exhibition · public program

system d
46 avenue pierre brossolette, 92240 malakoff
18.10.2025 – 08.11.2025

Drawing on Avery F. Gordon's notion of ghostly matters, a group exhibition in a former distillery built at the height of French colonial expansion. Through a non-anthropocentric lens, seven artists activate the site's layered history as a field of haunting — summoning alternative narratives of migration, colonization, and exile across visual works, music performances, and film screenings. The exhibition closed with a public programme of guided tours, film screenings, and a participatory distribution of an in-situ installation.

curator: deng qiwen

exhibition · public program

carbone 17
17 rue des postes, 93300 aubervilliers
07.02.2026

In a 1930s building that survived fire and failed privatization to become Carbone 17, a self-governed artistic space in Aubervilliers, five artists intervene in the site's layered materiality over the course of a single day through simultaneous performances, workshops, and installations. Decay, repair, and near-wild vitality are the point of departure, not backdrop. Traces of earlier interventions remain, entering into dialogue with what follows; the presence of the audience becomes indispensable to the genesis of the work.

co-curators: deng qiwen, wang tianyu

talk

yiyi sphère
75002 paris, île-de-france
18.01.2025

An in-depth conversation on the Parisian experience of East Asian art practitioners — curatorial methods, institutional pathways, and non-profit practices. Conceived as a warm, open space for exchange across generations, disciplines, and levels of experience.

speakers: deng qiwen, wang tianyu

radio program

100.7 FM · ongoing

A monthly radio program dedicated to contemporary art in the French-speaking world. Focused on emerging artistic practices across exhibitions, performances, publications, and research.

co-hosts: deng qiwen, lucie planty

exhibition

la demeure des artistes
24 rue de lappe, 75011 paris
15.03.2021 – 22.03.2021

Developed between France's second and third lockdowns, a group exhibition bringing together sixteen artists across painting, installation, and video. Taking division — the ecological fluctuation between aggregation and fragmentation — as its framework, the exhibition explores the porous boundary between human and non-human worlds, and between individual survival and collective life. Making work far from home, the artists turn ecological entanglement into a form of resistance.

co-curators: chen mo, deng qiwen