Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne
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Founded in 1992 by Urs Meile, Galerie Urs Meile has established a major international reputation for its engagement in showing emerging Chinese contemporary artists and positions from Europe in various media, such as painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation art. Galerie Urs Meile represents a selection of the most distinguished artists of the 21st century among them Ai Weiwei, Xie Nanxing, Li Dafang, Li Songsong, Li Zhanyang, and Wang Xingwei.
As one of the first Western galleries with an engagement in the Chinese art scene since 1996, the gallery is operating from two locations (Beijing, China and Lucerne, Switzerland) to promote contemporary art of high quality covering most recent developments. The Beijing gallery designed by artist and architect Ai Weiwei is located in the neighborhood of the National Film Museum, galleries, exhibition spaces, and the studios of other artists.
As a response to the general boom in contemporary art on which the success of Chinese art is currently riding, the gallery is seeking to promote the discourses around exhibitions in an appropriate way and differentiated manner that is to give Chinese art a future status as well as to sustainably foster our programme of contemporary art in Europe. We support artists in various media, experimental approaches, and in their complex ideas. With our artist-in-residence program we are seeking to support cultural exchange, ideas and discourses between artists from the West and a Chinese audience.
Represented Artists
Ai Weiwei - Bachmann/Banz - Ding Yi - Du Jie - Li Dafang - Li Songsong - Li Zhanyang - Meng Huang - Qiu Shihua - Shu Yong - Anatoly Shuravlev - Wang Xingwei - Weng Fen (Weng Peijun) - Xia Xing - Xie Nanxing
Works available by
Bai Yiluo - Gu Dexin - Lang/Baumann - Michael Lin - Lu Hao - Rémy Markowitsch - Lu Qing - Miao Xiaochun - Shen Shaomin - Not Vital - Xia Xiaowan - Wang Jin |
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Foundation year: 1992
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Director(s): Urs Meile
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