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CHINESE WHISPERS - Recent Art from the Sigg Collection at MAK Museum

CHINESE WHISPERS

Recent Art from the Sigg Collection

WED, 30.01.2019–SUN, 26.05.2019

MAK – MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS

 

An exhibition by the MAK, Vienna in dialogue with the collector Uli Sigg and in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Zentrum Paul Klee

 

With CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection a comprehensive exhibition on Chinese #contemporaryart is coming to Vienna. Uli Sigg has been following the development of #contemporaryart in China since the late 1970s. In the mid-1990s, he started putting together the world’s most significant and representative collection of Chinese art. A business journalist, entrepreneur, and Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea, and Mongolia (1995–1998), he had the chance to take a look behind the scenes of the social and economic developments dedicated to both tradition and the future, as China’s vision of a new Silk Road shows. Cultural and sociopolitical values form the frame of reference of the MAK exhibition. The museum creates a discursive platform by contrasting works from the Sigg Collection with objects from the MAK Collection. This interplay highlights China’s #contemporaryart production as well as its aesthetic or iconographic references. The historical object becomes a vision machine for the contemporary.

 

Curator: Bärbel Vischer, Curator, MAK #contemporaryart Collection

 

Artists: 徐文恺 aaajiao (Xu Wenkai), 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, 曹斐 Cao Fei, 曹雨 Cao Yu, 陳樂珩 Chan Stacey Lok Heng, 陳苑翹 Chan Yuen Kiu, 池磊 Chi Lei, 储云 Chu Yun, 丁乙 Ding Yi, 段建宇 Duan Jianyu, 冯梦波 Feng Mengbo, 高伟刚 Gao Weigang, 顾小平 Gu Xiaoping, 何翔宇 He Xiangyu, 洪浩 Hong Hao,   Jia, 杨俊 Jun Yang, 李傑 Lee Kit, 廖斐 Liao Fei, 刘勃麟 Liu Bolin, 刘窗 Liu Chuang, 刘鼎 Liu Ding, 刘韡 Liu Wei, 马轲 Ma Ke, 毛同强 Mao Tongqiang, 苗颖 Miao Ying, 黃漢明 Ming Wong, 倪有鱼 Ni Youyu, 白双全 Pak Sheung Chuen, 裴丽 Pei Li, 楊嘉輝 Samson Young, 邵帆 Shao Fan, 沈少民 Shen Shaomin, 沈学哲 Shen Xuezhe, 史国威 Shi Guowei, 史金淞 Shi Jinsong, 宋冬 Song Dong, 王光乐 Wang Guangle, 王晋 Wang Jin, 王雷 Wang Lei, 王卫 Wang Wei, 王兴伟 Wang Xingwei, Christian Hidaka, 谢墨凛 Xie Molin, 谢南星 Xie Nanxing, 徐冰 Xu Bing, 许成 Xu Cheng, 徐震 Xu Zhen, 薛峰 Xue Feng, 叶鲜艳 Ye Xianyan, 张培力 Zhang Peili, 张晓刚 Zhang Xiaogang, 张玥 Zhang Yue, 赵半狄 Zhao Bandi, 郑国谷 Zheng Guogu and 朱久洋 Zhu Jiuyang.

 

Panel Discussion & Exhibition Opening

Tue, 29 Jan 2019

 

6 p.m.

Panel Discussion

Multiple Revolutions (in English)

with Uli Sigg, Jun Yang, Miao Ying, and Ai Weiwei

Moderator: Carol Yinghua Lu

MAK Lecture Hall

Video >>

 

7 p.m.

Exhibition Opening

MAK Lecture Hall

 

Film Screening

The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg   

Documentary film by filmmaker Michael Schindhelm, 2016, 93 min.

Tue, 16 Apr 2019, 7:30 p.m.

Tue, 21 May 2019, 7:30 p.m. 

MAK Lecture Hall

 

Guided Tours

Admission plus attendance fee of € 3.50

 

Regular Exhibition Tours

Every Sunday, 2 p.m.

 

Dialogue Tours

with Bärbel Vischer and Uli Sigg, Collector

Wed, 30.01.2019, 4.00 PM fully booked

with Bärbel Vischer and Johannes Wieninger, former Curator, MAK Asia Collection

Thu, 07.02.2019, 4.00 PM registration no longer possible

 

Curator-Guided Tours

with Bärbel Vischer

Tue, 05.03.2019, 6.30 PM fully booked

Tue, 02.04.2019, 6.30 PM fully booked

Tue, 14.05.2019, 6.30 PM Please register

 

WEDNESDAYS AT THE MAK

Guided tour through the exhibition, followed by further discussion at the restaurant Salonplafond im MAK

Wed, 20.02.2019, 3.00 PM - 5.00 PM registration no longer possible

 

Program for Kids and Families

MINI MAK Tour

Guided tour for the whole family (ages 4+)

 

Everything Chinese at MINI MAK

Sun, 21.04.2019, 11.00 AM Please register

Old China—new China

Sun, 19.05.2019, 11.00 AM Please register

 

MAK4FAMILY

Workshop for the whole family (ages 4+)

 

Chinese Whispers

Sat, 23.02.2019, 2.00 PM - 4.00 PM registration no longer possible

Sat, 27.04.2019, 2.00 PM - 4.00 PM Please register

 

Great, greater, the greatest—Chinese art in Vienna

Sat, 11.05.2019, 2.00 PM - 4.00 PM Please register

Sat, 25.05.2019, 2.00 PM - 4.00 PM Please register

 

MAK #design Kids

Workshop for 8- to 12-year-olds (unaccompanied) with Natascha Safarik, calligrapher

 

Calligraphy like never before!

Sat, 20.04.2019, 2.00 PM - 4.00 PM Please register

Sat, 04.05.2019, 2.00 PM - 4.00 PM fully booked

Sat, 18.05.2019, 2.00 PM - 4.00 PM Please register

 

Publication on the occasion of the exhibition: Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg and M+ Sigg Collections, ed. by Kathleen Bühler, Kunstmuseum Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee, and MAK, Vienna, German/English, 368 pages, Prestel Verlag, Munich/London/New York 2016. Available at the MAK #design Shop and at MAKdesignshop.at for € 44 as of end of January.