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.
Asian Dope Boys; Closing Ceremony; [Mak Ying Tung & Wong Ka Ying] COME INSIDE; Gao Ludi; John Gerrard (1974); Wei LIU (1972); Maria Taniguchi (1981); Matt Hope; [Huang Shan & Huang He] Mountain River Jump!; Honglei YU; Xinjun Zhang; Gang Zhao (1961);
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;
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