hat is the state of Video Art in China today? And how do artists reflect their artistry in the present? Where is the art drifting toward? And by what standards do we evaluate art? Based on two shows entitled “imPOSSIBLE!”, that were shown 2009 already at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and MISSION 17, the new show was re-curated by the curatorial team of Nicole Loeser and Irina Ilieva. In the context of the project “Chinese Fall” at the Kühlhaus the curators picked up these questions for their exhibition…

ShanghART Gallery is delighted to present Place of Residence – with Artists from Brazil and China, on October 12th in both ShanghART Main Space and H-Spaceat Moganshan Rd 50. Despite the title, Place of Residence, it is not the exhibition’s purpose to solely dwell on the artists ‘geographical, cultural, historical differences and their impact on artists’ creations. As more and more contemporary artists try to combine their own life experiences and thoughts into their works, they try to present works in various media in a specific point of view to reflect the reality of life and to deeply engage an audience. Thus, Place of Residence is no longer about boundaries or confinement. It concerns more closely with life…

Acts of Voicing deals with the aesthetic, performative, and political significance of the voice from the vantage point of visual art, dance, performance, and theory. The exhibition centers on the agency and performativity of the voice. The aim is to examine the resistive the disciplined, and the disciplining voice—those voices that are heard and others that are not. Fighting to have one’s voice heard is as much of a topic as the power to silence someone or to force them to speak. Acts of Voicing, which evinces specially designed exhibition architecture, not only exhibits works of more than 30 artists but is also conceived as a stage for performances, workshops, lectures, and screening programs…

On September 4, 2012, Yang Zhenzhong will mount solo exhibition Passage in his atelier in TOP Art Park. The show space is divided into two sections by a passage, an artificial construction commonly seen in urban milieu, whose basic configuration——an exit and perspective lines which converge on the exit——is featured repeatedly in a series of videos and painting installations. Meanwhile, human activity is stripped away from these manmade spaces where the artist gives deliberately a presentation “destitute of content”…

The exhibition Never Forget The Image Struggle! was inspired by the famous sentence: “Never forget class struggle!”. This slogan and its deterrent tone was unforgettable during its time. On view from December 9 to December 25 at the TOP Contemporary Art Center, the exhibition includes the artists: MadeIn Company, Zhang Ding, Zhou Xiaohu, TOF group, Jin Feng, Shi Qing, Zhang Xian+Hipic, Shao Yi, He An, Shi Yong, and Yang Zhenzhong.

ShanghART Beijing is pleased to present a solo show by Yang Zhenzhong – Don’t Move (April 24 – May 31, 2011). Timed to coincide with Caochangdi Photospring 2011 in Beijing, this exhibition shall present both photography and video works by Yang that explore ideas relating to identity and narrative. Visit ShanghART’s website for more information on this [...]