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To coincide with the opening this week in Shanghai of the 15th anniversary exhibition of the "Chinese Contemporary Art Awards" (CCAA) at the Power Station of Art, Randian's Chris Moore spoke at length with Uli Sigg about the history and philosophy behind CCAA, still the most respected art award in China... >> Read more

M+, Hong Kong’s museum of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District, is pleased to announce the launch of the Sigg Prize, which recognises outstanding artistic practice in the Greater China region. This prize continues and expands the work the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) has done over the past two decades. >> Read more

On 25 July 2018, Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) gave an official notice of Open Call for the 2018 CCAA Artist Award. By 30 August 2018, CCAA has received 75 applications from 20 provinces such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hubei, Shandong, Hong Kong and Tibet. The works cover a wide variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation and performance. >> Read more

The 6th CCAA Art Critic Award ceremony will be held in Beijing from 6th to 8th November 2017. The jury consists of four members from China and overseas who, like in previous years, are all renowned critics or curators active in the forefront of contemporary art. >> Read more

Since opening ShanghART in the lobby of a hotel in Shanghai in 1996, Lorenz has been friend and mentor to scores of artists, including Ding Yi, Zeng Fanzhi, Yu Youhan, Zhao Bandi, Xu Zhen, and Birdhead, among many others. Sardonic and understated, Helbling’s Swiss roots are routinely noted but as Zhou Tiehai comments, “Lorenz has long been one of us”. >> Read more

On November 15, 2016, the 10th CCAA (Chinese Contemporary Art Award) Artist Prizes were announced at a press conference at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Xu Bing was awarded the Lifetime Achievement prize, while Cao Fei was named the Best Artist and He Xiangyu the Best Young Artist. The winners were selected […] >> Read more

It is a curious historical fact that such a small and distant country as Switzerland has had such a profound impact on the development of art in China, especially at this moment of China’s greatest economic and cultural transformation. >> Read more

In recent years the art world has become increasingly dominated by taste. >> Read more

Beijing Commune is pleased to announce Hu Xiaoyuan’s third solo exhibition “Hu Xiaoyuan: Ant Bone”. >> Read more

The winner of the fifth CCAA Art Critic Award was announced on October 27. The China Contemporary Art Award was established in 1997 by Dr. Uli Sigg; in 2007, the “Art Critic Award” was created to address the lack of independent art analysis and critique in China... >> Read more