1. Lecture and Workshop for Museum Audience Development
Mr. Andrew McIntyre from Morris Hargreaves McIntyre, a famous UK consultation company on arts marketing and audience development is invited to share his experiences on audience development with local arts professionals, discuss new approaches and strategies to exploit opportunities and meet the challenges. This will help the arts organisations in China to gain better understanding of the audiences, particularly the new approaches in meeting audience’s needs. Please click here to read more.
Time: 9:30 - 17:00, Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Venue: Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha
1) Lecture: Fundamental Theories and Case Studies on Audience Development for Arts Organisations
Time: 9:30 – 12:30
2) Workshop: Strategies of Meeting the Audience’s Need
Time: 14:00 – 17:00
2. John Moores (Shanghai) Contemporary Painting Prize
For the first time the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize will launch outside of Liverpool in Shanghai, China 2010. This collaboration with China and Shanghai, Liverpool’ sister city will be an exciting move. John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize is the UK’s best-known painting competition for contemporary art, with a history of over 50 years. Please click here to read more.
3. The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection
The Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General in collaboration with the Shanghai International Culture Association and the Minsheng Art Museum presented The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection in Shanghai from 10 February to 21 March. Comprising 89 artworks by 40 artists, the exhibition featured some of the best examples of contemporary British art from the past thirty years. The exhibition was just one of many British cultural events planned for this year to celebrate the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Please click here to read more.
4. “The Road Not Taken” by John Atkin
The construction of this new sculpture will be finished by August 2010. The opportunity to create a new sculpture for Ordos City Sculpture Park came about through contacts John Atkin made last year at FX Stone, Beijing. He worked with FX Stone on developing a monumental 27-ton sculpture for Olympic Park as part of the integrated cultural celebrations for the Beijing Olympics. Please click here to read more.
5. Turner from the Tate Collection
The first major exhibition of the works of J.M.W. Turner closed at the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing on 28 June with 112 major works on loan from the Tate’s Turner Bequest. J.M.W Turner (1775–1851) is considered to be one of the greatest painters Britain has ever produced. He was the leading British artist of his era, an artist who raised the status of landscape painting to an unprecedented level. Please click here to read more.
6. 2009 Shanghai eArts Festival
The Shanghai eArts Festival 2009 opened on 10 September with three projects: ‘eARTS BEYOND, the Shanghai International Gallery Exhibition of Media Art’; ‘Fantastic Illusions: a Media Art Exhibition of Chinese and Belgian Artists’; and ‘New Media Archaeology: a Research Project’. The festival theme ‘System Updating’ reviewed the history of the development of new media art by selecting and exhibiting important documentation from representative media art institutions, and highlighting the activities and achievements of new media art practice. During the festival, Director of FACT Mike Stubbs attended the Media Archaeology forum and seminar to contribute his ideas to this event and British artist Gina Gzarnecki presented three videos. Please click here to read more.
7. Turner from the Tate Collection
The first major exhibition of the works of J.M.W. Turner closed at the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing on 28 June with 112 major works on loan from the Tate’s Turner Bequest. J.M.W Turner (1775–1851) is considered to be one of the greatest painters Britain has ever produced. He was the leading British artist of his era, an artist who raised the status of landscape painting to an unprecedented level. Please click here to read more.
8. The Fifth Curator: British Council International Curatorial Competition In Partnership With The Whitechapel Gallery
The Fifth Curatorial Competition is a unique opportunity for an aspiring curator to select an exhibition of works from the British Council Collection. We are looking for someone who is based permanently outside the UK, and who believes they have the passion and knowledge to be a leading curator. The winning curator will be given unlimited access to select from the Collection, which includes over 8500 key works of British art. The resulting exhibition will be shown at the prestigious Whitechapel in the vibrant East End of London in April 2010. Please click here to read more.
9. China: Through the Lens of John Thomson (1868-1872)
The first exhibition devoted to the China images of Scottish photographer John Thomson shows the great diversity of photographs that Thomson took in China between 1868 and 1872. What distinguishes the work was his desire to present a faithful account of China and its people – human aspects of life in China through an extensive record of everyday street scenes – rarely captured by other photographers of that era. Please click here to read more.
10. Southern Gothic - Chloé Morrison Solo Exhibition
Artist Chloé Morrison was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. She is in residence at the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen for the months from January to June of 2009. Towards the end of this period she presented work in a solo presentation Southern Gothic of the influences she has garnered during her time at CEAC and in China. The small number and diminutive scale of the drawings presented may result in the exhibition seeming rather slight and inconsequential at first glance, however detailed and patient viewing will reveal the drawings intensively worked surfaces, heavily loaded with meaning. Please click here to read more.
11. Paul Huxley Asia Tour Exhibition
British painter Paul Huxley's first solo exhibition was held by Chang Art Gallery in Beijing. Twenty paintings representing his past 10 years were featured. This exhibition followed Huxley’s successful show at Chang Art’s sister gallery in Seoul, Watergate. Paul Huxley remains an important and influential artist and teacher, dedicated to the challenges that abstract painting presents to today’s painters. Please click here to read more.
12. Transforming Public Spaces
Transforming Public Spaces (TPS) is a major six-month project bringing together communities, artists, architects and urban planners. The project aims to increase community awareness of public spaces and to also highlight the role that art can play in shaping cities by transforming public spaces and thereby improving the quality of urban life. Please click here to read more.
13. Celebrating the Red Dragon - Welsh Visual Arts Exhibition
Celebrating the Red Dragon was exhibited from 5 March to 25 May in Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. The exhibition offered a unique insight into the journey and inspiration of eight Chinese artists who recently explored the Welsh land of the Red Dragon. Their works were complemented by those of three renowned Welsh artists who in turn will be travelling to the Chinese land of the Golden Dragon. Please click here to read more.
15. White Riot - Nick Renshaw Solo Exhibition
Artist Nick Renshaw was in residence at the Chinese European Art Centre (CEAC) in Xiamen from March to May 2009. To culminate this period he presented a solo exhibition of his artistic practice, incorporating ideas and influences garnered during his time in China and at CEAC. Please click here to read more.
16. British Artist in China
From April 2008, we started to feature British artists living and working in China.
Silver Of The Stars
(2007/09/03 - 2007/09/21 Beijing)
Christopher Cook Solo Exhibition
(2007/04/04 – 2007/04/15 Beijing)
china-artsandculture-visualarts-christophercook.htm David Blandy Solo Exhibition
(2007/03/15 – 2007/04/01 Beijing)
china-artsandculture-visualarts-christophercook.htm As Is When: A Boom in British Printmaking 1961-1972
(2007/03/12 – 2007/04/15 Chongqing)
china-artsandculture-visualarts-christophercook.htm Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006
(2006/12/15 – 2007/02/04 Guangzhou, 2007/03/20 – 2007/05/11 Beijing)
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