Wang Chunchen

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Wang Chunchen
王春辰 (in Chinese)
View of the Chinese pavilion at the 55th Vebice Biennale
The Chinese pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), curated by Wang Chunchen
Born1964
Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China
Alma materCentral Academy of Fine Arts
Occupation
  • Art historian
  • author
  • critic
  • curator
EmployerCentral Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum
AwardsChina Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) Critics Award (2009)

Wang Chunchen (Chinese: 王春辰, born 1964 in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province[1]) is a Chinese curator, critic, and art historian.[2][3] He has been described as "one of China's most distinguished curators, art critics and historians".[4]

Education[]

Wang was educated at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China.[2]

Career[]

Dr Wang is employed by the Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum,[2] formerly the CAFA Art Museum, where he is Head of the Department of Curatorial Research.[5] He is engaged in modern art history and contemporary art theory and criticism.[3]

In 2012, Wang was hired as a special adjunct curator to curate Chinese contemporary art exhibitions by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in the United States,[3][5][4] the first Chinese curator to be so employed at an America art museum.[6] In 2013, he was appointed as curator of the Chinese pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia and deputy principal editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art in the United Kingdom. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Contemporary Art Series, published by Springer.

Books[]

Wang has written and translated the following books:[7][8][5]

  • Art Intervenes in Society (Timezone Publishing House, 2010)
  • Artistic Democracy (China Youth Publishing House, 2013)
  • The Politics of Images (China Youth Publishing House, 2013)
  • Jizi and His Art in Contemporary China: Unification (with David Adam Brubaker, Springer, Chinese Contemporary Art Series, ISBN 978-3662449288, 2015)
  • Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China (Art Media Resources, ISBN 978-1588861184, 2015)
Translations
  • Art Since 1940 (Renmin University Press of China, 2006)
  • Phenomena of Painting (Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House, 2006)
  • New Thinking of Decoration (Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House, 2006)
  • After the End of Art (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2007)
  • The Abuse of Beauty (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2007)
  • The Interpretation of Art ( Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2008)
  • The Language of Art History (Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House, 2008)
  • Cai Guoqiang: I Want to Believe (People's Publishing House, 2008)
  • Contemporary Art Theory Since 1985 ( Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2009)
  • A Brief History of Art [Beauty] (Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2013)

Awards[]

Wang received the 2009 China Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) Critics Award.[5] In 2011, he was funded by the Overseas Training Project of Chinese Young Artist Theorists to investigate the development status of art museums in the United States. In 2012, he was selected to participate in the Art Management Project co-organized by the British Council for Cultural Exchange and the Chinese Ministry of Culture, visiting the Royal College of Art and East Anglia University in the United Kingdom.

Selected curation[]

Detail of the Chinese pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, curated by Wang Chunchen in 2013

Wang has curated the following exhibitions in China and elsewhere:[2][5]

2008
  • Mixed Maze, London, United Kingdom
  • Supernatural – China’s Photography in the New Century, New York, United States
2011
  • CAFAM Biennale 2011: Super-Organism, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
2012
  • Conceptual Renewal: A Brief History of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Beijing
2013
  • Transfiguration: The Presence of Chinese Artistic Methods, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2014
  • Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Broad Art Museum, Chicago, United States
2016
  • Time Test-International Video Art Research Observation Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
  • Internal Combustion – A New Generation of Female Artists in China, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing
  • Coincidence of Time – Spanish Artist Naranjo's Printmaking Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing
2017
  • Dating: Youth Art Exhibition from China and France, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • Ink Attack – The First Wuhan Ink and Wash Biennale, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2018
  • Harmony-Buddhism and Art Exhibition, , Putian, Fujian
2019
  • The Gaze of History: Revisiting Contemporary Chinese Art, , Shenzhen
  • Ink and Object: The Second Wuhan Ink and Wash Biennale, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan
  • Anish Kapoor, first solo exhibition in China, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing
  • Photography in China 180 Years, exhibition of contemporary photography, , Yinchuan
  • Jizi: Spiritual Journey, solo exhibition, , Shijiazhuang
  • Pop-up Biennale – Beijing Art District Studio History Document Exhibition, , Beijing
  • Huang Zhiyang: Hun Sheng Solo Exhibition, , Beijing
  • The Passion of Color: The Art of Tang Chenghua, , Tianjin
  • The Logical Line of Painting – Invitation Exhibition of the Generation and Significance of Contemporary Painting, , Suzhou, China
  • Marc Quinn – Under the Skin, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing
2020
  • In Thought – The History and Methodology of Chinese Contemporary Art, , Guangzhou
2021
  • Liao Bangming: Hardcore Tackling the Tough, , Beijing

References[]

  1. ^ "Wang Chunchen 王春辰". British Museum. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Wang Chunchen". gerenjianli.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Wang Chunchen". Rockbund Art Museum. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b Goedhuis, Michael (26 June 2015). "Dr. Wang Chunchen". Ocula Magazine. London. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Wang Chunchen". K11 Art Foundation. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  6. ^ Boucher, Brian (6 August 2012). "Wang Chunchen becomes first China-based curator hired by U.S. museum". Art in America. Artnet. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Douban Books Tags: Wang Chunchen". Douban Books (in Chinese). Douban. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  8. ^ "Wang Chunchen". Amazon.com. Retrieved 1 December 2021.

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