OPEN participated in the "Blueprint Beijing" section of the "2022 Beijing Art Biennale", with two urban research projects about Beijing spanning 12 years, “OPEN Metropolis” and “2nd Ring 2049”, responding to the exhibition theme "Blueprint" and imaging a better urban future.

In "OPEN Metropolis", OPEN presents eight representative proposals in the context of "Voids for Needs", filling the city's "voids" (inactive and inefficient public space resources) with the city's "needs" (public services, cultural and sports facilities needed for a better life).  

In "2nd Ring 2049", against the backdrop of today's worldwide environmental crisis and China's emergence as a world leader, OPEN envisions the 2nd Ring Road in Beijing transforming from an inefficient and highly polluted area into a clean, green, and vibrant urban public space. 

The exhibition opens from January 14, 2023 - March 12, 2023.

OPEN's Chapel of Sound project was exhibited in the "Wan Lai - China Soundscape Design Exhibition" at Nanjing Golden Eagle Museum of Art. Through large-scale digital image display, the building in the natural environment of the valley is reproduced in the exhibition hall, hoping that people can "see" the shape of sound, or "hear" the sound of silence.

The exhibition is curated by Lu Andong, Professor of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning and Director of the Acoustic Media Lab of Nanjing University. The exhibited works span the categories of architectural design, urban design, landscape design, public design, music technology, public art, and other soundscape design categories, connecting many disciplines, and allowing the audience to experience and reflect on the basic medium of our perception of the world—sound in the Golden Eagle Museum of Art, a cultural living room in the clouds above 200 meters.

Two of OPEN’s works, the Garden School (Beijing No. 4 High School Fangshan Campus) and the recently completed Vertical Campus (Tsinghua Ocean Center) have been selected for the Italian exhibition “Metropoli Novissima.” Held in Naples, this major group showcase names OPEN as one of “the greatest protagonists of urbanism and international architecture”, and the Garden School and Vertical Campus as part of a handful of internationally relevant architectural works highlighting the sustainable redevelopment of urban suburbs. Promoted by the Foundation Annali dell’Architettura e delle Città, the exhibition will run from October 10th to November 15th 2018 inside the Complesso Monumentale di San Domenico Maggiore.

OPEN Architecture’s MARS Case—a minimal housing proposal created in collaboration with Chinese electronics giant XIAOMI—was recently unveiled at House Vision, a cross-industry innovation platform for future housing founded and curated by Kenya Hara. Seamlessly combining technology, product design, and architecture, the mobile unit challenges the conventions of the contemporary “house” to explore the meaning of truly simple and sustainable living. It will be on display outside Beijing’s Bird’s Nest National Stadium until November 6th, 2018.

Two of OPEN’s projects, the new Dune Art Museum and the Chapel of Sound, were recently exhibited in “The Legacy of Architectonic Futurism,” the Shanghai BANK Gallery’s newest group show. The exhibition, curated in honor of the visionary design work of Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012), runs from June 15th – August 12th 2018 in downtown Shanghai. Woods was an artist, theorist, educator, and distinguished architect whose politically charged and provocative illustrations drew parallels between society’s physical and psychological constructions. The exhibition showcases Woods’ lifetime of creative work, ranging from competition submissions to futuristic imaginings, with that of artists and architects from around the world whose works honor Woods’s maverick spirit.

OPEN’s installation titled “The Eternal & the Ephemeral” evoked the interest and participation of a great number of visitors at Marmomac 2017, held from September 27th to 30th in Verona Italy. The piece was created in response to the theme of the exhibition, “Soul of City,” and was curated by celebrated Italian architectural scholar Luca Molinari. “Soul of City” invited designers, including OPEN, from seven different countries to collaborate with some of Italy’s finest stone manufacturers and interpret their own understanding of the given theme using a single building material, stone. In OPEN’s design, a giant block of limestone measuring 1.5m x 1.5m x 1.5m was sliced into 8000 small cubes of 7.5cm x 7.5cm x 7.5cm each. Every visitor to the exhibition was invited to take away a small cube, which was engraved with the words “Soul of City”, as well as a unique serial number. As the micro cubes were taken away, the geometric form of the installation continued to change, from the initial large cube to an ever changing silhouette, much like a morphing city skyline. Generosity and sharing, eternity and ephemerality-- the warmth and openness of this installation is a perfect analogy for OPEN’s ideal vision of the city.

From March 19th to July 9th, “The New Normal: China, Art, and 2017”, an exhibition whose spaces were designed by OPEN, will be held at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA). 

The Locus Design Forum 2016 opened in Dongdaemoon Design Plaza in Seoul, Korea on October 10th. In the exhibition, OPEN presented a hand-crafted book ‘A DIALOGUE AT THE SEA’.

This is 'a book of two books', which opens up from the middle. It attempts to construct a poetic conversation between two projects: the seaside art spaces in Aranya.  OPEN’s founding partner Huang Wenjing presented on the opening ceremony and explained the design concept and philosophy behind the book. 

The theme of Locus Design Forum 2016 is ‘the creative gap between book and architecture’. The exhibition will last till November 9, 2016. 

The cinematic installation titled OPEN ReAction, as part of the Inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, was officially open to public on October 3rd, 2015. The exhibition is located in the ground floor lobby of the Expo 72 building (72 E. Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60601), across street from the Chicago Cultural Center. The exhibition will last till January 03, 2016.

In the films, shot and edited by Spirit of Space, the visual narrative is built around three key topics, as embodied by four of OPEN Architecture’s built projects: China and its urban dynamics, the process of architectural creation, and poetry through behavior.

OPEN was selected as one of the participants in the very first architecture biennial in North America, the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, which will launch in October 2015.

The list of participants was officially announced on April 14, 2015 by the Chicago Architecture Biennial organizers. Over 60 studios - representing more than 30 countries, across 5 continents - were selected by Biennial Co-Artistic Directors Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda. The participants were culled from a list of some 500 architects and were chosen on the basis of whether they are pushing the limits of, or redefining, the field, said the Artistic Director Sarah Herda (quoted from Chicago Tribune). Added Grima: “During our research, we have had conversations with hundreds of architects working in radically different cultural, social, and economic conditions. The Biennial is an occasion to explore the inspiring work that a new architectural generation is producing.