The Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai is a non-profit kunsthalle and research center committed to the development, presentation, and exchange of diverse ideas through contemporary arts. Our commitment is based on a core belief that engagement with art engenders critical thought, creativity, and openness to complexity, across disciplines and society and in everyday […] >> Read more
The 2018 Exhibition of the Annual on Contemporary Chinese art is not organized thematically, but presents a summary outlook of contemporary Chinese art in 2018, relating artistic practices, theories, exhibitions and art phenomena, etc. It is a continuation of the archival work conducted by the Chinese Modern Art Archive (CMAA) since 1986. >> Read more
Taipei Dangdai announces a stellar line up of 90 galleries from across the globe, to kick off the 2019 art world calendar. The first edition of the fair attracts a strong participation of leading international galleries who will exhibit in Taipei for the first time, whilst showcasing the very best of Asia. >> Read more
From July 6 to August 14, 2018, the Guangdong Museum of Art hosts the exhibition ‘PAINTING AFTER PAINTING AFTER PAINTING AFTER: IMAGE-MAKING IN CONTEMPORARY GERMANY’, presenting four of the most accomplished mid-career painters of Germany today: Franz Ackermann, Benjamin Appel, Thomas Scheibitz and Katja Strunz. The exhibition is a pilot project that in exemplary ways introduces the state-of-the-art in German post-painting developments […] >> Read more
Basmat Levin, an artist from New York, is going to deliver her workshop series to Pavilion MoCA Shanghai, which last from May 25th to June 8th. In the pavilion, Basmat Levin’s intensely colourful paintings, full of patterns and wall-to-wall, full- room installation of rice-paper prints of major will work to immerse participants and visitors in […] >> Read more
The title, Everything Was Forever, Until it Was No More, is borrowed from Alexei Yurchak’s book of the same name. Yurchak discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union and one particular characteristic that defined it: the sense that although the Soviet system was felt to be permanent and immutable, its demise was at the same time perceived as completely natural. >> Read more