Art in Times of Corona: 'Real of the Unreal' in China

Real of the Unreal is the first major solo exhibition in China to date by the Dutch artist duo Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács. Although museums in the Netherlands have been cautiously re-opened to the public, the matter of opening such an exhibition in times like these is exceptional.

In the retrospective they reflect on today’s visual culture, in which fiction is closely intertwined with reality. In Real of the Unreal Broersen and Lukács present a parallel world of spectacular works that wholly absorb the viewer: a sea of hollow waves, originated from a never ending algorithm, true-to-life projections of tree trunks that melt into digital pixels, a West Side Story remake in which avatars roam the virtual ruins of ancient lake town Viborg (DK), a succession of breath-taking landscape scenes that endlessly tumble along and sculptures and projections in which Europe’s last remaining primeval forest, Białowieża, is examined and dissected as a construction of the human imagination.

The exhibition is now opened to the public and runs until 6 September. Its artistic director is Sunny Sun and the exhibition is curated by Li Jie and Cay Liyuan.