until Sunday September 23 2018

Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
T : +34 94 435 90 90
Avenida Abandoibarra, 2
48001 Bilbao
Spain

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World presents the creative expressions of a bold contemporary art movement born of the most transformative period of modern Chinese and recent world history. Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Art and China after 1989 presents work by seventy-one key artists and groups active across China and worldwide whose provocations aim to forge reality free from ideology, to establish the individual apart from the collective, and to define contemporary Chinese experience in universal terms. Bracketed by the end of the Cold War in 1989 and the Beijing Olympics in 2008, it surveys the culture of artistic experimentation during a time characterized by
the onset of globalization and the rise of a newly powerful China
on the world stage. The exhibition’s subtitle, Theater of the World, comes from an installation by the Xiamen-born, Paris-based artist Huang Yong Ping: a cage-like structure that originally housed a living arena of insects and reptiles, an apt spectacle of globalization’s symbiosis and raw contest.