15th Shanghai Biennale featuring Masaomi Yasunaga at Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

10 October 2025

From 8 November 2025 – 31 March 2026, the 15th Shanghai Biennale: ‘Does the flower hear the bee?’ will take place featuring Masaomi Yasunaga at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai. The theme explores communication and intelligence within the industry, addressing the dynamic between the audience, exhibition and environment.

Masaomi Yasunaga was a student of Satoru Hoshino, a coterie of the avant-garde ceramic group Sodeisha: a post-war (1940s – 1990s) movement that questioned the mandate of functionality within the ceramic medium and pioneered a new sculptural philosophy. Translated as ‘crawling through the mud society’, artists of Sodeisha rebelled against the prevalent ceramic traditions in Japan to create existentially and emotionally driven artworks. Yasunaga extends the legacy of Sodeisha group’s experimental ethos by focusing on the process of creation, centred around the sculptural form rather than the functional use of the object. Inspired by his upbringing within Japan’s Catholic minority and ensuing appreciation for aesthetics of Western origin, Yasunaga honours a global range of vessel forms and ritual objects.

Find out more via Power Station of Art.

Image: Masaomi Yasunaga, Empty Creature, 2017, Glaze, Copper, 7 x 10.8 x 7.6 cm, 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 3 in © Masaomi Yasunaga, Courtesy of Lisson Gallery