06/2026

Soft Rules: Amy Ching-Yan Lam Artist Talk

Artist
Amy Ching-Yan Lam

Speakers in Conversation
Nikita Yingqian Cai, Zian Chen

Language
English/Chinese

Time
June 13, 2026 15:00–16:40

Venue
Auditorium, 1F, Guangdong Times Museum
Free admission (limited seating available on a first-come, first-served basis)

In the versatile work of Hong Kong–Canadian artist and poet Amy Ching-Yan Lam—spanning poetry, artists’ books, and exhibitions—artistry and humor arrive sideways, surfacing where they seem least supposed to exist.

In this talk, Lam will share projects from the past decade, including Looty Goes to Heaven (2023), a speculative novel and animation exploring British colonial extraction through the perspective of a Pekin dog stolen after the O***m Wars, and Acceptable Protest (2025), which satirizes the absurd logic of “approved” dissent on North American campuses following the Palestine encampments.

The conversation will explore how literary gestures fold into exhibition-making, and how institutional critique slips back into writing. After the talk, the speakers will open up an informal exchange with the audience on writing poetry, making artists’ books, and organizing exhibitions in Guangzhou.

Amy Ching-Yan Lam
Amy Ching-Yan Lam is an artist and writer born in Hong Kong who lives in Tkaronto/Toronto and Lenapehoking/Brooklyn. She works between what capitalism requires of life and what it feels like to be alive.

Nikita Yingqian Cai
Currently Adjunct Curator for Asia-Pacific, Centre Pompidou; Former Chief Curator at Times Museum and Times Art Centre Berlin (2010-2025) and now Curator at Large.

Zian Chen
Zian Chen is an editor at Ocula magazine and a curator. He translated Amy Ching-Yan Lam’s novel Looty Goes to Heaven (2023).

唔使讲出口：林静昕艺术家讲座

分享艺术家
林静昕

对谈嘉宾
蔡影茜、陈玺安

语言
中/英

时间
2026年6月13日 15:00-16:40

地点
广东时代美术馆1楼多厅
免费参与（座位有限，先到先得）

Image 1: Looty Goes to Heaven
Image 2: Oopsie Compound, 2023. Collaboration with HaeAhn Woo Kwon.
Image 3: Installation view of Acceptable Protest.

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