by Shen, Lynette | Aug 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Chengdu Biennale has recently opened in 2021, November. The exhibition is divided into eight sub-themes and is accompanied by ten parallel exhibitions scattering in the city. The art exhibitions in China in recent years witnessed a gradual increase in female...
by Sophia Kidd | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
For decades artist BORIS NIESLONY has been dealing with violence, death and pain. How are humans capable of inflicting such atrocities on one another? He dedicated some performances and installations to the victims of genocides and massacres, drowning out his pain at...
by Sophia Kidd | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
The recent Water Forming Chengdu exhibition in Sydney, Australia and now brought home to Chengdu uncovers an art history which is situated in the natural urban environment, reinforcing a daoist tradition of deeply respecting waterways as well as the trans-physical...
by Shen, Lynette | Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Soft-opened on Nov 6th, 2021, the state-funded Chengdu Biennale scheduled to run through Apr 6th, 2022, the Chengdu Biennale is held at Chengdu Tianfu Art Park，whichindicates a growing interest on the part of the government to develop Chengdu coupled with Chongqing in...
by Shen, Lynette | Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
How do ethnic minority artists join the mainstream contemporary Chinese art discourse?These artworks，featured in the exhibition come from diverse cultural background, tend to go unmentioned, disregarded, generally underrepresented in the mainstream discourse of...
by Shen, Lynette | Jan 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Positioning itself as “one of the largest-scale, most academically minded art biennales of the post-COVID era” (according to Fan Di’an, curator of the Biennale), the Chengdu Biennale still faces the challenge of emerging Delta and Omicron variants, as China strives to...
