Exhibition space aims to promote the university students to improve their aesthetic quality, cultivate innovative spirit, enrich their cultural connotations and develop healthy personality through various exhibitions. The exhibitions feature fine arts collection, cultural exchanges between China and overseas, art related education, and artistic activities.
Current exhibition
The Detour Inn
Life is often propelled forward by preset itineraries. We grow accustomed to rushing straight for goals and chasing deadlines, gradually forgetting that the true tenderness of life hides in detours and pauses. There is no need to hurry to the finish line — take a slight detour instead. This vintage guesthouse shelters every traveller on the go.
Drawing inspiration from the homophone of his name, artist Rao Lu (the Chinese word for “detour” is pronounced “rao lu”) builds a temporary dwelling for objects, living creatures and unrushed time. In the exhibition space, a series of animal-themed art furniture pieces that blend vintage texture and childlike imagination stand quietly, serving as gentle resting anchors for the space. Here, time slows down softly; your gaze can linger, and your emotions find a place to settle. Art is no longer a distant viewing experience, but a tender companion you can touch, approach and coexist with.
May every visitor who steps in temporarily escape the rush of daily life and return to a soothing, pleasant, slow-paced state of being. An occasional detour is life's most fulfilling gift.
About the artist:
Rao Lu, an artist born in the 1990s, works across diverse media including painting, sculpture and installation. He is dedicated to exploring the blurred boundaries between everyday life and art, with his studio serving as both an endless source of inspiration and a private "sanctuary" where he can fully immerse himself in the creative process. In his artistic expression, he uses bold, vivid colours and imaginative works to break the inherent constraints of the adult world, ultimately delivering brand-new artistic experiences and inspiration to the audience.
Past exhibitions
Consonant Beauty: Dunhuang Mural Art
When the millennia-old heritage of Dunhuang converges with contemporary academic institutions, an intertemporal civilizational discourse commences. Dunhuang, historically recognised as the strategic “thoroughfare” of the ancient Silk Road, encompasses the Mogao Grottoes whose murals, polychrome sculptures, and Library Cave collections substantiate the amalgamation of multifarious civilisations during the 4th to 14th centuries CE. In 1987, the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes were inscribed on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Register.
"Consonant Beauty: Dunhuang Mural Art" Exhibition presents a curated selection of seminal works from Dunhuang grotto artistic traditions—encompassing the ethereal dynamism of apsaras in flight, the monumental grandeur of sutra transformation murals, the profound compassion inherent in Jataka narrative traditions, and the verisimilitude of patron portraiture. Each exhibited artefact constitutes a historical reverberation of civilizational symbiosis and creative dynamism.
Walk Into the Forest: A-Ning's Ceramic Solo Exhibition
Paths wind through the forest, twisting and turning, covered by branches and leaves, sometimes ending in places untouched by human feet. Each forked path extends in its own direction, leading to vastly different landscapes—tigers crossing the path, migrating elephant herds, ancient tree houses…
Creating sculpture is like walking these forest paths. The traveler cannot see the entire forest from above, nor does creation follow a pre-drawn map. The forest continuously grows and changes, revealing its views only as one moves forward. Some completed works suggest endless beauty in a particular direction, while others make me realise I've strayed from the path or even face hidden dangers. These moments of clarity, confusion, hesitation, and repetition form the true texture of this journey. The deformation, cracking, and accidental glaze colours often mentioned in ceramics are like the inevitable ditches and gravel on every path—they exist, but don't need extra poetic meaning.
The works in this exhibition represent different "forest moments", each independent yet connected because they all come from the same woods.
Presented as part of the university's 2026 International Women's Day campaign, the exhibition celebrates the creative journey of a female artist navigating her own path—through uncertainty, discovery, and quiet determination.
About the artist:
A-Ning, a contemporary sculptor born in the post-1990 generation, earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Jingdezhen Ceramic University and maintains her studio in Jingdezhen. Employing ceramics as her primary artistic medium, she focuses on human figuration as the central element of her oeuvre, meticulously documenting individual experiences and internal emotional landscapes. Her body of work is characterized by pristine visual clarity and pronounced atmospheric qualities, featuring well-defined figures with expressive presence. These creations predominantly exhibit characteristics of independence, contemplative reserve, and fortitude, with nuanced details that possess profound significance, demonstrating her sophisticated comprehension and precise articulation of the intricate and diverse dimensions of feminine consciousness.