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Tianjin, just half an hour by train from Beijing, is said to be the most inconspicuous of China’s municipalities. This is perhaps surprising, given the fact that it is the first city in Northern China to be exposed to modern culture, experiencing a glamorous era in the period following 1860 when it became a treaty port. Tianjin is the epitome of modernity with “Chinese characteristics”. >> Read more

(中文) 从2017年开始，美术馆增强投入，从每年3位艺术家增长至10多位艺术家，更在今年为驻留艺术家的创作专辟了展览与工作空间——A4国际艺术家驻留基地，并提出了“在地性”与“国际性”两个理念作为驻留项目的主题。 >> Read more

Legendary British artist Sara Lucas has come to China. A part of the Young British Artists generation, Lucas still maintains the spontaneous drive of that era in her work today. >> Read more

Perrotin is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Hans Hartung in Shanghai, >> Read more

(中文) 大多数情况下，在当今商业化程度甚高的艺术界，一个画家没有找到个人符号并固定下来，有可能是他眼界有限，接触时代的面儿太窄，加之不善归纳、不够博闻强记；还有一种可能恰恰相反：接触的东西太多，入时代之戏太深，而忽略了“艺术家”的职业角色。倪军显然属于后者。 >> Read more

HdM GALLERY is pleased to present ‘Menthe and Caramel’, the new solo show by French sculptor and painter Ivan Messac, and curated by Lu Mingjun. >> Read more

Being said, in comparison to her predecessors, JY purposely steps back from being an “artist as a creator” to “artist as an observer,” deploying a meticulous and reserved manner to scrutinise the system. >> Read more

(中文) 高远策划的“基底”展览或许是个提醒，无论它的成与败，都在提醒我们应把更复杂的社会现实作为基底，在此之上思考艺术与创造，我们必须主动卷入艺术史与现实纠缠的漩涡中， 而非仅仅陷于形式的自恋与作茧自缚中。 >> Read more

Edouard Malingue Gallery Shanghai announces its new group exhibition, “Healthier, Simpler, Wiser.” The exhibition brings together three highly reputed mid-career Chinese artists: Hu Xiangqian from Guangdong, Lai Chih-Sheng from Taipei, and Kwan Sheung Chi from Hong Kong. Each will present a work newly commissioned by the gallery, together with a selection of recent works. While […] >> Read more

A conceptual artist who is tired of ‘conceptual art’? Xiao Yu may not be alone. As the cluster of meanings fades away in the monumentality and materiality of his works, Xiao Yu has embarked on an ambitious and yet perplexing task of ‘de-interpretation’ in contemporary art. >> Read more