中国艺术家 曹斐（1978 年生于广州）是其同代艺术家中最具代表性的声音之一。她的创作横跨影像、数字媒介、摄影、装置与雕塑。曹斐的作品捕捉了自 1978 年改革开放政策实施以来，塑造中国社会、尤其是珠江三角洲地区的急剧变化。
“曹斐：近未来的见证” 是艺术家在瑞士举办的首场个展，也是迄今为止她在欧洲规模最大的回顾性展览。在此次展览中，曹斐将巴塞尔美术馆（Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart）转化为一件总体艺术作品：一座由沉浸式装置与影像宇宙交织而成的城市，汇集了她过去三十年创作生涯中的代表性作品。作为数字世界的先锋创造者，曹斐取得的成就毋庸置疑。她早期的作品影响了亚洲及其他地区的一整代艺术家。二十余年来，她持续通过影像装置、数字模拟与虚拟现实场景等媒介展开创作，回应剧烈的社会与技术变革如何影响人类生活，奠定了她作为艺术、媒介、技术与未来议题重要思想者的声誉。
The Chinese artist Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou) is one of the defining voices of her generation, working across video, digital media, photography, installation, and sculpture. The artist’s works capture the rapid changes that have shaped China, and the Pearl River Delta in particular, since the country’s 1978 policy of Reform and Opening up.
For Cao Fei: Testimonies to the Near Future, her first solo exhibition in Switzerland and largest survey exhibition in Europe to date, the artist transforms the Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart into a total work of art that takes the form of a city blending immersive installations and video universes from her oeuvre of the past thirty years. Cao Fei’s achievement as a pioneering creator of digital worlds is uncontested. Her early works have influenced an entire generation of artists from Asia and beyond. For over two decades, she has made art—from video installations and digital simulations to virtual-reality settings—grappling with the impact on human life of wrenching societal and technological transformations, establishing her renown as a leading thinker about art, media, technology, and the future.
她的影像作品以及部分以游戏为基础构建的环境装置，被置于工厂、梦境景观与未来想象的场域之中。这些作品探索劳动、变化以及全球化世界中独特的美感，并触及身份、具身经验与记忆等问题。曹斐审视经济增长、技术发展与全球化如何影响我们的社会，却从未陷入对未来的悲观想象。巴塞尔美术馆此次展览的重点作品包括《谁的乌托邦》（2006）、《人民城寨》（2007 年至今）、《亚洲一号》（2018）、《新星》（2019 年至今）、《Oz》（2022），以及 “嘻哈” 系列（2003 年至今）等艺术家代表作。
Her videos and partly game-based environments are situated in factories, dreamscapes, and visions of a future. Exploring aspects of work, change, and the peculiar beauty of a globalized world, they address questions of identity, embodiment, and recollection. Cao Fei examines how economic growth, technological development, and globalization influence our society, without ever descending into pessimism about the future. Among the centerpieces of the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart are seminal works like Whose Utopia (2006), RMB City (2007–), Asia One (2018), Nova (2019–), Oz (2022), and the Hip Hop series (2003–).
或许，曹斐艺术实践最鲜明的特征，在于她善于将推想与超现实的维度嵌入那些近乎纪实的作品之中。这一特质亦通过展览中精心构建的装置得以强化：影像中的元素被转化为真实可感的存在，延展至展览空间之中，并进一步消弭了现实与虚拟世界之间的界限。
展览横跨巴塞尔美术馆全部四层空间，邀请观众深入探索曹斐丰富而广阔的创作世界，并构筑出一种独特的三维体验：影像作品不再只是被展示的对象，而是转化为一种沉浸式的现实。
Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Cao Fei’s art is her gift for integrating speculative and surreal elements into works that are often almost documentary. This
aspect is underscored by elaborate installations that materialize elements from the videos in the exhibition space, further blurring the boundary between the physical and virtual realms.
The exhibition, which extends across all four floors of the Gegenwart building, invites viewers to delve deep into Cao Fei’s extensive oeuvre and makes for a singular experience in three dimensions in which the video works are not just on display but become an immersive reality.