Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Part 1
When Eloisa Haudenschild decided to collect Chinese contemporary art mainly in the forms of photography and video, her American colleagues did not show particular interest about her ‘adventurous’ plan. From a traditional point of view, art works from these young Chinese artists are obviously not ‘classical’ enough; [...]

Published at ARTnews.com, February 2004
With the introduction of digital photography and high-tech printing facilities in China in the 1990s, a new generation of artists immediately embraced photo-based media as the perfect means for expressing the changes taking place around them.
The face of the new China is not the medical masks spawned by the SARS [...]

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 [...]

EuroBiz Magazine, April 2006
In Shanghai, around 40 modern art galleries have sprung up in the past year. The boom follows predictions of art connoisseurs and collectors that Chinese contemporary art will leap in price in the next few years, fuelled primarily by the growing Chinese economy and the recent influx of local buyers entering the [...]

Lianhe Zaobao NOW, Singapore, August 2005
No longer for the sole purpose of documentation, photography and video in art has become a popular medium in contemporary Chinese art. Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, on view now in Singapore, offers an insight into the development of contemporary Chinese photography and [...]