Tag: Beijing

  • Botanic: National Amalgamation Project

    Iranian artist Maryam Najd talks about her exhibition at the Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology in Beijing and why she chose to embark on a project researching the national flowers of the world

  • Zhao Zhao: ‘You cannot separate art from politics’

    A prominent member of the post-1980s generation of Chinese artists and a former assistant of Ai Wewei, the Beijing artist talks about his visually stunning, anti-authoritarian and provocative work. Lilly Wei talked to the artist in his Beijing studio in…

  • Li Jin: Being

    Alongside some of his older works, this exhibition focuses on his new, mostly monochrome paintings, executed in a range of black ink, whose disquieting and confrontational images shift fluidly between the abstract and the figurative

  • Lin Tianmiao – interview: ‘Thread winding taught me to be patient’

    Incorporating weaving, sewing and embroidery into her fine art practice, the multidisciplinary artist transforms ordinary objects made from commonplace materials into something rare, evocative and universal. Here, she talks about her work

  • Zhan Wang – studio tour

    The Beijing-based artist showed Studio International around his studio

  • Zhan Wang: ‘I have been continually influenced by Michelangelo, Rodin and traditional Chinese sculpture’

    The Beijing-based artist is a photographer and video artist, although he is best known for sculpting highly polished stainless steel rocks, a cultural reference to the ‘scholar stones’ loved by the Chinese for their aesthetic appearance

  • Guan Wei

    1980–2010: Thirty Years Retrospective Review of Guan Wei Shui Mu Art Center, 798 Art village, Beijing, China 6 November 2010–19 December 2010

  • Beijing’s ‘New’ Arts Centre: The Capital Museum

    Beijing’s Capital Museum has emerged from obscurity to become a leading Chinese cultural institution, attracting visitors with its easy accessibility and frequently changing temporary exhibitions. Judging by attendance records, the museum is off to a successful start. For the first…

  • Sculptural Architecture in Austria

    National Art Museum of China, Beijing 5-23 August 2006 Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou 14 October-16 November 2006

  • Royal Academicians in China, 2003-2005

    Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London 23 December 2005-20 January 2006