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Cao Fei
Cao Fei’s video La Town, 2014 depicts a mythical metropolis that has been destroyed by unknown forces. Although the damage is obvious, as the camera navigates across the elaborate, handmade dioramas, the inhabitants of La Town carry on with their activities and the normality of everyday life pervades. As the film progresses, the latent chaos and violence begin to emanate from every corner of the miniature city: a bloody briefcase left on the ground, a kidnapping scene, an axe murderer on the loose, a ferocious man-eating octopus—all rendering the darkness of this new post-apocalyptic world order.
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Köken Ergun and Satyam Mishra
Nepal and China signed an agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2017. The BRI is a strategy that was set forth by China in 2013 to expand its influence by building a network of economic corridors around the globe. BRI projects in Nepal include the Kathmandu-Kerung Railway, the Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi-Kerung 400 kilovolt transmission line, the 762 megawatt Tamor hydroelectric dam, and the 426 megawatt Phukot Karnali run-of-the-river hydropower project.
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Hu Yun
This research-based artwork acts as a memorial to early twentieth century European exploration of China. An antique open suitcase reveals a pile of rubbings and an air-dried peony, while projected photographs of the Chinese landscape appear as a slideshow on the gallery wall. The artifacts refer to a 1908-1909 expedition of naturalists, missionaries, and colonists to the west of China, which ended abruptly with the death of one of the travelers by unusual circumstances.
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Li Liao
A Slap in Wuhan documents Li Liao’s performance in Wuhan, China on January 8, 2011. Li waits at the entrance of the Optical Valley walking street. An anonymous person who was recruited online approaches Li and slaps him in the face.
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Jianwei Wang
In Dilemma: Three Way Fork in the Road , Wang references Peking opera in a re-interpretation of traditional text. The performance begins with two broad-knife-wielding characters circling each other in conventional operatic steps. Oblivious to the presence of these two on stage, additional characters, in a mix of period costume and contemporary dress, enter the stage in increasing droves to consume a various of foods laid out on a table until they collapse and pile on top of each other.
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Cao Fei
Since 2007, Cao Fei has radically focused her work on Second Life, an online space that virtually mimics “the real world” and includes everything from the expression of ideas to economic investment. Referring to China’s modernization and its capitalist and utopic visions, RMB City explores the ways in which global communication impacts imagination, values, and ways of life. By appropriating virtual reality, Cao Fei opens up a new frontier in the field of art production that surpasses conventional materiality and invites collaboration and exchanges with her public and clients.
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Jiang Pengyi
Unregistered City is a series of eight photographs depicting different scenes of a vacant, apparently post-apocalyptic city: Some are covered by dust and others are submerged by water. Yet, ambiguous lights blink from buildings and yachts still sail on the water, and further observation reveals these structures to be miniatures manipulated by the artist through Photoshop and other postproduction image tools. The model city’s surroundings are themselves real abandoned spaces, perhaps an empty room, a wait-to-be demolished building, or a discarded bathtub.
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Cao Fei
Diversionist is part of the Cosplayers Series from 2004. In Cosplayers Cao Fei depicts the popularity among Asian youths of “cosplay” in which daily life is merged with images of video games and popular films. For many, this virtual reality is an outlet to “transcend” the paradox of a developing society in which the pleasures of consumption and depression of alienation go hand-in-hand.
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Jiang Zhi
In the video installation Tremble, Jiang projected the life-size images of seven naked men and women onto seven individual screens. Each person displays a different facial expression and body position such as reading a book, arms open for a hug, holding a knife, raising a fist to take an oath. Each gesture reflects some essential social aspect of everyday life: hugging is about caring, taking oath has to do with politics, reading relates to acquiring knowledge, and raising a knife indicates violence.
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Mimian Hsu Chen
In Hsu’s work, Colonia China (2014), the artist documents a Chinese cemetery of Costa Rica’s Limón Province, along the country’s Caribbean coast. Serving as the final resting place for Chinese migrants who came to Coast Rica during the late nineteenth century as indentured laborers working to construct the Transatlantic Railroad, the Colonia China speaks to a long but divided history. Hsu’s photographs of the burial ground also echo her interest in typography, with blocky black lettering and painted Chinese characters marking the cemetery as a space belonging to two different worlds.
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Jiang Zhi
5 is a three channel video about the dualities of death and resurrection, reminiscence and fantasy, chronological and retrospective narration. The main video features two dancers intertwining, caressing in trancelike movements, with intimacy eventually leading to scarring and bleeding. Towards the end, the trace of bodily movements and fluids crescendo in an image of a skull in a synthesis of performance, painting and theater.
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Marie Voignier
“Na China” means “In China” in Igbo language. Marie Voignier’s film NA CHINA! focuses on the African women communities who have emigrated to Guangzhou, in the southeast of China.
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Shi Guowei
Through a hand-painting process, Shi Guowei created Manufactured Landscape . At first glance, the painting appears from afar as a landscape photograph. Yet, upon closer attention, the work reveals itself as a landscape painting thoroughly hand-colored by the artist onto a photograph.
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Wang Tuo
Tungus is the third chapter of The Northeast Tetralogy , a film project that Wang Tuo began in 2017. The project is a unique regional research of Northeastern China that addresses the region’s geopolitical contentions. Drawing on significant moments from China’s modern history, Wang’s visual storytelling sets up and displaces a series of socio-historical situations through multiple narrative structures.
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Yan Xing
Sexy shows Yan Xing unsuccessfully trying to reach orgasm in freezing temperatures among the falling rocks and howling winds of a precarious canyon. His erotic failure leaves the voyeur-viewer unfulfilled and disappointed. The work explores notions of identity, masculinity, sexuality, voyeurism, and cultural taboos.
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Lu Chunsheng
Lu has developed an oeuvre that consists of characters in bizarre situations. The large-scale photograph I Want to Be a Gentleman depicts nine men standing like statues on display in a museum on tall plinths in front of a run-down industrial building. Lu’s brooding films and photographs are preoccupied with China’s industrial era and communist history.
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Yang Xinguang
Although seemingly unadorned at first glance, Yang Xinguang’s sculptural work Phenomena (2009) employs minimalist aesthetics as a means of gesturing towards the various commonalities and conflicts between civilization and the natural world. Comprised of rudimentary planks of wood hammered together into a rectangular form, Yang’s work uses reclaimed materials from everyday life and seems deliberately in conversation with Arte Povera, the art movement that originated in Italy during the late 1960s where practitioners produced art from found and common materials as an act of resistance against the decided commercialization of the art world through market economies. Yang, by extension, pays close attention to his materials in attempt to release the forms within them rather than impose his own.
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Yan Xing
The title of this series – Two videos, three photographs, several related masterpieces and American art – is paradoxical, suggesting the work is conceived in relation to its medium and a situation in art history and the region of the world in which it was made. Paradoxical but in the end, often true of the way in which art history is written. The presence of black men and the term “American Art” brings us back to Robert Mapplethorpe’s Black Book .
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Li Ran
The four-channel video installation Same Old Crowd departs from the documentation of an unknown city and takes place in an ambiguous temporal and spatial frame. Twelve characters (amateur actors hired by the artist) appear in black-and-white in highly stylized surroundings wearing patterned cloths. The identities or time period of the characters, all deprived of languages, are impossible to determine.
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Yang Zhenzhong
Peasant Sensation Passing Through Flesh – 3 consists of a massage chair fixed to a wall. With its cushions removed to reveal its internal mechanisms, the chair’s programmed rubbing, kneading, patting, and vibrating motions create a strange sight and soundscape. The work explores the relationship between flesh and machine as they come together through technologically simulated social behaviors, challenging normative ideas about human interaction.
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Li Ming
In the eight-channel video installation Movement , Li Ming uses his body as a prop to interact with different means of transportation. Each channel features footage of the artist moving forward, jumping between various modes of transportation that weave in and out of the frame in a carefully orchestrated choreography. As the artist descends from the loader bucket of a moving construction tractor, he jumps onto a skateboard which he then discards as he lays on top of a suitcase that continues rolling forward.
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Li Ran
In his video work Beyond Geography , Li dramatizes the role of the artist-as-imitator to the point of sheer parody. Dressed to toe in the costume of a typical Discovery Channel adventurer-explorer, the artist dashes suavely through the uncharted jungle habitat of a primitive tribe. Li modulates his own voice in laughably accurate mimicry of the dubbed Discovery Channel protagonist familiar to Chinese viewership, daringly gulping fresh water from a river, expertly admiring exotic vegetation, and whimpering in fear of the dark sounds of the night (screaming, even, as he trips on a human skull) in an full-scale exaggeration of a nature show personality.
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Xiaoyun Chen
In the video work Drag, a man in a dark room pulls on the end of a rope. In midst of sounds of heavy breathing, the camera presents alternating scenes of a man and the shadow of a man wearing a long, pointed hat cast against a wall. Insinuating a sinister mood, the man and the shadow struggle to control the scene through alternating tugs and releases of a rope.
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Köken Ergun and Tashi Lama
Nepal and China signed an agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2017. The BRI is a strategy that was set forth by China in 2013 to expand its influence by building a network of economic corridors around the globe. BRI projects in Nepal include the Kathmandu-Kerung Railway, the Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi-Kerung 400 kilovolt transmission line, the 762 megawatt Tamor hydroelectric dam, and the 426 megawatt Phukot Karnali run-of-the-river hydropower project.
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Köken Ergun and Satyam Mishra
Nepal and China signed an agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2017. The BRI is a strategy that was set forth by China in 2013 to expand its influence by building a network of economic corridors around the globe. BRI projects in Nepal include the Kathmandu-Kerung Railway, the Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi-Kerung 400 kilovolt transmission line, the 762 megawatt Tamor hydroelectric dam, and the 426 megawatt Phukot Karnali run-of-the-river hydropower project.
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Wang Tuo
Smoke and Fire is the first chapter of The Northeast Tetralogy , a film project that Wang Tuo began in 2017. The project is a unique regional research of Northeastern China that addresses the region’s geopolitical contentions. Drawing on significant moments from China’s modern history, Wang’s visual storytelling sets up and displaces a series of socio-historical situations through multiple narrative structures.
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Qiu Anxiong
A Portrait: Covering and Cleaning is an installation of six black-and-white video projections. Each video depicts a portrait with features changing continuously and quickly into different persons, animals and symbols. Driven by the evolving contents of the screen itself, this piece showcases the form and material of Qiu Anxiong’s working method, which relies on precisely planned storyboard sketches drawn in pen on A4 paper.
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Sun Xun
Sun Xun’s lushly illustrated, dynamic short film Mythological Time is a dreamy chronicle of rapacious industrial development, the mythical qualities of state propaganda, and the constancy of change, as experienced by an unnamed coal mining town. While it is not named in the film itself, the town at the center of Mythological Time is a re-imagined incarnation of Sun’s hometown of Fuxin, in the northern Chinese province of Liaoning. Sandwiched between North Korea and Inner Mongolia, Fuxin is a poor coal-mining region that used to contain one of China’s largest open-pit mines and has historically been the site of significant conflict, thanks to its rich mineral resources.
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Zhang Peili
In the video installation A Gust of Wind , Zhang continues to explore notions of perspective and melds them seamlessly with a veiled but incisive social critique. His ultimate goal is to reveal the ways in which social image is constructed and to cast doubt on the ephemeral vision of a middle-class utopia offered by mass media.
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Sun Xun
Sun’s animated film 21 Ke (21 Grams) is based on the 1907 research by the American physician Dr. Duncan MacDougall who claimed the measured weight of the human soul to be twenty-one grams. Sun used this episode—which was not fully recognized by the scientific community—as a point of departure for his depiction of a dystopian world in which the narration of history and notion of time are interrupted. Because each frame was drawn by hand with crayon, it took Sun and his animation studio team a few years to complete this thirty-minute film of a surreal journey through mysterious cities, plagues of mosquitoes, broken statues, cawing ravens, waving flags, and flooded graveyards.
Xiaoyun Chen
- location: Hangzhou, China
- year born: 1971
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Hubei Province, China
Santu Mofokeng
The photographic artwork of Santu Mofokeng (b...
Wang Tuo
Through film, performance, painting, and drawing, artist Wang Tuo interweaves disparate realities through archives, modern history, myth, and literature...
Cao Fei
- location: Beijing, China
- year born: 1978
- gender: female
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Guangzhou, China
Du Zhenjun
- location: Paris, France
- location: Shanghai, China
- year born: 1961
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Shanghai, China
Zhang Kechun
Photographer Zhang Kechun documents striking scenery that meditates on the significance of landscape in modern Chinese national identity...
Yan Xing
- location: Beijing, China
- year born: 1986
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Chongqing, China
Yang Guangnan
- location: New York City, United States
- year born: 1986
- home town: Inner Mongolia, China
Lieko Shiga
Based on an instinctive feeling of unease with the convenience and automation of daily life, Lieko Shiga has developed an artistic approach that links questions about the nature of the photographic medium with fundamental questions about life and the means of expressing oneself...
Amie Siegel
- year born: 1974
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Chicago, Illinois
Zhou Tao
Artist Zhou Tao has a diverse and varied practice, and notably, he denies the existence of any singular or real narrative or space...
Chen Shaoxiong
- location: Beijing
- location: Guangzhou, China
- year born: 1962
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
James T. Hong
James T...
Li Ran
- location: Beijing, China
- year born: 1986
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Hubei Province, China
Jiang Zhi
- location: Beijing
- location: Shenzhen, China
- year born: 1971
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Yuanjiang, China
Bo Wang
Through new media, installation, and video and film, Bo Wang’s practice embodies sociopolitical and cultural subjects in contemporary China and beyond...
Sun Xun
- location: Hangzhou, China
- year born: 1980
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Fuxin, Liaoning Provence, China
Chen Chieh-Jen
- location: Taipei, Taiwan
- year born: 1960
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Taoyuan, Taiwan
Margo Wolowiec
Margo Wolowiec uses her multidisciplinary practice to examine space, material versus conceptual practices, and affective responses...
Pak Sheung Chuen
- location: Hong Kong, China
- year born: 1977
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Fujian, China
Lu Chunsheng
- location: Shanghai, China
- year born: 1968
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Changchun, Jilin province, China
Tsang Kin-Wah
- location: Hong Kong, China
- year born: 1976
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
Bruno Serralongue
Bruno Serralongue integrates his practice into the processes of production and distribution of information via images...
Song Ta
Song Ta engages various mediums, including video art, installation, drawing, sculpture, photography, and calligraphy in his practice...
Qiu Anxiong
- location: Shanghai, China
- year born: 1972
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Marie Voignier
Marie Voignier’s work presents a subtle criticism of the transitory status of action within the social and political elds...
Chia-Wei Hsu
Embarking from myriad audio-visual narratives, Chia-Wei Hsu pursues imaginative interrogations of cultural contact and colonization in Asia, oftentimes amalgamating his primary narratives with non-human actors including technologies, animals, gods, environments, traditions, and material objects...
Judy Chicago
- location: Belen, New Mexico
- year born: 1939
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Chicago, Illinois
Mimian Hsu Chen
Costa Rica-based artist Mimian Hsu works with photography, documents, typography, and objects to construct site-specific installations, performances, and projects that explore intersecting cultural identities...
Zhu Jia
Pioneer of video art in China, Zhu Jia’s works have often dealt with ‘realness’ and everyday life, though often in unconventional ways...
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about 3 months ago (02/08/2024)
Different Mahjong versions, from the classical Chinese game to American mahjong, with its joker tiles, and Japanese riichi | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Chinese culture + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more There are many variations of mahjong played around the world, with different rules and scoring systems and in some, unique tiles...
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about 3 months ago (02/07/2024)
Black museums face greater peril in the climate crisis Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Climate change news Black museums face greater peril in the climate crisis The Association of African American Museums outlines heightened issues facing Black cultural centres, including old infrastructure, coastal locations and lack of access to funds and resources Annabel Keenan 7 February 2024 Share The Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis, Maryland, is under threat from rising water levels Courtesy Banneker-Douglass Museum While cultural institutions across the globe grapple with the effects of climate change, a consortium of African American museums and heritage sites says that these are uniquely at risk...
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
Taking a local, hometown look at the Chinese Spring Festival Shehuo, Zhang Xiao considers how the thousand-year-old tradition has transformed into a tourist-facing enterprise....
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
Following the furore over the United States Postal Service’s 2024 Year of the Dragon commemorative stamp, we look at rival stamp designs from Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, Thailand and the Isle of Man....
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about 3 months ago (01/27/2024)
Book extract: historian sheds new light on Marco Polo’s China travels, which have often been doubted | South China Morning Post Book extract: historian sheds new light on Marco Polo’s China travels, which have often been doubted History Tall tales of the East told by Marco Polo have had their sceptics, but author Christopher Harding highlights details that make the explorer harder to doubt Christopher Harding + FOLLOW Published: 6:15pm, 27 Jan, 2024 Why you can trust SCMP Extracted from The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East by Christopher Harding, published by Allen Lane, January 2024 *** “Honoured emperors and kings, dukes and marquesses, counts, knights and townspeople, and all who want to know about the various races of mankind and the peculiarities of the various regions of the world, take this book and have it read to you! “Here you will find all the greatest wonders and chief curiosities of Greater Armenia and Persia, of the Tartars and India, and of many other lands...
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about 4 months ago (12/31/2023)
Photos of BSA #1: Being Tricked into Hate | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2023...
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about 5 months ago (12/14/2023)
Guangzhou’s potential as contemporary art hub in doubt as new Moordn Art Fair draws crowds but generates few sales | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more The first in-person staging of the Moordn Art Fair in Guangzhou, from December 8-11, was well attended, but the slow sales there suggest the market for contemporary art in the Chinese city is still developing...
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about 5 months ago (12/08/2023)
After the boom and bust, an era of ‘greater maturity’ for art and the blockchain? Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature After the boom and bust, an era of ‘greater maturity’ for art and the blockchain? Despite the collapse of the NFT market and scandals involving cryptocurrency exchanges, experts still see potential in the technologies’ potential art world applications Daniel Grant 8 December 2023 Share Arcual CEO Bernadine Bröcker Wieder in conversation with the artist Simon Denny for Arcual Reflections Photo: Gloria Soverini Not that long ago, early adopters of cryptocurrencies and NFTs (non-fungible tokens) were riding high....
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about 5 months ago (12/02/2023)
‘I thought I was god’s gift to China’: art gallery owner Pearl Lam on her ‘colonial attitude’ and embracing her ethnicity | South China Morning Post ‘I thought I was god’s gift to China’: art gallery owner Pearl Lam on her ‘colonial attitude’ and embracing her ethnicity Profile Art gallery owner Pearl Lam on growing up as the daughter of property tycoon Lim Por-yen, losing her colonial mindset and celebrating diversity Kate Whitehead + FOLLOW Published: 7:45am, 3 Dec, 2023 Why you can trust SCMP I was born in Hong Kong and lived in Jardine’s Lookout...
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about 5 months ago (11/27/2023)
Floral art by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and other artists on display at private Deji Art Museum in Nanjing, China | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more The exhibition ‘Nothing Still About Still Lifes: Three Centuries of Floral Compositions’ at Nanjing;s Deji Art Museum features more than 100 modern and contemporary artworks, including (above) “Les Amoureux au Bouquet de Fleurs” (1935-1937), by Marc Chagall...
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about 5 months ago (11/23/2023)
A conference in Shenzhen about Arnold Schoenberg saw the Chinese premiere of Tod Machover’s opera about the 20th century Austrian Jewish composer who pioneered atonal music and his exile in America....
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about 9 months ago (08/09/2023)
War of words over China breaks out on London graffiti wall - France 24 Skip to main content War of words over China breaks out on London graffiti wall Issued on: 09/08/2023 - 15:42 02:27 War of words over China breaks out on London graffiti wall (2023) © AFP / France 24 Video by: Juliette MONTILLY Follow Long renowned as a graffiti artist's heaven, Brick Lane in east London has found itself at the heart of a furious political debate overseas after a group of Chinese art students spray-painted Communist Party slogans over one of its walls...
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
Chinese Collector Yan Du on Her Mission to Support the Greater Asian Art Ecosystem, and the Young Artists Sheâs Watching Now - via artnet news...
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
Hong Kong Collector Adrian Cheng Expands to Mainland China with $1.4 B...
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
Opening in March 2020, Shunde’s He Art Museum hopes that it has what it takes to attract an audience....
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
The collection’s owner, Maria Chen-Tu, has demanded the works’ return and alerted authorities in Beijing, but the works’ whereabouts remain unknown....
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
Shanghai is mainland China’s biggest art hub, and the new branch of the UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art, UCCA Edge, will celebrate the evolution of the city’s role....
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
Swiss Collector Uli Sigg on Why Even a Less Free Hong Kong Remains the Best Home for His Peerless Chinese Art Collection - via artnet news...
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
Founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Thai capital, Boonchai Bencharongkul, hands the reins to his son, Kit, who plans to modernise, edit and expand the collection beyond Buddhist art....
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
The Indonesian-Chinese collector spoke to artnet News's Andrew Goldstein about his urgent quest to save his groundbreaking private museum....
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
When Uli Sigg donated the bulk of his Chinese contemporary art collection to Hong Kong’s M+ museum in 2012, little did he know the controversy it would cause....
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
Budiardjo ‘Budi’ Tek, who died on March 18 aged 65, made his fortune in the poultry business, but he is best known for his Chinese art collection and for opening Shanghai’s Yuz Museum....
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
Taiwanese Mega-Collector Pierre Chen Wants to Open a Private Museum in the Mountains Outside Taipei - via artnet news...
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
The curvaceous, aluminium-clad form of Liyang Museum in China was designed by architecture practice CROX to recall the shape of a musical instrument....
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Interview with Wang Chong for "Made In China 2.0" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Mark Pritchard March 23, 2020 The following review is made possible through a Critical Residency programme supported by By Nabilah Said (1,000 words, 6-minute read) Experimental Chinese theatremaker Wang Chong presented a work-in-progress showing of his newest work, Made in China 2.0 , at Asia TOPA in February...
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by Chris Moore The China art market faces its most difficult period since 2008...
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Sarawak’s second Rainforest Fringe Festival aims to put indigenous traditions on the map (via South China Morning Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar June 25, 2018 The Rainforest Fringe Festival started in 2017 to spotlight Sawarak’s distinct jungle heritage...
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Guggenheim Museum Collects China – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Sarah Cascone Plus Icon Sarah Cascone View All March 20, 2013 1:10pm New York’s Solomon R...
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Picture of the Day: The great wall from China | The Independent | The Independent Its simple name – "Head of an Old Man" – offers no hint of the scale or the mood of doom that so define this painting by Zeng Fanzhi, seen here standing in front of his epic work as his first solo British exhibition opens at the Gagosian Gallery in London, running until 19 January...
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CHINA The Next Generation – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Barbara Pollack Plus Icon Barbara Pollack View All October 6, 2011 10:00am Animal Regulation No...
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1960-1969
Judy Chicago
1969Domes #1 represents a significant moment in Chicago’s career when her art began to change from a New York-influenced Abstract Expressionist style to one that reflected the pop-inflected art being made in Los Angeles...
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1980-1989
Santu Mofokeng
1985Since the global capital expansion, billboards have been the medium of communication between the rulers and the residents of townships...
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1990-1999
Santu Mofokeng
1990Mofokeng’s experiences during the turbulent time of the 1980s in South Africa led to a turn in his practice, opting to turn to the crowd, focusing on individual faces and bodies within the masses to tell a story of the collective resistance that is present in the daily life and surroundings of South African townships...
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2000-2009
Lu Chunsheng
2004A mesmerizing experience of a vaguely familiar yet remote world, History of Chemistry I follows a group of men as they wander from somewhere beyond the edge of the sea through a vast landscape to an abandoned steel factory...
Amie Siegel
2005Berlin Remake ( 2005) combines extracts of East German films with images filmed by the artist in Berlin...
Xiaoyun Chen
2006The image of rusted nails, nuts and bolts as shrapnel sandwiched between a fried Chicken burger highlights the contrast between decadence and destruction...
Xiaoyun Chen
2006State Terrorism in the ultimate form of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood features a portrait of the artist wearing a zipped utilitarian jacket reminiscent of a worker’s uniform, with one arm behind his back as if forced to ingest a bundle of stick—a literal portrayal to the definition of fascism...
Chen Shaoxiong
2006After engaging primarily with video and photography for more than a decade, Chen turned to painting to explore the issue of urban change and memories—both personal and collective...
Jianwei Wang
2007In Dilemma: Three Way Fork in the Road , Wang references Peking opera in a re-interpretation of traditional text...
Chen Shaoxiong
2007After engaging primarily with video and photography for more than a decade, Chen turned to painting to explore the issue of urban change and memories—both personal and collective...
Kwan Sheung Chi
2007A Flags-Raising-Lowering Ceremony at my home’s cloths drying rack (2007) was realized in the year of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China...
Jiang Pengyi
2008Unregistered City is a series of eight photographs depicting different scenes of a vacant, apparently post-apocalyptic city: Some are covered by dust and others are submerged by water...
Zhang Peili
2008In the video installation A Gust of Wind , Zhang continues to explore notions of perspective and melds them seamlessly with a veiled but incisive social critique...
Pak Sheung Chuen
2008Pak created New York Public Library Projects (NYPLP) (2008) during a residency in New York, using public libraries as exhibition spaces and the books they house as raw materials...
Charwei Tsai
2008Charwai Tsai’s photograph documents her Hermit Crab Project installation upon the construction site of gallery Sora in Tokyo...
Bruno Serralongue
2008The half-length portrait of Joe Shirley presents a man with a great presence, wearing several items that point to ancestral Native American culture...
Gao Mingyan
2008In City Golf (2008) the artist Gao Mingyan films himself playing 18 “holes” of golf throughout the mega-city of Shanghai...
Yang Xinguang
2009Although seemingly unadorned at first glance, Yang Xinguang’s sculptural work Phenomena (2009) employs minimalist aesthetics as a means of gesturing towards the various commonalities and conflicts between civilization and the natural world...
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2010-2019
Du Zhenjun
2010The Tower of Babel is an installation of large-format photographs that forces the audience to occupy a central position through its monumental scale...
Du Zhenjun
2010The Tower of Babel is an installation of large-format photographs that forces the audience to occupy a central position through its monumental scale...
Du Zhenjun
2010The Tower of Babel is an installation of large-format photographs that forces the audience to occupy a central position through its monumental scale...
Shahzia Sikander
2010The Last Post was inspired by Sikander’s ongoing interest in the colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China...
Chen Chieh-Jen
2010Empire’s Borders II – Passage and Empire’s Borders II – Workers are from the three-channel film installation Empire’s Borders II – Western Enterprise, Inc...
Chen Chieh-Jen
2010Empire’s Borders II – Passage and Empire’s Borders II – Workers are from the three-channel film installation Empire’s Borders II – Western Enterprise, Inc...
Leung Chi Wo and Wong Sara
2010Photojournalist with Two Cameras restages a portrait of a photojournalist from the background of an old photograph of protest published in South China Morning Post on January 10, 2010 under the headline “Return of the Radicals: Recent angry protests are nothing new.” The photojournalist in the photograph, probably from a protest of earlier decades, was capturing the scene of a protester’s arrest while wearing two cameras...
Qiu Anxiong
2011A Portrait: Covering and Cleaning is an installation of six black-and-white video projections...
Yang Guangnan
2011Itch explores the relationship between technology and daily human experience with a motorized arm that extends from within the gallery’s wall, moving up and down while holding a projector that shows a desperately scratching pair of hands....
Zhang Kechun
2011Zhang Kechun’s photographic series The Yellow River documents the effects of modernization along the eponymous Yellow River, the second longest in Asia...
Ciprian Muresan
2011Ciprian Muresan asked a group of protagonists to wear a monk’s robe and copy a certain number of artworks and texts from exhibition catalogues...
Yang Zhenzhong
2012Peasant Sensation Passing Through Flesh – 3 consists of a massage chair fixed to a wall...
Xiaoyun Chen
2012The lengthy titles in Chen Xiaoyun’s work often appear as colophons to his photographs that invite the viewer to a process of self realization through contemplating the distance between word and image...
Adrian Wong
2012Untitled (Grate I/II: Shan Mei Playground/ Grand Fortune Mansion) is part of a series drawn from architectural objects that mark the boundary of public and private spaces Wong encountered while strolling in Hong Kong...
Zhang Kechun
2012Zhang Kechun’s photographic series The Yellow River documents the effects of modernization along the eponymous Yellow River, the second longest in Asia...
James T. Hong
2012Taiwan WMD (Taiwan and Weapons of Mass Destruction) is part of a long-term research started in early 2010 on the history and aftermath effects of Japanese biological and chemical warfare in China during WWII, as well as the unknown history of Taiwan’s nuclear program...
Oded Hirsch
2012Oded Hirsch’s video work Nothing New (2012) utilizes seemingly absurdist tropes to raise more trenchant questions about communal action and collective identity in modern day Israel...
Chia-Wei Hsu
2012Marshal Tie Jia (Turtle Island) explores the history of a tiny island off of the coast of Matsu in the Taiwan Strait that has been instrumental in the geopolitical relationships between China, Taiwan, and Japan...
Yangjiang Group
Drawing & Print
2012(Drawing & Print) One Day in the Mountain is a bilingual calligraphic performance piece written in ink superimposed with food leftover from a meal...
Amie Siegel
2013Winter is a film installation of multiple tenses—shot in the recent past, depicting an unknown future, unfolding (and changing) in the present of the exhibition...
Mimian Hsu Chen
2014In Hsu’s work, Colonia China (2014), the artist documents a Chinese cemetery of Costa Rica’s Limón Province, along the country’s Caribbean coast...
Xiaoyun Chen
2014The central point of Vanishing Point is the most direct physiological reaction of the body to the environment...
Liu Chuang
2014Categorized as low-level literature, a “Love Stories” book is a romantic popular fiction of proletariat China, read mainly by teenagers, students, and young workers...
Tomoko Kikuchi
2014The series Funerals under Neon Lights by Tomoko Kikuchi focuses on how transgender people’s ritual became a vital part of funerals in rural China...
Daniel Crooks
2014The Illusion of Everything (2014) follows an unseen pedestrian as he navigates the Australian city of Melbourne’s dense and intricate network of laneways...
Margo Wolowiec
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) Wolowiec’s textile work Not This Time (2015) translates pixelated images into sensuous fabric and ink based forms that are at once beautiful in their abstraction and anxiety-ridden in their visualization of a malfunctioning digital world...
Miao Ying
2016As part of her project Chinternet Plus , a “counterfeit ideology” and parodic take on the strategy “Internet Plus” launched by Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang in 2015, the video work Post commentary, monetary likes, Morgan Freeman’s advice on reality gives an insight into Internet Culture in China...
Pak Sheung Chuen
Drawing & Print
2017(Drawing & Print) The series Nightmare Wallpapers represents a shift if Chuen’s practice, allowing the artist to immerse himself in an “artistic pilgrimage of self healing” following the failure of the 2014 Umbrella Movement...
Korakrit Arunanondchai
2017His untitled paintings express his concern regarding perception in abstract form...
Margo Wolowiec
2017Imagine How Many by Margo Wolowiec is a woven polyester depiction of blurred text and floral images found on social media, distorted beyond complete recognition...
Chitra Ganesh
2018The title of Rainbow Body by Chitra Ganesh refers to an elevated state of, or metaphor for, the consciousness transformation known as a rainbow body...
Zhang Zhenyu
2018In DUST 171217 Zhang Zhenyu uses fragments of dust collected across the city, and then creates dark abstract paintings, repetitively gluing the material to the canvas, applying up to 30 or 100 layers and sanding until he arrives at a smooth surface...
Randa Maroufi
2019Randa Maroufi’s Bab Sebta , is named after a Spanish enclave in Morocco, Ceuta...
Connie Zheng
2019The Lonely Age by Connie Zheng is the first chapter in a trilogy of short experimental films about the complex temporalities of navigating ongoing environmental crises, as seen through the lens of seeds real and imagined...
Musquiqui Chihying and Gregor Kasper
2019Addressing the legacy of colonialism, The Guestbook by Musquiqui Chihying and Gregor Kasper is a slow-paced, black-and-white film exploring the German colony of Togoland, now the Republic of Togo...
He Xiangyu
2019He Xiangyu’s Terminal 3 presents excerpts from the lives of young African acrobats attending the Hebei Wuqiao Acrobatic Arts School in China...
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2020-2029
Pu Yingwei
2020ChinaCapital: Dream, Hot Land, Interstellar Colonization by Pu Yingwei addresses a complicated phenomena of intertwined influences from different political powers, capital forces, and ideologies in the reality of China...
Zhang Kechun
2020Zhang Kechun’s photographic series The Yellow River documents the effects of modernization along the eponymous Yellow River, the second longest in Asia...
Trevor Paglen
2020The Black Canyon Deep Semantic Image Segments by Trevor Paglen merges traditional American landscape photography (sometimes referred as ‘frontier photography’ for sites located in the American West) with artificial intelligence and other technological advances such as computer vision...
Jung Yoonsuk
2020Tomorrow by Jung Yoonsuk is a two-channel video installation, observing the two different sites of factories, one in the mannequin reform factory in Seoul, Korea, and the other in a sex doll factory in Shenzhen, China...
Köken Ergun and Satyam Mishra
2022Nepal and China signed an agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2017...
Köken Ergun and Tashi Lama
2022Nepal and China signed an agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2017...
Köken Ergun and Satyam Mishra
2022Nepal and China signed an agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2017...
