NRW-Forum Düsseldorf Overview – Views of China May 15 to August 30

NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
Overview – Views of China
May 15 to August 30, 2015
Within its spacious exhibition premises, the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf is presenting an
overview of the CHINA 8 exhibition, which is spread across eight cities along the
Rhine and the Ruhr. On show in the North-Rhine Westphalian capital are individual
works from around 35 of the altogether 120 Chinese artists who are participating in
this inter-city exhibition project. Represented are the artistic genres of painting,
sculpture, installation, object art, photography, video, ink painting and calligraphy.
Serving as an entrée as it were, the exhibition in the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf can also
be read as an invitation for visitors to acquaint themselves with the entire spectrum of
contemporary Chinese art from China at eight further venues along the Rhine and
Ruhr.
CHINA 8 grants the viewer the opportunity to experience the diverse range of
positions, dimensions and peculiarities from the current art scene of the Middle
Kingdom – of course, only in the form of snapshots and extracts, rather than as an
encyclopedic survey. The visitor to the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf will find the door
opening to grant a small, but intensive insight: for example, the artist Shen Fan is
staging a monumental light installation in Düsseldorf, as a 3-dimensional homage to
Chinese ink painting – and seven smaller light installations by the concept artist are
also on show in Hagen. Zhang Huan is presenting in Düsseldorf two paintings made
from consecrated ash – with further works awaiting discovery in the MKM Museum
Küppersmühle in Duisburg. On view in the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf is a sculpture by
Zhang Ding, which explores the inherent tensions within stability and balance – and in
the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl a sound installation by the same artist can
also be experienced. The presentation in the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf seeks to inspire
visitors to embark on a round trip through the Ruhr region in order to engage in a more
intensive encounter with these artists and their works.
With works by:
Chen Wenbo, Chen Wenling (Düsseldorf Airport), Ding Yi, Han Feng, Hu Jieming, Huang
Min, Huang Rui, Kum Chi Keung, Lam Tungpang, Leung Chi Wo, Li Luming, Liu Jianhua, Lv
Shanchuan, Miao Xiaochun, Mou Huan, Nadim Abbas, Shang Yang, Shen Fan, Shi Hui,
Song Kun, Su Xinping, Wang Dongling, Wang Gongxin Wang Huangsheng, Wang
Qingsong, Xu Bing, Xu Jiang, Xu Longsen, Yan Pei-Ming, Yu Hong, Yue Minjun, Zhang Ding,
Zhang Enli, Zhang Fangbai, Zhang Huan, Zhang Lujiang, Zhang Xiaogang, Zhou Zixi
NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
Ehrenhof 2, 40479 Düsseldorf
www.nrw-forum.de
Opening hours
Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 8pm
Friday 11am - 10pm
Admission
Single ticket 6 €, concession 3.50 €
Children under 6 years, admission free