Please join the JWA for a private tour of M+ Pavilion, and the new exhibition of six artists shortlisted for the prestigious Sigg Prize!
M+, which is going to be one of the largest and most ambitious museums of visual culture, has not fully opened its doors, and we will be given a tour of the exhibition in its Pavilion — and shown around it’s nearly completed campus by the Lead Curator Pi ali.
WHEN: Friday, January 10, 2020 at 11am
WHERE: M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 28 Museum Drive, Kowloon
After the M+ visit, we will all have lunch at the newly opened arts club – The Soho House.
We have limited spaces — please R.S.V.P. by December 30, 2019
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The Sigg Prize is a biennial award that recognizes outstanding practices of artists born or working in the Greater China region. The prize is a platform to highlight and promote on an international scale the important work and discussions taking place here. For this inaugural edition, an international jury has selected six shortlisted artists to participate in the Sigg Prize 2019 exhibition before the winner is announced in March 2020.
The shortlisted artists are Hu Xiaoyuan (born 1977, lives and works in Beijing), Liang Shuo (born 1976, lives and works in Beijing), Lin Yilin (born 1964, lives and works in New York), Shen Xin (born 1990, lives and works in Minneapolis and Amsterdam), Tao Hui (born 1987, lives and works in Beijing), and Samson Young (born 1979, lives and works in Hong Kong). They encompass different generations and geographies and work across a range of mediums, including sculpture, site-specific installation, video, and performance. Their practices articulate clear perspectives on topics that defy easy categorisation, and the work featured in this exhibition addresses pressing questions that resonate across contexts.
Pi Li is the Sigg Senior Curator of M+, a visual culture museum in Hong Kong. He previously served as the deputy executive director of the art administration department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA, 2001-2012); the co-founder and director of Boers-Li Gallery (2005-2012) in Beijing, former Universal Studios-Beijing in Beijing. Exhibitions Pi Li curated include Right is Wrong: Four Decades of Chinese Art in M+ Sigg Collection at Whitworth Gallery in Manchester and Bildmuseet in Umea 2015 and 2014; Under Construction at Tokyo Opera Museum in 2002; Moist: Asia-Pacific Media Art at the Beijing Millennium Monument Art Museum in 2002; Fantasy Zone at Art Museum of DongA Daily in 2001 and Beijing Modern Art Center in 2002; Image is Power at He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen in 2002. He was the curator of Media City Seoul in 2006. He has also served as curator for the Shanghai Biennial in 2002; and Allôrs la Chine at Centre Georges Pompidou in 2003. Publications include From Action to Concept (2015), Farewell to Moralism (2018). Pi Li earned his PhD degree in art history from the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
links:
M+ overview: https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/mplus/m-overview
M+ Pavilion: https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/mplus/m-pavilion
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