He Xiangyu, The Death of Marat, 2011, silicon, hair, textile, 175 x 50 x 35 cm, ProWinko Collection NL; Courtesy ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING
The show and accompanying program – including a symposium with well-known experts in the field, guided tours and a film series – showcase works by young artists living and working in Beijing and, at the same time, highlight the diverse artistic practices in that city today.
The curatorial team comprises Guo Xiaoyan – one of China’s best known curators, at present at the Minsheng Art Museum and previously Chief Curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art – as well as Berlin curators Thomas Eller (former Director of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin) and Andreas Schmid. Together, they visited over 50 ateliers in Beijing’s 798 Art Zone, Cao Chang Di, Hei Qiao and Song Zhuang to select the works for "The 8 of Paths". The exhibition’s title not only evokes the lucky number 8 in the Chinese tradition, but also their own curatorial journey as they explored the paths of discovery through Beijing’s varied landscape of artistic approaches.
The legendary "China Avantgarde" exhibition held in 1993 in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt is regarded as the first of its kind in Europe. This exhibition also co-organized by Andreas Schmid, co-curator of "The 8 of Paths", jump started an interest in Chinese contemporary art in the West. Building on that tradition "The 8 of Paths" spotlights leading current positions and profiles a new generation of artists who, thanks in part to the older generation around Ai Weiwei, have acquired quite new possibilities and freedoms over the past years.
Die 8 der Wege - The 8 of Paths - 'Art in Beijing'
Uferhallen - Die 8 der Wege - The 8 of Paths
, Germany
Berlin,
Germany
Xiaoyun Chen; Colin Chinnery; Lu Fang (1981); Xiao GUAN (1983); Xiangyu He (1986); Qingtai Hu; Xuan Kan; Hui Li (1977); Ran Li (1986); Liu Chuang (1978); Xun SUN (1981); Sishun Wang (1979); Wei WANG (1972); Xing YAN (1986); Junling Yang; Honglei YU; Zhao Zhao (1982); Yu Zhu (1970); Binyuan Li; Wei LIU (1972); Song Lu (1982); [Sun Yuan *1972 & Peng Yu *1973] Sun & Peng; [Deng Dafei & He Hai] Deng & He - Utopia Group;
Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundations
, United States
Miami,
United States
Weiwei AI (1957); Wei Chen (1980); Zhou Chen (1975); Lu Fang (1981); Xiangyu He (1986); Qingyan HU (1982); Xiangqian Hu (1983); Ran Huang (1982); Yong-Ping Huang (1954 - 2019); Zhenghui Lan (1959); Ming Li (1986); Ran Li (1986); Shurui Li (1981); Songsong Li (1973); Zhanyang LI (1969); Liu Chuang (1978); Zhijie QIU (1969); Yixin Shang (1980); Guangle Wang (1976); Xingwei WANG (1969); Molin Xie (1979); Zhen XU (1977); Xing YAN (1986); Enli Zhang (1965); Huan ZHANG (1965); Jinshi Zhu (1954); Yao Zhao (1981); Wei LIU (1972);
[Song Tao & Ji Weiyu] Birdhead; Guo-Qiang CAI (1957); Fei CAO (1978); FuDong YANG (1971); Qiulin Chen (1975); Yun Chu (1977); Jianyu DUAN (1970); Yong-Ping Huang (1954 - 2019); Xiangqian Hu (1983); Xuan Kan; Yue LIANG (1979); Liu Chuang (1978); Wei LIU (1965); Weijian Liu; Chunsheng LU (1968); Sheung Chuen Pak (1977); AnXiong Qiu (1972); Tao SONG; Xun SUN (1981); Zhen XU (1977); Tao Xue; Ding Zhang (1980); Tao Zhou (1976); Zixi Zhou (1970);
Hans Ulrich Obrist; Gunnar B. Kvaran; Julia Peyton-Jones;
[Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Liu Jianhua, Song Dong, Leng Lin] Polit-Sheer-Form Office (2005); Zheng Zhihua (1965); Peili ZHANG (1957); Xu Shun (1973); Yin Wang (1964); Wang Ningde (1972); Jian Wei WANG (1958); Shi Qing (1969); Yong SHI (1963); Qi Qin (1975); Zhuoquan Liu (1964); Liu Lihong (1958); Liu Chuang (1978); Yuanwei Liang (1977); Wei LI (1975); Li Songhua (1969); Ning Li (1972); Li Jinghu (1971); Jia Zhangke (1970); Xiaofei Qiu (1977); Zhi JIANG (1971); Hui ZHUANG (1963); An HE (1971);
Fei CAO (1978); Qiulin Chen (1975); Yun Chu (1977); Jianyu DUAN (1970); Xiangqian Hu (1983); Weiyu Ji; Xuan Kan; Yue LIANG (1979); Liu Chuang (1978); Ding LIU (1976); Ding LIU (1976); Wei LIU (1965); Weijian Liu; Chunsheng LU (1968); Ning Ou (1969); Sheung Chuen Pak (1977); AnXiong Qiu (1972); Tao SONG; Xun SUN (1981); Zhen XU (1977); Tao Xue; FuDong YANG (1971); Ding Zhang (1980); Tao Zhou (1976); Zixi Zhou (1970);
Gunnar B. Kvaran; Hans Ulrich Obrist; Julia Peyton-Jones;
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