15 September 2006 – 25 February 2007

>CHINA NOW<

Art in times of change
The exhibition >CHINA NOW<, 15 September 06 - 28 January 07 is the first opportunity
in Austria to compare the explosive potential of heterogeneous artistic approaches in
Chinese contemporary art. At The Essl Collection, the independent curator and critic Feng
Boyi, member of the “Chinese Artists’ Association“, presents more than 100 works by 42
artists involving all contemporary arts media, including painting and photography as well as
large-format installations and video. The exhibition traces the most important developments
of Chinese avant-garde art in seven thematically arranged galleries. Most of the works are
owned by The Essl Collection. In the late 1990s, Karlheinz Essl started to explore Chinese art,
and the works he acquired in recent years during his visits to artists’ studios in Shanghai
and Beijing form the backbone of the exhibition, supplemented by significant art loans from
China and Europe.

Address

Essl Museum - Contemporary Art
An der Donau-Au 1
3400 Klosterneuburg / Wien
phone +43 224 33 70 50 150
http://www.essl.museum

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Wednesday till 9 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The collection of international contemporanean art of Agnes and Karlheinz Essl consisting of 5.000 works offers a view on the art of the 20th and the beginning 21st centuries.

exhibition house opened 1999; architect: Heinz Tesar

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