Presentation at Goethe Institute Shanghai, July 5, 2012 Raumlabor, an experimental architecture studio from Berlin has been selected to participate in the Shanghai Biennale 2012. On this occasion, two of its members, Benjamin Förster-Baldenius und Florian Stirnemann, came toShanghai. In the presentation they mostly showed their previous projects. They started off by pointing out some…
Category: Shanghai
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shanghai
MadeIn Company “Turbulent”
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MadeIn 没顶公司Company: Turbulent April 27th to May 26th, 11:00-16:00 MadeIn Company Exhibition Space 1F, Bldg 8 , 18 Wuwei Road, Shanghai, PRC MadeIn is an artist collective initiated by Xu Zhen. It poses as an ‘art factory’, a brand, behind which a group of artists are working on projects. The “Turbulent” exhibition consisted of three…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shanghai
Zhang Ding “Buddha Jumps over the Wall”
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Zhang Ding 张鼎: Buddha Jumps over the Wall Jun 02- Jul 01, 2012. Shanghart, Top Contemporary Art Centre, Room 101, Bldg. 5, 18 Wuwei Rd., Shanghai At the heart of Zhang Ding’s newest solo exhibition is a set of ‘exploding’ plaster sculptures of animals. The sculptures are filled up with red paint inside, and pierced…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shanghai
Lei Hong “Non-geometric study”
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Lei Hong 雷虹: Non-geometric study April 15 – May 14, 2012, Pearl Lam Fine Art, 181 Middle Jianxi Road, Shanghai Lei Hong works with very simple elements to express the dialogue he is having with the materials he is working with. Paintings (some on canvas, some on rice paper) and sculptures are both present in…
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VHILS + “Overlook” at MD Gallery
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VHILS Solo Show + “Overlook” group exhibition (Jonone, JR, Maleonn, Wang Keping, Xu Wenkai, Yang Yongliang) Gallery Magda Danysz, 188 Linqing Road (x Pingliang Road), Shanghai, http://www.magda-gallery.com Gallery MD is a new gallery that opened in a new creative park a few blocks from the Yangpu bridge in Shanghai Puxi. The location is a bit…
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Roy Ascott: Technoetics – transmedia art and the future
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Lecture/workshop by Roy Ascott at Xindanwei, Shanghai August 21, 2011, 14:00 – 18:00 Roy Ascott is one of the pioneers of what we call new media art or tech art now. Since the 1960’s he was applying ideas of cybernetics and network theory in his artistic and pedagogic practice, which as he states are both…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shanghai
Shanghai Biennale 2008 review + video
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The topic of the Shanghai Biennale 2008 was “Translocalmotion” which should supposedly encompass ideas of urban development and globalization in a mega-city like Shanghai. So the topic was location-specific and social, as the city cannot be imagined without the people who live in it. The resulting exhibition was not very convincing. Three floors of the…