Sprout from White Nights
17 Sep - 21 Jan 2008
SPROUT FROM WHITE NIGHTS
17 September - 21 December 2008
Curator: Zhang Wei
Bonniers Konsthall's main autumn exhibition is Sprout from White Nights – a meeting with Chinese contemporary art.
The exhibition presents 17 young Chinese artists at the interface of thousand-year-old traditions and new technology. In order to open up a dialogue and an exchange, Bonniers Konsthall has invited Chinese curator Zhang Wei to present her perspective on contemporary Chinese art. In collaboration with Bonniers Konsthall, she has produced an exhibition that provides us with an insight into today’s China, not only through the works by the participating artists, but also through workshops, lectures, conversations, film screenings, design and a publication.
From the beginning of the 1990s, China’s dynamically expanding art scene has continued to attract large audiences and received much international acclaim. In addition, art has become a symbol of the emerging new China. The exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall reflects a China in transition, spanning depictions of the old, traditional society and the new culture emerging alongside technological developments and economic growth.
The artists participating in Sprout from White Nights were born in the 1970s and live and work mainly in the large industrial and economically expanding cities on China’s east coast: Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. Many of them are well-known on the international art scene and have exhibited at, among other places, biennials in Venice, Istanbul and Lyon.
17 September - 21 December 2008
Curator: Zhang Wei
Bonniers Konsthall's main autumn exhibition is Sprout from White Nights – a meeting with Chinese contemporary art.
The exhibition presents 17 young Chinese artists at the interface of thousand-year-old traditions and new technology. In order to open up a dialogue and an exchange, Bonniers Konsthall has invited Chinese curator Zhang Wei to present her perspective on contemporary Chinese art. In collaboration with Bonniers Konsthall, she has produced an exhibition that provides us with an insight into today’s China, not only through the works by the participating artists, but also through workshops, lectures, conversations, film screenings, design and a publication.
From the beginning of the 1990s, China’s dynamically expanding art scene has continued to attract large audiences and received much international acclaim. In addition, art has become a symbol of the emerging new China. The exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall reflects a China in transition, spanning depictions of the old, traditional society and the new culture emerging alongside technological developments and economic growth.
The artists participating in Sprout from White Nights were born in the 1970s and live and work mainly in the large industrial and economically expanding cities on China’s east coast: Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. Many of them are well-known on the international art scene and have exhibited at, among other places, biennials in Venice, Istanbul and Lyon.