Hua Wang – Hua’s Gigantic House

3. Mai – 30. Juni 2025
Curated by Cosima Grosser 

In her solo exhibition, the Chinese artist Hua Wang (*1990) explores the complex relationship between humans and nature – a relationship that is increasingly characterized by alienation and a belief in technological progress. Hua’s Gigantic House, curated by Cosima Grosser, is a poetic and critical examination of the role of humanity in a radically changing world. 

Growing up in the western Chinese desert region of Urumqi, Hua Wang had limited access to untouched nature during her childhood. Instead, she was surrounded by a rapidly expanding urban space – a typical symbol of the economically booming China of the 1990s. Her early ideas about animals, agriculture and ecology were not shaped by direct experience, but by media, technology and Western consumer brands such as McDonald’s and KFC. 

This biographically shaped perspective forms the starting point for a profound reflection: What does it mean to be human in a world in which nature increasingly appears as a resource that can be shaped? And what narratives and memories shape our relationship to the environment, history and time? 

In Hua’s Gigantic House, the artist slips into the allegorical role of one of the oldest known trees in the world – a 5,000-year-old organism whose existence embodies time, memory and transformation. From this perspective, a multi-layered narrative about collective consciousness, cultural evolution and the fragile balance between nature and civilization unfolds.

Opening hours

3 May – 30 June 2025 
Tuesday to Saturday, 1 – 7 pm 

Performance

Ivo Dimchev (live)
16 May, 8 pm 

Hua’s Gigantic House 

Lottumstraße 14 
10119 Berlin