Press Release
Opening in Power Station of Art (PSA)
14:00 – 14:45 Curator’s tour | 5F
14:45 – 15:00 Sing up | 3F Theater
15:00 – 16:00 Press Conference & Award | 3F Theater
We will arrange for shuttle buses to Swatch Art Peace Hotel.
GRAIN GOD NARRATIVE
11th Shanghai Biennale City Project
Launching in Swatch Art Peace Hotel
17:30 – 18:00 Vernissage | Ground Floor
18:00 – 19:00 Curator’s tour & Performance | 1F Exhibition Room
Established in 2014, the Emerging Curators Project is an annual platform open to curators from China or of Chinese descent born after 1970. With a jury made up of international curators, artists, critics, and directors of art organizations, the project selects each year three curatorial proposals, and the winners will be able to set up their respective exhibitions with financial and professional support provided by PSA. The project looks for the most vibrant, stimulating modes of thinking and expression today, while at the same time striving equally to examine the edgiest, most pressing of topics at present.
In 2016, the third edition of Emerging Curators Project received a total of over eighty eligible curatorial proposals, among which three have been shortlisted. Such three proposals are The Amoy Meat Factory (Axis Art Project), Articulators Summit (Liu Yihong, Wang Yan, Ou I-Chun), and Grain God Narrative (Mao Chenyu, Zhou Jing, Fen Lei). The Grain God Narrative landed on the exhibition room of Swatch Art Peace Hotel, and constituted a City Project of the 11th Shanghai Biennale. The other 2 exhibitions took place on the 5th floor of the Power Station of Art.
