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Surprising even the most hardened skeptics, the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award exhibition in Shanghai presented a number of challenging and edgy works with the Hong Kong artist Kwan Sheung Chi taking home the generous sum of 300,000 RMB and the accolades... >> Read more

More so than whatever a prize like this might mean to the artist, however, is the question of what his success in Shanghai indicates about the Chinese art world at the moment—and, by transference, what role Hong Kong is playing in relation to this system. Whereas artists working in Hong Kong were once fond of saying... >> Read more

This Spring, Hambling will exhibit for the first time in China, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing. Ran Dian met the artist at her London home to discuss the show. >> Read more

As part of China’s standard art education, drawing or painting from life is considered practice - it is mere preparation for a final ‘meaningful’ creation. Yet, Wang Zhibo’s works purposely linger, or rather, continuously return to this condition of practice. >> Read more

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a possible future ended. Only some archaeological documents remain. Liu Cixin’s utopian short story “Zhongguo 2185”, written in the 1980s and published as samizdat in 1989, speaks of this spectral future. “Zhongguo 2185” envisions a future in which a democratic China, led by a female president, is forced to shut down the power network to stop a cybernetic insurgency helmed by one of six virtually resurrected brains—Chairman Mao’s. >> Read more

This exhibition by Liu Chuanghong is called “Xing’an West Art Group” , a story that does not exist anymore, in which the artist attempts to fight against the time and history with imagination. >> Read more

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). >> Read more

The Mainland and Hong Kong aren’t the same story. And yet, at this historical juncture, the two are connected. >> Read more

Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present We owe this considerable land to the horizon line, the first solo exhibition in France of the work of Shahpour Pouyan. Shahpour Pouyan was born in Isfahan in 1979, a year marked by the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and grew up in Tehran in the midst of […] >> Read more

Yang Jian’s exhibition “The beginning of infinity” engages with a different, but parallel experiment. >> Read more