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ON THE GROUND
Summer gallery openings and closings in Beijing
The scaled-down sales at contemporary art auctions and gallery closings are becoming old topics of the art scene, but here is a rundown of summer 2009 opening and closings in Beijing.
The established Chinese Contemporary gallery quietly closes its commercial doors in Beijing, New York and London as of July 2009. The last exhibition in their [...]
Tags: 798 Art District, Ai Weiwei, Beijing 798 Gallery space, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Boers-Li Gallery, Chambers Fine Art New York, Chang Art, doArt Seoul, Galerie Michael Schultz, Galerie Urs Meile, Marella Gallery, Mizuma and One, Pekin Fine Art, Red Gate Gallery, ShangArt, South China Morning Post, Summer gallery openings and closings in Beijing, T-Space, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, White Space Gallery
HEADLINES
Optimism for Chinese contemporary art in the news
Recent auction results suggest stability in the contemporary Asian art market and various headlines confirm confidence in Chinese (contemporary) art amid global economy woes. Here are a few articles responding to the scene:
RedBox Review editor Katie Grube writes “How the financial crisis will save the soul of Chinese art” as the feature article of Beijing’s [...]
Tags: 798 Art District, AWAsia, chinese contemporary art, Katie Grube, Sotheby's
HEADLINES
Reality-check in the 798 Art District, Beijing
April 7 Xinhua News (China Daily): “Artscape hit by global financial chill” provides a revealing story of second-tier gallery woes in the 798 Art District, Beijing where “more than 60 of the nearly 200 galleries there went bust by the end of last year.” And reminds us that China outpaces France as world’s third art [...]
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ON THE GROUND, Weekend Round-up
Beijing art scene: 798 and Caochangdi / Mar 4
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Dong Yuan_Family Belongings installation
Jia Aili “Hibernation” studio
A highlight of Beijing art exhibitions on view (for Chinese artists) continues to be Dong Yuan’s painted object rooms at SZ Art Center in 798 and Jia Aili’s “Hibernation” at doART in Caochangdi [...]
Tags: 798 Art District, Beijing art scene, contemporary chinese art, Dong Yuan, Jia Aili
ON THE GROUND
Red Gate Gallery in 798 closes
Farewell to galleries, hello to better art? Red Gate Gallery closes its annex space in Beijing’s 798 Art District. The landmark gallery will remain at their original Dongbianmen Watchtower location, but Red Gate gallery director, Brian Wallace, laments the 798 art district management’s demand to raise rents and unwillingness to negotiate a reasonable contract. The [...]
Tags: 798 Art District, Red Gate Gallery
ON THE GROUND
Notes from RedBox Studio June 2008
In advance of the upcoming Olympic Games, we are seeing a flurry of construction, renovation, and openings of new art venues in Beijing and Shanghai. The most interesting trend is number of real estate developers who are cashing in on art’s cultural caché by constructing massive art complexes within luxury residential and lifestyle developments. Red [...]
Tags: 798 Art District, Andy warhol, Estella collection, Moon River Museum, Red Town 
Upon returning to New York after her first visit to China, Soraya Broukhim provides a review of Wang Qingsong’s "When World's Collide" exhibition of photographs and videos at ICP. (
798 Beijing Biennale 2009