The fair highlighted Taryn Simon, Ren Hang, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Marina Abramović in previous editions.
Against the backdrop of the natural, geological features of UCCA Dune, Daniel Arsham: Sands of Time stages recent sculptures and related drawings that expand upon his fascination with history, relics of the past, and idea of a 'fictional archeology.'
The winning film, Memoria, was inspired by the filmmaker's experience of Exploding Head Syndrome.
The French artist will spend time in his ancestral home of Martinique, a place he says 'haunts my imagination and fuels it'.
Since Beijing-based UCCA Center for Contemporary Art announced a new satellite museum in 2019, the opening of UCCA Edge in Shanghai has been hotly anticipated.
An exhibition featuring Song's Uglier and Uglier at OCAT Shanghai was shut down last week following a public outcry.
Artist Lu Yang discusses her current exhibition at Jane Lombard Gallery and recent inclusion in the Asia Society Triennial.
Leelee Chan received the opportunity in 2020, the worst year to travel in living memory. She had a blast.
The exhibition is a who's who of the city's artists, with some surprising international inclusions.
Ocula Magazine present a selection of highlights at this year's Gallery Weekend Beijing.
Leading global galleries Perrotin, Templon and Almine Rech are among those joining the fair for the first time.
These are the exhibitions to catch across 798 Art District as part of Gallery Weekend Beijing.
Art galleries and museums have made careful moves towards resuming normal operations following what is reportedly the worst of the COVID-19 epidemic in China.
With more events being postponed and institutions closing their doors, Art Basel in Hong Kong is also under pressure to cancel.
Gallery Weekend Beijing was first staged in 2017 on a number of premises, including the fact that Beijing needed an annual event with international appeal to maintain its place as an art destination after the rise of successful art fairs, and an increasing number of museums, in other regional cities like Shanghai and Hong Kong. As its title...
Based in Taipei, artist Chang Yun-han frequently carries out 'local' critiques by describing the visible and the invisible, and dealing with complex and variable narrative structures related to the contexts in which she intervenes. A graduate from the National Taiwan University of Arts with a major in sculpture, Chang extends her sculptural...
To coincide with the second edition of Gallery Weekend Beijing, taking place between 23 and 30 March 2018, various institutions have brought out the big guns, including a list of international artists from Sarah Morris to Paul McCarthy. Galleries are also gearing up for the weekend, from Liu Wei showing at Long March Space, to Richard Deacon...
Since taking up the role of director at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing in 2011, Philip Tinari has increasingly become known as one of the leading experts on contemporary Chinese art. UCCA is one of the most important non-profit art institutions in China, and Tinari manages an exhibition programme dedicated to promoting...
China is building contemporary art museums at an unrivalled pace. Private companies and individuals increasingly have not only the means to establish these museums but also the know-how to keep them going, often to a higher standard than China’s public institutions. This report lists ten of the best private art museums in China (in no...
To me, your own aim and attitude determines the output. An artist defines his own job, and one endlessly undertakes that activity to understand reality and himself.
Ask a Beijing artist where they would like to spend time abroad living, working, seeing exhibitions, meeting artists and curators, and the answer is invariably New York. Aside from the obvious attractions, New York appears culturally exotic; there seems to be a consensus that Beijing, as an art center and urban environment, operates somehow...
This curatorial is not just one person's view. It's my prismatic selection, of course, but this is not an essay or a thesis.
