Yishu News

Yishu Journal - the July 2010 Issue Now Available

2010/6/30 下午 04:00:00

Beijing and Shanghai are generally considered the primary centres for contemporary art in mainland China. But there are other cities that have dynamic and distinctive art scenes. Guangzhou is one of them. Several of China’s most significant contemporary artists have emerged from there, but

The Guangzhou Art Scene: Today and Tomorrow | By Biljana Ciric

2010/6/30 下午 04:00:00

Guangzhou is considered one of the major art hubs in China, in line with Beijing and Shanghai. A large part of this is the result of the work of institutions such as Vitamin Creative Space and the Guangzhou Triennial, the latter of which continues to be viewed as one of the most

Hong Kong Diary: Response Exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale Hong Kong Exhibition II

2010/6/30 下午 04:00:00

Pak Sheung Chuen has taken a number of works he previously exhibited at the 53rd Venice Biennial Hong Kong Exhibition Making (Perfect) World and reassembled them to this exhibition entitled Hong Kong Diary, which displays the artist’s unique

Chinese Arts Centre Presents Liberation

2010/6/11 下午 04:00:00

Liberation is an exhibition growing out of an ongoing discussion with Carol Yinghua Lu and Liu Ding following the blocked use of a selection of social-networking and self-publishing websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube in China. This exhibition takes the form of a visual art exhibition as

Book Launch: History in the Making: Shanghai 1979-2009

2010/6/10 下午 04:00:00

Launched in May, 2010, History in the Making: Shanghai 1979-2009 is the first in a series of three books mapping the contemporary art practices of Shanghai. It includes artist interviews and an archive of works that was compiled during the course of preparing for the exhibition History in the Making.

Yishu at Art Basel, Switzerland, June 16-20

2010/6/10 下午 04:00:00

Yishu is pleased to announce its continued participation in the 41st edition of Art Basel, which opens from June 16-20, 2010. In effort to provide timely information about the Chinese art scene, Yishu will distribute at the fair our annual supplement—Yishu Contemporary Chinese Art Guide. As in previous

Yishu at ArtHK, May 27-30, 2010

2010/5/18 下午 04:00:00

Yishu is pleased to announce its participation at the 3rd edition of ArtHK from May 27-30, 2010. In effort to provide timely information about the Chinese art scene, Yishu will distribute at the fair our annual supplement—Yishu Contemporary Chinese Art Guide. In its fifth edition, our 2010 Contemporary

Liu Ding's Store: A Conceptual Art Store

2010/5/11 下午 04:00:00

Launched in the China Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale, Liu Ding's Store is an ongoing conceptual art store comprises two lines of products entitled “Liu Ding’s Store - Take Home and Make Real the Priceless in Your Heart” and “Liu Ding’s Store – the Utopian Future of Art, Our Reality.” The store allows

Yishu Events: Film Screening & Panel Discussion

2010/5/11 下午 04:00:00

Yishu Journal of Contemporary Art, in partnership with Emily Carr University, is pleased to invite you to the screening of a documentary From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Chinese art in the 1980s. The 1980s was a seminal period in the history of

Yishu Journal - the May 2010 Issue Now Available

2010/5/3 下午 04:00:00

Yishu 38 opens with three texts featuring women artists who represent different generations, who come from different backgrounds, and whose work differs stylistically. Yet each artist alludes in her work to issues of gender and the social restrictions faced by women, both historically and currently

Yishu Journal - the March 2010 Issue Now Available

2010/2/28 下午 04:00:00

In Yishu, a variety of ideas weave and resonate throughout different texts in each issue. For example, in Yishu 37 we are featuring three artists with unconnected backgrounds—Zhong Biao is from mainland China and still living in China, Shen Chen is from mainland China and has been living in

Three Video Projects: Wang Qingsong's Solo Exhibition

2010/2/17 下午 04:00:00

Pékin Fine Arts is pleased to host the China premier of Wang Qingsong’s three latest video works, following his first solo exhibition in a United States museum, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (March 24 – June 14, 2009 and curated by UCLA Hammer Projects

He Yunchang's Solo Exhibition at Galerie Urs Meile

2010/2/8 下午 04:00:00

The Wings of Live Art—He Yunchang is the first soloshow in Europe of leading Chinese contemporary performance artist He Yunchang. The exhibition presents One Rib (2008-2009), a challenging and multi-faceted project that consists of interlinked art pieces including

Osage Kwun Tong Presents Biography

2010/1/19 下午 04:00:00

A new generation of artists in China today occupies a peculiar position. Weary of academy traditions, the overkill of political pop and cynical realisms, yet keenly aware and critical of contemporary phenomenon, these artists often possess strong individual expressions whose works create small

Greetings from Yishu

2009/12/26 下午 04:00:00

The year 2010 marks Yishu’s ninth year of publishing and its third year as a bi-monthly publication. The inaugural issue debuted in the spring of 2002, and Ken Lum’s opening editorial statement stressed the aim of Yishu “to not only reflect on discourses about Chinese art but also to produce and lead discourses on Chinese

Silent Voices : Ink Paintings by Xu Lei

2009/12/25 下午 04:00:00

Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art, New York, and RedBox Studio, Beijing are pleased to present the first solo gallery exhibition in the United States by Chinese contemporary artist Xu Lei. Exhibited at Joan B Mirviss, New York, Silent Voices will present 12 new large scale paintings rendered entirely in ink. Xu Lei (b. 1963)

Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms

2009/12/8 下午 04:00:00

Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms is the result of a collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Conceived as an homage to the late Anne d’ Harnoncourt, former director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition gracefully addresses time’s passing

Yishu to Participate in Art Basel, December 3-6, 2009

2009/11/24 下午 04:00:00

Yishu is pleased to announce its participation in the 2009 edition of Art Basel | Miami Beach, which opens from December 3-6, 2009. Art Basel Miami Beach is the most important art show in the United States, a cultural and social highlight for the Americas. As the sister event of Switzerland's Art

UCCA Presents Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China's New Generation Artists

2009/11/22 下午 04:00:00

The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) presents Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China's New Generation Artists, a groundbreaking exhibition showcasing a comprehensive look at the future of contemporary art in China. The exhibition will

Blind but not Foreign: Gao Weigang and the New Insider-Outsider Art | A Review by Robin Peckham

2009/11/18 下午 04:00:00

Gao Weigang is an anomaly, a supreme practitioner of artistic pragmatics. Having toiled away in relative obscurity as a teacher of oil painting in Tianjin, he accidentally found himself in Beijing a few years ago to close a real estate deal for an artist