Fluxus on View: Art in Motion

The exhibition unfolds as a living map of ideas, actions, and cultural short circuits, placing Fluxus in dialogue with historical Dada and with some of its most significant legacies. Produced in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the exhibition weaves together works, documents, and traces of events that convey an art oriented toward experience rather than the object, play rather than stable form, opening the narrative to influences that have crossed continents and generations. Within this framework, the exhibition pays tribute to Huang Yong Ping, a radical conceptual artist who turned Dadaist thinking and cultural critique into a working method, and to Geng Jianyi, an influential artist-theorist and a key figure in the education of new generations at the China Academy of Fine Arts. Fluxus emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s from the meeting of individuals whose backgrounds lay far from traditional art: science, economics, music, anthropology, and design. This diversity of experience became the ground for a collective and participatory practice. Coined by George Maciunas, the name Fluxus refers to the continuous flow of ideas and actions that spread through festivals, publications, and ephemeral events. Rejecting virtuosity and the unique art object, the movement dismantled the separation between artist and audience and anticipated many of the concerns of conceptual art, proposing an open, unstable, and deeply shared form of artistic practice.