fifteen X fifteen: 15 Artists X 15 Cities

To celebrate its 15th Anniversary, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel presents “15x15”: a traveling art project aiming to connect people & art. In 15 locations across China, each presenting one of 15 different artists in residence at Swatch Art Peace Hotel, we invite you to join us on a journey of sensory exploration.

Beijing (June 11 to Jun 21)

Y.Y

In residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in 2020

Y.Y is a visual artist who draws inspiration from global contemporary pop culture to reinterpret timeless Chinese cultural traditions, breathing new life into cultural heritage and keeping it evolving dynamically through time.

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Chengdu (23 April to 5 May 2026)

Luo Bi

In residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in 2023

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Luo Bi is a digital artist who uses plants as a medium to construct virtual ecosystems. Her work often revolves around vitality, perception, and non-human perspectives, exploring a reimagining of the relationship between nature and humanity within digital contexts.

Hangzhou (10 April to 22 April 2026)

Yanqi Liang

In residence @ Swatch Art Peace Hotel in 2020

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Yanqi Liang is an art practitioner, researcher and educator. Her works have been screened and exhibited at several international film festivals and exhibitions. Her works mainly focus on exploring the sensory experience in intercultural female relationships through painting, video and other media.

Shanghai, Swatch Art Peace Hotel

Jake Homovich
USA

@Swatch Art Peace Hotel in 2025

In Transit, in Translation
(commission by the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, 2025)

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Jake Homovich - In Transit, In Translation

For 15 years the Swatch Art Peace Hotel has hosted artists passing through Shanghai, arriving with unfinished ideas and different ways of working.

This work was made through proximity rather than distant observation. Each image (almost) was made collaboratively with the artists in residence, shaped by shared space, time, and mutual decision-making. These are not portraits taken from afar, but traces formed from working alongside one another. They are an archive of a temporary community – practices interesting and reforming, always in transit, in translation.

Still on view at the Swatch Store at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai.