Courtesy China Institute Gallery

Word Alchemy: Talk and Book Launch with Xu Bing
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm
Free and Open to the Public

Join China Institute Gallery for a special book launch and talk with internationally acclaimed artist Xu Bing. This event celebrates the release of the full-color exhibition catalogue for Word Alchemy, the artist’s 2024 exhibition at Asia Society Texas (co-curated by Susan L. Beningson and Owen Duffy) that surveyed his use of words and language across his decades-long career. The catalogue, edited by the exhibition’s curators, features a new essay by Xu Bing, as well as 9 additional texts by leading scholars and curators. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear him discuss his groundbreaking, decades-long exploration of language, art, and meaning—one of the most influential artistic practices of the contemporary era. Limited editions of the catalog are also available for presale through June 10.

Xu Bing will be featured in Metamorphosis: Chinese Memory and Displacement, China Institute Gallery’s fall exhibition (curated by Susan L. Beningson).

For more information, please contact Tracy Jiao at [email protected].

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