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Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection
An exhibition by the MAK, Vienna in dialogue with the collector Uli Sigg and in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Zentrum Paul Klee
With Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection a comprehensive exhibition on Chinese contemporary art is coming to Vienna. Uli Sigg has been following the development of contemporary art in China since the late 1970s. In the mid-1990s, he started putting together the world鈥檚 most significant and representative collection of Chinese art. A business journalist, entrepreneur, and Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea, and Mongolia (1995鈥�1998), he had the chance to take a look behind the scenes of the social and economic developments dedicated to both tradition and the future, as China鈥檚 vision of a new Silk Road shows. Cultural and sociopolitical values form the frame of reference of the MAK exhibition. The museum creates a discursive platform by contrasting works from the Sigg Collection with objects from the MAK Collection. This interplay highlights China鈥檚 contemporary art production as well as its aesthetic or iconographic references. The historical object becomes a vision machine for the contemporary.
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An exhibition by the MAK, Vienna in dialogue with the collector Uli Sigg and in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Zentrum Paul Klee
With Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection a comprehensive exhibition on Chinese contemporary art is coming to Vienna. Uli Sigg has been following the development of contemporary art in China since the late 1970s. In the mid-1990s, he started putting together the world鈥檚 most significant and representative collection of Chinese art. A business journalist, entrepreneur, and Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea, and Mongolia (1995鈥�1998), he had the chance to take a look behind the scenes of the social and economic developments dedicated to both tradition and the future, as China鈥檚 vision of a new Silk Road shows. Cultural and sociopolitical values form the frame of reference of the MAK exhibition. The museum creates a discursive platform by contrasting works from the Sigg Collection with objects from the MAK Collection. This interplay highlights China鈥檚 contemporary art production as well as its aesthetic or iconographic references. The historical object becomes a vision machine for the contemporary.
Artists on show
- Ai Weiwei
- Cao Fei
- Cao Yu
- Chi Lei
- Christian Hidaka
- Chu Yun
- Ding Yi
- Duan Jianyu
- Feng Mengbo
- Gu Xiaoping
- He Xiangyu
- Jia
- Jun Yang
- Lee Kit
- Liao Fei
- Liu Bolin
- Liu Chuang
- Liu Ding
- Ma Ke
- Mao Tongqiang
- Miao Ying
- Ming Wong
- Ni Youyu
- Pak Sheung Chuen
- Pei Li
- Samson Young
- Shao Fan
- Shen Shaomin
- Shen Xuezhe
- Shi Guowei
- Shi Jinsong
- Song Dong
- Wang Guangle
- Wang Lei
- Wang Xingwei
- Xie Molin
- Xie Nanxing
- Xu Bing
- Xu Cheng
- Xu Wenkai
- Xue Feng
- Ye Xianyan
- Zhang Peili
- Zhang Xiaogang
- Zhang Yue
- Zhao Bandi
- Zheng Guogu
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A comprehensive picture of contemporary Chinese art and its aesthetic as well as iconographic references is presented by the MAK exhibition Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection.
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