Artist Talk: Bruno Zhu in Conversation With Olivia Aherne

Join us at Sotheby’s Institute of Art for this exciting event spotlighting the work of the artist Bruno Zhu.

Bruno Zhu will talk about his work and solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in London, which opens on November 22. He will be in conversation with curator Olivia Aherne.

This conversation will be followed by a drink reception.

The event is free to attend but you must register for a ticket.

About the Artist

Bruno Zhu lives and works between Portugal and The Netherlands. His practice cuts across, stitches through, and writes against normative alignments of knowledge production and social reproduction. Recent projects include presentations at Chisenhale Gallery in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Veronica in Seattle, What Pipeline in Detroit, Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, Kunsthalle Zurich in Zurich, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. He is a member of A Maior, a curatorial program set in a home furnishings and clothing store in Viseu, Portugal.

About the Interviewer

Olivia Aherne is a curator based in London. As the Curator at Chisenhale Gallery, London, she’s developed new commissions by Claudia Pagès Rabal (forthcoming 2025), Rory Pilgrim (2024), and Alia Farid (2023), among others, and edited new publications including besides Puleng; dontsa-ring and roving preoccupations by Simnikiwe Buhlungu and The Process by Joshua Leon (both Mousse Publishing, 2024). In her previous role as the Curator, Exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, she curated the first UK solo exhibitions by Carolyn Lazard, Meriem Bennani and Mélanie Matranga. In 2018, she was awarded the NEON Curatorial Award in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery, London and participated in the inaugural Shanghai Biennial Curator’s Lab. She writes for publications including Art Monthly and Mousse, and is a visiting tutor on the MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Lead Image: I am not afraid, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist and Cordova, Barcelona. Photo: Roberto Ruiz.