„Die aktuelle zeitgenössische chinesische Kunst zeichnet sich durch eine spannende künstlerische Vielfalt aus. Die Video- und Medienkunstszene ist vergleichsweise jung, innovativ und experimentierfreudig. Wir sind gespannt auf Einblicke in künstlerischen Projekte, die sich auf hohem technologischen und kreativen Niveau mit den politischen, gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Transformationsprozessen von China auseinandersetzen. Wir freuen uns auf neue und ästhetische Ansätze und wichtige Impulse aus China“, sagt B3-Festivalleiter Prof. Bernd Kracke.
Das einzigartige Projekt wird von maßgeblichen Kunstexperten aus China und Deutschland unterstützt, darunter dem Präsidenten der Central Academy of Fine Arts Fan Di’an sowie der Frankfurter Medienkunst-Galeristin Anita Beckers. Aktuell kuratiert Fan Di’an die aufsehenerregende übergreifende Kunstschau China 8 in Nordrhein Westfalen.
Die B3 Biennale des bewegten Bildes bietet vom 7. bis 11. Oktober 2015 internationalen Medienschaffenden, Künstlern, Wissenschaftlern und Professionals aller Kulturbranchen und Medienindustrien eine Plattform für den Diskurs über das bewegte Bild und erschafft so eine in Europa noch nie da gewesene Allianz des bewegten Bildes. Unter dem Motto „Expanded Senses“ diskutieren in Frankfurt über 200 Künstler, Filmemacher, Designer, Internetspezialisten, Gamesentwickler und Wissenschaftler aus der ganzen Welt die Zukunft des Geschichtenerzählens im digitalen Zeitalter. In Ausstellungen, Screenings, Performances, Masterclasses und Diskussionen widmet sich die B3 eingehend neuen TV- und Filmprojekten, beleuchtet technische wie inhaltliche Innovationen der Games-Welt, und überschreitet die Genregrenzen auf dem Feld des transmedialen Erzählens. Beiträge aus Kino, Kunst, Transmedia und Wissenschaft ergänzen das Themenspektrum.
MOVING IN TIME B3+BEIJING at a glance
Theme: MOVING IN TIME B3+BEIJING
Space: CAFA Museum second floor
Period: 27th of May 2015 to 22th of June 2015
Opening: 16:00, 27th of May 2015
Principal Consultant: Di’an Fan, Bernd Kracke
Chief Curators Huangsheng Wang, Xiewei Song, Anita Beckers
Executive Curators: Chunchen Wang, Jun Jin, Jun Fei
Curatorial Assistant: Yue Yi, Ge Yu
Project Management: Xuan Zheng
Founder and Curators
Prof. Bernd Kracke
Bernd Kracke, professor of electronic media is, since September 15, 2006 President of the University of Art and Design (HfG) Offenbach. The Senate has confirmed Prof. Bernd Kracke on 20 December 2012 for a second term (six years); this began on September 15, 2012 Design. As a professor of Electronic Media art, Bernd Kracke (* 1954) has worked at the HfG since 1999. From April 2001 until the election to the presidency in 2006, he headed the department of visual communication as dean. He founded the “Cross Media Lab” as research and experimental platform to connect analog and digital technologies and their innovative use in the context of art and design. He drew on experiences from his work at MIT Cambridge / USA (1979-1985) and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (1991-1999) and his many years of practice as a freelance media designer and media artist. Prof. Bernd Kracke is co-founder, board member and executive speaker of the Hessian Film and Media Academy. He is also the initiator and director of the Biennale B3 of the moving image.
Fan Di’an
Fan Di’an was born in 1955. He is currently the president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the deputy chairman of the China Artists Association, and the deputy chairman of the China Association of Art and Literary Critics. He is s scholar of twentieth century Chinese art and museum studies, a contemporary art critic, and an exhibition curator. Since the 1980s, Fan Di’an has been an important participant in the Chinese contemporary art world and a witness to the art of new China. He was part of the team that curated China’s first modern art exhibition, and he was the first curator of the Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He is the chairman of the selection committee of the World Expo China Pavilion. For nine years, he served as the director of the National Art Museum of China and established relationships with noted museums around the world. Fan is one of China’s most experienced curators, planning contemporary Chinese art exhibitions at more than twenty international museums such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Hamburger Bahnhof: Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden, and the National Museum of Australia.
Anita Beckers
Anita Beckers operates a gallery in Frankfurt with a focus on photography and video art. She curated the exhibition for the first Biennial of the Moving Image in 2013.Since its establishment, Galerie Anita Beckers has been promoting young artists with special emphasis on video art. Throughout the years the gallery has been supporting the artistic development of such acclaimed artists, as Anton Corbijn, Jürgen Klauke, Bjørn Melhus and Peter Weibel – who have been repeatedly exhibiting their work within the spaces of our gallery and as part of our art fair participations. The subject of many important publications, these artists have also been hosted in some of the most recognized contemporary art venues in the world (MOMA, New York; Whitney Museum, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Ludwig Museum, Köln; international festivals and biennials; u.a.) From March 2006 through December 2009, the gallery runned an alternative project space named SATELLIT, in order to provide young artists with the opportunity to exhibit their work and thus reinforcing the gallery’s main focus on young contemporary art.
Wang Huangsheng
Ph.D of Art History, professor of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, doctoral adviser, director of CAFA Art Museum, deputy director of the Committee of Art Museums in China, Expert Committee member of National Contemporary Art Research Centre, Ministry of Culture. Wang is an outstanding art expert who enjoys special allowance of the State Council in China, also a specially-appointed professor in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Nanjing Art Institute and South China Normal University. In 2004 he obtained the “Knight Medal of Art and Literature” awarded by the French government. In 2006 he obtained the “Knight Medal” awarded by the President of Italy. In 2013 he obtained the “Beijing best educator” awarded by the Beijing government. Founded and organized the “Guangzhou Triennial”, “Guangzhou Photo Biennale”, “CAFAM Biennale”, “CAFAM · Future” Exhibition and “Beijing Photo Biennale”. Exhibitions curated include “Documentary Exhibition of Art in Mao Zedong’s Era (1942-1976) “, “The Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography”, etc. He was the director of Guangdong Museum of Art from 2000 to 2009.
Song Xiewei
Song Xiewei is an artist and designer. He is a professor and the deputy director at the School of Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a member of the Academic Committee at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and a member of the Professional Evaluation Committee at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is the lecturer for Studio No. 6, an international member of AGI, a guest expert at the National Art Museum of China, and a member of the China Artists Association. He also serves as an art evaluator for the China Scholarship Council and a professional evaluation expert for the Chinese Ministry of Culture. His works have been added to private collections in Germany, France, the US, Canada, and Japan.
Jin Jun
Jin Jun is an associate professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the deputy director of the School of Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He received a degree in electronics from Tsinghua University in 1989. In 1998, he received a master’s degree in art from Boston University. In the 1990s, he worked on gaming software in Shenzhen, China, and online publications in the United States. He also served as the art director of the Harvard-China Forum at Harvard University. In 2003, he began teaching at the School of Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. From 2011 to 2014, he worked in the Digital Media Studio.
In 1999, the Central Academy of Fine Arts held “Graphic Design by Jin Jun.” In 2004, he designed the logo for the Travel Channel. In 2009, he curated and designed “Twentieth Century Chinese Painting Invitational Exhibition” and “Sixty Years of Drawing at the Art Academies” at the National Center for the Performing Arts. In 2010, he designed the exterior paint on the Chinese Air Force’s Bayi performance plane troupe. From 2007 to 2012, he was the art exhibition planner and design adviser for the exhibition series “Reviewing and Rethinking: Reinterpreting the Classics.” In 2011, he curated the exhibition “Jin Shangyi’s ‘Compliments to Vermeer’” and designed the multi-media presentation. In 2014, Jin designed the Dadu Museum of Art and the institution’s new media presentations. In 2015, he advised the architectural and interior projections for the 2015 edition of Art Beijing.
Wang Chunchen
Dr. Wang Chunchen is the Head of the Department of Curatorial Research of CAFA Art Museum at the Central Academy of Fine Arts China, as well as an Adjunct Curator of The Broad Art Museum of Michigan State University, in 2013 he is appointed as Curator of Pavilion of China at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, and also Deputy Principal Editor of Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art in UK. Also editor-in-chief of The Chinese Contemporary Art Series published by Springer -Verlag, Germany. He traveled much to Minneapolis, Seoul, New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, East Lansing, Paris, Berlin for the symposiums, forums, and lectures. In 2015 he was invited by Tate as the
visiting research fellow. With some of the most notable shows being Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, 2014, Broad Art Museum, USA; Transfiguration: The Presence of Chinese Artistic Methods in Venice, 2013, Italy; Conceptual Renewal: A Brief History of Chinese Contemporary Photography, 2012, Beijing; The First Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, 2012, Shenzhen; Sub-Phenomena: A Report of the State of Young Chinese Artists, Beijing, 2012; CAFAM Biennale 2011: Super-Organism, 2011, Beijing; Mixed Maze, 2008, London; Supernatural – China’s Photography in the New Century, 2008, New York
Fei Jun
Fei Jun holds an MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from Alfred University’s School of Art and Design in New York. Fei Jun is the head of CAFA Media Lab, an associate professor in interactive media art and design, China Central Academy of Fine Arts as well as a working artist and designer. He is also a co-founder of Moujiti interactive. His art and design work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums and festivals, and has received many international awards including IF design award. His artistic practice has crossed digital art, interactive art, experience design, interface design, interaction design, digital publishing and other unknown areas. As an artist, he is particularly interested in the hybrid space that constructed by virtual and physical space; as a designer, Fei Jun has been creating mobile applications and interactive installations for Clients, including the Palace Museum, Audi, Trends Media Group and etc.; as an educator, he has been teaching interactive art and design program in CAFA since 2005. Fei Jun is also the founder of Interactive Beijing (IB), a design driven innovation platform that devotes to inform, inspire and incubate. IB takes on the most relevant social subjects using human oriented design approach. Through a set of programs like conferences, workshops, competitions, mentorship camps, and exhibitions, IB aim to foster new talents and incubate innovative ideas that could bring positive changes to society.
Links:
Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)
www.cafa.edu.cn
museum.cafa.com.cn
B3 Biennale
www.b3biennale.com