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Chief Curator: Qiu Zhijie Co-Curator: Chang Johnson, Boris Groys, Jens Hoffmann >> Read more

Preparation for this year's Biennale has been marred by missed deadlines and general lack of organization. The Biennale itself seems to have come together at the very last possible minute. Rebecca Catching goes backstage at the 2012 Shanghai Biennale to shed light on the chaos and confusion inherent in the organization of this massive art event. >> Read more

UCCA Center of Contemporary Art Spread over three factory chambers built in the early 1950s to Bauhaus-influenced designs, UCCA’s spaces maintain traces of their industrial past. Fully renovated by architects Jean-Michel Wilmotte and Qingyun Ma in 2007, it is a space capable of hosting international exhibitions of the highest caliber. Artists include: Chen Zhen Chu […] >> Read more

Artists shown include Chen Jie, Chen Wenbo, Comfortable Collective, Dai Qing, Du Zhenjun, Fang Wei, Feng Mengbo, Gao Shiqiang, Gao Weigang, Gu Dexin, Han Feng, Heidi Voet, Hu Xiangcheng, Hu Xiangqian, Hu Xiaoyuan >> Read more

Temu reflects on the scale of ideas and the smallness of meaning. In this season of rebirth, instead of rushing to "predict" formulaically the trends in this year’s contemporary art, perhaps it is more worthwhile to think of what was thoughtful and meaningful in the past year. >> Read more

Standing at a distance from the bubbling cauldron that is Chinese contemporary art, Vancouver-based Zheng Shengtian, Managing Editor of Yishu, remembers his work with Annie Wong and their early efforts to promote Chinese contemporary artists from abroad. >> Read more

Ioan Whittaker talks with the director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, Jérôme Sans, about his time at the institution. >> Read more

So Guy Ullens is leaving the UCCA, selling his collection, lamenting failures and withdrawing from China. Does it really matter? Is UCCA such an important institution? Should a foreign-owned museum be attempting to define the debate about contemporary art in China? Or is Ullens just running away from failure? >> Read more

How a Shanghai institution helped legalize avant-garde art practice. >> Read more

Since the late 1980s, contemporary Chinese art has gained an increasingly high profile within the international art world. This profile has accrued for four substantive reasons: first, because of the sometimes highly innovative way in which producers of contemporary Chinese art have sought to combine/hybridize attitudes, >> Read more