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.
The great musical and dance show "Confucius" tells about the journey of the great philosopher to the ancient Chinese states. In 497 BC Confucius left the state of Lu, beginning his 14-year journey to other states to promote his philosophical ideas.
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.
From the ruins of the contemporary, poetry still rises
The exhibition is an attempt to respond to the tumultuous and unfathomable conditions of the contemporary world, illustrating the deeply rooted conflicts and anxieties of the times in which we live and evoking a hope sparked by individual activism and creativity.