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“Ache” is Xu Qu’s third solo exhibition at Antenna Space in Shanghai. >> Read more

Mr. Huang Zhuan, renowned art historian, critic and curator, executive director of OCAT Shenzhen and OCAT Institute, professor of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, passed away at 8:29 pm on April 13th, 2016 in Guangzhou, at the age of 58. >> Read more

OCAT’s new Beijing space, the OCAT Institute, is due to open to the public on June 27th. As a non-profit academic research institution, the OCAT Institute will aim at research and publishing, archiving, and exhibition exchanges. >> Read more

The OCAT Institute is a nonprofit research center dedicated to the history of art and its related discourses. >> Read more

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

一楼展示的米利亚姆·卡恩 (Miriam Cahn) 作品犹如神典的开篇，创作者在雾中迷失、低吟高唱，在她以感官展开的画卷里，山体长着血脉，表现在痛苦中挣扎的情感；房屋是毕露的线条，释放出包裹或缠绕的明亮；动物们目光空洞、身体脆弱，多半没有耳朵。同样，她以缤纷的色块和线条声张她简明而灿烂的直觉领域，然而她情感的世界却深沉而阴郁，与身体的感官联系深刻，不能轻易的揣度。 >> Read more

Werner Büttner, Wild Painter in Germany who changed the 1980s. >> Read more

Jumping and whooping, men swept by in costumes covered in fabric petals, their bodies thawed into fluttering colors. It took Andy a moment to realize that their swollen, red features and black, hollowed eyes belonged to wooden masks. >> Read more

The recent sculptures nuns + monks by Ugo Rondinone take their rightful place in the continuity of a narrative introduced by the artist thirty-two years ago. A narrative composed of chapters that would never cease to interact with one another throughout a trajectory made up of intertextual questions, back-and-forths, survivals, displacements and reinventions of shapes and attitudes, or of interrogations that are constantly being renegotiated. >> Read more

Minimalist, conceptual, and deliberately provocative, Cao’s work reflects upon and exploits the physicality of her materials, from the conventional – marble, stretched linen and canvas – to unexpected, even transgressive, substances including the artist’s own hair, breastmilk and urine, and their various significations. >> Read more