Exhibition - Petitree Gallery

Current Exhibition

2026.07.24-2026.09.06

Black Sapote and Fresh Onion

Curator: Roxy Y. Tang

Artist: ibai

“Black Sapote” and “Fresh Onion” are at once colors and fruits: one deep and cloying, the other tender and sharp. The exhibition title places these two words in apposition, tracing from a narrative angle the contours of two young people and the world they inhabit. Welcome into a chamber of time enclosed by layered curtains — among nearly 30 works and live creation, while the spell of painting has yet to lift, fall into a world where the self and its shadows learn to recognize each other.

Black Sapote and Fresh Onion

2026.07.24-2026.09.06

Curator: Roxy Y. Tang

Artist: ibai

Past Exhibition

This exhibition gathers work from across several of Lean Lui's series — a summoning of the Girl's Universe she has been building over the years. She says the Girl's Universe has no heroes, no victories — only people who remain present inside the debris of history and its broken symbols. The universe itself may have no endpoint, like the Tao — only a state of continuous motion. They remained. And that, in itself, is already an answer.

She Remained

2026.05.23-2026.07.19

Curator: Qianqian

Artist: Lean Lui

‘Mǐ mǐ’ pronounced with a viscous and soft cadence, feels like holding something sweet in the mouth, something overly sweet. Its first meaning is a feast, indulgence, and a satiety steeped in the senses. Yet, ‘mǐ’ points to exhaustion, dissipation and demise. These two layers of meaning are never clash, much like how anything truly moving carries its own weight. ‘Mǐ’ ’s third meaning is the wind blowing across a meadow—everything leans in the same direction simultaneously. There is no resistance, nor can it be called submission. ‘Mǐ mǐ’ is exactly this sort of room: you enter, certain things begin to permeate you, and by the time you leave, the wind has already passed.

FEAST, LUST, WASTE

2026.03.22-2026.05.10

Curator: Qianqian

Artists: Claire Barrow, Huanzhe Hu, Yan Li, Yuxuan Shao, Jieyu Zheng

Found Bodies is an exploration of the 'human', woven jointly by collectors and artists. From ancient soils of a millennium ago and archaic stone fragments to today's canvases and screens, we have gathered shards scattered across the river of time.

Puppy Plan 2026: Found Bodies

2026.02.01-2026.03.16

Initiators: Jeff Du, Ma Yi

Artists: Ma Hongfa, Li Weiyi, In June Park, Yuxuan Shao, Wong Shunyu, Yi Zhang, Zoe Xu, Li Liao, Xiaochuan Wang

Before the vastness of all things, we are small; yet when we turn inward, we become impossibly specific. As in Solaris (1960), when humankind finally approaches the distant planet wrapped in its enigmatic ocean, the colossal sphere grows ever more concrete—and what reflects back is not the cosmos but the boundless, ceaselessly sought-after terrain of the self.

All Creatures Great and Small…?

2025.12.04-2026.1.29

Curator: Qianqian

Artists: Bryan Lee, Johannes Bosisio, Peijia He, Kim Myungchan, Melina Mageira, Song Ziwei, Liqing Tan, Tian Hao

The three words in the title of this exhibition are all verbs, which relates to another identity of mine—as a dancer.

Spotting, Dripping, Holding

2025.12.24-2026.01.04

Producer: PETITREE

Artist: Zitong Sheng

Xiaohuan also makes his refusal explicit: even the name Xiaohuan itself carries a sense of plain, unperformed joy—something as grounded as soil, as natural as breathing, as present as the quiet happiness one feels while painting. Bu Huan(“Not Joy”) is not negativity nor resistance, but a gesture of refusal, a kind of stability: a simple rejection of the expectation that one “ought to be happy.” It recalls Walser’s notions of “non-action” and “withdrawal,” yet Hei Er Bu Huan (“The son is not joyful”) signals a refusal to cooperate: he does not choose to step away, he situates his life between the everyday and the canvas.

Like Father, Like Son

2025.09.26-

Curator: Qianqian, Helbling

Artist: Xiaohuan Wu

The artist Yuxuan Shao once asked ChatGPT which country “Anologue” sounds like it comes from. ChatGPT replied: “None.”
In fact, “Anologue” is a transliteration of “Anologue” —a word that came into being with its own strange logic. On the one hand, the original word “Anologue” means nothing—a typo, a slip of the artist’s hand; On the other hand, it exists precisely because when most people encounter words that are both familiar and strange, they instinctively break them down phonetically, syllable by syllable, slowly soften their foreignness with lips and tongue: ‘An-No-Lo-Go.’ That’s how it was born.

anologue chapter1

2025.07.26-2025.09.15

Curator: Qianqian

Artist: Yuxuan Shao

This is an exhibition about metaphor. All the images have wandered between civilisation and wilderness.

Redundant Passion

2025.05.20-2025.07.10

Curator: Qianqian

Artists: Yorkson, Zhou Qiang, Wong Sze Wai, Yagi Eri

The exhibition seeks to disrupt the notion of ‘constancy’. Within the universally desired solidity of space and time, order conceals the first traces of possibility, while tranquility silences all dissenting voices.

Beings Out of Place

2025.03.22-2025.05.14

Curator: Roxy Y. Tang

Artists: Qiheng Chen, FANG Xianchen, Li Jun, Liu Jin, Mingjing Yu, Zhu Yizhou, Zuo Yanfeng

In an era dominated by mind-numbing parameters, elements, and indicators, most modern individuals navigate their life scenarios and choices toward equilibrium and uniformity—perpetually laboring as the 'Tuner’ across professional and personal domains: sometimes almost without emotions, gendered characteristics, confronting heterogeneous realities through homogeneous labor.

The Tuner of Curiosity

2025.02.22 - 2025.05.18

Curator: Qianqian

Artists: Wendi Xie, Zoe Xu

Puppy Plan 2025

2025.02.22 - 2025.03.23

Initiators: Yoyo Shang, Qianqian

Invited Collectors: Juliet Cheng, Jianyu Duan, Ian Hu, Charlotte Huang, Shasha Meng, Elaine Pang, Yoyo Shang, Jiaxin Sun, Miao Wen, Qianqian, Silvia Lu, Carol You, Yin Yu, Joey Zhu

In a time and space where matter and information are highly decentralized, a “postman” often rings the recipient’s doorbell repeatedly to ensure that those inside the house can clearly recognize the arrival of messages. For the recipient—whether anxious or long-awaiting—the news, good or bad, always arrives as expected after the second ring.

The Postman Always Rings Twice

2024.12.01 - 2025.01.27

Curator: Roxy Y. Tang

Artist: Baixuan Chen, Lean Lui, Michelle Tam, Xiaohuan Wu

The works from school days, whether small pieces or larger works, are like letters waiting to be opened and read.

A New Message Just In

2024.12.1-2025.01.27

Curator: Zhou Li, Huang Yishan

Artists: Bai Longfu, Cao Siyu, Julien Chen, Chen Jingxi, Deng Haohong, Ding Yuxin, Fu Qianya, Fu Kainong, Han Daosheng, Han Xi, Huang Xiaoyi, Huang Zhijie, Huang Zile, Lai Yangbiao, Li Tengfei, Liang Jingwen, Lin Shiqi, Lu Zhongyu, Luo Danrui, Ma Zihao, Nie Rong, Pan Zejia, Peng Weijun, Shen Kaichang, Shen Xinlei, Tang Qiyang, Tian Hao, Wang Jingyi, Wang Weikai, Wu Gaoyu, Wu Nan, Wu Siyuan, Wu Yiqing, Xie Leyi, Xu Jialin, Xu Jiayi, Yang Xinyu, Yang Yirui, Yu Mingjun, Zeng Xiaoxin, Zhang Weijun, Zheng Jiaqian, Zheng Yufeng, Zheng Yueqi, Zhou Ruijie, Zou Yanxi

I Tossed a Two-sen Coin Into The Air

2024.09.21 - 2024.11.24

Curator: Roxy Y. Tang

Artists: FENG Shan, Yuxuan Shao, Wang Heng, Zhang Yi

With the title text in mind, if a mark is found on the exhibition wall happens to take the shape of a snail, there might be a slight comfort in the heart.

Ah, the mark on the wall. It was a snail!

2024.06.29 - 2024.09.12

Curators: Qianqian, Marjorier Ding, Linlin Zhu

Artists: Kathryn Attrill, Pippa El-Kadhi Brown, Bradley Childs, Ekene Stanley Emecheta, Harriet Gillett, Matvei Matveev, Maggie Menghan Chen, Yuhao Chen, Dingyue Fan, Yage Guo, Yuning Liu, Li Li Ren, Chengzhou Zhou

This exhibition features small paintings by students from the fourth and fifth studios of the Oil Painting Department at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

Mó

2024.06.22 - 2024.09.22

Curator: Zhou Li, Huang Yishan

Artists: Junjiang Chen, Julien Chen, Nuo Chen, Haohong Deng, Han Rui Janet Dong, Daosheng Han, Yangbiao Lai, Shiqi Lin, Danrui Luo, Zihao Ma, Yuexi Mo, Zejia Pan, Taolin Peng, Weijun Peng, Qiyang Tang, Hao Tian, Jingyi Wang, Weikai Wang, Jialin Xu, Daiming Zeng, Xiaoxin Zeng, Kainong Fu, Weijun Zhang, Jiaquan Zheng, Yufeng Zheng, Ruijie Zhou, Yanxi Zou

Observation and summarization are not only the best ways humans learn, but also essential for artists to scrutinize themselves. The works of the artists, Qiheng Chen, Wendi Xie, Mengyun Han, and Joy Li, explore various themes:

At the beginning, you find nothing there

2024.03.24 - 2024.06.17

Curator: Qianqian

Artists: Qiheng Chen, Mengyun Han, Joy LI, Wendi Xie

PETITREE's inaugural exhibition, 'Puppy Plan', also known as 'Plan of Friends', is inspired by curator's puppies, whose sincerity and love profoundly resonate with the emotions evoked by art.

Puppy Plan 2024

2024.01.28 - 2024.03.20

Curator: Qianqian

Collectors: Anna Sheong, Chen Hongshen, Chen Minhao, Hu Shu, Yoyo Shang, Yin Hongyi, Zhang Xiaoguang