Hong Kong, Mar 14, 2025, on-line, https://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk In this lecture, Pierson traced the development of blue ceramics in China. She started off with the first known appearances of blue pigment under preceding centuries, then Talked about Tang and ended up by adding a bit about the following dynasty, Song. Blue and white ceramic can be…
Hong Kong, Feb 27, 2025, on-line, https://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk Pierson is a professor of Chinese ceramics at SOAS London and currently a visiting professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong. This was a first lecture in a series of four. The topic of this lecture was (interior) architecture used for porcelain displays. She started from the most…
Online, De Art Center & Global Center for Technology in Humanities, Kyung Hee University, March 16, 2021, Zoom An on-line talk between a bunch of curators from the APAC region: Takahashi Mizuki, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Renan Laru-an, Penwadee Nophaket Manont (Pooh), Memuro Washida and Xia Yanguo. Yuhang Zhang was the host of the event. Takahashi…
Even though the exhibition halls are still empty, the completion of the M+ Museum is such a special event that I wanted to write a few words about it. Originally scheduled to open sometime around 2015 or so, the project is half of a decade behind schedule, and it is a half of a decade…
Shanghai, March 22, – May 5, 2019, www.madeingallery.com Madein gallery in was showing Shen Xin ( 沈莘 ), a video artist, female. There were two works on display. Upon entering the space, the visitors encountered a four channel video installation. It consisted of two screens with two similar shaky videos of a chair and 6…
Shanghai, March 23 – May 5, 2019, https://edouardmalingue.com A painting group show at Edouard Maligne gallery on the West Bund: The show has a mix of styles, not too surprising, but the space was structured in an interesting way, and it overall felt pleasant. Everyone could find something she likes. I had a laugh at…
Shanghai, February 28 – May 5, 2019, http://www.arariogallery.com/ Arario Gallery had an installation by Hayoun Kwon. The topic was the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ). Different media were used to convey stories and impressions of the DMZ: Filming an architectural model, 3D animation with a narrated voiceover, a thermal-vision-like video loop showing guards walking around a…
Shanghai, March 9 – May 9, 2019, http://thelongmuseum.org/en/ The first impression of the Long Museum on the West Bund (Puxi): It was cold. The large concrete halls above ground have a magnificent feel. But no heating. And in fact a large part of the exhibition halls is located underground. There it smelled like entering a…
Shanghai, July 21 – October 21, 2018, 新时线媒体(CAC)艺术中心, http://www.chronusartcenter.org/ Chronus Art Center (CAC) specializes in New Media Art. The exhibition was well designed and prepared. The artworks consisted of a mix of new media artworks, also with a mix of the typical issues that new media artworks have. Some were accessible and poetic, other were…
Shanghai, Yuyuan Road, No. 1018, August 18 – September 3, 2018 By chance and by word of mouth I attended the opening of Xu Xinwu’s exhibition. The space seemed to be a pop up gallery filling up the space in between two construction phases in the area. It was nice and clean, the big bar…