What’s on now
BIOS: Embodied Environments
BIOS: Embodied Environments art exhibition presents piantings, multi-media artworks, installation, video, and performances by three generations of ecologically-oriented artists. All six of these artists: Betsy Damon, Dai Guangyu, Xiong Wenyun, Li Xinmo, Song Chen, and Li Yaoyao all have a deep connection to Southwest China’s art ecology and history. BIOS highlights the power and beauty of masculine strength and rationality polarized by feminine intuition and connectedness. By spanning fifty years of ecologically-oriented Southwest China creative praxis, works in this exhibition hearken back to traditional Chinese forms of art, such as ink-wash and calligraphic writing, as well as forward into the future of biological and natural systems merged with artificial intelligence. Central to all of this is the human body, with its frailty and interconnectedness within natural and artificial environments.
Exhibitions
BIOS: Embodied Environments
BIOS: Embodied Environments art exhibition presents piantings, multi-media artworks, installation, video, and performances by three generations of ecologically-oriented artists.
Geographies of Feeling - 2023 Chengdu Biennale Parallel Exhibition
this exhibition is its geographical approach to critical issues such as cultural identity and cultural diaspora.
The Net Effect： A Review of Netting the Wind: Shirley Sheier Solo Exhibition
There’s something magical about a paradox, and infinite wisdom to be found within contradiction.
KYNE SHANGHAI 2022
On November 9, the Bolon Museum of Art will hold the first solo exhibition in China of the popular Japanese artist KYNE, which is also the first large-scale presentation of his works in an international museum, with more than 30 paintings and sculptures on display.
Academic Forums
Possibilities in Performance Art? A Dialogue with Artist He Liping
In May of 2019 at The Yard in the Yulin district of Chengdu, Thexis Director and
emerging curator Cui Fuli engaged in dialogue with Chengdu performance and installation artist. He Liping on creative theory and praxis.
Clasical Eco-Aesthetics in 1990s Southwest Performance Art
In December of 2019, Sophia Kidd hosted an artist talk at A4 Museum in Chengdu, China with artists of the 719 Artist Group and Keepers of the Water, Dai Guangyu, Zhou Bin, and Zhu Gang, Artists gave a survey of their work, focusing on ecologically-oriented artworks.
The Performance of Labor: He Liping’s Exhibition at A4 Art Museum
In December of 2021, Sophia Kidd hosted an artists talk with Chengdu artist He Liping, discussing He Liping’s creative praxis, art & labor: material & immaterial labor, China and Western artistic contexts and discourse, as well as Chinese performance art in Chinese as opposed to Western contexts.
