Bruno Zhu

22 Nov 2024-2 Feb 2025

PV 21 Nov 2024

Overview

Mechanisms of desire, identity, and ideology inform the work of Bruno Zhu. Influenced by fashion design, publishing and scenography, Zhu works in the space of fiction to rewrite agency, authorship, consumption and power. His object-led installations implicate the audience as cultural agents with the power to produce their own meanings. Comprising a series of purpose-built rooms, Zhu’s Chisenhale Gallery commission and first institutional exhibition in the UK, spatialises different states of thinking, being and feeling. Through the lens of public and private, the commission negotiates ornamentation and abstraction, inflation and deflation, with Zhu proposing a new model of display. A reader, co-edited by Zhu, will be developed alongside his commission.

Biography:

Bruno Zhu lives and works between Portugal and The Netherlands. Selected exhibitions include: Everybody is Crazy, What Pipeline, Detroit (2023); O Quilombismo, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2023); Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2023); I am not afraid, Cordova, Barcelona (2022); Myth Makers: Spectrosynthesis III, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2022); Domestic Drama, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2021); and Shhhhhhh, UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund), Oslo (2020). He is a member of A Maior, a curatorial program set in a home furnishings and clothing store in Viseu, Portugal.