27 November, Visual Arts Expert Meeting

On the occasion of their visit to the Netherlands, SICA is organizing an expert meeting with the Chinese visual arts curators Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu, both from Beijing.

In this meeting, Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu will reflect on their past work in China and abroad. Focus will be the exhibition Little Movements: Self-Practices in Contemporary Art, the project Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu initiated and curated together, on display at the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in Shenzhen in September 2011, and on an international tour from 2012. Furthermore, they will go in discussion with Monique Knapen to give an update on recent developments in the Chinese art scene.

Liu Ding (Changzhou, 1976) is an artist and a curator based in Beijing. Curatorial work is integral to his artistic practice. His conceptual art project Liu Ding’s Store, begun in 2008, is a continuing project that discusses and presents the various visible and invisible mechanisms in the art system for the formation of value. Liu has shown his works in art institutions world wide, including the Turner Museum and the Arnolfini Gallery (both UK), the Kunsthalle Wien (AT), the Astrup Fearnley Modern Art Museum (NO), the Sao Paolo National Museum of Art (BR), the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE), the RasquArt Center (CH), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (IT), the Seoul Municipal Museum of Art (KR), among others. He was chosen in 2009 as a representative of China at the 53rd Venice Biennale.

Carol Yinghua Lu (Chaozhou, 1977) is a critic and curator based in Beijing. She is currently a contributing editor at Frieze Magazine, and sits on the editorial board for the Arnolfini Art Center’s Far West magazine. She was a jury member for the 2011 Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion Award, and is one of the co-artistic directors for the 2012 Gwangju Biennial.

Practical information
Date: Tuesday 27 November 2012
Time: 16.00 - 18.00h
Venue: Pand020, Haarlemmerweg 10a (Westergasfabriekterrein) in Amsterdam
Admission: freeIf you are interested, please sign up here, as seating will be limited.