“Histories and Individual Practices of Contemporary Ink Art” is a public symposium that explores the discourse of ink art in artistic experimentation from the ’85 Art New Wave period to the present. Featuring presentations by leading scholar and curator, Martina Kӧppel-Yang; artists Yang Jiechang and Qiu Zhijie; and moderated by Pi Li, Sigg Senior Curator at M+, this forum will focus on how ink art has freed itself from the narrow confines of tradition and has transformed into a contemporary artistic language that engages with wider developments in the 20th and 21st century.

Cantonese, Mandarin and English interpretation provided.

Guest speakers

Martina Kӧppel-Yang
Art historian, writer and independent curator (Paris)

Qiu zhijie
Artist and Professor, School of inter-Media Art, China Academy of Art (Hangzhou)

Yang Jiechang
Artist (Paris and Heidelberg)

Venue Partner: Asia Society Hong Kong Center