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SYMPOSIUM
China Through The Looking Glass: Shanghai Meets Beijing
4 May 2014: 16:00 – 19:00
AT .CHB Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Dorotheenstrasse 12, Berlin
Free for admission. Please make reservation via info@chronusartcenter.org
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Speakers:
DAVID ELLIOTT and LI ZHENHUA / Curators of PANDAMONIUM: Media Art from Shanghai
THOMAS ELLER and ANDREAS SCHMID / Curators of Die 8 der Wege: Kunst in Beijing | The 8 of Paths: Art in Beijing
CHRISTOPHER MOORE / Publisher of Randian China
COLIN CHINNERY / Artist Director, Wuhan Art Terminus, and Director of Multitude Art Prize
MARIANNE CSÁKY, QIU ANXIONG / Artists
WALING BOERS / Founder & Director, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
CHAOS Y. CHEN, Founder & Director, WiE KULTUR, Berlin
ALEXANDER OCHS/ Founder & Director, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin & Beijing
Moderated by CHRISTOPHER MOORE and DREW HAMMOND, Independent Curator, Writer, Art Historian
Session 1 – Geography:
Making a Map of Contemporary Chinese Art
16.00 – 17.30
Moderated by Drew Hammond
With: Waling Boers, Marianne Csáky, David Elliott, Christopher Moore, Qiu Anxiong, Andreas Schmid
Session 2 – Social and Political Context:
The Market and the Practice. Where do they come together?
17.30 – 19.00
Moderated by Christopher Moore
With: Chaos Y. Chen, Colin Chinnery, Thomas Eller,
Li Zhenhua, Alexander Ochs
With such a strong focus in Berlin at the moment on contemporary art from China, the aim of this panel is to bring together the curators of the concurrent exhibitions – PANDAMONIUM, and Die 8 der Wege 八种可能路径 The 8 of Paths – together with artists, writers and art historians, for an open discussion of what’s happening now in the art scene in China and why bring it to Berlin. The Panel is followed by a Performance, by Jia, ‘Untitled’, at 7:00 pm and a screening on the Facade of the .CHB from 8:30.
A Collaboration with .CHB Collegium Hungaricum Berlin and CAC | Chronus Art Center Shanghai
Session 1 – Geography: Making a Map of Contemporary Chinese Art
Session 2 – Social and Political Context: The Market and the Practice. Where do they come together?
SPEAKERS
DAVID ELLIOTT
David Elliott is an English born curator and writer. From 1976 to 1996 he was Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England, Director of Moderna Museet [The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art] in Stockholm, Sweden (1996-2001), founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2001-2006), the first Director of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art [Istanbul Modern] (2007), Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney (2008 – 2010) and Artistic Director of the 1st Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011-12), Artistic Director of the 4th International Biennale of Work by Young Artists in Moscow (2014-2014), Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor in Art History at the Humboldt University, Berlin (2008) and Visiting Professor in Museum Studies at the Chinese University in Hong Kong (2008/11/13). From 1998 until 2004 he was President of CIMAM (the International Committee of ICOM for Museums of Modern Art). He is Hon President of the Board of Triangle Art Network/Gasworks in London and on the Asia Advisory Board of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Li Zhenhua has been active in the artistic field since 1996, his practice mainly concerning curation, art creation and project management. Since 2010 he has been the nominator for the Summer Academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (Switzerland), as well as for The Prix Pictet (Switzerland). He is a member of the international advisory board for the exhibition “Digital Revolution” to be held at the Barbican Centre in the UK in 2014. Li Zhenhua has edited several artists’ publications, including “Yan Lei: What I Like to Do” (Documenta, 2012), “Hu Jieming: One Hundred Years in One Minute” (2010), “Feng Mengbo: Journey to the West” (2010), and “Yang Fudong: Dawn Mist, Separation Faith” (2009). A collection of his art reviews has been published under the title “Text” in 2013. http://www.bjartlab.com | http://www.msgproduction.com
ANDREAS SCHMID
Andreas Schmid is an artist and curator who lives in Berlin. After studying painting and history in Stuttgart, he moved to Beijing to learn Chinese before studying Chinese calligraphy from 1984–1986 at the Zhejiang Academy of Art, Hangzhou. Since then he has been continuously involved in contemporary art in China. Curated events: 1993 CHINA AVANTGARDE, HKW, Berlin, with Hans van Dijk & Jochen Noth, 1997 Contemporary Photo Art from the P.R. China, NBK, Berlin, 2003 Sitting in China, exhibition of Michael Wolf, Kestner-Museum Hanover, 2013, Hidden Images – on the situation of Art in China, 16 panel discussions, lectures, workshops with Chinese & European artists & intellectuals for the UdK Berlin with Bignia Wehrli and “The 8 of Paths: Art in Beijing”, 2014, Uferhallen Berlin with Thomas Eller and Guo Xiaoyan. Andreas Schmid himself has been exhibiting and teaching widely in Europe, USA, and Asia.
THOMAS ELLER
Thomas Eller (born 8 September 1964) is a German visual artist and writer. Born and raised in the German district of Franconia he left Nürnberg in 1985 to study fine art at the Berlin University of the Arts. After his expulsion, he studied sciences of religion, philosophy and art history at Free University of Berlin. During this time he was also working as a scientific assistant at the Science Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB). From 1990 he exhibited extensively in European museums and galleries. In 1995 he obtained his greencard and moved to New York. Next he participated in exhibitions in museums and galleries in the Americas, Asia and Europe. In 2004 he moved back to Germany and founded an online arts magazine on the internet platform artnet. As managing director he developed the Chinese business team and was instituting several cooperations e.g. with Art Basel and the Federal German Gallery Association (BVDG). In 2008 he became artistic director of Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
Christopher Moore is the publisher of randian 燃点 digital art magazine. From 2008-10 Christopher was the Shanghai correspondent for Saatchi Online. In 2012 Chris co-curated “Forbidden Castle” at Muzeum Montanelli in Prague, an exhibition of Xu Zhen’s pre-MadeIn work, and in April 2014 he curated Yan Pijie “Children of God” at orangelab Berlin. He is also the editor of the first monograph on Xu Zhen, to be published by Distanz Verlag this Spring, with contributions by David Elliott, Philippe Pirotte and Li Zhenhua.
COLIN CHINNERY
Colin Chinnery is an artist and curator based in Beijing. He is currently Artistic Director of the Wuhan Art Terminus (WH.A.T.), a contemporary art institution under development in Wuhan, China; and Director of the Multitude Art Prize, a pan-Asian art award and international conference. He was Director in 2009 and 2010 of ShContemporary Art Fair in Shanghai, and before that, Chinnery was Chief Curator / Deputy Director at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, where he was instrumental in setting up China’s first major contemporary art institution. Between 2003 and 2006, as Arts Manager for the British Council in Beijing, he initiated major projects in experimental theatre, live art, sound art, and visual arts, bringing a wider public into contact with experimental practice. An active artist in his own right, Chinnery co-founded the Complete Art Experience Project (2005-6), an artists’ collective whose works were presented in several important exhibitions in China and United States. Chinnery has also served as artistic advisor to a wide range of institutions and events, ranging from Tate Collections to Norman Foster’s Beijing International Airport.
QIU ANXIONG
Qiu Anxiong was born in 1972 in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in the southwest of China. There, he studied the progressive artistic practice of Ye Yongqing and Zhang Xiaogang. A bar opened by Qiu and his friends became a hub for the blossoming underground music and art circles in Sichuan, and his colleagues included He Duoling, Zhou Chunya, and Shen Xiaotong. In 2003 he graduated from the University Kassel’s College of Art in Germany after six years of studying both contemporary international art and traditional Chinese culture. In 2004 he began teaching at Shanghai Normal University, and currently lives and works in Shanghai.
MARIANNE CSÁKY
Born in Hungary, Marianne Csaky currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She has spent longer periods of time in Korea, China and the US as a resident artist, exhibiting her work, teaching at universities and holding workshops. She uses various media, ranging from video, sound and photo to drawing, sculpture, embroidery and installation. In addition to classical training in art, she studied multimedia design and video art, and holds an M.A. in cultural anthropology and literature. She is currently working on her PhD thesis “Animated history: the genre of animated documentary in the contemporary visual art”.
ALEXANDER OCHS
Since founding his first gallery in Berlin-Mitte in 1997, Alexander Ochs has focused on the exchange of artistic strategies and works between China and Europe. The list of artists that he has presented with exhibitions and projects is similar to a ‘Who is Who’ of young Chinese Art History: Ai Weiwei, Fang Lijun, Yang Shaobin, Miao Xiaochun, Lu Hao, Yue Minjun, Xu Bing, Yin Xiuzhen, and Tan Ping. In 2004, Alexander Ochs opened the WHITE SPACE BEIJING and through this, became a founding member of the 798 Art District in Beijing. Since 2008, he has published many texts and has been an editor of books and artist monographs in both China and Germany. After a consequential redevelopment of the gallery program between 2010 and today, the gallery now presents artists from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe.
WALING BOERS
Waling Boers is a Beijing-based art gallerist and former curator, writer and founding director of BüroFriedrich-Berlin (1996 – 2006). Initiating various curatorial projects, he is one of the most successful programmatic gallerist in recent China. Establishing the non-profit space Universal Studios with Pi Li in 2005, it subsequently metamorphosed into Boers-Li Gallery and is since 2010 situated in Beijing’s well-known gallery district “798” and is continued now under his own direction. A range of contemporary and media non-specific art is represented by Waling Boers, including large-scale installations, video, photography, painting and sculpture. The artists are showed internationally in institutional shows and art fairs like Frieze and Art Basel. The exhibition program includes works by international artists as Zhang Peili, Zhang Wei, Qiu Anxiong, Song Kun and Wang Wei as well as up-coming artist like Yang Xinguang und Fang Lu.
CHEN YANG
CHEN Yang / Chaos Y. Chen is the founder and director of WiE KULTUR, an art platform in Berlin for the dialogue and collaboration between Asia and Europe. Prior to this, Chen Yang was the head of the Curatorial Department at the Millennium Art Museum (2003-2004), and worked with The Asia Society, New York (1998-1999), Kunst-Werke Berlin (2002), and collaborate with the House of World Cultures, Berlin (2003). Her curatorial practices include Picture from the Surface of the Earth: Wim Wenders (2004), Driving the Sky-line: Frank O. Gehry & his contemporaries (2004), Mexican Modern (2005), etc. Since the end 1990s, she has been frequent contributor for art and cultural columns, i.e. Dushu Monthly, Economic Observer weekly. She is the co-author for two recent books published in Germany, “Wall Journey: Expedition into Divided Worlds” and “Contemporary Artists from China”. She holds a Master’s Degree in Art History and Theory from the Nanjing Academy of Arts. She is the recipient of Luce Scholarship (1998, USA) and RAVE Scholarship (2001, Germany). She served as jury member for CENTRAL Contemporary Art Award (Cologne, Germany, 2004) and REAL Photography Award (Rotterdam, 2008).
DREW HAMMOND
Former Beijing bureau chief and Senior International Correspondent for The Art Economist, Hammond has also held lectureships in Chinese Contemporary Art for Global Architecture History and Theory Program of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Landscape, Architecture and Design, and has also directed a graduate seminar in Beijing on the Theory of Perspective in Classical Chinese Art for the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He has also lectured in Mandarin on Contemporary Art at the Graduate Faculty of the China Art Academy in Beijing. Among his publications are texts on Chinese artists such as Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Xu Bing, Li Songsong, Jia, Yuan Gong, and Wang Xingwei.