ShContemporary 10 | Events
Two conferences are taking place in ShContemporary 2010
THURSDAY 9th September 2010
Collecting Asian Contemporary Art: What, When and How?
Moderator: Hou Hanru
International museums to meet at ShContemporary 2010 to discuss the future of Asian contemporary art collections
For the last two decades, contemporary art has become not only a global activity but has also significantly changed the cultural landscape and ways of living around the world. The contemporary art scene in Asia, thanks to its exceptionally rapid development and energetic creativity, has been largely considered as a new centre of the global art scene. Numerous cities across the region are holding major art events such as biennials and art fairs while hundreds of new museums, galleries and art foundations are being founded or are under construction. Along with its booming economy, the art market in Asia is a new Eldorado for the global art economy while some of its star artists are setting records for their high prices. Over the last ten years, we have seen the arrival of a new generation of private collectors focusing on Asian art in the various countries both inside and outside the Asian continent.
Conference Programme:
11.45 - 12.30 Public collections: the Chinese context
speakers: Wang Huangsheng (Director CAFA Musem in Beijing), Zhang Zikang (Director Today Art Museum in Beijing)
12.30 - 13 Public collections: the Asian Scene
speakers: Tan Boon Hui (Director Singapore Art Museum, Suhanya Raffel (Head of Asian & Pacific Art Queensland Art Gallery) and Rajii Kuroda (Chief Curator of Fukuoka Asian Art Museum)
14 - 15.15 Public Collections: the Western context
speakers:Kathy Halbreich (Deputy Director MoMA NY), Alexandra Munroe (Senior Curator on Asian art Solomon Guggenheim Museum NY), Frances Morris (Head of collection international art Tate Modern London)
15.30 - 16.15 Private collections and social engagement
speakers: Uli Sigg (private collector - Switzerland)
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FRIDAY 10th September 2010
Re-Value: The Construction and Consumption of Value in Contemporary Art
Moderator: Philip Tinari
Re-Value: The Construction and Consumption of Value in Contemporary Art is a conference hosted by UACC & ArtTactic in collaboration with ShContemporary. Split between two sessions, the seminar will first invite representatives from museums, art journals, foundations, auction houses and galleries to discuss the art system that constructs value from art; and then invites collectors to discuss value from the other side – those who recognize and consume the value in art.
Conference Programme:
14.00 - 15.30 Construction of Value
speakers: Anna Waldmann (Consultant,The Sherman Foundation), Simon Groom (Director of Modern & Contemporary Art, National Galleries of Scotland), Shen Qibin (Director, Zendai Himalayas Museum of Art), Lu Jie (Director, Long March Space & Foundation)
16.00 - 17.30 Consumption of Value
speakers: Sylvain Levy (collector - France, Founder of DSL Collection), Deddy Kusuma (collector-Indonesia), Hallam Chow (collector-Hongkong, Founder of H2 Foundation for Art and Education), Qiao Zhibin (collector-Beijing), Gong Nana (collector - Beijing, Founder of UACC)
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