YANG GALLERY is delighted to announce the opening of its new Shanghai space, situated in the heart of The Bund Source Historical and Cultural Area at 2F07, No. 27 Huqiu Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai. The gallery becomes part of a dynamic cultural neighborhood that brings together leading international galleries, art institutions, and historic landmarks. In recent years, this area has emerged as one of Shanghai’s most significant destinations for contemporary art, fostering meaningful cultural exchange and international dialogue.
Founded in Singapore and actively engaged in the international contemporary art scene, YANG GALLERY is committed to promoting cultural exchange and global dialogue through contemporary art. With an international perspective and professional expertise, the gallery continues to establish meaningful connections among artists, collectors, and institutions, while providing collectors with a distinctive and enriching art collecting experience.
“Inner & Appearance” Exhibition Ongoing
Centered on the exhibition theme “Inner & Appearance,” this exhibition explores the dialogue between visual expression and inner substance, inviting a more profound and sensitive engagement with art. Through the interplay between the “inner” and the “appearance,” the exhibition unfolds a three-layered experience: from observing visual forms, to discovering the presence and qualities of materials, and ultimately to reflecting on the values and meanings embedded within each artwork.
“Appearance” refers to the visible dimension of art — the immediate visual language shaped by color, line, composition, and form. “Inner,” in contrast, reveals the deeper essence of artistic creation: the physical characteristics of materials, the artist’s emotional and conceptual expressions, as well as the temporal experiences and cultural narratives embodied within each work.
Bringing together six artists from China and abroad, “Inner & Appearance” presents a dialogue between diverse artistic perspectives and cultural backgrounds. The three Shanghai-based artists — Shen Haopeng, Huang Yuanqing, and Yuan Kan — explore art through a refined and nuanced sensibility deeply connected to Shanghai’s cultural spirit. Alongside them, the exhibition features three internationally recognized artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat from the United States, Kumari Nahappan from Singapore, and Guillaume Talbi from France, whose practices offer distinctive perspectives on contemporary artistic expression.
The three renowned artists from Shanghai are Shen Haopeng, Huang Yuanqing, and Yuan Kan. Through their work, they interpret art with the distinctive elegance and subtle sensitivity unique to Shanghai artists.
The other three international artists are Jean-Michel Basquiat from the United States, Singaporean artist Kumari Nahappan, and French artist Guillaume Talbi.
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Shen Haopeng, one of China’s leading graphic designers, presents multiple new works from his “Regeneration” series of graphic works, combining photography and painting. His photographic practice is distinguished by black-and-white imagery, structured light-and-shadow compositions, and a visually philosophical language.
The new “Regeneration” series is not about physical reproduction, but rather an artistic reconstruction across three dimensions: the regeneration of medium, the regeneration of objects, and the regeneration of spirit. At its core, Regeneration is an experimental act of artistic renewal—breaking the boundaries of medium, the rigidity of objects, and the constraints of its time.
Through the cross-disciplinary fusion of photography and painting, the series gives traditional art new life, elevates everyday objects, and restores a sense of clarity to contemporary aesthetics.
The logic behind this hybrid practice is defined by three foundations:
Painting background: His ink painting training provides a sense of expressive brushwork and compositional intuition, enabling painterly intervention within photographic images.
Design expertise: His graphic design sensibility drives the geometric structuring and symbolic refinement of compositions, with precise control over black-and-white spatial relationships.
Photographic experience: His background in photojournalism sharpens his ability to capture decisive moments, allowing him to freeze fleeting light and forms, and discover inherently philosophical abstractions within everyday spaces.
Shen Haopeng
“Rebirth” 120 x 80cm
Photography, Print on Xuan Paper & Acrylic
Shen Haopeng
“Rebirth” 120 x 80cm
Photography, Print on Xuan Paper & Acrylic
Shen Haopeng
“Rebirth” 120 x 80cm
Photography, Print on Xuan Paper & Acrylic
Shen Haopeng
“Rebirth” 120 x 80cm
Photography, Print on Xuan Paper & Acrylic
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Huang Yuanqing presents two large-scale, highly recognizable abstract paintings. He is one of the representative figures of Chinese abstract art. Since the 1990s, Huang has sought to reinterpret the inner will of calligraphy through a modern conceptual lens, integrating calligraphic experience into abstract painting practice and using “writing” in place of “painting” as a continuous exploration of the expressive potential of gestural, script-like line work.
Moving between writing and calligraphy, he works with oil paint, paper, and canvas to embrace uncertainty within the creative process, where chance gradually settles into an intellectual rhythm that unfolds through time—forming a contemporary practice rooted in Eastern intellectual traditions.
His practice is grounded in the tradition of Chinese calligraphy, yet it does not aim to express textual meaning. Instead, brushstrokes, lines, rhythm, and movement are transformed into a pure visual language. His works are often built through repeated layering, overwriting, and accumulation of lines, existing in a space between calligraphy and painting—carrying both the spiritual sensibility of Eastern writing traditions and the visual intensity of international abstract expressionism.
Huang Yuanqing
“2022-3” 200 x 170cm
Oil on canvas
Huang Yuanqing
“2017-2021-2” 200 x 170cm
Oil on canvas
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Yuan Kan works across painting, sculpture, and mixed-media installations. His practice moves fluidly between the three-dimensional and the two-dimensional, as well as between figuration and abstraction, forming a distinctive artistic trajectory shaped by the use of multimedia and diverse materials.
The work presented in this exhibition is a wall-mounted rusted metal sculpture titled “Plain”. Its monumental scale, minimalist aesthetic, and distinctive materiality together generate a powerful sense of spiritual intensity. It embodies a force that appears to erupt beyond the constraints of the flat surface—calm on the exterior, yet charged with underlying tension.
In Yuan Kan’s abstract practice, recognizable imagery from the past is largely dissolved or concealed, replaced instead by forceful sculptural expressions in metal. Through this transformation, he constructs a visual language where material, weight, and structure become carriers of abstraction and emotional intensity.
Yuan Kan
“Plain” 270 x 160cm
Rusted Steel
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Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist whose practice centers on the tensions between wealth and poverty, integration and segregation, as well as the interplay between inner experience and external reality.
He merged poetry, drawing, and painting into a single visual language, seamlessly combining text and image, abstraction and figuration, historical narratives and contemporary critique. His works frequently employ social commentary as a tool for self-reflection, expressing both his personal experience and identity as a member of the Black community, while also offering a sharp critique of systems of power and structures of racism.
Jean Michel Basquiat
“Phooey” 213 x 109cm
Silkscreen Print
Jean Michel Basquiat
“King Alphonso” 213 x 109cm
Silkscreen Print
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Kumari Nahappan’s artistic practice is rooted in an ongoing exploration of life, energy, and cultural memory. Deeply influenced by Indian culture and philosophy, she frequently employs natural elements such as seeds, chili peppers, and nutmeg as a visual language in her sculptures, installations, and paintings, addressing themes of life cycles, regenerative potential, and spiritual consciousness.
A vivid and distinctive use of red runs throughout her practice. Whether in chili peppers, saga seeds, or nutmeg forms, these botanical motifs are transformed beyond their natural attributes into carriers of spiritual meaning. Red becomes not only a symbol of vitality, passion, and life force, but also an expression of internal energy and spiritual flow.
The artist views color itself as an energetic field capable of shaping perception and emotion. As a result, her works often generate a powerful and highly charged visual experience, marked by intensity, rhythm, and a sense of inner dynamism.
Kumari Nahappan
“Duet” 117 x 43 x 65cm
Bronze
Kumari Nahappan
“Yvette” 32 x 18 x 17cm
Bronze
Kumari Nahappan
“Sky is the Limited” 133 x 43 x 47cm
Bronze
Kumari Nahappan
“Bouquet” 73 x 20 x 20cm
Bronze
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Guillaume Talbi is a young French artist whose practice spans a variety of materials and techniques, producing vivid and constantly shifting sculptures and paintings. For this exhibition, he presents two particularly playful mixed-media works on canvas.
Talbi’s works on paper and canvas often take on anthropomorphic forms with naïve, almost childlike contours, which are gradually transformed and distorted through the erosion of pencil and paint. All of his works are constructed through a consistent process that evolves according to his lived experience of different places—thus, time plays a central role in his practice.
His work can be understood as a carefully constructed experience of time, materialized through the hand. When the hand engages with material, time is measured through gesture itself. In this process, one can observe the interplay of materials and forms—smooth and rough surfaces, subtle tonal shifts, fragments, deformations, compression, and tension—emerging as traces of time embodied in matter.
Guillaume Talbi
“Fire Horse, Sky Fish” 180 x 150cm
Mixed media on canvas
Guillaume Talbi
“Spirit of Water” 180 x 150cm
Mixed media on canvas
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