Since 2025, when the gallery transitioned into a shared space model, CoBrA Gallery has continued to develop experimental practices across different cities and contexts. Moving from designer-led spaces to commercial real estate environments, it has constantly adjusted its working methods and modes of intervention. Through this process, exhibitions have gradually broken away from fixed temporal and spatial structures, allowing them to unfold simultaneously across multiple locations. The scale of practice has been continuously expanded, and its boundaries have been redefined in turn.
Against this accumulation of experience, returning to the Shami Building is no longer a simple revisit, but rather a re-entry informed by an updated set of conditions and perceptions. We will mark this meaningful return through a new thematic group exhibition, Dream Traveler.
The title of the exhibition is drawn from Shunji Iwai’s work 梦旅人. In this narrative, the characters are not anchored in a stable center of storytelling; instead, they are constantly in motion, drifting and repositioning themselves in relation to one another. Their experiences remain perpetually unfinished, continually reorganized through movement. This condition of an ever-emerging, unstable structure becomes the point of departure for the exhibition.
Rather than adopting linear narration or a single central axis, the exhibition organizes itself through a logic of “in-transitness” between works and mediums, so that viewing remains fluid, never directed toward a fixed arrival.
This exhibition brings together eleven artists and designers—Dylan Doe, Jérémie Thircuir, Marcin Rusak, Martha Sturdy, Wen Qi, Yang Di, Yao Bangliang, Yuan Huinan, Zhang Yixiong, Comite de Proyectos, and Raka Studio—alongside a selection of vintage and design furniture integrated into the space, collectively shaping the overall presentation of the exhibition.
Through the convergence of diverse media and creative approaches, the exhibition moves beyond a single narrative thread, unfolding instead as a composite field of experience.
