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Wallace Chan: Vessels of Other Worlds – A Dual-Site Exhibition in Venice and Shanghai

Wallace ChanVessels of Other Worlds VeniceSanta Maria Della PietàMay 8 – Oct 18, 2026 ShanghaiLong Museum West BundJul 18 – Oct 25, 2026 wallace-chan.com Coinciding with the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Wallace Chan presents Vessels of Other Worlds, a dual-site exhibition unfolding between Venice and Shanghai. Opening on 8 May 2026 at the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà in Venice, and continuing from 18 July 2026 at the Long Museum in Shanghai, the project is curated by James Putnam and establishes a transcontinental dialogue between two cities historically defined by water, reflection, and exchange. At the core of the exhibition is oil, or Olea Sancta, a substance that, across cultures and religions, has long functioned as a medium of purification, protection, and consecration. Used in rituals in Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam, oil embodies a shared understanding of transformation and spiritual continuity. Chan reimagines this material not as substance alone, but as a conceptual thread linking different systems of belief. In Venice, three titanium vessels are installed within the Chapel’s …

Wallace Chan: Vessels of Other Worlds – A Dual-Site Exhibition in Venice and Shanghai

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Wallace Chan /Vessels of Other Worlds / Venice /Santa Maria Della PietàMay 8 – Oct 18, 2026 Shanghai /Long Museum West BundJul 18 – Oct 25, 2026 wallace-chan.com To coincide with the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Wallace Chan presents Vessels of Other Worlds, a dual-site exhibition unfolding between Venice and Shanghai. The project marks the artist’s 70th birthday and introduces a new body of monumental titanium sculpture. Curated by James Putnam, the exhibition extends Chan’s longstanding investigation into material innovation, metaphysics, and scale. At the Pietà Chapel, three titanium vessels reference the Olea Sancta — the sacred oils used in Catholic rites — and are structured around the triad of birth, growth, and death/rebirth. Their biomorphic and architectonic forms evoke the layered cosmologies of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, while remaining grounded in Chan’s sculptural language. Installed within the Chapel’s altar space, a triptych of video screens operates as a live conduit to Shanghai, collapsing geographical distance and situating the exhibition within a transcontinental framework. At the Long Museum, the …

Wallace Chan 陳世英

Published by Jessica Wan

Transcendence /Santa Maria della Pietà /Venice /Apr 19 – Sep 30, 2024 / Against the backdrop of information overload and techno culture, our attention is constantly focused and optimised on digital platforms. The rationalist worldview that we can ameliorate the human condition through hyper-utilitarian goals, such as expanding the physical reality of our mind with artificial intelligence, has sparked a revival of self-development, spiritual well-being and a new openness to the religious and the numinous. For multidisciplinary sculptor and artist Wallace Chan, the pursuit of a meditative state and the ability of the mind to transcend the boundaries of space and time have taken the form of a lifelong exploration of the philosophy of non-duality, where conflict and harmony are interchangeable realities. After moving to Hong Kong from Fuzhou in 1961 aged five, Chan began as a gemstone apprentice aged 16. Believing that all things in the world possess an inner spirit, he developed an uncanny understanding of materiality, leading to his invention of the “Wallace cut” in 1987. Inspired by multiple exposures used in …