“Faces & Places“ Painted and Photographed Works by Wim Wenders and Robert Bosisio
Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou 2025
A quiet dialogue between image and painting,
is about to unfold in Hangzhou.
Two artists from Germany and Italy
with camera and brush,
capture those subtle yet enduring moments suspended in time.
This winter, Zhejiang Art Museum will present Faces & Places — Painted and Photographed Works by Wim Wenders and Robert Bosisio from 11 December 2025 to 15 March 2026.The exhibition brings 95 works into dialogue across photography, lightbox installations, oil paintings, and mixed media.
As a pivotal figure of New German Cinema, Wim Wenders has long explored the relationship between memory, landscape, and the act of seeing. His works in the exhibition—from early black-and-white images to monumental color panoramas—trace a visual journey shaped by travel, solitude, and the poetics of time.
Italian artist Robert Bosisio, known for his layered surfaces and the oscillation between clarity and blur, approaches painting as an interior form of seeing. Alongside portraits, landscapes, and interiors, he will present several new works created specifically for Hangzhou, including the largest oil painting of his career.
Spread across Galleries 4 to 6, the exhibition adopts a mixed-media curatorial approach that dissolves the boundaries between photography and painting. Concrete-grey walls and carefully calibrated viewing distances emphasize luminosity, texture, and spatial depth, guiding visitors from Wenders’s expansive worldscapes to Bosisio’s meditative inner spaces.
A series of public programs will accompany the exhibition: a Wim Wenders Film Retrospective (5–10 December) at Broadway Cinematheque Kerry Center; a painting workshop led by Bosisio at the China Academy of Art (15–19 December); a lecture on visual culture featuring invited speaker Professor Dai Jinhua; and a parallel exhibition by Bosisio at YI Space in early January 2026.
As a cross-cultural project shaped by more than three decades of artistic friendship, Faces & Places invites viewers to consider how images—painted or photographed—become spaces of perception, encounter, and reflection.