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Past exhibitions held in London, Milan and Shanghai
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Using the power of neuroaesthetics to recreate the story of art 🧠🎨

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Congratulations to Turkish artist Mr. Ahmet Güneştekin’s @ahmetgunestekin grand opening of the Güneştekin Foundation @gunestekin @fondazionegunestekin in Venice and the powerful launch of his solo exhibition “Silence” (Sessizlik / Silenzio / Silence) at the historic Palazzo Gradenigo! What an extraordinary milestone!

Bringing his visionary work and this beautiful new cultural space to the heart of Venice is truly inspiring. A perfect dialogue between contemporary art, memory, and the city’s rich history.

So excited to celebrate this beautiful achievement with the great artist! ✨

Türk sanatçı Sayın Ahmet Güneştekin’in @ahmetgunestekin Venedik’teki Güneştekin Foundation’ının görkemli açılışı ve tarihi Palazzo Gradenigo’daki solo sergisi “Silence” (Sessizlik / Silenzio / Silence)’nin güçlü lansmanı için tebrikler! Ne olağanüstü bir kilometre taşı!

@fondazionegunestekin @gunestekin

Vizyoner eserlerini ve bu güzel yeni kültürel mekanı Venedik’in kalbine getirmesi gerçekten ilham verici. Çağdaş sanat, hafıza ve şehrin zengin tarihi arasında mükemmel bir diyalog.

Bu güzel başarıyı büyük sanatçıyla kutlamak için çok heyecanlıyım! ✨

#AhmetGüneştekin #GüneştekinFoundation #PalazzoGradenigo #Venicebiennale #ContemporaryArt

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The Venice Biennale, presented as the “global grand event” of contemporary art, has on the surface long surpassed a purely Western narrative framework.

Although I still sense the implications of the “Western Gaze” in its presentation of “exotic” cultures, such as overly romanticized primitive wisdom, spectacles of political metaphor, and so forth.

A good example is the Argentina Pavilion, even though they are not the traditionally Western world, but their depiction of the eastern wisdom is very skewed.

I came from a family who has been long practicing Taoism, and I have done a 28-day Taoist fasting last year, eating nothing but water and nuts.

The very essence of Yin Yang in Taoism is that “The opposite forces complete each other, light and dark, men and women, and the two forces constantly transform into one another”

While the Argentina pavilion has presented a beautiful work, but they don’t truly understand the concept of Yin Yang.

#venice #venicebiennale #curatormuqing #artcurator #taoism

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The 61th Venice Biennale has opened its door on the 6th May to the preview audience.

The theme of this years Biennale, “In Minor Keys,” draws inspiration from music. It invites audiences to shift their attention from the “major keys” of grand narratives, and instead to listen to the “minor keys” of the subtle signals of the earth and life, the quiet frequencies of the soul, and poetic whispers.

Curated by the late Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025), the visionary Cameroonian-Swiss curator and her team.

📍Venice, Italy
⏰9 May - 22 November 2026

#venice #venicebiennale #curatormuqing #contemporary #artcurator

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Congratulations to Ding Yi’s solo exhibition in Venice! Curated by the incredible @curatorview and @aurondascalera

Ding Yi’s major exhibition Cosmotechnics: Ding Yi as a Planetary Code runs at Fondazione Querini Stampalia @fondazionequerinistampalia in Venice from May 9 to November 22, 2026, during the 61st Venice Biennale.

Featuring stunning new relief paintings on basswood, seamlessly integrated into Carlo Scarpa’s iconic architecture.

A must-see planetary dialogue 🎉🎉🎉

#DingYi #VeniceBiennale #QueriniStampalia

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Does the flower 🌼 truly hear the bee 🐝?

At the 15th Shanghai Biennale, I picked five works that turn the theme into a living sensory dialogue.

Allora & Calzadilla’s Phantom Forest (2025) suspends 170,000 hand-painted flowers made from recycled PVC , rootless ghosts of a threatened Caribbean forest, hovering in absence, vibrating with memory, displacement and ecological rupture. In this suspended breath, the air becomes both witness and archive.

Tania Candiani’s Prologue II: Resonant Blossoms (2025) answers with sound: bamboo-and-metal pods woven by Chinese artisans house field recordings of water, wind and forest, turning the gallery into a shared ear where listening becomes an act of generosity across species and time.

Shao Chun’s Twinland (2025) draws us inward with a surreal multimedia installation of internet footage, ASMR fragments and electronics, a cyber spirit exploring how digital culture rewrites our desires, relationships and collective memory in mixed reality.

Hu Xiaoyuan’s Ant Bone I and related works (2015–2024) weave insect wings, shells, decayed wood, hair and fossils into delicate micro-architectures, fragments of life that whisper time’s traces, where what seems vanished continues to exist in another form.

Alvaro Barrington’s Love Shack – Mountain and Sea, Shanghai (2025) creates an intimate sanctuary: a reclaimed-wood shack plays Chinese music on migration and belonging, surrounded by rhythmic Caribbean sunset paintings that reward slow, focused looking with new emotional layers.

Together, these works reawaken our neural pathways. They prove intelligence is not human alone, but a vibrating web of listening and response that art helps us rejoin.

If you have seen the exhibition, which piece shifted the way you listen?

#shanghaibiennale @powerstationofart
#curators #curatormuqing #art #contemporaryart

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🌸🐝 “Does the flower hear the bee?”

The 15th Shanghai Biennale was a poetic deep dive into interspecies intelligence and the more-than-human world. Inspired by recent science showing flowers actually “hear” the vibrations of bee wings and respond by producing sweeter nectar.

This fascinating phenomenon also ties into what scientists call “co-evolution”, the process where two species evolve together over generations, gradually adapting to each other’s tastes. I’ll dive deeper into this topic in my upcoming videos!

Curated by Kitty Scott @curator99 and her team, this wonderful exhibition brought together over 250 works by 67 artists and collectives around the world. It was a beautiful invitation to listen differently, attune our senses, and rethink how we connect with everything around us.

📆 November 8, 2025 – March 31, 2026
📍 Power Station of Art (PSA), Shanghai, China @powerstationofart

#heartlab #neuroaesthetics #curatormuqing #contemporaryart #shanghaibiennale

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Qatar Web Summit:
Where Silicon Valley meets the Middle East: Global tech and the future of innovation - all in the heart of Qatar. Glad to be part of this great community, Heart Lab @he.art.lab is coming to Doha!!

Deepest gratitude towards the incredible Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti @curatorview and Auronda Scalera @aurondascalera for introducing us to Doha.

@websummitqatar
#WebSummitQatar #TechInDoha #FutureOfInnovation

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Some of my favorite projects I did for West Bund Museum @westbundmuseum x Centre Pompidou @centrepompidou in Shanghai, broadcasting the Fluxus art movement, which is the closest to my heart ❤️

The show includes pioneering artists such as Yoko Ono, George Maciunas, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Geng Jianyi and etc.

Those brilliant minds never cease to inspire us to live a happier life, do they? 🍫

#westbundmuseum #centrepompidou #fluxus #yokoono #josephbeuys

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Such an exciting evening! So surprised! Huge thanks for all of your support!

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Comasina team + piccolo gattino Tubillo and absolutely magnificent exhibition of @sven_wang “STANZA IN UNA STANZA”

📸@fotodisven

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Finally having the chance to share my recent project, collaborating with my dear friend @he.art.lab, an art/design exhibition held in my gallery space during this Milan Design Week from 09-16/04/2025.

The exhibition is inspired by Italo Calvino’s ‘Le Città Invisibili’, where it unfolds within a domestic space where memory, emotion, and imagination interlace. Like the fantastical cities described by Marco Polo, the home here is not static—it is a psychological and symbolic architecture shaped by intimacy, longing, and transformation.

Together, the artists map out a space where art and design objects coexist as co-authors of affective experience. The home becomes a city of invisible narratives—layered with personal cosmologies, tactile memory, and speculative futures.

Curators:
Sijia Chen
Mu Qing @he.art.lab

Artists:
@_dylan.doe_
@guo_bingxin
@sven_wang
@dilan_perisan_
@herminebourdin
@geniya_art

Exhibition dates: 09-16/04/2025
Location: Navigli District, Milano, Italy
Appointment required to visit the exhibition

Again thank you all for the endless support along this project, I just can’t find a better way to express my appreciation. ❤️

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“Symphony of Senses: The Resonance Between the Five Senses and the World”

Senses are not only the bridge through which humans interact with the external world, but they also serve as keys to unlock our inner world. As sensory organs of living beings, they help us comprehend, respond to, and engage with the world through the nervous system. Whether it’s the light and shadow we see, the sounds we hear, or the textures we touch, these sensory experiences guide us to explore a richer internal and external world.

In this exhibition, the entire gallery is conceived as an active “human brain.” Each section of the exhibition is designed to fully engage and stimulate the audience’s five senses—sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Through these works, viewers are invited to fully immerse themselves in the present moment, experiencing the awakening of each sense with mindful awareness.

Curator: Mu Qing - Heart Lab

Associate Curators: Lanzehang Ying, Haijia Luo - TRA Collective @tracollective

Artists:
Zhang Yu
Zhang Yinan @zynpeter
Ash Zing @ashzing
Xue Jun @xuejune0913
Xu Ying @xuyingart
NYSomeTimes @nysometimes
Lyu Jingxuan @lvjingxuan
Lisa Chang Lee @lisachanglee
Liang Yujue @liangyujue
Amber Xiangning Lu @amber.xn.lu
Huang Peishan @peishan_h_h
Dou Weiyu @weiyu_dou

Location: Shanghai West Bund Art Center N Hall
@westbundartfair

Date: 11/01/2024 - 11/10/2024

#heartlab #neuroaesthetics #neuroscience #curator #curatormuqing

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