Beijing

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

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

Following government plans for a greener less-crowded capital, artists are finding themselves squeezed out 

How the absence of colour is just the start of the journey that Cao Fei is taking with the BMW Art Car #18

Long March Space, Beijing, China

Ahead of the inaugural Beijing Gallery Weekend, contributing editor Carol Yinghua Lu selects the best new shows in the city