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The exhibition starts with "Firing". This first part, consisting of 162 pieces of target paper, as if cobblestones along the river of war, forms a path leading to every corners of the whole show. >> Read more

Hu Xiaoyuan has spoken of her tendency to coin her own terms in order to set forth her creative ideas as accurately as possible. Although the “surface meanings” of these new terms are detached from the cognitive system... >> Read more

In the press release for this recent exhibition, Qiu Xiaofei is quoted as saying “If painting is an object coated in color, then all colored objects can be called paintings”; it is something Rauschenberg, or his Combines, might have remarked. >> Read more

For art that muses over the nostalgia of the past, “monumentality” is a necessary characteristic: Caspar David Friedrich’s desolate monasteries or Gothic cathedrals, John William Waterhouse’s distressed “Lady of Shalott,” or John Everett Millais’ “Orphelia” sinking in the river — there is a sorrowful sublime... >> Read more

Contemplating Zhang Xiaogang’s works always leads us down two paths. The first is artistic: you hear the name Zhang Xiaogang, and immediately think — The Big Family series, collective consciousness and national psyche >> Read more

Artist: BI Xin, CAI Dongdong, CHEN Chenchen, DAI Hua, DAI Chenlian, DAI Dandan, DU Kun, FU Xiaotong, HAN Shuying, HE Xun, HUANG Xu, JIANG Laihao, JIANG Peiyuan, LI Chenzi, LU Xiao, LIU Yongkang, LV Zhiqiang, QU Wenqian, WANG Tianxuan, WU Dawei, WU Tian, WU Wei, XIA Yu, YAN Zhancheng, YANG Mao, YU Ying, YU Jing, […] >> Read more

Artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China address nervousness in contemporary urban environments. >> Read more

While the COVID-19 pandemic continued extending its reach across the globe, the month of May in Beijing, with the return of Gallery Weekend Beijing and two new museums opening, seemingly saw the Beijing art world bouncing back to a steady drum of exhibitions. Yet the emergence of new cases of COVID-19 in early June (at Xinfadi Market, Beijing) put Beijing on edge once more. >> Read more

SSSP was conceived by Kristiina Koskentola and Institute for Provocation (IFP) and is generously being hosted by the Goethe-Institut, Beijing. >> Read more

Amna Asghar, Doreen Chan, Viola Chen, Dachal Choi, COME INSIDE, Eternal Dragonz, Jes Fan, Christopher K. Ho, Eisa Jocson, Linda C.H. Lai, Fiona Lee, Ma Qiusha, Hương Ngô, Ngoc Nau, Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Renee So, Salote Tawale, Hiram To, Ka-Man Tse, Wong Kit Yi, Kristina Wong, Xiyadie, Yu Shuk Pui Bobby Curated by Hera […] >> Read more