MoMA and the Asia Art Archive (AAA) are bringing together artists, critics, and scholars to discuss and debate the history of contemporary Chinese art. People will gather for these discussions in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and New York.
Participants will discuss key events in the histories of Chinese art since the late 1970s in an effort to draw attention to the need to document, discuss, and better understand the issues that have shaped Chinese art and art criticism today.
Participants include Cheng Tong, artist; Doryun Chong, Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture; Jane Debevoise, President, AAA; Huang Rui, artist; Huang Yong Ping, artist; Lin Tianmiao, artist; Song Dong, artist; Wang Aihe, Artist and Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong; Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Director, Center for the Art of East Asia, and Consulting Curator, Smart Museum of Art; Wu Shanzhuan, artist; Xu Bing, Artist and Vice President of CAFA; Xu Tan, artist; Xu Zhen, artist; and Yu Youhan, artist.
These events celebrate and launch two important projects: MoMA’s publication, Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents, and the Asia Art Archive’s Web-based project, Materials of the Future.
We are inspired to organize a co-launch event to highlight these two initiatives that shed new light, for English-language and Chinese-language readers, on this important history.
The events were made possible with the generous support of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, Hong Kong Arts Centre, and JIA Boutique Hotels.