THE 9TH SHANGHAI BIENNALE
The title of the 9th Shanghai Biennale was “Reactivation”. Until the 8th biennale, this exhibition has taken place in The Shanghai Art Museum located in the People’s Square at the centre of Shanghai. This time, the ma...
The title of the 9th Shanghai Biennale was “Reactivation”. Until the 8th biennale, this exhibition has taken place in The Shanghai Art Museum located in the People’s Square at the centre of Shanghai. This time, the ma...
If you are interested in Chinese contemporary art, you should visit Shanghai on the first weekend of September. Exhibition view, Photo: SH Contemporary 2012 SH Contemporary (SHC) was held from September 6th to...
China-Japan Contemporary Art Interexchange Exhibition. The exhibition “Micro Garden” is held in Hangzhou, China, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Ja...
The prosperity of the art market in Asia (especially in China) has been gone over through various media, and the one of the epicenter of the movement would be Shanghai. After the Shanghai Expo held last year, the view...
The exhibit, Get It Louder 2010, was opened based on the theme of “sharism.” The main point of this exhibit that started in 2005 was to create excitement among young and spirited Chinese creators. This exhibit gathers...
The Terna Prize 02 and the Garuzzo Visual Arts Association has arrived in Shanghai, and centering around the theme “Contemporary Energy” they exhibited the show Italian attitudes. Although the utopian theme initia...
Roxy Paine, his first solo exhibition in China. Roxy Paine, PMU No.36, 2009 / Acrylic on linen / 106.68 x 151.13 x 11.43 cm Nature has been repeating her creation and propagation for thousands of years. She h...
Remember the man covered in flies at the Beijin’s Artist District during 1994? That is Zhang Huan in his most iconic work, “12 square meter” – an art statement that also made Zhang to become one of the most controvers...
Yoko Ono's first solo exhibition in China. It wasn't easy locating Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts, but once you found it, you can't miss the giant poster of Yoko Ono which flanks its exterior. I'm not sure if...
The familiar words "Made in China" are about to take on a whole new meaning, if the V&A contemporary wing's China Design Now exhibition is anything to go by. China Design Now Exhibition View. © Tonkin Liu...
There is a new and innovative platform for Asia's emergent creatives - Tiger Translate, an ongoing series of events showcasing individuals who double-time as creative forces in their home countries. Taking the locals-...
Students holding placards in a mock protest greeted visitors as they entered the stately 1950s Soviet-designed Shanghai Exhibition Center on opening night. I had been looking forward to SH Contemporary 2007 even befor...
Berlin is Germany's largest city and one of the most influential centers in European culture while Shanghai, the economic capital of the middle kingdom, is building skyscrapers faster than at the speed of sound. So wh...
It seemed like any other Thursday night at this stretch of shophouses along Guangdong Road except that a continuous stream of people had been entering and coming out of a narrow and dimly-lit staircase all night long....
For far too long, Shanghai has been plagued by loud, over-advertised and generally cheesy parties. From Thursday nights at Pegasus, the city's biggest hip hop night, to the overflowing taverns (complete with wenches) ...
What can one of Europe's smallest countries teach one of the world's largest about designing urban centres? Quite a bit, if you are to take Dutch architecture firm MVRDV's theses on Chinese cities seriously. MVDRV,...
Communicate, a survey of the last 40 years of independent British graphic design that debuted at London's Barbican last year, is currently winding its way through China, with the help of - who else? - the British Coun...