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 [...]

San Diego Union Tribune, February 2004
On one wall in SDSU’s University Art Gallery is a video of a crowd moving at a typical pace down the street. On another, a facing wall, we see the image of a woman. She takes in a lot of air and blows hard. Then, life on the streets of [...]

San Diego Union Tribune, November 2003
It’s a salutary sign of the times: You know artistic freedom is palpable in China when its artists can toy with culture’s icons. That’s surely the case with Zhao Bandi’s photograph of himself in a tux, his face tense and his hand on the paw of a panda (of the [...]

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 [...]

Shanghai Daily, February 2004
Antique furniture and ceramics are usually favorites for Western collectors. But Eloisa Haduenschild, an American collector, will surprise local art lovers with a quite different collection in the exhibition Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video.
The show, which opened on Thursday at the Shanghai Art Museum features nearly 50 photos, 10 [...]

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 [...]