Modernism and World Revolution

Showing work by Jiawei Shen, Jingbo Sun, and Shengtian Zheng, this group exhibition – a partnership between the gallery and the Institute for Australian and Asian Arts and Culture at Western Sydney University – explores the intricate and inseparable entanglement between Modernism in art and the Marxist world revolution; showing that this entanglement remains one of the most compelling and complex narratives in twentieth-century art history.

Building upon this rich tapestry of historical art and ideology, the exhibition is accompanied by an academic symposium.

Rochfort Gallery
13 November to 3 December 2026
Sydney

Shen Jiawei, Homage to Frida (detail), 2026, oil on canvas, 254 × 76cm; 254 × 153cm; 254 × 76cm (triptych) / Courtesy the artist and Rochfort Gallery, Sydney

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