Yang Fudong's work represents a turning point in contemporary artistic production in China. His first film, An Estranged Paradise, which premiered at Documenta in Kassel in 2002, showcased a new narrative and visual sensibility, imbued with a contemporary aesthetic formed by multiple registers. His monumental cycle Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest which was completed over the next five years, poetically rendered the spirit of her generation, the kids born in the mid-1980s. Subsequent projects have broadened her cinematic vision in both directions of space and time: his films are installations that contain traces of their own making. For his most comprehensive institutional exhibition to date and its premiere in Beijing, Yang Fudong presents the first installment of his Library Film Project, a research process that aims to create a film that can contain a complex reality, both real and constructed. Inspired by his childhood in the rural Eastern suburbs of Beijing, this chapter weaves together elements of the past and present, public and personal.
Lawrence Weiner was one of the protagonists in the development of conceptual art in the United States in the twentieth century. In this anthological exhibition - Weiner's first in China in 15 years - UCCA presents works from the 1970s to 2010 and a wide selection of archival materials.
A journey from William Morris to Charles Rennie Mackintosh to discover the wonderful decorations of fabrics and objects of the Arts and Crafts movement.
6000 years of ceramic artefacts: from the Mediterranean to Asia
From the first ceramics to the refined porcelain objects of late production made outside China: a journey to get to know closely the points of contact and the differences between the different Eastern civilizations.