2025
"Unseen Boundaries" Exhibition at Loom + Ten, San Francisco
May 30th ~ June 28th, 2025
Musk Ming's first USA solo exhibition in Loom + Ten:
“Unseen Boundaries” explores the complex interplay between cultural identity, masculinity, and queer desire. This striking collection, comprising works from 2007 to 2024, invites viewers into a dynamic conversation between tradition and modernity, as Musk Ming challenges societal norms through his powerful visual language.
Musk Ming’s art delves into themes of transformation, power, and the complexities of masculinity within both historical and contemporary contexts. His works, ranging from watercolor and ink on paper to digital collage and acrylic on canvas, offer a rich tapestry of exploration and self-examination.
Musk Ming’s works act as powerful catalysts for reflection on the intersection of queer identities, political histories, and personal transformation. "Unseen Boundaries" offers a dialogue on the visibility and invisibility of marginalized voices, asking viewers to reflect on what is often left unspoken.
Artsy online: "Unseen Boundaries" presented by Loom + Ten
"For as long as I can remember, I've lived between worlds—East and West, past and present, masculine and queer. Unseen Boundaries is an invitation into that space of in-betweenness where identity is both constructed and dismantled, where desire is layered with history, and where tradition and rebellion meet in the body.
This exhibition gathers works from nearly two decades—pieces rendered in ink, watercolor, digital collage, and acrylic. Each one is a fragment of a larger meditation on power, transformation, and visibility.
In self-portraits like Five-starred Rainbow Flag and Counter-revolutionary Sodomite, I confront the roles imposed upon me—national, cultural, sexual—and reshape them through a queer lens. In the Triptych Observe the Propriety, the familiar directives of silence—"Don't Look," "Don't Listen," "Don't Speak"—become both accusation and resistance.
The Dynasty Series—Song, Tang, Qin, Qing—pulls threads from Chinese history and reweaves them with queer narratives, asking what is preserved, what is erased, and what becomes possible when wo intervene.
Some pieces, like Seafood and Peak Experience, are quieter-drawn from private moments, dreams, or erotic memory Others, like M. Butterfly - Beijing 1964, carry the weight of collective myth. Inspired by the true story of Chinese opera singer and spy Shi Pei Pu and French diplomat Bernard Boursicot, this work draws from the entangled themes of performance, seduction, and deception. The story famously adapted in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly and later in film—has long fascinated me. But here, I reimagine it through a distinctly queer lens less about betrayal, more about the fluidity of identity, the masks we wear to survive, and the longing beneath the performance.
These works are not answers. They are offerings. Markers of a journey across internal and exterrial boundaries—some inherited, others invented. These works don't ask for approval. They assert a presence. They refuse erasure. They insist that beauty, desire, and identity are political acts —especially when they are queer, especially when they are Asien, especially when they are both.
Unseen Boundanes is a call to witness what has long been bidden or dismissed. To feel the ruptune. To sit in the in-between...
And remember we were never invisible. They just refused to see us."
MM
Inaugural Opening of Loom + Ten Gallery, Time: Doors Open at 6:00 PM | Remarks at 7:00 PM
Wine and Hors d'Oeuvres / Featuring Beats by LBXX
Gallery Loom + Ten
2323 Market St, San Francisco, USA
2024
prideART Group-exhibition "nothing but LOVE"
(DE) In einer Zeit, in der die Welt oft von Hektik und Unruhe geprägt ist, möchten wir einen Raum bieten, der die vielfältigen Facetten der Liebe beleuchtet – ein Thema, das uns alle verbindet und inspiriert.
nothing but LOVE
Von der bedingungslosen Zuneigung bis hin zu den Herausforderungen, die die Liebe mit sich bringen kann: In dieser Ausstellung setzten sich ca 50 Künstler:innen auf einzigartige Weise mit den Höhen und Tiefen dieser universellen Emotion auseinander.
Denn die Liebe ist, genauso wie Kunst, eine bunte Angelegenheit. Liebe ist nicht heteronormativ, es gibt viele unterschiedliche Möglichkeiten zu lieben. Wen du liebst, was du fühlst, welchem Geschlecht du dich zugehörig fühlst, macht keinen Unterschied.
Die Ausstellungstage sind:
5.12., 18-22 Uhr (Vernissage mit DJ),
6.12., 7.12., 8.12, 13.12., 14.12., jeweils 15-20 Uhr
15.12., 15-20 Uhr (Finissage mit DJ)
(EN) At a time when the world is often characterized by hecticness and unrest, we want to offer a space that illuminates the many facets of love - a topic that connects and inspires us all.
nothing but LOVE
From unconditional affection to the challenges that love can bring: In this exhibition, around 50 artists deal with the highs and lows of this universal emotion in a unique way. Because love, just like art, is a colorful matter. Love is not heteronormative, there are many different ways to love. Who you love, what you feel, which gender you feel you belong to makes no difference.
The exhibition days are: December 5th, 6pm-10pm: Vernissage with DJ. December 6th, 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th, 3pm-8pm each. December 15th, 3pm-8pm: Finissage with DJ.
prideART e.V., THE KNAST, Söhtstr. 7, 12203 Berlin
Musk Ming Art Calendar 2025
297x420mm Wandkalender 2025
Now available in / jetzt erhältlich in:
Buchladen Eisenherz
Motzstraße 23, 10777 Berlin, Germany
Weihnachtskarte & Ausstellungskatalog (Christmas Card & Exhibition Guide) 2024 of Eisenherz
"Arrow of Eros 愛神之箭" Solo-Exhibition in EISENHERZ
Ausstellung: 1. ~ 31. Oktober 2024
Vernissage: Friday, 04. Oktober 18:00-20:00 Uhr
Eros ist in der griechischen Mythologie der Gott der begehrlichen Liebe. Ebenbürtig ist in der römischen Mythologie Amor, der als Personifikation der erotischen Begierde auch Cupido („Begierde“, „Leidenschaft“) genannt wird. Die Kunst von Musk Ming, ist wie die Pfeile der Eros, öffnet eine Fantasiewelt der Liebe und Freiheit.
Nach der erfolgreichen letzten Ausstellung bei Eisenherz, zeigt Musk Ming in der neuen Ausstellung einen Überblick von seinen Kunstwerken: Federzeichnungen, Malerei, digitale Arbeiten und bis jetzt noch unveröffentlichte Skizzen und Zeichnungen. Dazu die originalen Bilder für die Musik-Covers und einige Musik-Videos.
Eros is the Greek god of love and sex, his Roman counterpart is Cupid ('desire'). Musk Ming's art, like the arrows of Eros, opens up a fantasy world of love and freedom.
After the successful last exhibition at Eisenherz, he is showing an overview of his artworks in the new exhibition: Pen and ink drawings, paintings, digital works and as yet unpublished sketches and drawings, as well as the original pictures for the music covers and some music videos.
Special Guest Artist:
Shin Photography
Shin (Xin Chen) is a passionate photographer who specializes in analog photography. After a decade since acquiring his first analog camera in Madrid, he is excited to showcase his work in a public space for the very first time.
Shin (Xin Chen) ist ein leidenschaftlicher Fotograf, der sich auf analoge Fotografie spezialisiert hat. Zehn Jahre nach dem Kauf seiner ersten, analogen Kamera in Madrid freut er sich, seine Arbeiten nun zum ersten Mal in der Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren.
The exhibition shows: Set photos captured during the making of "In Search of Wushuang", Musk Ming’s music video as a documentary that follows queer artists Yumo Chen and Ziwei Huang as they prepare for their performance "The Little Whorehouse de Chinoise". Set photos taken during Musk Ming’s music video "Let Me In".
"Musk Ming Music Video Collection 2013-2024"
Prinz EinsenHerz Buchladen, Motzstr. 23, 10777 Berlin eisenherz.berlin
Screening of "Put My Spell On You" at HDFK, Croatia
Musk Ming's MV/short film "Put My Spell On you" is shown together with other five films at the HDFK (Hrvatsko društvo filmskih kritičara / Croatian Society of Film Critics) program "Filmska kritika i kustoske prakse u Aziji (Film Criticism and Curatorial Practices in Asia)", co-curated by Maja Korbecka, Fang Yen Hsiang, Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa and Kong Rithdee, moderated by Sara Simić, on Friday, June 14, at 18:30 in Dokukin KIC (Ulica Petra Preradovića 5, HR-10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska) Croatia.
Musk Ming's art-shirt "Go Wealth 恭喜發財"
During the 18-years retrospective exhibition "18+ Goodbye to Puberty" (July 2023) in the LGBTQ bookstore Eisenherz Berlin, Musk Ming presents his art-shirt 2023 edition "Go Wealth 恭喜發財".
Single Jersey 100% Organic ring-spun Combed Cotton. Size(EU): M, L, XL