策展人：李力

展览时间：2018年11月5日-2019年5月31日

展览地点：上海玻璃博物馆 当代艺术空间

Curator：Lise Li

Duration: November 5, 2018 – May 31, 2019

Venue: Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai Museum of Glass

这个陌生场景，梦幻但又现实，我们一直生活在一个“真空”世界中，一切似乎拥有，也会一夜之间失去。人们为看不到的彼岸而努力奋进，而韧劲是支撑着能够走下去的内核动力。现实中，我们正在为失去以往的态度和方向付出高昂代价。

距离的选择始终是对任何事物保持清晰判断的灵丹妙药，距离的价值被一直以来的“浑浊空气”所蒙蔽而无法辨别。

我们该如何去继续。

This unfamiliar scene is both fantasy and reality. We have been living in an “empty” world where we seem to own everything but at the same time risk losing them all overnight. Everybody strives for the far shore that is out of sight and perseverance is what keeps us going. In reality we are paying a high price for lacking the attitudes and sense of direction that we used to have.

Choosing the right distance is always the secret to maintain a clear judgement on every matter. However, the value of distance has never been recognized in the persistent “unclean air”.

How should we continue?

1962年出生于中国江西省吉安市，现生活、工作于中国上海。

刘建华以陶瓷和综合材料为媒介，是中国著名的雕塑和装置艺术家。他生长于江西吉安市并在以陶瓷著名的景德镇生活、工作、学习了14年之久。1989年雕塑专业毕业后，他尝试在当代背景下进行实验性的创作。刘建华的作品反映了近年来不断困扰中国的经济和社会变化等系列问题。他的《日常·易碎》系列于2003年威尼斯双年展中国馆中首次展出，刘建华将日常用品复制成外表和象征意义大于实用性的神秘物体。2008年，他一反先前多年对全球化及中国社会急剧转型引发的诸多问题、焦点的近距离直接关注，提出“无意义、无内容”的理念来进行创作，从2008年作品《无题》开始了一个全新方向的探索，并形成了一个当代艺术创作概念的基本方向。

刘建华作品参加过第57届威尼斯双年展主题展“艺术万岁”、第六届越后妻有大地艺术祭三年展、第八届深圳雕塑双年展、第一届基辅当代艺术双年展、意大利第十四届卡拉拉国际雕塑双年展、第十七届悉尼双年展、2009加拿大温哥华双年展、第三届南京三年展、第二届莫斯科双年展、第一届新加坡双年展、第六届上海双年展、2006釜山双年展、第50届威尼斯双年展中国馆等展览，以及由伦敦泰特现代美术馆、上海余德耀美术馆、伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆、北京798尤伦斯当代艺术中心、新西兰惠灵顿道斯美术馆、台北当代艺术馆、纽约皇后美术馆、加拿大温哥华美术馆、上海当代艺术博物馆、丹麦奥胡斯美术馆、德国巴登巴登美术馆、上海民生现代美术馆、上海 chi K11 美术馆、瑞士伯尔尼艺术博物馆、北京今日美术馆、上海美术馆、旧金山亚洲艺术博物馆、上海当代艺术馆、德国德累斯顿国家艺术收藏馆、深圳美术馆、广东美术馆、北京中国美术馆、荷兰格罗宁根艺术博物馆、奥地利维也纳路德维希当代美术馆、荷兰眼镜蛇当代艺术美术馆、奥地利埃舍尔收藏博物馆、德国汉堡当代美术馆、东京森美术馆、都柏林爱尔兰现代美术馆、英国利物浦泰特美术馆、法国马赛现代艺术博物馆、法国蓬皮杜艺术中心等机构举办的展览。

刘建华作品被伦敦泰特现代美术馆、旧金山亚洲艺术博物馆、伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆、美国纽约现代艺术博物馆、美国南加州大学亚太博物馆、法国巴黎路易威登艺术基金会、K11艺术基金会、意大利佛罗伦萨萨尔瓦多·菲拉格慕博物馆、日本十和田市美术馆、纽约古根海姆美术馆、澳大利亚悉尼新南威尔士博物馆、中国上海世博会组委会、中国上海环球金融中心、西班牙la Caixa银行基金会、北京今日美术馆、深圳美术馆、广东美术馆、首尔艺术基金会、澳大利亚昆士兰美术馆、日本原美术馆、中国香港中国会、美国可口可乐公司、深圳何香凝美术馆、上海余德耀艺术基金会、挪威俾尔根KODE美术馆等公共机构收藏。

刘建华还是中国重要艺术小组“政纯办”成员。政纯办艺术小组成立于2005年7月，由洪浩、萧昱、宋冬、刘建华、冷林组成。

Born in 1962 in Ji’an, Jiangxi Province, China, now Lives and works in Shanghai, China.

Liu Jianhua is one of China’s best known sculptural and installation artists. Working primarily in porcelain and mixed media, Liu was raised in Ji’an, Jiangxi Province. He spent 14 years living, learning and working in Jingdezhen, a city renown for its porcelain industry. He graduated in Fine Art of Sculpture at the Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute in 1989, and started his own experimental practices. Liu’s works reflect the economic and social changes in China as well as the problems that emerge. His Regular Fragile series, first shown at the Chinese Pavilion, Venice Biennale in 2003, is composed of porcelain replicas of familiar objects that value appearance and symbolism over function. While his previous focus was on the social issues in China as the result of globalization, since 2008, he explored new grounds with works like Untitled. His “no meaning, no content” approach signals a new direction of contemporary art creation.

Liu Jianhua’s works have been exhibited in The 57th International Art Exhibition“Viva Arte Viva”, The 6th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennaie, The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, The 1st Kiev Biennale of Contemporary Arts, The 14th international Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Vancouver Biennale 2009-2011 (Canada), The 3rd Nanjing Triennial, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, The 1st Singapore Biennale, The 6th Shanghai Biennale, Busan Biennale (South Korea), The 50th Biennale di Venezia China Pavilion and exhibitions held by institutions including Tate Modern (Britain), Victoria& Albert Museum (Britain), UllensCerter for Contempory Art (Beijing, China), The Dowse Art Museum (New Zealand), Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei), Queens Museum (USA), Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada), Power Station of Art (Shanghai, China), Arhus Kunstmuseum (Denmark), Baden-Baden Art Museum (Germany), Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, China), Chi K11 Art Museum (Shanghai, China), Kunstmuseum Bern (Switzerland), Today Art Museum (Beijing, China), Shanghai Art Museum (China), Guangdong Museum of Art (China), Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, USA), MoCA Shanghai, Staaliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany), Shenzhen Art Museum, Guang Dong Art Museum, National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China), Groninger Museum (The Netherlands), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Austria), Cobra Museum of Modern Art (The Netherlands), Kunst Der Gegenwart Sammlung Essl (Austria), Hamburg Art Center (Germany), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, London), Marseilles Museum of Contemporary Art (France), Center Pompidou (France) etc,.

Liu Jianhua’s works have been collected by public insitutions including Tate Modern (Britain), Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, USA), Victoria& Albert Museum (Britain), Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), USC Pacific Asia Museum (Los Angeles, USA), Louis Vuitton Foundation (Paris, France), K11 Art Foundation, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum (Florence, Italy),Towada Art Center (Japan), Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA), The Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), Shanghai World Expo National Organizing Committee, Shanghai World Financial Center, Obra Social “la Caixa” (Spain), Today Art Museum (Beijing, China), Shenzhen Art Museum, Guangdong Museum of Art, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Queensland Art Gallery (Australia), Kawara Museum (Japan), China Club (Hong Kong, China), Coca-cola (The United States), He Xiangning Art Musem (Shenzhen, China), Yuz Art Foundation(Shanghai, China), KODE Art Museums of Bergen (Norway).

Liu Jianhua is also a member of artist group “Polit-Sheer-Form Ofce.” Founded in July 2005, PSFO is Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong,Liu Jianhua, and Leng Lin.