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Tag Archives: Yan Lei
EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS
The State of Things: contemporary art at the National Art Museum of China
[ April 29, 2010; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ]
May 1 - May 30
National Art Museum of China, Beijing
NAMOC curator Fan Di'an, artist Ai Weiwei, artist Luc Tuymans, and Director of the Kunsthalle Bern Philippe Pirotte selected 25 Chinese artists and 24 Belgian artists to represent a dialogue in the state of contemporary today. "The State of Things: Brussels/Beijing" is an exhibition originally debuted [...]
Tags: Ai Weiwei, Chi Peng, Ding Yi, Fan Di'an, He Yunchang, Jing Kewen, Kan Xuan, Li Dafang, Li Zhanyang, Lin Tianmiao, Lin Yilin, Liu Wei (°1965), Liu Wei (°1972), Liu Xiaodong, Lu Qing, SHANG Yang, Shi Guorui, Shi Jinsong, Sui Jianguo, Wang Luyan, Wang Xingwei, Xia Xiaowan, Xu Zhen, Yan Lei, Yang Fudong, Zheng Guogu, Zhou Xiaohu
EXHIBITIONS
Glass Factory — Art in the New Financial Age
15 April — 16 May 2010
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art,798 Art District
“Glass Factory-Art in the New Financial Age” is a title inspired by a homonymous poem by the Chinese contemporary poet Ouyang Jianghe, which focuses on the metaphor of “sight”: the conceptual penetration of the visual through matter which gives physical shape to everything originally [...]
Tags: Art-Ba-Ba & ARTSPY, Chen Shaoxiong, Chen Tong, Hong Hao, ICCA, Lin Yilin, Liu Ding, Ni Haifeng, Shi Yong, Wang Luyan, Wang Youshen, Yan Lei, Yang Zhenzhong, Yangjiang Group(Zheng Guogu + Chen Zaiyan + Sun Qinglin), Zhu Jia
EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS
Hong Hao & Yan Lei at Chambers Fine Art
[ October 31, 2009; 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] October 31,2009- December 12, 2009
Chambers Fine Art, Beijing
Chambers Fine Art presents a new project by Beijing based artist-provocateurs Yan Lei and Hong Hao.
From the Press: "The Chambers project <气泡SPARK> is Yan Lei and Hong Hao’s third collaboration to date, the most notorious being the 1997 fake invitations addressed to Chinese artists purportedly to invite them [...]
Tags: Chambers Fine ARt, Hong Hao, Yan Lei
HEADLINES
Artreview.com: Christian Dior & Chinese Artists
Beijing-based art critic Maya Kovskaya highlights the delights and disappointments in the UCCA’s current ‘Christian Dior & Chinese Artists‘ exhibition. Describing the show as a ‘creative engagement,’ Kovskaya does well to contextualize this show within China’s unique socio-economic reality and the country’s highly commercial art scene. She critiques the uninteresting creations (Liu Jianhua, [...]
Tags: Christian Dior & Chinese Artists, Huang Rui, Maya Kóvskaya, Rong Rong & Inri, UCCA, Yan Lei, Zheng Guogu
EXHIBITIONS
Dior & Chinese Artists at the UCCA
More than 20 specially commissioned artworks will grace the walls of the UCCA in a partnership of artistic innovation between the French fashion house, Christian Dior, and Chinese artists. Invited artists include: Wang Du, Zhang Huan, Huang Rui, Li Songsong, Zhang Dali, Xu Zhongmin, Liu Jianhua, Zheng Guogu, Lu Hao, Wang Qingsong, Yan Lei, Zhang [...]
Tags: Christian Dior, Huang Rui, Li Songsong, Liu Jianhua, Liu Wei, Lu Hao, Ma Yansong, Qiu Zhijie, Quentin Shih, Rong Rong & Inri, Shi Jingsong, Tim Yip, UCCA, Wang Du, Wang Gongxin, Wang Qingsong, Wen Fang, Xu Zhongmin, Yan Lei, Zhang Dali, Zhang Huan, Zhang Xiaogang, Zheng Guogu 
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. (
Breaking Away – an Abstract Art exhibition at Boers-Li Gallery