UCCA Beijing Exhibition | "Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine"

From March 23 to June 23, 2024, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents “Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine,” the first major institutional solo exhibition of the world-renowned artist Hiroshi Sugimoto in the Chinese mainland. A holistic retrospective of Sugimoto’s career over the past 50 years, this exhibition features 11 series and 127 pieces in a systematic presentation of his works since 1974. The collection on display includes his early creations, his signature “Seascapes,” “Theaters,” “Lightning Fields,” and “Portraits” series, as well as a newly created darkroom calligraphy that will be shown to the public for the first time. “Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine” is designed by Shinsoken (New Material Research Laboratory), an architectural firm co-founded by the artist. Spanning Sugimoto’s multidisciplinary practice of photography, installation, and sculpture, this exhibition highlights the artist’s innovative ideas about the properties and technologies of the photographic medium since the 1970s, as well as his philosophical and playful inquiry into our understanding of time and memory. The works intend to inspire viewers to reconsider the essence of photography and its role as a means of perceiving the world. “Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine” is organized by Hayward Gallery, London in association with UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, and will travel onward from UCCA to the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney. The original London presentation was curated by Ralph Rugoff, Director of Hayward Gallery, London. The Beijing presentation is organized by UCCA curator Neil Zhang.