Performing the body

Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin

Although traditional artistic practices and styles still dominate in China, over the last two decades many new concepts and experiments have taken shape. Photography has in recent years become the primary medium for documenting and interpreting recent social transformations. Artists: Cang Xin, Chen Lingyang, Chi Peng, Hai Bo, Ma Liuming, Miao Xiaochun, Muchen & Shaoyinong.

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Since 1997, Alexander Ochs has been bringing East Asian contemporary art to Europe, recently opening a branch of his gallery in China itself. PERFORMING THE BODY will be opened by Claudia Stein, the editor of the magazine Photography Now and co-curator of the exhibition.

Although traditional artistic practices and styles still dominate in China, over the last two decades many new concepts and experiments have taken shape. Photography has in recent years become the primary medium for documenting and interpreting recent social transformations. Once used exclusively as an instrument of propaganda, it has within the briefest time span been able to penetrate other artistic practices like painting, installation, and performance, taking on an important role of its own among the contemporary arts. Using a documentary approach or a more surrealistic method, the artists transforms their experiences into visually stimulating images. Often ambitious in format and experimental in its use of form, they show a broad spectrum of individual responses to the changes currently taking place in Chinese economy, society, and culture.

Photography and Performance from China
Cang Xin l Chen Lingyang l Chi Peng l
Hai Bo l Ma Liuming l Miao Xiaochun l
Muchen & Shaoyinong

Curated by Claudia Stein and Alexander Ochs

Opening: Wed 17th Nov, 7pm to 10pm

Alexander Ochs Galleries
Sophienstr. 16, Berlin

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