Beijing

At Platform China, Beijing, the artist’s domestic tableaux lend the genre of ‘queer intimism’ a quietly unsettling emotional charge

From Zhang Yufei’s solo show at Click Ten Art Space to a group show at Long March Independent Space, here’s what to see during the seventh edition of Gallery Weekend Beijing

At The Drawing Center, New York, the artist presents papercut scenes of homoerotic couplings inflected with conventions of the Chinese craft

A set of interrelated conceptual, text- and body-based sculptures and video works at Today Art Museum, Beijing, allows the artist to meditate on individual freedom and geopolitical tensions

Curated by Jeppe Ugelvig and Poppy Dongxue Wu, the group show at Bejing’s X Museum, questions identity, community and controversial impact of the global fashion industry

At the artist’s first institutional show in China, real life slips into the shadows of a digital world seeking to supplant it

In the Aranya Gold Coast Community, north of Beijing, an exhibition aims to critically intervene with its spectacular surroundings

Shuttered in the city’s crackdown on independent initiatives, the artist-run space provided a model for low-budget, experimental art making

Ahead of Gallery Weekend Beijing, a run-down of the best exhibitions in China’s capital

An exhibition at Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, reflects on the rising voyeurism within changing media structures

Why did Beijing’s M WOODS museum recently mount two simultaneous exhibitions focusing on the ancient Buddhist site of Kizil, Xinjiang Province?

At Beijing's Magician Space, demonstrating how products are more than their simple functions and exploring the hegemonic power of language

The Beijing-based artist’s films draw on the emotional strategies of pop culture to explore identity and belonging in a hyper-mediatized world

The dissident artist has posted a series of videos on Instagram documenting diggers demolishing his studio in the Songzhuang district

A number of galleries have recently been marked for demolition, and a number more fear for their long-term survival

A mix of unashamed nudes and demure portraits, Zhao Gang's paintings take in 21st-century China with feigned crudeness and humour 

Ahead of the second edition of Gallery Weekend Beijing, the pick of the shows to see in the city

With the recent razing of suburban slums, tightening censorship and the sad passing of Geng Jianyi, a year of reflection in the Chinese capital

From explorations into the varied meanings of ‘Asia’ to an uncomfortably personal solo show, highlights of the best shows across the city