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Meina Schellander
IN EINEN KREIS EIN QUADRAT –
BMCA REVIEW
06.2022 - 12.2024
Follow The Rabbit
Bestandsaufnahme einer Sammlung und ihre Rezeption durch chinesische Gegenwartskunst
Huang Min 黄敏
Journeys Back to Europe
Ma Jun 马军
True Porcelain
Mulan River - Cuò
Capturing the Moment
BMCA Collection 2013-2018
Myth
Zong Ning - The Call of Utopia.
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Meina Schellander
IN EINEN KREIS EIN QUADRAT –
Follow The Rabbit
Bestandsaufnahme einer Sammlung und ihre Rezeption durch chinesische Gegenwartskunst
Huang Min 黄敏
Journeys Back to Europe
Ma Jun 马军
True Porcelain
Mulan River - Cuò
The Decameron.
BMCA Documenting Art.
Capturing the Moment.
BMCA Collection 2013-2018.
Myth
Zong Ning - The Call of Utopia.
BMCA REVIEW
06.2024 - 12.2024
upcoming...
13 exhibitions
9 performances & events
8 artist conversations
48 press articles
20 texts & reviews
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Meina Schellander
IN EINEN KREIS EIN QUADRAT –
The exhibition "Meina Schellander, IN EINEN KREIS EIN QUADRAT – " represents Meina Schellander's interpretation in the Skulpturendepot at Museum Liaunig.
This exhibition covers works from the exceptional women artists since the 1970s until an installatuon that she modified and sculptures which she recently finished. The book presents the content of the exhibition in detail, featuring a rich collection of images that capture the intricate details and spatial arrangements of Schellander’s work.
Follow the Rabbit.
Bestandsaufnahme einer Sammlung und ihre Rezeption durch chinesische Gegenwartskunst
追随兔子 —— 藏品概况及其在中国当代艺术中的反响.
The exhibition catalogue, published by Museum Liaunig during the 2023 exhibition, documents the full scope of the exhibition.It features works by103 artists (among them 12 artists from BMCA Collection), with texts by Stefanie Thiedig and Alexandra Grimmer.
True Porcelain
Ma Jun's recent book "True Porcelain" has been published on the occasion of his exhibition at Pfeufer38 in Munich 2022. For this exhibition BMCA invited three local artists from Munich to react on the porcelain sculptures of Ma Jun: Hubertus Hamm, Felix Rehfeld and Martin Spengler. In the case of Hubertus Hamm it was the reflection in his big scale "Molded Mirror" of "Porcelain Car No. 2", Ma Jun's over 5 meter car-object in life size. The dialogue and the exchange between Chinese and Western artists is crucial, especially in our times. Both sides enjoyed the result of the juxtaposition of artworks in this exhibition at Pfeufer38.
Alexandra Grimmer, 2023
Mulan River | Cuo was published in 2020
by Kerber Publishing House and BMCA as a documentation of the comprehensive exhibition
project of Chen Yujun and Chen Yufan.
Since they began collaborating on installation art in 2008, the Mulan River has been the major subject addressed by brothers Chen Yufan and Chen Yujun and the hallmark of their work as a whole. Around the river they construct a domestic space; a house which is the infrastructure enabling them to use data fragments, scattered throughout it, to describe a unique living space and its residents’ alienated identity.
In 2017, BMCA organised and financed the „Mulan River“ Exhibition 2017 at Petach Tikva Art Museum in Israel. The book shows many detailed installation views of this exhibition project which has been realised in close collaboration with the two artists.
Capturing the Moment: BMCA Collection 2013-2018
How does the current Chinese art scene look like?
What talents can be discovered there? The BMCA art platform regularly organizes art exhibitions and projects that give Chinese artists the opportunity to present their work. Using selected works from the BMCA art collection, as well as texts and documents, this new publication presents five-year projects and shows how exciting and diverse young art is in China. The book traces the stories of some of the most exciting young talent in China and introduces a wide range of artists and curators.
"The Decameron. BMCA Documenting Art" has been published at the occasion of the exhibition project curated by Cui Cancan in 2016. The exhibition took place on different locations in and around Caochangdi, Beijing.
„An exhibition such as this could only take place in Beijing. It has a thick accent that is interwoven with the fantasy and reality of this land. Beijing is a giant imperceptible stage in the fading light of day, possessing its own inherent order, as well as experiments that resist it. The modernity and cheapness concealed under the smog of day produce dreams in massive quantities, and generate desire and degeneracy as well. On the other end of the day, an ancient, cold eye observes quietly as night attacks the city with the same rapacity.
The light that keeps us from our adventures is, in our eyes, darkness. It is only after the light of day that the sky truly begins to brighten. There are many bright days ahead. The sun is but a star.“
Cui Cancan, 2016
Myth was an exhibition curated by Wei Xing at White Box Museum in 2015. This exhibition presented over 30 works of art by 26 artists, consisting of video art, photography, installation, sculpture, painting and other forms of artistic expression. The exhibition seeks to restore the spiritual and mysterious realm of primitive myths by creating unique interactions between the artworks in a dark space - it is an exhibition that inquires and reflects on the mythological phenomena in contemporary art today.
What is mythology？Mythology is the early system of beliefs of human civilization. The Dawn of Time in China and Genesis of the Judeo-Christian Traditions are both examples of creation mythology. Myths shape our understanding of the link between humans and nature. They also constitute the original memory of nations and human history.
Myth, as an exhibition of contemporary art, not only reflects on the forms and content of contemporary myths, but actively engages in the creation of new contemporary mythology.
