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  • "In Other Moonlights" Exhibition Review, Artforum China

    展览最可贵之处,是让这些跨越艺术、出版、播客与社群组织的实践彼此参照,并让实践过程而非产出占据醒目位置。重音社带来的“下工后”档案,来自一场面向未受正规艺术训练者的展览:他们白天在非艺术行业工作,下班后继续创作。TightBelt的柜中有艺术新人问卷、纪念刊物《小康了吗?》和持续数年的从业者访谈。热敏修辞学的两位主播每期选择一个词限时交谈,展览中二十期的节目笔记被逐张印在热敏纸上,让“旅行”“嫉妒”“坚持”等词汇经过个人记忆和当下感受生出新的释义。“浦口工厂”从南京浦口几个年轻人的合居生活开始,通过公众号和“妇女之声”等公开征集。让分散的女性经验彼此相遇。这些材料让“泛文化”获得了具体形态,原本散落在公众号、播客和朋友网络中的实践,得以进入一个可以被认真观看、相互参照的公共现场。

    展览的微妙之处也在这里。策展文本试图让文化劳动的不可见状态获得可见性,却也可能在此过程中,为这种可见性预设了一种共同形象。八只柜子里的材料与“兼差”这一概念框架并不等距,对劳动、创作与坚持的理解亦彼此有别。热敏修辞学谈到“坚持”时,并未将其视为天然崇高的品格,放弃同样可以是合理且自愿的选择;马马虎虎则把“一般般”“差不多”发展为一种工作方法,接受现场的偶然与不完美。这些实践所显露的松弛与对“坚持”的保留,与策展文本所描绘的那种彼此支撑、继续摸黑工作的劳作姿态之间,形成了一种未被妥善处理的张力。文/ 汪洋

  • In Other Moonlights 月下兼差

    Mamahuhu is an art project founded by Yuki He and Qianfan Gu in New York in 2019, dedicated to promoting Asian art, music, and culture. We are delighted to participate for the first time in a group exhibition in Beijing “In Other Moonlights.”

    Mamahuhu will present past projects from 2019–2024 and showcase a new work, “Gaokao Souvenir Store”. Thank you to the Pararailing team @para_railing and tbc projects @tbc_projects_ ! Poster design by @xuecanye

    On View: June 27–August 30, 2026,
    Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 2-8 PM
    Peony Innovation Technology Incubator, Jiuxianqiao, Chaoyang District, Beijing

    马马虎虎是 @artistyukihe@qianfan 在2019年创立于纽约的艺术项目,致力于推广亚裔艺术、音乐与文化。很高兴第一次参加北京的展览,马马虎虎将呈现2019-2024的过往项目,并展出一组新作品“高考纪念品商店”,谢谢栏杆外团队及tbc projects!海报设计: 叶雪粲

    开幕:6月27日周六下午2-8PM
    展期:2026.6.27-8.30 北京市朝阳区酒仙桥牡丹创新科技孵化器

  • LEGENDS: Athleticism in Asian/American Art

    Curated by Jayne Cole Southard at Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College (CUNY)

    On View: Feb. 10 - May 14, 2026
    Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb 10, 2026 | 6–8 PM


    LEGENDS: Athleticism in Asian/American Art explores the intersection of art and sports through the work of contemporary Asian and Asian American artists. While often considered distinct fields, this exhibition highlights how sport and artistic expression serve as interconnected arenas. Featuring artists and collectives across a wide range of artistic media, LEGENDS examines how artists of Asian descent engage with the shared language of art and sport to reflect identity, nationalism, the body, and performance. 

    The first exhibition to specifically focus on the relationship between art and sports within contemporary Asian and Asian American art, LEGENDS will debut works by The Chinatown Basketball Club, Kaarina Chu Mackenzie, and Astria Suparak. 

    Programs hosted by the Godwin-Ternbach Museum in conjunction with the exhibition are open to the public. This exhibition was organized by Jayne Cole Southard, art historian and lecturer at The City College of New York. LEGENDS is a Queens College School of Arts Initiative funded by The Thomas Chen Family/Crystal Windows Endowment. 

    Additional support is provided by Kupferberg Center for the Arts. Education programs and initiatives are supported by the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with New York City Council.

  • Horse Around

    Curated by Jun Dong and Chihyang Hsu at Yang Collective


    On View:
Feb. 12 - Mar. 22, 2026
    Opening reception:
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026 |
6 to 8 pm

    Bringing together works by eleven artists, the exhibition centers on horses as seen through diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic languages, reflecting contemporary realities.

    The Year of the Horse symbolizes strength, energy, and freedom. Horses have long been deeply embedded in human life, playing an essential role in shaping civilization since ancient times.

    The exhibition explores horses in playful and thoughtful ways. The works depict their striking beauty, reveal their temperament and inner life, express strength and spirit, and transform the horse into a symbolic lens for engaging with social realities, cultural practices, and human experience.

    Participating artists include Gian Galang, Helen Zhang, Jia Sung, Karol Hsueh, Soren Nellemann, Souya Handa, Xing Li, Yasmine Wei and Alice Yu, Yiming Tang, and Yuki He.

  • The Reality Is Endlessly Postponed

    Curated by Frank WANG Yefeng at BELOW GRAND Gallery, featuring works by Li Zhenhua and Yuki He

    On View: Jan 10 - Feb.14, 2026
    Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan 10, 2026 | 5–7 PM


    The Reality is Endlessly Postponed brings together Li Zhenhua and Yuki He—two artists whose practices unfold across moving images, photography, cinematography, and the unstable terrain between reality and its reconstruction. Though their career trajectories differ, both artists operate fluidly between roles—curator, producer, filmmaker, architect, designer—allowing their work to emerge from an acute awareness of how images circulate, how memories shift, and how meaning is continually produced in unstable realms.

  • Cultbytes: At Accent Sisters Home is an Ongoing Story

    The significance of community is a running thread connecting many of the works in the exhibit. Yuki He’s Chinatown Basketball Club is a digital reimagining of Columbus Park during the CBC Mini-Market Day. Chinatown Basketball Club is a weekly gathering of artists of Asian descent who host pick-up games, tournaments, and various creative projects; thus transforming the basketball court into a place of belonging and shared artistry.

    - Colleen Dalusong

    May 31, 2025

  • The New York Times: Hidden in a Mini-Mall in Flushing, a Home for Art

    On a storage cabinet outside the barbershop, an interactive artwork lets visitors play a dreamed-up board game — “Flushing Polyphonous” — designed by Mamahuhu (Yuki He and Qianfan Gu) as a kind of Queens-centric version of Monopoly. Players roll dice and gain or lose money as they advance, according to cards they draw. Some instructions are biting and sly, pointing to the challenges residents face: “Tangram Mall celebrates its grand opening with exciting promotions, but unfortunately, your small business is suffering losses,” one card says, indicating a setback. Other cards refer to police crackdowns on street vendors, M.T.A. delays, and anti-gentrification protests that slow your progress.

    - Aruna D’Souza

    June 21, 2023

  • Hyperallergic: In a Queens Mini-Mall, an Unlikely Art Show Brings Locals Together

    Evoking the way in which local residents identify local places by familiar landmarks and experiences instead of official names, most of the artworks on display aren’t labeled. In place of a numbered address, the exhibition’s location is a set of descriptive directions using community markers. For Home-O-Stasis, Yuki He and Qianfan Gu from the collective Mamahuhu created “Flushing Polyphonous” (2023), a humorous reinterpretation of Flushing’s map as a Monopoly-like board game. With magnetic pieces and a pair of die, the game takes players through the Queens neighborhood focusing on landmarks and shared hyperlocal experiences.

    - Maya Pontone

    July 18, 2023

  • Burlington Contemporary: A polyphonous ode to migration

    Flushing Polyphonous, an interactive Monopoly send-up designed by the collective Mamahuhu (Yuki He and Qianfan Gu), takes on the rampant real estate speculation that has beset the neighbourhood in recent years. Fortunes in the game are painstakingly gained and lost: $20 earned from a job at Hong Kong Supermarket or half of one’s savings decimated by a cyberscam.

    - Kolleen Ku

    September 20, 2023