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September 16, 2026 - December 19, 2026
Thucydides Fever Dream
Hao Liang, Red Nose (part I), 2017, ink and color on silk, in 3 parts, 10 3/4 × 7 inches (27.4 × 17.7 cm) © Hao Liang. Courtesy Gagosian.
Curated by Xin Wang, Thucydides Fever Dream traces the hallucinatory cadence of history as manifest in multiple facets of contemporary Chinese life, culture, and geopolitical relations, be it to the West (ancient and modern), the former Eastern bloc, Central Asia, or Africa. Just like this year’s improbable social media trend of Chinamaxxing, China’s recent fascination with Greco-Roman classics as both statecraft (Xi’s evocation of “Thucydides’s Trap” during Trump’s 2026 visit to Beijing) and vernacular metaphor (young people referring to adulting struggles as their “Odyssey era”) illustrates a perpetual dynamic, where any self-fashioning–and indeed self-knowledge–is forged through other(s), in porous and often adversarial relationships. Drawing from the Hill Art Foundation’s own collection that already constellates art-historical connections across space and time, the exhibition brings together loans as well as fresh debuts to invite collective speculations—not only on the trajectory of China, but also on what is shared, what is selectively remembered, and what resurfaces and haunts—ghosts and algorithms alike.
Liu Xiaodong, Heavy Rain, 1993. Oil on canvas, 56⅕ × 72 inches (143 × 183 cm). © Liu Xiaodong; Courtesy of the Artist
Zhao Yao, A Few Ordinary Parallel Lines 24.S.04__571300
7,7,5,8,7,10,8,8,6,7;7,9,9,9,8,11,11,9,11,12;
11,11,10,11,9,9,9,9,11,11;10,10,10,11,10,9,11,11,1
0,8; 10,9,8,7,8, 2024. Eggshells, linen, soft gel (matte), and carbon paper, 8 1/3 × 11 4/5 × 4/5 inches (21.2 × 29.9 × 2 cm). ©Zhao Yao, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts.
Duan Jianyu, Yúqiáo (The Fisherman and The Woodcutter) No.20, 2024. Oil, acrylic, oil-based marker and oil pastel on canvas, 70 4/5 × 78 3/4 inches (180 × 200 cm). Courtesy of the Artist and Vitamin Creative Space.
Pan Caoyuan, Secluded Play 1 幽戲 1, 2023. Lacquer on wood panel: natural lacquer, mother-of-pearl, mica, and silver, 15 ¾ × 11 ¾ × 1 ⅝ in (40 × 30 × 4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Liu Chuang, Wet Metal and Cotton Dance, 2025. 2-channel (each 8:5), color, stereo, 45min. In collaboration with the Bakhor State Dance Ensemble named after Mukarram Turgunbaeva and the Memorial House Museum of Tamara Khanum. Commissioned by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation for the Inaugural Edition of Bukhara Biennial. Courtesy of the artist and the Antenna Space.
Artist List
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Chen Ronghui
Chen Xiangyun
Charles Clough
Thomas Crow / Yue Minjun
Cloris (Han) Dong
Duan Jianyu
Hao Liang
Li Songsong
Liu Chuang
Liu Wei
Liu Xiaodong
Lu Yang
Agnes Martin
Pan Caoyuan
Qiu Xiaofei
Ed Ruscha
Charles Simonds
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Sun Xun
Anthony van Dyck
Wang Guangle
Wang Ye
Andy Warhol
Christopher Wool
Wu Ziyang
Huidi Xiang
Yu Hong
Zhang Xiaogang
Zhao Yao