Summer Group Show Singapore, 2021
A brand new art fair, ART SG seeks to drive the whole Singapore art industry in a more international direction. Utlizing this opportunity, some emerging galleries hope to bring more cultural vitality into Singapore, as well as a new focus on artists with international vision. Following this line of thought, Zoe ZHANG Bing curated this exhibition for 39+ Art Space Gallery.
The exhibition includes Emily Cheng from New York, Pearl Hsiung from Los Angeles, and Sarah Lee who has just settled in Los Angeles from Korea.
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Pearl Hsiung, 39+ Art Space, 2022, Singapore.
Amalia Ulman Lian Zhou Foto Festival 2017-2018
Lianzhou is a four-hour drive from Guangzhou, China. People here live a simple mountain village life, growing crops, picking Chinese herbs, making dried chrysanthemum tea and tofu skin. Many abandoned buildings have been used as exhibition spaces for photography festivals. As one of the curators of this 2017 photography theme exhibition, we presented the works Excellences and Perfections by artist Amalia Ulman. The exhibition space was originally a barn, a storehouse for storing rice for the local villagers.
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Michel BLAZY Le tombeau de la vaisselle Shanghai, 2018
On the occasion of the 5th Sino-French Environmental Month, Michel Blazy was invited by Consulat général de France à Shanghai to come to Shanghai to launch a uniquely new project——Le tombeau de la vaisselle by using agar, an organic material, and utilizing its gradually changing characteristics. Agar is an edible gelatin derived from seaweed that can be made into translucent, colored and firm shapes. These sculptures can quickly damage and change appearance over time. A masterful mix of natural and man-made materials forms the vehicle for the artist's explorations, so his work becomes a metaphor for fragility, lost practices, and the transience of life.
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9 M2 Museum Projects Goethe Open Space 2013 - 2015
Goethe Open Space invited independent curator Zoe ZHANG Bing to be the curator of its 2013–2014 art programme under the theme of “9m2 Museum.” The concept of a nine-square-meter museum is proposed as an alternative to tackle the current boom of art museum construction in China. Under such circumstance, public art museums are witnessing changes in their social role and private art museums flourish in both size and number. China is now heading into an era of art museum, meaning art museum has become a phenomenon. In such a context, politics, capital and art museums are closely connected with art playing an interestingly significant role among them. Increasingly expanding museum space, in some cases, leads to an excessive dependency on good space conditions when artists want to present their practice. Given the situation, we start to wonder how artists would deal with a gallery covering only nine square meters. How to tackle the proportional relation between the volume of their work and the space? How to maintain and manifest the aesthetic tension of their work? Is a nine-square-meter museum a restriction or an interesting challenge? The 9m2 Museum is an opportunity for artists to withdraw from their previous experience of exhibition-making and to reconsider the relations between art creation and exhibition, exhibition and space, and space and the art system.
Round I
The Living Room,.One Night Exhibition ( 18 October 2013)
Ni Youyu, Zilch (15 November–5 December 2013) Learn more I Press
Wang Sishun, The Indeterminate Boundless (13 December 2013 –3 January 3 2014) Learn more I Press
The Museum of the Unknown, Society Meditation – Drift (10–30 January 2014) Learn more
Aaajiao, The Screen Generation (21 February–15 March 2014)
Round II
Taipei Kuandu Biennale, 2012 Artist in Wonderland Liu Jianhua
Every person has an innate ability for imagination. Even more, artists are practitioners of “imagination.” With its theme, Artist in Wonderland, the 2012 Kuandu Biennale brings together ten artists and curators from different countries and cultural backgrounds across Asia to showcase a multitude of imagination surrounding “Artist in Wonderland.”
Ten international artists + ten international curators work together to expand the maximum range value of “1+1 = ?”. It may correspond to an aesthetic speculation of the world, a subconscious outlet for imagination, a futuristic urban landscape, a disappearing landscape mapping, a pursuit of historical myths... or even romantic imaginations regarding this fantasy world of “Wonderland.” Through the different understandings and interpretations between the real and the psychological, and the discrepancies found within the texts of dialogues, artists are able to once again write about the past, present, and future of the language of art through their works. This particular gathering juxtaposes the immediate outlook of Asian contemporary art with its creative tenses. On another level, it also demonstrates the styles and appearances of Asian contemporary art even as it is surrounded by the mainstream of Western art movements.
It is the hope that the dialogue platform created by the Kuandu Biennale links together artists, curators, art critics, art spaces, and other art communities and exhibition mechanisms into a multi-cultural system comprised of various Asian nationalities. With an intimate and pragmatic approach, it materializes a communication network that features a “multi-directional dialogue” for Asian contemporary art, and further promotes an opportunity for cooperation amongst its various disciplines.
Artist vs. Curator
Boo Ji-hyun＋Kim Bog-gi
Agi, CHEN Yi-Chieh＋ Wang Po-Wei
Tiffany Chung＋Việt Lê
Tsui Kuang-Yu＋ Huang Chien-Hung
Liu Jian-Hua＋ Zoe ZHANG Bing
Michael Lee＋Joanna Lee
Nipan Oranniwesna＋ Jeab Gridthiya Gaweewong
Pip & Pop＋Sarah Bond
Don Salubayba＋Patrick D. Flores
GO Watanabe＋Taro Amano
