As Chinese contemporary art engaged closely with international art scene during the past four decades, it developed a conflicting and complicated context that represents both the cultural strategies during local modernization, and the post-traditional and modern dialectic developments against the globalized background. In other words, it ic because of this complex self-adjustment of cultural psychology and spiritual system, that Chinese art, its history and methodology today cannot be simply defined by its national identity and culture.
Artist Wang Gongxin received his art education in China and the US. His art practices are shown in major museums and galleries all over the world. This time, Wang will base his lecture on his new solo exhibition “Under the Shadow - About BIAO”, introduce a series of “site-specific” works, and elaborate on his experimental thinkings about the historical context of Chinese contemporary art and social issues. Dong Bingfeng, research fellow in the School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art, will give his lecture about the concept of location and place, and their inter-relation with historical writing. In response to Wang Gongxin’s personal practices and the multi-dynamic development of Chinese contemporary art history, Dong’s speech will dig into the open-ended meaning of “How contemporary can be history?” (as per Huang Zhuan).
The symposium will be hosted by Professor Song Xiaoxia of Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Wang Gongxin, BIAO, 1995, Halle 10. Ludwingsburg, Germany
Wang Gongxin, Digging a Hole in Beijing, 1995, NO.12 House of Arts, Beijing, China
Wang Gongxin, Two Square Meters, 1996, “Open Studio” Program, NO.12 House of Arts, Beijing, China
Wang Gongxin, Full Moon, 1998, Power House, Brisbane, Australia
Wang Gongxin, Always Welcome, 2003, Lijiang 2003 International Artists Workshop, China
Wang Gongxin, Rice Snowing, 2003, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
Wang Gongxin, It's Not About The Neighbors, 2009 Arrow Factory, Beijing, China
Wang Gongxin, Screensaver, 2010, MAAP Public Art Program, Shanghai
Wang Gongxin, SALON-IT'S ABOUT WALL, 2017, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
Wang Gongxin, Sky of Beijing-Digging a Hole in New York, 2017, The Guggenheim, New York
Wang Gongxin, Under the Shadow - About BIAO, 2019, The Bunker Space, Beijing
About the Speakers
Wang Gongxin
Wang Gongxin (born in 1960 in Beijing, China) lives and works in Beijing and New York. Wang was admitted to the College of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University Academy in 1978, and became a lecturer there upon graduation in 1982. In 1987, he went to State University of New York (SUNY) as a visiting scholar to study a master’s program. In 2013, Wang was nominated for the Olivier Awards XL Video Award for Best Set Design. In 2014, he was awarded an Honorary Doctoral degree at SUNY.
Wang Gongxin has exhibited widely around the world, including major exhibitions such as the Shanghai Biennial, and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, and has exhibited in institutions such as the Tokyo Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; MOMA PS1, New York, USA; Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Victoria and Albert Art Museum, London, UK; Fukuoka art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art,Karlsruhe, Germany; SF Moma, San Francisco, USA; Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Contemporary Arts, London; The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, USA; White Cube Gallery, Hong Kong, China; OCAT Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; and National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.
Dong Bingfeng
Dong Bingfeng is a research fellow in the School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art. He has worked as curator in Guangdong Museum of Art and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Deputy Director of Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Art Director of Li Xianting’s Film Fund, and Academic Director of OCAT Institute. He has also worked as academic committee member, editor-in-chief and international judge of multiple art institutes, art theory publications, and film festivals.
He was awarded the CCAA Chinese Contemporary Art Critic Award (2013), the Chinese Contemporary Art Critic Award of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (2015), the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Greater China Research Grant (2017). His research focuses on visual art, independent films, Chinese contemporary art history and exhibition history, and contemporary critic theories.
About the Presenter
Song Xiaoxia
Song Xiaoxia is a professor and doctoral supervisor from Central Academy of Fine Arts. She received her master’s degree in Chinese Language Studies and Classical Chinese Literature from Peking University, and PhD in Art History from School of Humanities of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Her research focuses on the 20th century Chinese art history and contemporary art with global perspectives. She has curated academic symposiums including the “Modernity and the Transformation of Chinese Art in the 20th Century” symposium at City University of Hong Kong, “Modern Transformation of Chinese Art” at Shanghai Art Museum, and was the editor-in-chief for the book Self-awareness and Chinese Modernity (Oxford University Press (China), 2006). She teaches courses such as “Research Questions and Methods of 20th Century Chinese Art”, “Contemporary Art Studies”, and “Contemporary Art Studies with Global Perspectives”. She also presents academy-level workshops such as “Art History: Going Towards a New Global Dialogue”, and CAFAM Contemporary Academic Open Lecture workshop series.
Bunker Space Symposium Series 2
“Location”: Historical Writing, Chinese Contemporary Art Practices and Their Interactions
3:00 - 5:00 pm, May 14, 2019
CAFAM VIP Lounge
The symposium is open to the public.
Organized by the Bunker Space and Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Media Support: Phoenix Art, Artnet, Harper’s Bazaar Art, ArtShard, CAFA Art Info
The Bunker Space
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Space Volunteer：Sun Weiran
The space is supported by: Du Jie, Jia Wei, Wang Zhaokun, Yang Wenjun, Jade Zhu
Exhibition are open by invitation only.
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