schmick contemporary


Urban Oasis
Bonnie Huang
15/08/2025 - 14/09/2025 ST3P INT0

4N URB4N 04S1S

A new wellness destination has arrived.

Escape the concrete jungle and be welcomed into a haven of vitality, rejuvenation and recovery.

Urban Oasis explores the intersections between wellness culture, brainrot doomscrolling, and the gallery opening as a social ritual– where all through lines lead to our desire for intimacy, connection, and a feeling of wholeness.

This Urban Oasis is a site-specific installation dedicated to questioning how one nurtures body, mind and soul.

- Bonnie Huang


“...The most optimal and authentic version of ourselves lost to the perils of modern life is being packaged and sold back to us. Rather than selling you a treatment, Bonnie invites you to soak in the collective ritual of the art gallery, spotlighting the similarities of community gathering and collective ideas shared at openings, to the environment of a sauna. To gather is to restore and connect collectively. Welcome to your Urban Oasis.”

                                                                                                                               - Lucy Brosnan 

Curated by Lucy  Brosnan
Schmick Contemporary acknowledges the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation upon whose unceded lands we live and work.
We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.

Level 2, 706 George St, Chinatown