Cao Fei, Asia One, 2018. Multichannel color video installation, with sound, dimensions variable. Commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York for the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents One Hand Clapping, a group exhibition of newly commissioned works by Cao Fei, Duan Jianyu, Lin Yilin, Wong Ping, and Samson Young. The exhibition is the third of the Robert HN Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative, a research, curatorial, and collections-building program begun in 2013. On view from May 4 through October 21, 2018, One Hand Clapping will be accompanied by a catalog and public and educational programming.
On Tower Level 7, Cao Fei examines the new realities and potential crisis driven by automation and robotics at some of China's most advanced storage and distribution facilities.
More info:Guggenheim website
Cao Fei’s Storyboards and Stills Give a Glimpse of Her Dreamlike New Video by Caitlin Dover
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Upcoming exhibition: One Hand Clapping at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
04.05.2018-21.10.2018
Cao Fei, Asia One, 2018. Multichannel color video installation, with sound, dimensions variable. Commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York for the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative -
Upcoming exhibition at K21, Düsseldorf
06.10.2018 - 13.01.2019
In cooperation with MoMA PS1, New York, and the Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf/Berlin.The K21 is presenting the first comprehensive exhibition in Germany devoted to the Beijing-based artist Cao Fei. The featured videos, photographs, and multimedia installations by this pioneer of the post-internet-generation are representative of her artistic oeuvre as a whole. Oscillating between reality and fiction, her art reflects upon China's societal and urban situation, characterized today by continual and massive change. Cao Fei (*1978) draws upon her local and personal milieu in Beijing, at the same time integrating traditional Chinese rituals into her work. She exploits the latest digital media for projects that alternate visually between the aesthetic realms of documentary, feature film, and virtual reality.
In cooperation with MoMA PS1, New York, and the Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf/Berlin.
More info: Kunstsammlung NRW website
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BMW ART CAR #18 RACE DEBUT AT THE FIA GT WORLD CUP IN MACAU
18.11.2017-19.11.2017
Sunday, Nov 19, 12:10-13:40 at Macau Grand PrixBMW Art Car #18 by Cao Fei
Cao Fei’s work is a reflection on the speed of change in China, on tradition and future. With her BMW Art Car project, she delves into a trajectory spanning thousands of years, paying tribute to Asia’s ancient spiritual wisdom as it swiftly spreads into the third millennium. The multimedia artist approached the BMW Art Car in a way typical of her artistic practice, building a parallel universe. The body of work consists of three different components: a video focusing on a time travelling spiritual practitioner, augmented reality features picturing colourful light particles, accessible via a dedicated app (App Store: keyword “BMW Art Car #18”), and the BMW M6 GT3 racecar in its original carbon black. Paying tribute to the carbon fibre structure of the racecar chassis, Cao Fei’s holistic use of a non-reflective black incorporates the car into the possibilities of the digital world. Within this concept, Cao Fei’s implementation of video art, as well as augmented reality, creates an environment of which the BMW M6 GT3 isan essential part. In her video work, the practitioner executes spiritual movements, which echo in colourful streams of light. When the app is used within the premises of the car, these light swishes become an AR installation floating above and around the BMW M6 GT3 –involving the spectator as an interactive agent of participation.
Macau Grand Prix - FIA GT World Cup
Final race on Sunday, Nov 19, 12:10-13:40
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K11 x MoMA PS1: .com/.cn Exhibition Artist Talk
08.11.2017
Wednesday, Nov 8, 4-5pm at chi K11 art museum Shanghai.com / .cn Artist TalkWednesday, Nov 8, 4-5pmCurators: Klaus Biesenbach and Peter EleeyVenue: chi K11 art museum, B3, K11 Art Mall, 300 Huaihai Road Central, Huangpu District, ShanghaiExhibition period: Nov 9, 2017 - Jan 3, 2018How is art changing in the digital era? Technology has provided new tools for the production, distribution and reception of art while also enabling rapid advancements in global trade and information exchange. Described as a "network" or a "cloud", the infrastructure that facilitates this digital ecosystem is often assumed to exist as a universal system unencumbered by territory, language, law or national culture. And yet very different forms of the internet have clearly throughout the world, conditioning different social behaviors, economies and modes of thought. These variations are perhaps most sought when comparing the internets of China and the West, which reflect broader competing political and economic systems. How might these different technological environments express themselves in the contemporary art being made "locally"?
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Cosmopolis Shanghai Forum 2017 Reset the Time: Art, Technology & Speculative Aesthetics
08.11.2017
Day 2 Roundtable Discussion, Wednesday, Nov 8, 10:30am to 12:30pm at Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM)Day 2 Roundtable Discussion - Time Machine: Art in the Age of AccelerationWednesday, Nov 8, 10:30am to 12:30pmVenue: Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), No. 436 East Yonghe Road, Jing'an District, ShanghaiHost: He JingCao FeiYuk HuiWang Jianwei
This new Biennale will be an unprecedented international event designed to explore the latest contemporary art practices. The new Biennale will be an unprecedented international event in new booming non-Western cities which will be inaugurated on October 18th 2017. The two-month event will focus on art and social progress, global urbanization and geopolitical challenges of our times in order to promote meaningful thinking and dialogue. In addition to a large exhibition in Paris, there will be a series of activities designed to create a platform allowing interactions with the public and better knowledge sharing globally. Part of the exhibition will travel to China during the spring of 2018.
Ahead of the actual exhibition, as a Chinese echo to the Biennale opening in Paris, the Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, Center Pompidou and Fu Dan University resolved to jointly organize the Cosmopolis Shanghai International Forum. During this two-day thematic event entitled "Reset the Time ", well-known philosophers and artists with a far-reaching influence in the field of aesthetic ideology will be invited to Shanghai. Together with Chinese scholars and representatives of the arts community, they will hold public lectures and seminars around the subject of" Art, Technology & Speculative Aesthetics "
In recent years, fast high-tech developments have triggered innovative changes in social conditions around the world, influencing the way the art world faces cultural and political conflicts, mutations and bringing more developments into artists' exploration of transversal fields, such as technological evolution, network and post-Internet society, environment, Anthropocene, Accelerationism and Object-oriented ontology. "Another major trend is that three decades of globalization and non-Western countries' dynamism have convinced artists to sharpen their thinking and deepen their research about" modernity's diversity ".
With such global background, the Cosmopolis forum ambitions to help us upgrade our vision - from the technical, social and economic level to the philosophical level - to better face the future. It wants to make clear that the core issue of social changes lies in "fundamental changes in time awareness", as well as in the non-linear theory about time development and in the way both impact artistic creation. The forum also hopes to further explore whether such philosophical concepts can bring new thinking patterns in non-Western modernity studies and whether it can promote interaction between philosophy, asthetics and the arts.
Organizers: Center Pompidou, Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, Fu Dan UniversityJoint-organizer & Co-organizer: Ming Contemporary Art MuseumMore info
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Q BERLIN QUESTIONS: Imagine yourself as the other self. How do we embrace tolerance and difference?
19.10.2017
Thursday, Oct 19, 12:00noon at Schiller Theater BerlinImagine yourself as the other self. How do we embrace tolerance and difference?
Thursday, Oct 19, 12:00noon at Schiller Theater Berlin
How can the peaceful coexistence of different cultures and lifestyles be supported? What do politics, civil society and business have to do to do this?
Venue address: Schiller Theater Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 BerlinHost: Talia Samhewe
Cao Fei (Conversation w / Michael Schindhelm)
More info: Q Berlin Website
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Between Past and Future: Art of the Pearl River Delta
07.09.2017
Thursday, Sep 7, 6:30pm at Miller Theater, Asia SocietyBetween Past and Future: Art of the Pearl River DeltaThursday, Sep 7, 6:30pm at Miller Theater, Asia SocietyPart of the on-going M+ Matters series of public talks and discussions, Between Past and Future: Art of the Pearl River Delta welcomes keynote speakers Hou Hanru (Artistic Director, MAXXI) and Chan Koonchung (Writer) to present and participate in a panel discussion with Cao Fei (Artist), Chen Tong (Founder, Libreria Borges), Feng Yuan (Professor, Sun Yat-sen University) and Sara Wong (Artist and Co-Founder, Para Site). The symposium examines the trajectory of urbanisation in the Pearl River Delta since China was opened up for economic reform in the late 1970s, looking at how the phenomenon has shaped the development of art and culture in the region and its relevance for today’s socio-political context.
Venue address: Miller Theater, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty, Hong KongSpeakers: Hou Hanru (Artistic Director, MAXXI); Chan Koonchung (Writer)Panel Discussion Participating Artists: Cao Fei (Artist); Chen Tong (Founder, Libreria Borges); Feng Yuan (Professor, Sun Yat-sen University); Sara Wong (Artist and Co-Founder, Para Site)
More info: West Kowloon Cultural District Website
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World Premiere of BMW Art Car #18 by Cao Fei
31.05.2017
Wednesday, May 31, 8 pm at Beijing Minsheng Art Museum"Light is a manifestation of thoughts in one’s mind. If the speed of thoughts cannot be measured, then the #18 Art Car poses a question to the existence of a boundary to the human mind. We are entering a new age, where the mind controls objects and thoughts can be transferred (unmanned operations, artificial intelligence). Which attitudes and temperaments hold the key to opening the gateway to the new age? " Cao Fei
World Premiere of BMW Art Car #18 by Cao FeiWednesday, May 31, 8 pmBeijing Minsheng Art Museum
More info: Click here to download BMWARTCAR#18 APP (Full Version to be available after World Premiere)
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Upcoming Screenings
05-06.2017
Whose Utopia (2006); RMB City (2007-2011); Haze and Fog (2013); and La Town (2014)May 5 - 21Live in RMB CityMekong - New MythologiesHong Kong Arts Center Pao Galleries, Hong Kong
May 13 - August 25People's Limbo in RMB CitySpace Force ConstructionV-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice
May 20 - October 15Whose UtopiaHUMAN + The Future of Our SpeciesArtScience Museum Singapore, Singapore
May 24 - NovemberLa TownWhat's in Store ?, University of Salford Art CollectionSalford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford
May 30 - August 27Haze and FogPlanet 9Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt
June 10 - 22La TownHaras d'Annecy, Annecy
June 10 (opening)RMB City: A Second Life City Planning10 Years Julia Stoschek Collection: Generation LossJulia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
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Conversations at Art Basel Hong Kong - Virtual Frontiers: Artists Experimenting with Tilt Brush
22.03.2017
Wednesday, March 22, 3.30pm to 4.30pm at Hong Kong Art BaselVirtual Frontiers | Artists Experimenting with Tilt Brush
Art Basel Hong Kong - Conversations
Wednesday, March 22, 3.30pm to 4.30pmCao Fei, Artist, Beijing; Yang Yongliang, Artist, Shanghai Moderator: Freya Murray, Program Manager, Google Arts & Culture, LondonAuditorium on level 1 (entrance of Hall 1A), Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
More info: Art Basel Website
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