徐子奕的个展与个人项目包括：“化石宴”（想象力学实验室、天目里美术馆，杭州，2023）；“夜间拍卖”（中间美术馆，北京，2024）；“如何将番茄汤带入国家美术馆？”（三影堂摄影艺术中心， 北京，2025）。近期参加的展览包括：“附近映像季”（广州，2023）；“无法回击”（大气层空间，南京，2023）；“燃冉艺术季”（上海新天地，2023）；“腹地脉动——第四届中国新疆国际艺术双年展”（新疆美术馆，乌鲁木齐，2024）；“西岸艺博会影像单元”（西岸梦中心，上海，2024）；“液态乡愁”（中央美术学院美术馆，北京，2025）；“Open Frame”（英国国家美术馆，伦敦，2025）；“超对象：陌生访客”（Click Ten Gallery，北京，2025）；大断裂：末世未来考古学（中心美术馆，杭州，2025）；不/可见的光谱：华语圈当代影像艺术（伦敦⼤学亚非学院美术馆(SOAS Gallery)，伦敦，2026） 2023年，他入围由UCCA尤伦斯当代艺术中心与新天地联合发起的“燃冉”青年艺术家奖。
2004 Born in Hangzhou, China 2023 BA Fine Art (4D Pathway), Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
He adopts re-enactment as a working methodology, turning a sensitivity to absence/fragments into a creative engine: when confronted with indirect evidence—natural specimens, material remnants, images and archives—he deploys sensory substitution (taste/smell/sound), narrative re-composition, and contextual dislocation to forge a corporeal relation with what has disappeared. His practice is grounded in sustained observation and collecting within natural history/botany, and in research into institutional contexts, namely the “institutional residues” of protest events, attending to the ruptures and fissures that arise once objects are severed from their original historical/cultural milieus, as well as the veiled kinships of things.
Working across installation, performance, and moving image, he organizes experience through indices and para-archives, deliberately de-historicizing linear narratives to activate an open, plural, and emergent perceptual model—one in which things, once re-arranged, point toward an as-yet undefined, continually forming collective future.
Xu’s recent solo exhibitions and projects include: Fossil Feast (Imagokinetics, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, 2023) ；Night Auction (Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, 2024)；How to Bring Tomato Soup into the National Gallery（Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 2025). Recent group exhibitions include: 4th Nearby Images Festival (Guangzhou, 2023); Unplayable (Atmosphere Space, Nanjing, 2023); Ranran Art Season (Shanghai Xintiandi, Shanghai, 2023); Hinterland Pulse: The 4th Xinjiang International Biennale (Xinjiang Art Museum, Urumqi, 2024); West Bund Art & Design Fair Video Section (West Bund Dream Center, Shanghai, 2024); Liquid Nostalgia (CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2025); Open Frame (National Gallery, London, 2025); Hyperobject: Strange Visitors (Click Ten Gallery, Beijing, 2025)；The Great Rupture: Apocalyptic Future Archaeology" (Central Art Museum, Hangzhou, 2025); In/Visible Spectrums: Contemporary Video Art from the Sinosphere, SOAS Gallery, London) In 2023, Xu was shortlisted for the “Ranran Young Artist Award," jointly initiated by UCCA Center for Contemporary Art and Xintiandi.
