GROUP SHOW WITH XIYAO WANG
OZEANE FLIESSEN AUFWÄRTS

UNTERWERK SELNAU, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND
8 MAY – 14 JUNE 2026

Seven collectives and independent off-spaces come together and unite their communities into an open network. For a limited time, an institutional structure is appropriated, permeated, and reoriented: what previously seemed orderly and stable is set in motion.

© Photo Tizian Baldinger

The exhibition emerges without a clear center and brings together a multitude of independent works and practices that coalesce into an open context. Different positions appear simultaneously, overlapping, intersecting, or contradicting one another. No fixed order emerges, but rather a dynamic intermingling of parallel developments.

Xiyao Wang, On The Way To Penglai Island No.1, 2023, oil stick, charcoal on canvas, 330 x 680cm

OZEANE FLIESSEN AUFWÄRTS describes these shifts as interventions in existing conditions. Forces continue to act, but against their usual direction. Relationships emerge situationally and remain fluid. The exhibition invites visitors to orient themselves within these movements without definitively fixing them, and to let themselves be carried by the newly emerging waves.

Xiyao Wang, ON THE WAY TO PENGLAI ISLAND, 2023 at KÖNIG GALERIE © Photo Roman März

FEATURED ARTIST

XIYAO WANG
Xiyao Wang (b. 1992 in Chongqing, China) is an artist born in China and educated there, and then subsequently in Germany. She received a BA from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2014, and a BA and MFA from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (2018, 2020). Xiyao Wang is a painter whose sprawling language of abstract form is forged from a dialectic between the outer expressive gestures of her body as she paints, and the resulting marks generated on her canvases. The energy of both domains – the space before the painting and that of the depicted expanse within the frame of the picture – is captured with all of the vibrancy and vigour con...
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