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YANG Beichen:

Contemporary Art in China

Dr. Yang Beichen is a scholar and a curator based in Beijing, China. He is the director of the Macalline Art Center (Beijing, Shanghai), and member of the "Thought Council" at the Fondazione Prada (Milan, Venice).

Currently teaching at the Central Academy of Drama (Beijing), his research examines the agency and potentialities of the moving image in the context of contemporary technology and ecology, deploys media archaeology as a radical framework to excavate alternative modernities, and ultimately aims to reinterpretate history and geopolitics from a New Materialist standpoint. His curatorial practices grow out of and attest to his multidisciplinary academic approaches. Notable curatorial projects include “New Metallurgists” (Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf), “Micro-Era” (Kulturforum, Berlin), the Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021 "The Intermingling Flux" (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou), “A MOON WRAPPED IN BROWN PAPER” (Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai) , etc. Between 2019 and 2021, he also led a three-year research project focusing on the art of moving image in China at the NCAF, for which he curated three research-based exhibitions: “Anti-Projection: Media Sculptures in Early Chinese Video Art”, “Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art”, and “Polyphonic Strategies: The Moving Image and its Expanded Field”. He is about to launch a three-year research project "Who Owns the Nature?" at the Macalline Art Center, of which the first exhibition will be presented this November.

He has also contributed critical essays for the catalogues of the artists such as Cao Fei, Laure Prouvost, Omer Fast and HO Tzu Nyen, etc. His academic monograph Film as Archive will be published soon.

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YANG Beichen:

Contemporary Art in China