Chen Xiaoyun

Works and biography

With his video works and largescale photographs, Chen Xiaoyun examines the relationship between the individual and society in China’s rapidly changing cultural climate. His works emphasise the artist’s role in searching for possible ways in which the individual can escape, often using strong, apparently meaningless and anarchic gestures to illustrate the human individual within its environment…

Who is the Angel?

These last few years, China contemporary art initiated an increasing focus from the international art scene and the Chinese art market reached unprecedented records. This phenomena was furthermore intensified by the multiple biennales, art fairs and exhibitions held in China and abroad. However, although numbers of publications on this matter have been written, most […]