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Intrigued by the feeling of bewilderment that ensues contradiction, Zara June Williams’ explores the cyclical and cumulative nature of painting through an impulsive and often destructive approach to making. Compelled by incongruous encounters, the artist not only seeks to untangle problems but to create them. Her recent work combines painterly abstraction with collage, bringing together disparate parts in order to mimic and hence reflect on the fractured and disorderly nature of the self. >> Read more

(中文) 展览“一园六季”从“六季花园”这个真实存在于加德满都的园林出发，围绕着“景观”“土地”“身体”及“治疗”等多条线索，整理出了一份联结着地方历史与当下现实的档案。 >> Read more

So I am walking in, wandering through this dimly lit, shack-like choral site, a sort of khôrā (χώρα), the territory outside the polis also rooted in it as an invisible receptacle, a housing house. >> Read more

Kasmin and Perrotin are delighted to announce a jointly organized exhibition of new works by American painter Mark Ryden (b. 1963, United States). Featuring approximately forty works from the artist’s latest series, Anima Animals, the exhibition will be on view at Perrotin’s Shanghai gallery from July 3, 2020. This also marks the artist’s first solo show in China. >> Read more

(中文) 无可否认，新冠疫情对世界的影响将会在未来相当一段时间内持续，艺术家和所有人一样难免不受到波及。我们可以在哪些历史中寻找参照，或者今天的事件又会如何影响未来？或许每个人的答案都不尽相同。这次展览邀请的作品也不会提供标准答案，然而无论影像或是绘画，具象或者抽象，其线索在于，都是艺术家在对自身所处环境或面对某个事件审视之后的表达与呈现。 >> Read more

(中文) 近10年来的中国当代艺术展览的空间观念主要呈现以下几方面的趋向，主要表现可以概括为：绘画作品展陈的空间化和装置化；作品与场所的意义叠加，独立空间的兴起；扩展场域的展览：作品和展览的跨媒介性与在地性；走向虚拟空间。 >> Read more

While the COVID-19 pandemic continued extending its reach across the globe, the month of May in Beijing, with the return of Gallery Weekend Beijing and two new museums opening, seemingly saw the Beijing art world bouncing back to a steady drum of exhibitions. Yet the emergence of new cases of COVID-19 in early June (at Xinfadi Market, Beijing) put Beijing on edge once more. >> Read more

A prize is always as much about the giver as the receiver. This year’s inaugural Sigg Prize, successor to the esteemed Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA), was as much about M+ as it was about the winner, Hong Kong’s own Samson Yung. >> Read more

The Guangdong Times Museum is pleased to announce an open call for All the Way South: Residency in Exchange with The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in 2020. >> Read more

(中文) 让艺术走进生活：麓湖公共艺术计划。A4国际艺术家驻留基地&蛇形美术馆A4展亭双开幕 >> Read more