Boundaries
& Reshaping

02 May — 02 July 2026

ZSAN

Quanzhou, Fujian

Group exhibition

Painting · Installation

Digital art · Lacquer

ZSAN’s inaugural exhibition brought together artists from Fujian and beyond, opening the institution’s curatorial programme through questions of borders, identity and transformation.

Sculptural city installation in the gallery

02 / 05
BOUNDARY RESHAPED
QUANZHOU, 2026

Lacquer artwork from Boundaries & Reshaping

BOUNDARY RESHAPED
Boundary Reshaped — installation view, 2026

Artists

Selected practices

Selected painting practice presented at ZSAN

陈加斌 · 陈壁君 · 顾文璟 · 黄启佑 · 韩玉 · 吕慧瑶 · 苏仲亮 · 吴方 · 吴钟镇 · 谢天卓 · YUKA

Residency
International exchange

ZSAN develops residencies and research-based collaborations connecting artists, curators and institutions with Quanzhou’s cultural, industrial and technological environment.

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Quanzhou / Decentralisation

24.87° N / 118.68° E

Minnan red-brick architecture in Quanzhou

A port city
looking south

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05.1

Why Quanzhou?

ZSAN begins from a deliberate geographical position. Rather than locating contemporary art once again within an established cultural capital, we choose to work from Quanzhou — a port city historically shaped by movement, exchange and encounters across the sea.

For us, decentralisation is not simply a question of moving away from the centre. It is about questioning where contemporary art can be produced, discussed and connected to the world.

Dingxin Pagoda within contemporary Quanzhou

05.2

Beyond the cultural capital

Contemporary art has long been structured around a limited number of cultural capitals. ZSAN proposes another direction: to build international exchange from a place that is not conventionally understood as a centre of contemporary art.

Working from Quanzhou allows us to encounter artistic questions through different social, industrial and cultural realities. Internationalism, in this sense, does not mean reproducing the centre elsewhere. It means creating new routes between places.

Historic and contemporary urban fabric in Quanzhou

05.3

A city in transformation

Quanzhou exists within multiple temporalities at once.

Temples, ancestral architecture and maritime histories coexist with manufacturing networks, digital infrastructures and rapidly evolving technologies. Industrial development, technological transformation and changing forms of everyday life are unfolding simultaneously.

ZSAN approaches this condition not as a contradiction to be resolved, but as a productive space for artistic research: a place where inherited structures and emerging systems continuously encounter one another.

05.4

Looking south

“South” is not only a geographical direction.

From Quanzhou, it becomes a way of reconsidering cultural routes — toward Southeast Asia, maritime networks and other contexts that have often remained peripheral to dominant narratives of contemporary art.

ZSAN understands the local not as the opposite of the international, but as its point of departure.

To be rooted somewhere is also a way of connecting elsewhere.