Tag: Qiu Zhijie

  • Qiu Zhijie

    In this, Qiu Zhijie’s first solo UK show, we must mentally navigate his ink map paintings, in which the conceptual is intertwined with the painterly, the painterly with the calligraphic, and we must physically navigate his paper reliefs, set out…

  • Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World

    The curatorial mission, to showcase the influence on artists and their practice of two distinct moments of political impact – the Tiananmen Square crackdown and the failed promise of the 2008 Beijing Olympics – upends our understanding of the modern…

  • Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China

    In the mid-1980s and 90s, as China distanced itself from the policies of Mao Zedong, and his successors became more willing to engage with the outside world, Chinese contemporary art began to appear with increasing frequency in important international exhibitions.…