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.
On display are 74 series of works created by Qi Baishi. Among these, a 25-page album entitled Flower Drawings found in the Academy's archives, after having been buried in dust for decades, will be shown for the first time.
Seeing and being seen, in the languages of contemporary art
Featuring more than 70 works by 13 artists, the exhibition reveals the cultural landscape of contemporary art from different points of view, touching on the relationships between man and man, man and nature, as well as between man and society.
Tomás Saraceno: Art and Science come together to imagine New Future Scenarios
For Tomás Saraceno the kingdom of artists is not the museum or a gallery, but the world itself. The artist questions the possibilities of imagining a future collaboratively, where principles of collective care and hope prevail.
Inflated and Deflated in Pop Culture and Sign Language
Playfully interacting with inflated and deflated forms, Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader investigate the multiple meanings of inhaling and exhaling air in pop culture.