Nightlife & activities

Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud

Date: Dec 29-Feb 24 - 10 am

Venue: chi K11 art museum, Shanghai

Using the spray gun as her primary painting tool, German artist Katharina Grosse has applied variegated swath of paint across the walls of exhibition spaces, her own bed, an entire house and its surroundings, and arranged objects such as piles of soil and tree trunks to create large-scale site-related paintings. She has thus been able to liberate the application of paint from its immediate connection to both the painter's body and any predetermined surfaces of the Western painting tradition. With color, she traverses the established borders between objects and architectural settings, and ultimately offers models for imagining reality in ways that were not previously conceived by semiotic conventions, hierarchies and social rules. Spectators are invited to meander through the five zones by following the painterly traces that Grosse left when she worked her way through the museum. The amorphous, multicolored forms and shapes sprayed across the varying structures and draping cloths installed at the museum may also create an experience of wandering on the peripheries of the familiar, inviting rumination into the quintessential strangeness of a metropolis that is impossible to be delineated in simple contours.

New Year with Frankyeffe

Date: Dec 29 - 9 pm

Venue: King Kong, Shanghai

Frankyeffe is probably one of the most interesting producers in the European scene. He started his career in 2001 and his releases received immediate supports on well known labels like Terminal M, Tronic, Truesoul, Odd, Octopus, mau5trap, Trapez, Phobiq, Soma, Nachtstrom and many others. Thanks to these releases Frankyeffe had quickly gained huge recognition amongst the European techno scene. Frankyeffe is always looking for new sounds and musical influences, and he's ready to share adrenaline and space journeys which reflect his artistic background through his DJ sets. He's not a conservative artist, he loves to experiment and discover new worlds. In 2014 Frankyeffe established his label, Riot Recordings, getting lot of supports from the biggest and most important DJs of the world. His show at the Tomorrowland Festival was giving his career another huge push. He is now constantly working on new material as well as touring across Europe and America.