Huang Xiaopeng (1960–2020)
"If the spirit is a force, it comes from purity. This is Xiaopeng's legacy to each and every one of us.
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EXHIBITIONS
Xie Nanxing: “A Roll of the Dice”, Galerie Urs Meile Beijing
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Participation Mystique
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MAI-THU PERRET
News From Nowhere
Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
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EDITOR'S BLOGS
Double Moon
Going for a walk with Yuan Yuan and Wang Zhibo
in Berlin and Hangzhou
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THE virus – SELBST (C0vid-20-Recovered)
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Outdoors
A walk in the garden of two art collectors on La Palma
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2018 Art Taipei
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Light, Dark, Other: Mit Jai Inn solo Exhibition
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“Xu Zhen: Eternity Vs. Evolution” at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
The responsibility for this realization remains, however, as always in Xu’s work, on our personal commitment to the questioning of our most cherished values and our readiness to admit that we are all complicit in the upholding of certain stereotypes.
Werner Büttner and the Invention of BAD Painting
The eponymous artist Werner Büttner has been the intellectual figurehead of one of Germany´s most successful artists groups in the 80s. Together with Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen he was shaking up postwar complacency (and complicity) in Germany at the end of Germany´s Wirtschaftwunder (economic wonder) and the cusp of the Cold War period between the USA and the USSR.
“Right: to Write ________”:
Toward a Democalligraphic U-topia
So I am walking in, wandering through this dimly lit, shack-like choral site, a sort of khôrā (χώρα), the territory outside the polis also rooted in it as an invisible receptacle, a housing house.
INTERVIEWS
Ashley Bickerton
Seascapes At The End Of History
Seascapes At The End Of History
Born in Barbados in 1959, Ashley Bickerton had a peripatetic childhood across four continents, from Guyana to Ghana, on to the Balearic Islands and England, then finally Hawaii. His upbringing followed the career of his Anglo-American father, the eminent linguist Derek Bickerton, who researched creole languages and theorised on the formation of human language.
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Article: ‘Xu Zhen: Eternity Vs. Evolution’ at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Exhibitions of Chinese art outside China tend to confirm certain assumptions about the country's history, culture, politics, and people. At first, ‘XU ZHEN®: Eternity Vs Evolution’ at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, seems no exception to this rule, promising viewers a proven combination of two enduring preconceptions about China’s past and present.
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Double Moon
Going for a walk with Yuan Yuan and Wang Zhibo
in Berlin and Hangzhou
Going for a walk with Yuan Yuan and Wang Zhibo
in Berlin and Hangzhou
It has been just over a year since we moved to Berlin. Yuan Yuan has finally made his first solo show (Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong) after moving his studio here, and I have been busy preparing our dual exhibition project, which was intended for this year’s Frieze London, now delayed of course.
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