Members Tour | Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now

Join exhibition curator H E Wilco for a special tour of the exhibition Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now, including floor talks by artists Chen Wei, Pu Yingwei and Lin Ke. This is a unique opportunity to view the exhibition before opening hours and hear these artists speak live about their work.  

Limited to 25 guests – reserve your spot! Note that this event will be conducted in English, with a translator in attendance to help clarify the artists statements if necessary. 

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Artists

Chen Wei 陈维 was born in 1980 in Yueqing City, Zhejiang Province, into a new era shaped by Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms. Trained in photography and video at Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, and after working as a sound artist, musician and music producer, he now creates immersive theatrical photographs (see image above), videos and installations. With an expanding international reputation, his work has been shown in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Munich, Turin, Seville, London, Yokohama and Sydney. Chen Wei lives and works in Beijing. 

Pu Yingwei was born in 1989 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. His practice addresses key issues of our contemporary world linked to collective memory, personal history, utopia, identity, and geopolitics. Through various forms – including exhibition, writing, publishing and lecturing – he revisits and parodies political and historical texts and explores how political power and ideology shape our reality through art, architecture, and capital distribution. 

Lin Ke 林科L was born in 1984 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. He studied in the famous New Media Department of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, graduating in 2008. Lin says his studio is his laptop computer, and the materials he extracts from computer software and the Internet are both the subject and the materials of his art practice. His work has been widely shown within China and internationally. Lin, who is also a founding member of the iconoclastic Double Fly Art Center artist collective, lives and works in Shanghai. 

IMAGE: Chen Wei, Today is Unsuitable for Shooting, 2013, pigment inkjet print. White Rabbit Collection, Sydney. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Judith Neilson