-- Pi Li (Independent Curator and Founder, Boers - Li Gallery, Beijing) Presentation:
Chinese Contemporary Video Art
Therefore, before we go into the topic of
Chinese contemporary video art, I believe it is more necessary and meaningful to review the process of how video art appeared in China.
Not exact matches
Passages: Walking in
Contemporary Art, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (2016); Another Landscape, Yang
Art Museum, Beijing, China (2016); Real / Unreal, The First edition of Changjiang International Photography &
Video Biennale, Chongqing Changjiang Museum of
Contemporary Art, China (2015); The Persistence of Images, Redtory
Art and Culture Organization, Guangzhou, China (2015); The 2nd Three Shadows Experimental Image Open Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography
Art Centre, Beijing, China (2015); The 9th Shanghai Biennale, China (2013); Retrospection & Deviation, Times
Art Museum Beijing, Beijing, China (2011); Rendez - vous 09, Institut d'
Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2009); and 55 Days in Valencia,
Chinese Art Meeting, Institut Valencia d'
Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (2008).
For over two decades, Song Dong has been at the forefront of
Chinese contemporary art, embracing performance,
video, installation, photography, conceptual painting and theater, and often combining mediums within a single work.
Metabolism and Communication, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Center for
Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany 2003 Love, Magazin4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Germany Patty Chang, Tracy Emin, Naomi Fisher, Paul McCarthy, The Moore Space, Miami, FL (performance, April 26) Water, Water, curated by Lilly Wei, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Awakenings, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Feminine Persuasion, The Kinsey Institute and the School of Fine
Arts Gallery, Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington, Indiana 2002
Videos in Progress, The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Le Plateau Frac Ile - de-France (performance only, November 7), Paris, France Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA The Body Electric:
Video Art and the Human Body, Cheekwood Museum of
Art, Nashville, TN Americas Remixed, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy (performance / exhibition) Extreme Existence, curated by Klaus Ottmann, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY (performance / exhibition)(catalogue) Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum, New York Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation Centre for
Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (performance / exhibition), (Catalog available) Time Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY Le Studio, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Oral Fixations, curated by Sandra Firmin, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Panorama, curated by Carmen Zita, Room Interior Products, NY Superlounge, curated by Andrea Salerno & Mari Spirito, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY About the Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted to Know),
Video Cafe, organized by Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum, NY Mirror Image, curated by Russell Ferguson, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Traveled to: Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Annadale - on - Hudson, NY Perspectives: Artists of
Chinese Descent in New York, Queens College
Art Center, NY Traveled to: Firehouse
Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, March - April 2003 2001 Bodily Acts, curated by Jennifer L. Gray, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Circus Maximus, BeganeGrond, Center for the
Contemporary Arts, Utrecht, Holland Group Show, Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany (performance) Mimic, Gale Gates et al., Brooklyn, NY Casino 2001, 1st Quadrennial of
Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst and the Bijloke Museum, Gent, Belgium (performance / exhibition) Looking for Mr. Fluxus: In the Footsteps of George Maciunas,
Art in General, NY La Hijas de la Tierra (The Daughters of the Earth), IODAC Museum of
Contemporary, Spain Panic, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of
Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida (brochure) 2001
Art + Performance + Technology, in conjunction with the 19th International Sculpture Conference, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA (performance) WET, Luise Ross Gallery, New York Trans Sexual Express Barcelona, Centre d'
Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain Smirk: Women,
Art, and Humor, curated by Debra Wacks, Firehouse
Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, New York 2000 Uncomfortable Beauty, Jack Tilton / Anna Kustera Gallery, New York Cross Female, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (performance / exhibition): Traveled to: Kunst - und Kunstgewerbeverein Pforzheim, Germany (April / May 2001) The
Art of the Screen Saver, Stanford
Art Museum / Cantor
Art Center, Stanford, CA Traveled to: ICA, London, England (Feb - March 2002) Steamroller, performance festival organized by Galerie MXM, Prague, Czech Republic (Catalog available) Soma, Soma, Soma, The Sculpture Center, New York Performance Festival, Kunstpanorama, Lucern and USINE, Geneva The Standard Projection: 24/7, Standard Hotel, Los Angeles Deja vu,
Art Miami 2000, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach Galerie Fons Welters (two person exhibition with Atelier van Lieshout), Amsterdam ID / y2k, Identity At The Millennium, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY 1999 - 2000 Illusion Delusion Denial, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York Mug Shots, Center for Visual
Art and Culture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. 1999 IDENDITAT, hat man doch zu viel, Ort halle fur kunst, Feldstr.
Her work has been featured in distinguished group exhibitions including Reactivation - the 9th Shanghai Biennale at the Shanghai Museum of
Contemporary Art, N Minutes
Video Art Festival, Shanghai, Decade of the Rabbit, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, and DAS ICH IM ANDEREN, Stiftung Mercator, Essen, in 2011; Double Act — 2010
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Red Town Warehouse, Shanghai, and Centennial Celebration of Women in
Art, Shanghai
Art Museum, in 2010; and in solo exhibitions at James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, in 2012, and White Space, Beijing, in 2010 and 2013.
LINE selects a wide collection of artworks from ten
Chinese contemporary artists who are based in China and Australia, covering a multiple variety of traditional and
contemporary media of
Chinese painting, oil painting, print, sculpture, installation and
video art.
The museum's collection of over 19,000 works of
art includes important holdings of Neolithic
Chinese ceramics, Ming and Qing Dynasty
Chinese painting, Old Master works on paper, Italian Baroque painting, early American painting, Abstract Expressionist painting,
contemporary photography, and
video art.
The collection has particular strengths in Ming and Qing dynasty
Chinese painting, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings, early American painting, nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century photography, Conceptual
art, international
contemporary art, West Coast avant - garde film, international animation, Soviet cinema, early
video art, and the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan.
from photography, conceptual researches or
contemporary paintings to performances, the «Cartoon Generation» or the latest
video artist from today's
Chinese art scene: more than 180 pieces in total.
In this
video we attend the breakfast reception for the M + Sigg Collection: Four Decades of
Chinese Contemporary Art at ArtisTree in Hong Kong.
But Eloisa Haduenschild, an American collector, will surprise local
art lovers with a quite different collection in the exhibition Zooming into Focus:
Contemporary Chinese Photography and
Video.
«Zooming into Focus is the first retrospective show of
Chinese contemporary photography and
video ever held at the National
Art Museum, Beijing.
Founded in 2007, A THOUSAND PLATEAUS
ART SPACE (South Square, Tiexiang Temple Riverfront, Shengbang Street, High - tech Development Zone, Chengdu) focuses on Chinese contemporary art, with an exhibition hall for artworks and collection, and a screening room for video wor
ART SPACE (South Square, Tiexiang Temple Riverfront, Shengbang Street, High - tech Development Zone, Chengdu) focuses on
Chinese contemporary art, with an exhibition hall for artworks and collection, and a screening room for video wor
art, with an exhibition hall for artworks and collection, and a screening room for
video works.
The show, which opened on Thursday at the Shanghai
Art Museum features nearly 50 photos, 10
videos, and several installations created by 15
contemporary Chinese artits, all collected by Haudenschild since 2002.
The importance of the exhibition is in no doubt: it showed some truth of
Chinese contemporary art to the public and to the cultural circle, and it prodded the
Chinese art museum circle to start collecting
contemporary video and photography works.»
In addition to the traveling exhibitions, two symposia were held: An International Discourse on New
Chinese Video and Photography at the San Diego Museum of
Art and Envisioning the Future of
Contemporary Art from Different Glocal Positions at the China National Academy of
Art in Hangzhou, China.
Art Radar links to a
video interview by ARTINFO with
contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing, known for his unique approach to
Chinese characters, calligraphy and printmaking.
Bringing together painting, sculpture, installation, photography and
video art, the exhibition titled Deutschland 8 aims to bring closer the diversity of German
contemporary art from the 1950s to the present day with established and emerging positions to the
Chinese audience.
1983 Presence Descrete, Musee des Beaux -
Arts de Dijon, Dijon, FR Radio by Artists, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre School of Fine
Arts, Banff, CA In Other Words: Artists Use of Language - Part 2, Franklin Furnace, FR The
Chinese Chance, an American Collection, The Butler Institute of American
Art, Youngstown, Ohio, US Projects and Performances, Islip
Art Museum, Islip, New York, US Live to Air, Franklin Furnace, New York, US Halle für Neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, CH The Rainer Speck Collection, Museum Haus Lange und Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, DE Sculpture, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Summer Show from the Collection, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL Collection of the Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium, Musee d'
Art Contemporain, Montreal, CA Projetto Genazzano, La Zattera di Babele, Genazzano, IT Conceptual, Rhonda Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US When Words Become Works, Minneapolis College of
Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US Masterworks of Conceptual
Art, Paul Maenz, Cologne, DE Language, Drama, Source and Vision, The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York, US ARS 83, The
Art Museum of Ateneum, Helsinki, FI Word Works, Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US Between Words and Things, Clare College, Cambridge, UK Festival d'Automne a Paris, Paris, FR The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from 8 Collections 1940 - 1980, The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, US Hundreds of Drawings, Benefit Exhibition and Sale, Artists» Space, New York, US December Exhibition, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK American
Video, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK There But For, screening Infermental II (video magazine), Hambur
Video,
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK There But For, screening Infermental II (
video magazine), Hambur
video magazine), Hamburg, DE
Participants in the symposium «Distance — A Discussion on
Contemporary Chinese Photography and
Video» at the China
Art Academy, Hangzhou, March 2004.
Along with the active interaction between
Chinese and internatioal
contemporary art circles, as well as the movements of family
video equipment from professional areas towards daily life since the mid-1990s, there have been more and more energetic experimental activities in
video art which has emerged as the basic language of
Chinese artists.
No longer for the sole purpose of documentation, photography and
video in
art has become a popular medium in
contemporary Chinese art.
Recent exhibitions include China
Contemporary Art, Architecture and Visual Culture, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam, 2006); The Thirteen:
Chinese Video Now, P.S. 1
Contemporary Art Center (New York, 2006); Out of Sight, De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam, 2005); Double Vision, 1st Lianzhou International Foto Festival (2005); Zooming Into Focus:
Chinese Contemporary Photography and
Video from Haudenschild Collection, National
Art Museum (Beijing, 2005) and subsequently in Mexico City and Shanghai.
Smart Museum of
Art... 15Jun > Inspired by the Opera:
Contemporary Chinese Photography and
Video.
The series of works Will / We Must consists of a
video and fourteen paintings, which will be exhibited together as a whole for the first time, providing the public with significant moments during the development of
Chinese contemporary art.