Daniel Buren in Pulse of Life
8 February—23 August 2026
Group exhibition at Chengdu Art Museum, Sichuan, China
From 8 February – 23 August 2026, Chengdu Art Museum presents the latest edition of Chengdu Biennale, featuring works by Daniel Buren, Julian Opie and Yu Hong. Themed Pulse of Life, the Chengdu Biennale centers around the living conditions of people across different times and spaces, exploring daily life within the complex and ever-changing social environment of the present day. It orchestrates a resonance between the tangible fabric of everyday existence and the data-deluged reality of contemporary life, thereby constructing a multi‑dimensional landscape of the ‘pulse of life,’ through which probes the inherent tensions within the evolution of cities, rural communities, and even civilisation itself.
Daniel Buren presents Pile Up: High relief n° B5 (2017), an amalgamation of forms constructed out of two types of aluminium rectangular blocs, one covered with paint and the other treated in order to have a reflective, mirror-like surface. The sculpture derives its dynamism from a myriad of carefully arranged reliefs, which play with depth, surface, and space.