| Conferences and debates at ShContemporary 9-12 September 2010 |
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Shanghai Exhibition Centre
No.1000 Yan An Road (Middle)
Shanghai 200040 - China |
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Every September, Shanghai becomes a key destination for the international art world, as the entire Asian contemporary art scene comes together during ShContemporary for the most dynamic art week of the year.
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ShContemporary is hosting two conferences that tackle the most pressing issues regarding collecting contemporary art today. The first conference challenges major institutions to face up to questions regarding their collections of Asian art; and the second conference asks how value is constructed and then consumed by the contemporary art system.
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Collecting Asian Contemporary Art: What, When, and How?
On 9 September, directors of prominent international museums shall meet to discuss the future of Asian contemporary art collections. The conference is organized by Chinese born curator and critic Hou Hanru in collaboration with ShContemporary.
Identifying a complex cocktail of issues in Asia including the relationship between new thriving economies and pervasive art speculation, the lack of professionalism in Asian museums, and Western cultural fetishism towards Asian contemporary art, Hou Hanru has invited a panel to bring up provocative thoughts and proposals to deal with a wide range of questions, including the following:
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Speakers include:
Kathy Halbreich – Deputy Director, MoMA, NY; Frances Morris – Head of Collections (International Art), Tate, London; Alexandra Munroe – Senior Curator of Asian Art, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NY; Wang Huangsheng – Director, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing; He Juxing – Director, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai; Tan Boon Hui – Director, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Suhanya Raffel - Head of Asian and Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Raiji Kuroda – Chief Curator, Fukuoka Art Musem, Fukuoka; Uli Sigg – private collector, Switzerland; Guan Yi – private collector, Beijing
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DISCOVERIES 2010 – RE-VALUE
An Exhibition and Conference
As rising economies in Asia give birth to new art markets where artist prices can grow a hundred fold in just a few years, the question of what gives art its value seems an important issue to discuss with new collectors. Since the art market has become larger than ever before, it also wields more power to determine what is deemed valuable. However, the relationship between art and value is just as complex today as it has always been, and the clarity provided by the art market is only part of a matrix of meanings that the word value has.
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The exhibition
Discoveries: Re-Value is a group show of 25 artists curated by Mami Kataoka, Manray Hsu, and Colin Chinnery at ShContemporary that asks pertinent questions about the meaning of value from different perspectives: a show that questions the nature of the art market within its own commercial context. |
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The Conference
Re-Value: The Construction and Consumption of Value in Contemporary Art is a conference hosted by UACC & ArtTactic in collaboration with ShContemporary. Split between two sessions, the seminar will first invite representatives from museums, art journals, foundations, auction houses and galleries to discuss the art system that constructs value from art; and then invites collectors to discuss value from the other side – those who recognize and consume the value in art.
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CDP – Asia Pacific Collector Development Programme
This series of conferences and debates on collecting art is part of ShContemporary’s special long-term project, CDP, which aims to help educate and stimulate a new generation of collectors in China through events, tours, and publications.
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