People Architecture Office & their giant Chinese character installation
People’s Architecture Office’s metal pipe sculpture In 2015, a Chinese studio known as People’s Architecture Office made waves on art and archit...
Artworks & exhibitions in China
Banned: Sun Yuan & Peng Yu’s controversial dog video
The video work titled Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other has only recently been removed from Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition series known as Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. The video series has been met with disapproval and disparagement not only by some art critics but animal lovers and welfare organizations as …
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Shirin Neshat’s Book of Kings captures the faces of the Arab Spring riots
The Gladstone Gallery and the Faurschou Foundation in Beijing, China are just some of the art spaces that have had the pleasure of exhibiting Shirin Neshat’s The Book of Kings. The exhibition consisted of a total of 56 black and white photos framed in unmated and black frames that were hung across the two …
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Edward Burtynsky’s impressive China photographs – Manufactured Landscapes
Edward Burtynsky in China For Edward Burtynsky, photography is much more than immortalizing a scene; while his focus is on taking photos, he is keen on sharing his point of view with the rest of the world. One of the most outstanding aspects of his works is his ability to connect to the real world. …
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Marina Abramović walks China’s Great Wall only to break up
Marina Abramović’s & Ulay’s preparation for the project Artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay are known in many parts of the world as the lovers whose relationship ended at the Great Wall of China. Initially, when the couple planned the trip, they intended to get married at the center of the wall. However, it was years …
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Li Hongbo’s stunning flexible sculptures are not what they seem
Li Hongbo is an artist based in Beijing, China and creates unusual and surprising art pieces from paper. A designer and book editor, Li Hongbo started collecting and experimenting with his ideas with paper after being inspired by the festive ‘paper gourd’ decorations and traditional Chinese boys’ toys. These pieces have a simple but …
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Huang Qingjun’s intimate portraits of Chinese families – Family Stuff
Usually, life is viewed from the perspective of people as they appear in public. It is not unusual to come across a rich-looking individu...
Zhang Huan – One of the most disgusting performance pieces ever made
Zhang Huan is no stranger to controversy. Having attended school when China was undergoing a dramatic time in its history, Zhang learned a lot from the years of protests and demonstrations that would be staged in front of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. As an avid fan of Avant-garde art, Zhang did not really have …
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Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds & His plan to retire from painting
Why is Andy Warhol important? Andy Warhol is no stranger to critical acclaim; his various works introduced thousands of audiences to contemporary art, which helped to put American artists on the map, and it waged war against abstract expressionism. Warhol effectively managed, time and time again, to shatter distinctions in art and he helped to …
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Qiu Zhijie – Luckily these are not real tattoos
Who is Qiu Zhijie? Qiu Zhijie is well known for his capacity to add provoking new meanings to traditional Chinese calligraphy. In many of his works, Qiu incorporates calligraphy into modern media to fuse important elements from his culture into his art. His Tattoo series, released in 1994, explores the state of one’s independence and …
Alain Delorme’s Totem – Colorful madness in Shanghai
French artist Alain Delorme’s Totem series features images of towering stacks of objects that appear to teeter perilously like totem poles. His project name is ambiguous because it almost indicates that the project is about the dazzling heights of the Shanghai skyscrapers. However, the entire project focuses on migrants attempting and struggling to ferry …
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Cao Fei shows iconic video games on 490m tall Hong Kong building
Cao Fei’s Same Old, Brand New Same Old, Brand New is the labor of love of Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei. It was a massive video installation that featured a multitude of different symbols, moving pictures and images, and logos from well-liked video games such as Pac-Man and Tetris. At the time of the show, …
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Tracey Emin’s Neon Signs – The Obscenity & Heartache
Neon lights are commonly used to make attractive business signs and are mostly preferred for outdoor use, especially at night. The colorful array of neon light options makes it a creative marketing tool since lights illuminate an underlying text message or image. Tracey Emin’s neon works There is no limit to what medium an …
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Prohibited photos from world’s most isolated country – Michal Huniewicz
About Huniewicz’s trip to North Korea A lot of attention was recently drawn to a series of photographs taken by London-based photographer Michal Huniewicz. These photographs are somewhat prohibited as they show the real side of North Korea. The only way how tourists can North Korea Tourists who want to visit North Korea are only …
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Zhang Huan’s Ash Buddha – 20 tons of incense ash to create them
Zhang Huan’s Ash Buddhas Zhang Huan, born in 1965, started his career as a painter and then moved to performance art and then resorted back to painting. He is also a sculptor and photographer, but his main focus is on being a performance artist. He has made extensive use of ash throughout his career and …
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Fan Ho’s street photography: How Hong Kong looked like 60 years ago
Fan Ho biography Born in Shanghai in 1931 but moved to Hong Kong early in his life, Fan Ho was a renowned actor, film director, and photographer who has won numerous awards (280 awards, empirically speaking) for his work since 1956. In his teens, he began to photograph the drama of city life, ranging from …
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Meekyoung Shin’s beautiful sculptures – Made entirely from soap
About Meekyoung Shin Meekyoung Shin, a South Korean sculptor, became popular for her Translation series, using soap as her medium of art. Trained in the tradition of European sculpture, her statuettes are made factoring in the Western and Eastern styles of relief. Her works are usually made from palm oil, a vegetarian soap. Her technique …
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Berndnaut Smilde’s Nimbus – What are his clouds all about?
Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde effortlessly creates fluffy, unusual, yet perfect clouds in different indoor locations. For several years, he has practised this and created a series named Nimbus. Clouds & their different meanings Smilde makes his art possible with the use of smoke, air, light or water. Throughout the entire world, the presence of …
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Why did Zhang Kechun travel along the Yellow River?
About the Yangtze, China’s Yellow River The Yangtze River, Asia’s longest river, is the main subject of The Yellow River, a series of phot...
Yue Minjun’s sculptures & The infectious power of laughter
About Yue Minjun Yue Minjun was born in Daqing in Heilongjiang, China in 1962. Yue moved from place to place for most of his life because his family had to move from oilfield to oilfield to find work. Before working as an electrician, he graduated from Hebei Normal University in 1989, where he studied oil …
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Zhang Xiaogang: China’s most important painter & his Bloodlines series
Who is Zhang Xiaogang? Zhang Xiaogang is a Chinese surrealist and symbolist painter. He is most famous for his Bloodline series, a body of work charac...