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Exhibitions of Chinese art outside China tend to confirm certain assumptions about the country's history, culture, politics, and people. At first, ‘XU ZHEN®: Eternity Vs Evolution’ at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, seems no exception to this rule, promising viewers a proven combination of two enduring preconceptions about China’s past and present. >> Read more

When you next stop in your tracks before the effect of a flash bulb coming off a world-famous painting (reproduction),It’s in these moments that is seems entirely possible that Xu Zhen has had these “aha moments” set in his sights all along.
 
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A low, flat jumble of dusty wreckage.sits one meter or so above the surrounding downtown sidewalk, but its sides descend to an oddly contrasting edge, a trim rectangle fifteen by eight meters. MadeIN Company’s “Calm” is public art at its best—big and familiar, yet challenging, subtle and brash. Love it or hate it, it provokes a response from everyone. >> Read more

ART LABOR is very pleased to present five artists exploring exterior and interior environments in rich, >> Read more

Asia Art Center and A+ Contemporary are pleased to announce the opening of “Visible Light”, Dong Dawei’s solo exhibition, on May 27th, 2017 at Asia Art Center Taipei ll. The exhibition is on view through July 1st, 2017. >> 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

Positions of Chinese contemporary art and western building traditions will cover the baroque spaces of the former Cistercian monastery of St. Urban starting this June 12th. >> Read more

From the 4th century to the 14th century, people spent over a thousand years carving out the Dunhuang Grottoes spanning more than 1,680 meters from the south to the north. >> Read more

In a single work, the artist has involved a play on words, the arrangement of space, the shape of the sky, changes in the perception of social spaces over time, personal observations and memory, and constructed a relationship with the viewer... >> Read more

With the quality of the Yuz collection on display no doubt greatly aided by having Wu Hung, the renowned scholar of Chinese art, as a curator, we can say that “Myth/History” was not half bad—pretty good, in fact... >> Read more