Galerie Urs Meile Beijing presents Recent Works, the largest ever solo exhibition of artist Yan Xing. The exhibition features four of the artist’s recent projects, all of which are complex, imbued with a range of sources and references from art, history, politics and literature, and presents the artist as a rather strong character.

Yan Xing is known as one of the most eye-catching emerging artists in the Chinese contemporary art scene, with multi-layered "projects" encapsulating media such as performance, video, photography and installation. Through abundantly intensive study of art history, the artist has attained an artistic narrative with its own logic. Art history is always partly abstracted, reconstructed and generated under the artist’s "unique system of integration", which updates our definition of art and our power to distinguish between artists.

Image: © Yan Xing, Galerie Urs Meile