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, 嘉 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
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.
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