Company's leitmotiv: "MadeIn Company is a contemporary art creation company, focused on the production of creativity, and devoted to the research of contemporary culture's infinite possibilities."

MadeIn is a new artists'collective founded 2009 in Shanghai by Xu Zhen, one of the most renowned conceptual artists to have emerged from China since the 1990s. Derived from 'Made In', two words that refer to manufacturing (with country of origin not specified), the name also phonetically translates into Chinese for 'without a roof' ('méi ding'), thereby suggesting openness to the collective's work.
Drawing on Xu Zhen's vast experience over the past decade, as artist, but also as arts organizer, including directing an artist run space, the company provides a comprehensive approach towards art creation, blurring the lines between exhibition, production and curating, as well as authorship. Through its play with scale, substance, and space, and the obsession with notions of authenticity, sincerity and truth, MadeIn continues to expand its projects, engaging further with the process of art production, consumption and display.

Since the group's inception in 2009, MadeIn's paintings, sculptures and installations have frequently been shown in both solo presentations and group exhibitions. Works appropriate visual and conceptual references in their formal aesthetic features.

MadeIn is organized as a creative company to produce independent and commissioned artworks and exhibitions. Xu Zhen has chosen to engage with this conventional operational model to problematize cooperative relationships within the field of contemporary visual culture and to urgently examine the continual materialization of visual spectacles in society today.

MadeIn's collective and curatorial practice debuted September 2009 with two extensive exhibitions featuring contemporary art from the Middle East at venues in New York City and Shanghai, ShanghART Gallery and James Cohan, respectively They have since exhibited widely at acclaimed institutions, internationally as well as in China. Recent solo-exhibitions include Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris (2012); Kunsthalle Bern (2011); IKON Gallery (2010); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2009).