Spring/Summer Program 2019
Arthub’s Official Website New Features
At Arthub we are glad to announce our website’s new features!
“Podcast” is our new regular project teamed up with Usmaradio, a radio platform of St. Marino University. Arthub is committed to share interviews with artists, art talks and special projects with an Asian perspective.
Our first episode is a talk between artist Tao Hui and writer Alvin Li, in the occasion of the screening The Excessive, a film by Tao Hui. The upcoming podcasts will include Cheng Ran, Ellen Zweig, Birdhead and Zhang Enli.
“New Roads” is the conclusion of a 4 years project that saw Arthub curating contemporary art projects in Aurora Museum, Shanghai. The outcome of this complex curatorial project is a website, both accessible on Arthub’s and Aurora Museum’s website. “New Roads” was the first long-term contemporary intervention within an institution displaying ancient art in China. Davide Quadrio produced multiple exhibitions and projects featuring both local and international artists (Qiu Zhijie, Francesco Vezzoli, Yin Xiuzhen, Liu Shiyuan, Li Mu, Yang Fudong, N+N Corsino, Liu Jianhua, Kan Xuan, Li Shurui, Zhang Enli, Christopher Doyle, Michael Lin) and involving international institutions such as Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven) and Querini Stampalia Foundation (Venice) among others.
Mousse Trilogy Chinese Version
In summer of 2018, Arthub launched a three-volume books with Mousse Publishing: Shanghai Contemporary Art Archival Project 1998-2012, Arthub From China to a Global Network 2008-2018, and Aurora Museum and Arthub Contemporary Art Within a Historical Collection 2013-2016, which presented twenty years work of BizArt and Arthub. The books are available here. The Chinese version is coming soon in 2019.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Arthub and Galleria Borghese are proud to announce artist Zhang Enli’s first solo exhibition in Rome titled Bird Cage, Zhang Enli for the Galleria Borghese, curated by Anna Coliva and Davide Quadrio. Zhang is the first Chinese artist exhibited here as part of the program Contemporary Commissions which consists in site-specific artworks commissioned by the Museum to living artists. This program is designed to encourage the study of the past through our contemporaneity. The exhibition runs from April 9 to July 7, 2019 at the Uccelliera in Galleria Borghese.
In October 2019, the group exhibition Third Realm will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. The exhibition, curated by Natasha Egan and Davide Quadrio, is based on the FarEastFarWest Collection and shows a decade of crucial artistic production in Asia (2007-2013). Artists includes Birdhead, Heman Chong, Comfortable Collective, Cao Fei, FX Harsono, Hipic, Sutee Kunavichayanont, Surasi Kusolwong, Jompet Kuswidananto, Lu Yang, Xijing Men, Domingo Milella, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Paola Pivi, Sun Xun, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Yang Zhenzhong, Zhou Xiaohu, with performance by Alessandro Sciarroni.
2019 Exhibition on the Table & Screening
In 2018, Arthub presented the works by 10 artists (Yao Cong, Maya Jeffereis, Shane Aspegren and Adrian Wong, Liu Yujia, Tao Hui, Alan Grillo, Cheng Ran, ChillChill, Guo Hongwwei, and Ellen Zweig) as part of Exhibition on the Table in Arthub’s facilities in Shanghai. The screening program online that complete this project covered documentary, digital and performative artworks challenging concepts of display and public art. Exhibition on the Table is a format that Arthub has being exploring for the last two years featuring over 30 artists with original, intimate and unexpected presentations.
In 2019, Arthub will continue to showcase artists such as: aaajiao (aka Xu Wenkai), Wang Newone, Antonio Muntadas, Wang Haiyang, Li Ming and Marta Roberti among others.
Productions
Paola Pivi’s exhibition Art with a View is on view at the Bass Museum in Miami until March 10, 2019. The show is a comprehensive presentation of Pivi’s works. Arthub is proud to have supported and make possible the production of Pivi’s super successful artwork World Record.
In October 2018, Tomás Saraceno’s On Air opened at Palais de Tokyo featuring Algor(h)i(y)m, a new sound installation commissioned by Arthub. The exhibition ends in January 6, 2019.
