29th December 2025 ~ 04th January 2026.
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Borederlines
Venue: Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Curated by: Hongqian Zhang
Artists: 39 emerging artists across painting, installation, video, and sound
Framed around the concept of “borderlines,” the exhibition reflects on the fluid and often unstable boundaries that shape contemporary life—between cultures, disciplines, and lived experience. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, it creates a platform for multiple voices, where personal and collective stories emerge through moments of overlap, tension, and transformation.
Borderlines is a contemporary group exhibition curated by Hongqian Zhang for ArtFlow Studio, presented at Fitzrovia Gallery.
Bringing together international and emerging artists, the exhibition explores themes of transition, identity, and perception through a wide range of media, including painting, installation, video, photography, and live performance.
By integrating interdisciplinary practices with performative elements, Borderlines positions the exhibition as both a spatial and experiential environment. It invites viewers to engage with liminality not as a static condition, but as an active process of becoming, where meaning is continuously negotiated between the self and the surrounding world.
For me, Borderlines is not about defining fixed boundaries, but about understanding how they are constantly negotiated through perception, identity, and lived experience.
In curating this exhibition, I sought to create a structure that allows multiple perspectives to coexist, rather than imposing a single narrative.
I am interested in the spaces in between—where meanings are not stable, and where transformation becomes possible.
Through the interplay of different media and voices, the exhibition reflects on how individuals position themselves within shifting cultural and social contexts.
I see the exhibition not as a conclusion, but as an open process—one that invites viewers to engage with uncertainty and to reconsider how boundaries shape, and are shaped by, the way we experience the world.
Borderlines brings together a diverse group of international and emerging artists：
Olesia Podyman, Bahar Talebi Najafabadi, Chaeyeon Kang, Claudi Piripippi, Danyi Shen, Hongyan Lin, Daria Yang Du, Feiyun Yao, Geoff Gunby, Guan Yang, Guo Cheng, Hannah Yağmur Gürsoy, Hui Zhang, Huiyuan Zhang, Jianqiang Xia, Jenny Ping Lam Lin, Jing Ji, Jingchao Yang, Jingchen Han, Jorden Leung, Judy Clarkson, Kasen Ko, Liron Donovan, Lu Shan, Manze Guo, Meishan Zhao, Sarah Muwanga, Sean BW Parker, Shuyang (Qinyue) Chen, Tianyu Ren, Xiwen Xu, Xiaoyi Sun, Yiling Cao, Yilun Liu, and Yinuo Pan.
Special presentations
Tonghe Yang, Hongru Zhang, and Xiaobin Zhang, further extending the exhibition’s curatorial framework.
The opening event also features a live performance
Cathy Tsang, expanding the exhibition into a dynamic, interdisciplinary experience.