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Hu Xiangqian’s artistic practice derives from a subtle relationship between current events and personal experience. He recently held a solo exhibition at Long March Space. Yuan Fuca speaks to the artist about the issues of performance in video, as well as art and affect. >> Read more

...Some would like to claim me as a native of earth, but in fact, even though I cover this planet, >> Read more

This autumn the ICA, London, will collaborate with K11 Art Foundation, to present the first solo UK institutional exhibition of Chinese artist Zhang Ding, entitled Enter the Dragon. >> Read more

Known for his interactive videogame installations and politically-laced Pop language, Feng has over the past two years been working on a new series of wildly inventive, mixed-media paintings created in an inimitable Post-Pop style. >> Read more

Shi Jinsong’s work is also closely tied to a traditional Chinese aesthetic and philosophy—these words are easy to write but so often used as to be almost meaningless. Shi Jinsong engages in the invention of mythologies of things as ideals...which is to say that invention and transformation are not corruptions of an ideal but rather its embodiment... >> Read more

This is the first time the three have worked together, and the first foray any of them have made into the unfamiliar territory of video art; They sought the unfamiliar and strange, while experimenting and attempting to achieve an intuitive harmony – a sort of “rightness” inaccessible to the written word. >> Read more

K11 Art Mall will host a conference by Mourad Merzouki, on the occasion of his coming with his company Käfig for the show Yo Gee Ti. >> Read more

Capital Normal University is located in Beijing — the political and cultural center of China, and also a beautiful city with long and rich history and culture, imbued with modern bearing and charm. As a key university funded by Beijing municipal government, Capital Normal University is well-known for its role in cultural transmission and innovation. […] >> Read more

Chen Shaoxiong (b.1962, Guangdong) studied printmaking at Guangzhou Fine Art Academy. He is a founding member of the (in)famous Big Tail Elephant Collective, which also included Chen Zhen. His work often employs traditional media, such as brush work, that is then transformed through new media, such as video... >> Read more

Karen Smith: The first question relates to when we initially met. You were in the process of preparing a work for the Third Shenzhen Annual Sculpture Exhibition. It was of a form that was tied to the nature of the moment, especially in its content which reflected the zeitgeist. How did you conceive of the work? >> Read more