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Looking beyond the centre
Three reviews, independent listings and Elsewhere’s opening editorial position.
Archive
Current criticism alongside a researched record of exhibitions that shaped our founding year.
The 2025 Founding Research Archive is retrospective: the exhibitions and projects predate publication; the notes were researched and published in August 2026. Dates and factual details are linked to public records. No retrospective text is presented as contemporaneous or first-hand reporting.
Current programme
Retrospective editions
Three research-led editions revisiting nine verified exhibitions across China, Asia, Europe and the Gulf.
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Material, memory, labour
Women and ceramics in Yixing, the obscured women of the Bauhaus in Beijing, and an Asian conversation with Picasso in Hong Kong.
- The Jealous Potter · UCCA Clay
- Chen Ke: Bauhaus Unknown · UCCA Beijing
- Picasso for Asia—A Conversation · M+
II
Systems for living
Biology and technology in Beijing and Tokyo, followed by material transformation at UCCA Clay.
- Anicka Yi · UCCA Beijing
- MACHINE LOVE · Mori Art Museum
- Underwater, on Fire · UCCA Clay
III
To carry a place
Architecture, mobility and cultural memory across Sharjah, Venice and London.
- Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry
- Biennale Architettura 2025
- Marina Tabassum: A Capsule in Time · Serpentine
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Next current edition
Forthcoming. New commissions, research and listings will be announced here.
From the founding research desk
A source-led reconstruction of an earlier independent exhibition, with critical attention to the exhibition, curator and artists.
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Awakening was strongest before it became a message
A retrospective study of Jiaying Zou’s interdisciplinary group exhibition at Safehouse 1 & 2, London.
- Exhibition and spatial setting
- Curatorial method and project afterlife
- Artists, works and documented archive