Art and China after 1989 is a fresh interpretative survey of Chinese experimental art that presents the work of some 60 artists and collectives who lived both in China and abroad in the turbulent decades between the 1989 crackdown on the student protest movement in Tiananmen Square, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Art and China after 1989 is a fresh interpretative survey of Chinese experimental art that presents the work of some 60 artists and collectives who lived both in China and abroad in the turbulent decades between the 1989 crackdown on the student protest movement in Tiananmen Square, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Discover how artists including Cao Fei, Huang Yong Ping, and Ai Weiwei responded to the sweeping social and economic transformation that has brought China to the center of the global conversation.
This fascinating and compelling survey of contemporary Chinese art is one of the largest exhibitions of its kind in North America.
Art and China after 1989
Bracketed by the end of the student protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World presents works by more than sixty artists and artists’ groups that anticipated, chronicled, and agitated for the sweeping social transformation that saw the rise of China as a global power in the new millennium. The exhibition examines conceptually based performances, paintings, photographs, installations, videos, and socially engaged projects that question consumerism, authoritarianism, and the rapid development transforming society and China’s role in the world, placing their experiments firmly in a global art-historical context. The artists serve as both skeptics of and catalysts for the massive changes unfolding around them, and their work continues to inspire new thinking at a moment when questions of identity, equality, ideology, and control have pressing relevance.
Exhibition "Introducing Art and China after 1989"
Theatre of the World
November 10, 2018 - February 24, 2019
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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