Artistic practice between China and Germany
Group exhibition with:
Alice Dittmar
He Xiangyu
Echo Ho
Stefanie Schweiger
Curator: Nora Gantert
Opening: October 21st, 2018, 6:30 pm
Exhibition: October 24th, 2018 – January 9th, 2019, Wednesday to Saturday 1 – 6 pm
Address: Art Space of the Confucius Institute Nuremberg-Erlangen, Pirckheimerstrasse 36, 90408 Nuremberg, Germany
[Press Release]
TRANSKULTURALE is the inaugural show of a new art space dedicated to contemporary art from China or art with a focus on China, founded by the Confucius Institute Nuremberg-Erlangen.
The yearly program will consist of solo shows by up-and-coming as well as established artists. Thematic group shows will give insights into contemporary discussions. Once a year, the Confucius Institute will invite one artist from China for a fully funded three-month residency. A scientific library on Chinese contemporary art will be established at the art space, a unique resource for deepening one’s knowledge about contemporary art from China.
About TRANSKULTURALE
Participating artists:
Alice Dittmar has integrated traditional Chinese art materials such as rice paper into her art. Her fine drawings are reminiscent of traditional Chinese painting classes and are at the same time utmost contemporary. Dividing her life between Germany and China, and often Australia, she has become a cultural smuggler in her own right.
a. He Xiangyu, Lemon Pickers, 2018. © Ollie Hammick / Courtesy White Cube London
He Xiangyu moved his studio from Beijing to Berlin. He embodies the life style of the ambitious artist being at home in different cultures, while producing his own distinctive voice. His work “Lemon Pickers” works with the historic moment when Chinese migrant workers moved from China to America to work on the rail road tracks and as lemon pickers, telling us about earlier stages of cultural overlapping and historic prejudice.
Echo Ho is an artist born in China, but she has lived now for many years in Cologne. Her works are very diverse in material. She is also a music composer and has invented her own instrument, a contemporary adaption of the traditional Chinese instrument Gu Qin. She will show a work that draws on the Chinese painting manual “The Mustard Seed Garden”.
c. Ausstellungsansicht TRANSKULTURALE: Alice Dittmar, Beijing Sky, 2018. Copyright: Alice Dittmar und Konfuzius-Institut Nürnberg-Erlangen
Stefanie Schweiger is a photographer who has lived in China for seven years, her pictures have been featured in Zeit Magazin, Die Zeit and NZZ. Schweiger has spent time with artists in Beijing, taking photographs of them in their studios and homes. Her documentation “Chicken are not naked” was published in DISTANZ Verlag in 2017. The pictures are intimate gestures, the accompanying texts illustrate the work and live of the chosen artists, for example Li Binyuan.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a public panel discussion about the theory and concept of transculturality in arts.
