FOCUS CHINA
Mönchehaus Museum Goslar

On Contemporary Art in China

China’s rapid ascent as an economic superpower has gone hand in hand with a booming art market. Throughout the last 20 years in particular, the country has witnessed the emergence of a contemporary art scene distinguished by its enormous formal and thematic diversity that has absorbed the global discourses of the international art world. The multifaceted quality of Chinese artists’ engagement with their history and traditions as well as the world of today is shown in the exhibition that presents around 70 works from the collection of the Herford entrepreneur Heiner Wemhöner in the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar. His collection became the largest private collection of Chinese contemporary art in Germany and in 2005, he established a dependence not far from Shanghai in Changzhou. The exhibition brings together works of Darren Almond, Cai Dongdong, Chen Xiaoyun, Chen Yu, Dong Mingguang, Hai Bo, Hu Jieming, Alfredo Jaar, Ji Wenyu, Isaac Julien, Kexin Zang, Lu Chao, Ni Youyu, Ouyang Chun, Qui Zhijie, RongRong & Inri, Shi Xinning, Tang Maohong, Heidi Voet Wang Dongling, Wang Quingsong, Wang Shugang, Wei Guangqing, Xue Ruozhe, Yan Shanchun, Yan Pei-Ming, Yang Fudong, Yang Yongliang, Yin Xiuzhen, Yu Ji, Yue Minjun, Zhang Dali, Zhang Enli, Zhang Huan, Zhang Wei, Zhao Bandi, and Zuoxiao Zuzhou.

The comprehensive catalogue FOCUS CHINA documents the exhibition of the same title at the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar. With a preface by Bettina Ruhrberg and an essay by Andreas Schmid.