randian | 燃点

They represent acts of retreat from the world but they are uncertain paradises. Mere escape is not a refuge, and perhaps they doth protest too little.

Memes and power, language and sex, politics and history are all fodder for louche anthropological experiments in Xu Zhen’s first major solo show in France which recently opened at Perrotin in Paris. “Civilization Iteration” develops themes of cultural hybridity (including sexual and evolutionary) first exhibited in the exhibition in 2009 that launched his corporate alter-ego […]

A prejudice I wasn’t able to overcome: I find the title of the Biennale unbearable. It literally translates as “Go Art Go” (okay, also “Long Live Art”, but still).

A crowded Art Basel Hong Kong opened today, following the inaugural Gallery Weekend Beijing and numerous private museum events in Shanghai, including Yuz Museum and K11. It seems Hong Kong is expanding to the Mainland.

Berlin has awoken from its new year hangover and there is lots to see, including some shows still from the end of 2016. George Condo is showing at the esteemed Museum Berggruen, home of the collection bequeathed to Berlin by the fabled collector-dealer, Heinz Berggruen. Condo mixes his psycho-analysis of modernism directly with Picasso, Paul Klee […]

The Third Independent Animation Biennale opened on December 12, 2016 at C2 in Shenzhen’s OCT-LOFT. In order to make the exhibition look the part, the curator has delineated six areas…

Interestingly quite a few of the collectors subject to this treatment, however anonymously, actually enjoy it, thus proving there is more than a little BDSM in the peculiar world of contemporary art.

Ran Dian: How did the idea of a Gallery Weekend for Kuala Lumpur (GW-KL) come up? I actually think Gallery Weekends are a great idea—especially for cities without a renowned biennale, or a major art fair; it’s a focal, event-based period when regional or even international attention can be trained on a particular locale. And […]