Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, March 2006
The Haudenschild Collection focuses solely on the media of photography and video. In this respect, it is unique among the increasing number of collections of contemporary art from China. Starting in the late 1990s, Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild travelled regularly to China and slowly acquainted themselves with local [...]

Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Photography became art again in China in the late 1970s and 1980s. Whereas this visual technology was largely reduced to a propaganda tool during the first thirty years of the People’s Republic, it reconnected with individual expression after the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) was over. The April Photographic Society [...]

Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Contemporary art in China reflects the country’s rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena. Chinese artists are gaining international recognition for their potent artworks that address a rapidly changing society; influenced by Western ideals and art practice, their creative production nevertheless remains [...]

That’s Beijing, 2005
China’s National Art Museum is currently hosting what some are calling ‘its best exhibit ever.’ The modern video and photography arts of contemporary China converge in this enormous collection, belonging to Mr. & Mrs. Haudenschild, whose collecting interests have migrated from South America’s contemporary voices to China’s Mainland. It’s a stronghold of landmark [...]