UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
UCCA尤伦斯当代艺术中心 | |
Former name | Ullens Center for Contemporary Art |
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Established | November 2007 |
Location | 798 Art Zone, Beijing |
Coordinates | 39°59′21″N 116°29′17″E / 39.989057°N 116.48793°E |
Visitors | 385,295 (2020) [1] |
Founder | Guy and Myriam Ullens |
Director | Philip Tinari |
CEO | Philip Tinari |
Website | www |
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art or UCCA (
History
In November 2007,
In 2012, UCCA began its second chapter
In June 2017, a group of China-based investors came together to restructure UCCA, separating its commercial and non-profit functions, ensuring its long-term presence in the 798 Art District, and securing its future vision. In 2017, UCCA Director Philip Tinari served as guest co-curator for the Guggenheim exhibition "Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World," alongside Alexandra Munroe and Hou Hanru. The exhibition is the most comprehensive institutional survey show of Chinese art mounted to date in the United States, and a corrective to what Tinari views as narrow, American views of Chinese Contemporary Art.
In 2019, UCCA announced plans to open a third location along Shanghai's
Site and space
UCCA spreads across the original chambers of
Highlights
The center has presented more than a hundred exhibitions and attracted more than four million visitors.[when?][citation needed] Beginning its curatorial program with "85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art", it has presented large-scale group shows "Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China’s New Generation Artists" (2009), "ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice" (2013), and "Hans van Dijk: 5000 Names" (2014); along with solo exhibitions "Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy" (2010), "Wang Jianwei: Yellow Signal" (2011), "Gu Dexin: The Important Thing Is Not The Meat" (2012), "Wang Xingwei" (2013), "Xu Zhen: a MadeIn Company Production" (2014), "Liu Wei: Colors" (2015), and "Cao Fei: Staging the Era" (2021).[9]
It has also presented the international surveys "Inside A Book A House of Gold: Artists’ Editions for Parkett" (2012), "Indian Highway" (2012), "DUCHAMP and/or/in CHINA" (2013), and "The Los Angeles Project" (2014). It has served as a platform for the works of Olafur Eliasson, Tino Sehgal, Tatsuo Miyajima, Taryn Simon, and Sterling Ruby, introducing China to these significant figures in contemporary art.
On 11 February 2017, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art received the 2016 Global Fine Art Awards for Best Contemporary / Postwar / SoloArtist "Rauschenberg in China".[10][11][12]
Public programs
Events include lectures, panel discussions, film screenings, performances, workshops, festivals, and community initiatives.
Research
UCCA's research department focuses on organizing scholarly programming around UCCA exhibitions, and on organizing the ten years of archival material that the institution has already produced, to make it easily accessible online to students and researchers. In 2019, it will open a library and research space on its premises, featuring an extensive collection of physical and digital materials focusing on the three areas of UCCA's own history.
UCCA Dune
Opened in 2018, UCCA Dune's curatorial program often emphasizes the relationship between nature, humanity, and art.
UCCA Edge
UCCA Edge opened as the third site in Shanghai in May 2021, located within the Jing'an District on Suzhou Creek.[6] It was announced in partnership with Hong Kong-based K. Wah International in 2019[5] and designed by SO-IL, an architecture firm based in New York City. UCCA Edge occupies 5,500 square meters of space over three levels within the Shanghai EDGE tower. It has 1,700 square meters of gallery space as well as an outdoor terrace and public space including a lobby and auditorium.[15]
Controversy
In May 2014, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei accused UCCA of self-censorship when curators decided to omit his name from a public newsletter announcing the opening of an exhibition in memory of artist/curator Hans van Dijk.[16] Ai had originally contributed three works to the exhibition, including the first piece he ever exhibited in Europe as part of an exhibition curated by van Dijk in 1993, but removed the works during the opening ceremony, "in defiance of UCCA's portrayal of Chinese contemporary art."[17]
In September 2017, the
References
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- ^ Greenberger, Alex (2017-04-17). "Ullens Center for Contemporary Art CEO May Xue Resigns". ARTnews. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
- ^ a b Movius, Lisa (4 November 2019). "UCCA Center for Contemporary Art to open space in Shanghai". The Art Newspaper.
- ^ a b Greenberger, Alex (21 May 2021). "UCCA Edge Opens in Shanghai: See Pictures of China's Newest Museum". ARTnews. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ Mu, Xuequan (November 2, 2007). "Ullens art center to debut in China". Xinhua. Archived from the original on November 3, 2007. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
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- ^ "Winners of 2016 Global Fine Art Awards Revealed".
- ^ "Rauschenberg in China". China: UCCA. 11 December 2015.
- ^ "2016 Award Winners ‹ Global Fine Art Awards". globalfineartawards.org.
- ^ Yi-Ling, Liu (February 9, 2019). "An art gallery buried on a Chinese beach". The Economist. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
- ^ "OPEN's UCCA Dune Art Museum wins 2019 AZ Awards". artdaily.com. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
- ^ Jie, Wang (20 October 2023). "UCCA Edge: from unfinished commercial building to new art icon". Shine. China. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "Ai Weiwei accuses UCCA of self-censorship, tells director not to 'ruin' himself with 'Chineseness'". 3 May 2022.
- ^ "Ai Weiwei Pulls Work from Hans van Dijk Show". www.randian-online.com.
- ^ "Statement Regarding Works in "Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World"". Guggenheim. 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
- ^ "The Guggenheim Bilbao Will Show Two Controversial Animal Works That Were Pulled From Its Chinese Art Survey in New York". Artnet News. Artnet. 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
- ^ "SFMOMA Won't Show the Three Works That Sparked Animal-Rights Outrage at the Guggenheim's China Show". Artnet News. Artnet. 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2019-07-29.