I am concerned with the impact of ongoing social changes on human life. My art is inspired by the stories that happen in the urban city where I live. Everyday life plays out different stories of all sorts, those containing happiness, anger, sadness and enjoyment. From my perspective, I think all of these stories are […]

Born into a Chinese generation that grew up amidst an economic revolution, Xiong Lijun belongs to an age seeped in consumerism. In her lifetime, China has experienced dramatic increases in personal wealth (the years between 1978 and 1998 saw a phenomenal, 20-fold, increase in Gross Domestic Product). Along with this change came the introduction of […]

Wu Junyong’s DVD animation works are some of the most exciting creations to come from the younger generation of contemporary Chinese artists. Just as the great contemporary painters of the first generation of the Chinese avant-garde captured the zeitgeist of China in the 90s, Wu Junyong captures it for wealthy China in 2007. Born in […]

I sit across from my computer wanting to write something, but I suddenly realize that I’m at a loss for words. There are so many things that I want to say, but I don’t know where or how to begin. It’s like being in a dream, you can’t speak and you can’t move. In the […]

Thinking of the possibilities of technology, I discovered that three factors determine the visual effect of a photographic image: the state of the object photographed, the condition of light and the length of exposure. The latter two are equivalent to aperture and shutter, the primary means of taking photos. Among the three, the most basic […]

This exhibition may give viewers the first impression that the artist’s works are cute and celebrative. Yet, when one examines the 20 mixed media works on canvas and the robot-like, wooden sculptures closely, he or she might be surprised to see that all of these meticulous details and symbols are loaded with interrelated meanings. These […]

I am indulged by the smile of the women in my paintings: that utterly helpless, complicated, but loving and consoling look. There is something vague in it, hard to explain in words, but I feel that it is very important for me to express this in my paintings. I have a strong desire to enjoy […]

The work of Chen Jie is seemingly perfect, a style instilled within the artistic practice of the Camp school. It is an act of resistance to the oppression of the philosophizing of art. The works are contemporary paintings, their concept is contemporary art. The reading that the paintings gives rise to seemingly challenges the viewer […]

Chinese Contemporary was one of the first Western galleries to introduce Chinese contemporary art to a Western audience and, over the past ten years, we have helped to launch Chinese contemporary art as well as many Chinese artists onto the global stage. Due to the recent and quick evolution of Chinese contemporary art, the gallery […]

Oddny Eir Ævarsdóttir is an Icelandic writer and Parisian philosopher. She has collaborated with artists in Reykjavik, Paris and New York on a number of art projects and installations, as well as art book events and interviews. Here she talks about the Invasionistas’ exhibition, which took place at Kling & Bang Gallery as part of […]