MAPPING ASIA - Young Asian Artist Solo Shows: from Tokyo to Istanbul
The whole 2nd floor of the Exhibition Hall of the China World Trade Center will exclusively host a number of solo shows of young and emerging artists from Asia. The projects are realized in collaboration with art galleries. During CIGE 2009 Preview exhibited projects will be evaluated by an international Art Expert Committee, which will act as Jury choosing and announcing the 3 most interesting ones in occasion of CIGE 2009 Opening Preview.
Six prestigious professionals will participate the International Art Expert Committee for the Mapping Asia section 2009.
International Art Expert Committee
Alexander von Vegesack
Director, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Eungie Joo
Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs, New Museum, New York, USA
Melissa Chiu
Museum Director and Vice President, Global Art Programs, Asia Society, New York, USA
Sook-Kyung Lee
Curator, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Grazia Quaroni
Curator, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France
Gregor Jansen
Director, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Participating Artists
Chen Wei, Chenlinghui Contemporary Art Center
Deng Xinli, Linda Gallery
Gede Mahendrayasa, Langgeng Gallery
Gong Jian, Fine Arts Literature Center
He An, Air Media Art Salon
He Xiangyu, Air Media Art Salon
He Ju, Air Media Art Salon
Hee Jung Yoon, Wellside Gallery
Hsu Tangwei, Gallery J. Chen
J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra, Galeri Canna
Kiko Escora, Soka Art Center
Lee Jin Ju, I m Art
Li Fujun, Beijingart Gallery
Lin Chien Jung, Soka Art Center
Lin Xin, New Age Gallery
Lirio Salvador, The Drawing Room
Luo Tiantian, New Age Gallery
Ma Qiusha, Gallery Dell'Arco
Marina Cruz, The Drawing Room
Mayuka Yamamoto, Gallery Tsubaki
Misa Narikiyo, unseal Contemporary
Mohannad Orabi, Ayyam Gallery
Redy Rahadian, Soka Art Center
Wang Kai, Soka Art Center
Wang Zhipeng, Air Media Art Salon
Wayan Suja, Vanessa Art Link
Xiao Bo, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute
Xiao Hong, Linda Gallery
Yamaguchi Soichi, Gallery J. Chen
Yang Bo, Tang Contemporary Art
Yin Zhaohui, SZ Art Center
Yin Zhaoyu, SZ Art Center
Yuree Kensaku, 100 Tonson Gallery
Zheng Lu, New Age Gallery
Photo by Mrs. Deidi von SchaewenAlexander von Vegesack
Director, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
As a freelance curator and collector of industrial furniture design, Alexander von Vegesack set up the Thonet Museum in Boppard am Rhein and advised international museums in shaping and adding to their design collections. He organized exhibitions in Paris for the Centre Georges Pompidou as well as the Musée d'Orsay and was commissioned by the American Federation of Arts to conceive the first major exhibition on the history of bentwood furniture, which was shown in ten leading US museums. He realised similar projects in Eastern Europe for the German Foreign Ministry. In 1989 he establishes the Vitra Design Museum in cooperation with the furniture producer Vitra, which he is heading as the founding. He conceived an independent foundation financing itself almost exclusively through its own performance. In this role, he has created a continually changing programme of internationally touring exhibitions on design and architecture, including the publication of numerous associated catalogues and other materials. In addition, he initiated an annual European museum conference to provide the most important museums in these fields with a forum for the exchange of ideas and programmes. For over ten years, he has also worked with the Vitra Design Museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou to organise an internationally recognised seminar programme in France for designers and architects as well as artists, craftsmen and artisans from various disciplines. In March 2008 the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in Torino, Italy opened an exhibition about his private collection "Scoprire il Design – La Collezione von Vegesack". Alexander von Vegesack served as a member of the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, is Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and holds the German order of merit.
Eungie Joo
Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs, New Museum, New York, USA
Eungie Joo is Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum, New York. Her recent curatorial projects include An Offering: Public Resource (2009); Museum as Hub: Six Degrees (2008-9); Unknown Forces: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2007); Damián Ortega: The Beetle Trilogy and Other Works (2005-6); Taro Shinoda: Buried Treasure (2004); and Six Months: Crenshaw (2003). She was previously director and curator at the Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles. She is a recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement (2007). Joo is commissioner of the Korean Pavilion for the International Art Exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale, where she will present the work of Haegue Yang.
Melissa Chiu
Museum Director and Vice President, Global Art Programs, Asia Society, New York, USA
Dr. Melissa Chiu is Museum Director and Vice President, Global Art Programs, Asia Society in New York where she has worked since 2001. Previously, she was Founding Director of the Asia-Australia Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia (1996–2001). As a leading authority on Asian contemporary art, she has nearly 30 exhibitions of artists from China, Japan, Iran, Pacific Islands, Korea amongst others. She has served as an Editor for Asian contemporary art, The Grove Dictionary of Art and Consulting Editor for Grove Encyclopaedia of American Art, published by Oxford University Press, London and New York, and is the author and editor of many books, monographs, and anthologies, among them books on the Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Huan and co-editor for Art and China's Revolution published by Yale University Press in 2008. Other recent books include Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China, Charta, 2007, which focuses on the international Chinese artistic diaspora and Chinese Contemporary Art: 7 Things You Should Know, AW Asia 2008.
Sook-Kyung Lee
Curator, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Dr. Sook-Kyung Lee is a curator, lecturer and writer, and is currently Exhibitions & Displays Curator at Tate Liverpool. Prior to this, Korean born curator Dr. Lee was Arts Council England's Curatorial Fellow in Cultural Diversity, and Assistant Curator at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. Since 2003 she has been working as a Visiting Lecturer for Sotheby's Institute of Art, London and has been writing for a variety of international art publications. Curating and delivering special exhibitions and collection displays at Tate Liverpool, Dr. Lee is also assigned to advise Tate's Asia-Pacific Acquisition Committee, an initiative set up to include important global developments in the visual arts and to broaden and strengthen Tate's collecting activities.
photo by Fabien Calcavecchia
Grazia Quaroni
Curator, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France
Art critic and museum curator, Grazia Quaroni is an Italian art historian based in Paris since 1991, when she joins the curatorial staff of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris and she is today both exhibition curator and in charge of the collection for this institution. She collaborated in about 40 exhibition projects with the Foundation Cartier. Among the most recent ones, solo shows of Patti Smith, Lee Bul, Tabaimo, Gary Hill. She regularly gives contributions in the artistic programs of various institutions in France and abroad, such as Cité de la Musique, Paris, where she curated an exhibition on John Lennon in 2005, or Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain, where she has been curator of a 10-exhibitions program.
Gregor Jansen
Director, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Gregor Jansen has a PhD in fine arts and is currently director of ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art Karlsruhe. He has worked as a curator, tutor, art critic and journalist since 1991. He was curator of numerous exhibitions on contemporary and Asian art, also curator for "Beijing Case", part of a scholarship program initiated by the German Federal Foundation for exploring international urban development in mega-cities.
