Speed and Upheaval in China -- the Art of the 90s

Описание: Speed and Upheaval in the People's Republic of China -- the Art of the 90s
This talk is one of the serial events: "Hidden Images" -- on the Situation of Art in China (Das Bild hinter dem Bild -- zur Lage der Kunst in China).

Talkers:
Marianne Brouwer, curator, Netherlands
Karen Smith, curator, Beijing/ Xian
Moderation: Andreas Schmid and Bignia Wehrli, artists and project team, Berlin
Language: English
Opening time: February 13 2013, 5pm
Address: UdK Berlin, Room 110, Hardenbergstrasse 33

The nineties were a particularly exciting time for contemporary art in China. This was the era when "Cynical Realism" and "Political Pop" were born but also when an "invisible" art was emerging in artists' circles of which the public was scarcely aware. The two participant-observers look at this seam of "invisible" art, which is the backbone of conceptual practice in China today and at the first steps of Chinese contemporary art on the international art scene.

UdK Berlin, Room 110, Hardenbergstrasse 33


Intoduction of New Series: "Hidden Images" -- on the Situation of Art in China

Under the title "Hidden Images -- on the situation of Art in China" (Das Bild hinter dem Bild -- zur Lage der Kunst in China) the University of the Arts Berlin has invited artists, creatives and intellectuals from the People's Republic of China to Berlin to participate in a series of events staged in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The year-long series of talks on contemporary art in China is designed to show the many different aspects of the turbulent art scene in this huge country and to place them in a social context.
Together with international experts, protagonists of Chinese contemporary art will participate in a series of discussions, a series of lectures and artists' workshops, thus giving insight into the rapid developments in China's most recent art history and enabling in depth engagement with Chinese art. The discussions plan to use a political and poetic approach addressing questions about the social role of the artists as well as the artistic visions that currently move China. What forces drive art in China? What new horizons and modes of thought will our engagement with Chinese art open to us? By alternately looking at Chinese art from a European and Chinese perspective we gain views from both inside and outside, gradually revealing an unaccustomed picture that can assume many forms -- the pictures behind the picture, the hidden images.