Fabric of the City, the new exhibition in MUSEC’s Global Aesthetics cycle, opens to the public on 19 March 2026. The exhibition presents the work of Chinese artist Zhang Hong Mei (Shandong, 1973) through more than thirty works, selected from among canvases and sculptures belonging to her most recent artistic production and brought together in the City series.
Throughout her twenty-year career, the artist has devoted herself to experimenting with a wide variety of languages: from painting to performance, sculpture, video art and environmental installations. Listening to her keen sensibility, she has been able to rework the traditional painting techniques she learned during her years of academic study in a modern key, carving out a unique space for herself in the Chinese contemporary art scene.
The title “Fabric of the City” alludes to the urban and sociological concept of the urban and social stratification of cities. Behind the intricate textile compositions of the City series, the heart of the exhibition project, lie the reflections and feelings generated in Zhang Hong Mei by her daily experience of China’s large metropolises. The word “fabric” refers to the fabrics that inhabit her studio and which she uses as her preferred material for her creations.
Fabric of the City, the new exhibition in MUSEC’s Global Aesthetics cycle, opens to the public on 19 March 2026. The exhibition presents the work of Chinese artist Zhang Hong Mei (Shandong, 1973) through more than thirty works, selected from among canvases and sculptures belonging to her most recent artistic production and brought together in the City series.
Throughout her twenty-year career, the artist has devoted herself to experimenting with a wide variety of languages: from painting to performance, sculpture, video art and environmental installations. Listening to her keen sensibility, she has been able to rework the traditional painting techniques she learned during her years of academic study in a modern key, carving out a unique space for herself in the Chinese contemporary art scene.
The title “Fabric of the City” alludes to the urban and sociological concept of the urban and social stratification of cities. Behind the intricate textile compositions of the City series, the heart of the exhibition project, lie the reflections and feelings generated in Zhang Hong Mei by her daily experience of China’s large metropolises. The word “fabric” refers to the fabrics that inhabit her studio and which she uses as her preferred material for her creations.