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Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection

Swiss collector Uli Sigg has first-hand knowledge of Chinese culture through his close links with China since the late 1970s. In 1980, he helped to negotiate the first joint venture between China and a western company (Schindler). From 1995-98 he was Swiss ambassador to Beijing. Together with his wife Rita, Uli Sigg has been collecting Chinese art since the mid-1990s and is something of a pioneer in this field. Having started out purchasing only current works, he soon began extending his collection to include 'historic' avant-garde works of the 1980s and early 1990s.

The present publication is the catalogue of an exhibition of the sigg Collection, which provides a survey of a quarter of a century of Chinese avant-garde art (1979-2004). It is structured into clearly legible themes:

Icons of the 70s vs. Icons of the 80s
Mao and the Cultural Revolution
Power Play
Myths and Legends
Individual vs. Society
Consumerism
Contemporary Life
City vs. Countryside
Tradition Revisited
Chinese Perspectives on Western Art
Writing as Medium
Body as Medium

Brief artist biographies as well as a chronology of the history of contemporary Chinese art (put together by Feng Boyi) are provided.
Access level

Onsite

author

AI Weiwei, 艾未未, 

Estelle BORIES, 

HOU Hanru, 侯瀚如, 

LI Xianting, 栗憲庭, 

PI Li, 皮力, 

Uli SIGG, 希克烏利

publisher

Hatje Cantz Verlag (Ostfildern, Germany)

editor

Bernard FIBICHER, 

Matthias FREHNER

Location code
EXL.SWI.MCC
Language

English

Keyword

diaspora,  oil painting,  photography,  installation,  sculpture,  video art,  group exhibition,  China

Publication/Creation date

2005

No of pages

360

ISBN / ISSN

3775716130

No of copies

1

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

The Multiple Predicaments and Upturns of Chinese Contemporary Art - AI Weiwei, 艾未未

Access to China - Uli Sigg in Conversation with Matthias Frehner

Contemporary Chinese Art and a Declining Culture - LI Xianting, 栗憲庭

Longing for Paradise, Negotiating with the Real: Looking at the Chinese Art Scene Today - HOU Hanru, 侯瀚如

Between Scylla and Charybdis: The New Context of Chinese Contemporary Art since 2000 - PI Li, 皮力

Contemporary Chinese Art: A Market Report - Estelle BORIES

Cultural Partnerships, Maybe More: On the Reception of Contemporary Chinese Art in the West - Bernard FIBICHER

'Chineseness' — Is there such a thing? - A Letter from Uli Sigg to the Artists Taking Part in Mahjong - and their Responses - Uli SIGG, 希克烏利

Related event

Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Mahjong: Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg

venue

date

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

2005

Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2005
Artist

AI Weiwei, 艾未未, 

BAI Yiluo, 白宜洛, 

CAO Fei, 曹斐, 

CHANG Xugong, 常徐功, 

CHEN Guangwu, 陳光武, 

CHEN Lingyang, 陳羚羊, 

CHEN Shaoxiong, 陳劭雄, 

CHEN Wenbo, 陳文波, 

CHEN Xiaoyun, 陳曉雲, 

CHEN Zaiyan, 陳再炎, 

DING Yi, 丁乙, 

DONG Wensheng, 董文勝, 

DU Jie, 杜婕, 

FANG Lijun, 方力鈞, 

FENG Mengbo, 馮夢波, 

FU Hong, 付泓, 

GENG Jianyi, 耿建翌, 

GU Dexin, 顧德新, 

GU Wenda, 谷文達, 

GU Xiaoping, 顧小平, 

GUANG Tingbo, 廣廷渤, 

HAI Bo, 海波, 

HE An, 何岸, 

HE Yunchang, 何雲昌, 

HONG Hao, 洪浩, 

HONG Lei, 洪磊, 

HU Xiaoyuan, 胡曉媛, 

HUANG Yan, 黃岩, 

HUANG Yong Ping, 黃永砅, 

JI Dachun, 季大純, 

JIN Feng, b. 1962, ﹝老﹞金鋒, 

JIN Jiangbo, 金江波, 

KAN Xuan, 闞萱, 

LI Shan, 李山, 

LI Yongbin, 李永斌, 

LI Zhanyang, 李占洋, 

LIANG Shaoji, 梁紹基, 

LIN Tianmiao, 林天苗, 

LIN Yilin, 林一林, 

LIU Jianhua, 劉建華, 

LIU Rentao, 劉仁濤, 

LIU Wei, 劉煒, 

LIU Wei, 劉韡, 

LIU Xiaodong, 劉小東, 

LIU Ye, 劉野, 

LIU Zheng, 劉錚, 

LU Hao, 盧昊, 

LU Qing, 路青, 

Luo Brothers, 羅氏兄弟, 

MA Desheng, 馬德升, 

MA Liuming, 馬六明, 

MENG Huang, 孟煌, 

MIAO Xiaochun, 繆曉春, 

Muchen, 慕辰, 

PAN Dehai, 潘德海, 

PENG Yu, 彭禹, 

PU Jie, 浦捷, 

QI Zhilong, 祁志龍, 

QIU Shihua, 邱世華, 

QIU Xiaofei, 仇曉飛, 

Rong Rong, 榮榮, 

SHAO Yinong, 邵逸農, 

SHEN Shaomin, 沈少民, 

SHI Chong, 石沖, 

SHI Guorui, 史國瑞, 

SHI Jinsong, 史金淞, 

SHI Xinning, 石心寧, 

SONG Tao, 宋濤, 

SONG Yongping, 宋永平, 

SUI Jianguo, 隋建國, 

SUN Guoqi, 孫國歧, 

SUN Yuan, 孫原, 

WANG Du, 王度, 

WANG Guangyi, 王廣義, 

WANG Jianwei, 汪建偉, 

WANG Jin, 王晉, 

WANG Jinsong, 王勁松, 

WANG Keping, 王克平, 

WANG Mai, 王邁, 

WANG Ningde, 王寧德, 

WANG Qiang (b. 1957), 王強, 

WANG Qingsong, 王慶松, 

WANG Xingwei, 王興偉, 

WANG Yin, 王音, 

WEI Dong, 魏東, 

WEI Guangqing, 魏光慶, 

WENG Fen, 翁奮, 

WU Gaozhong, 吳高鍾, 

WU Yunhua, 吳雲華, 

XIA Xiaowan, 夏小萬, 

XIAO Yu, 蕭昱, 

XIE Nanxing, 謝南星, 

XU Bing, 徐冰, 

XU Yihui, 徐一暉, 

XU Zhen, 徐震, 

XUE Song, 薛松, 

YAN Lei, 顏磊, 

YAN Pei-Ming, 嚴培明, 

YANG Maoyuan, 楊茂源, 

YANG Mian, 楊冕, 

YANG Shaobin, 楊少斌, 

YANG Zhenzhong, 楊振中, 

YIN Xiuzhen, 尹秀珍, 

YIN Zhaoyang, 尹朝陽, 

YU Youhan, 余友涵, 

YUE Minjun, 岳敏君, 

ZENG Fanzhi, 曾梵志, 

ZHAN Wang, 展望, 

ZHANG Hongzhan, 

ZHANG Huan, 張洹, 

ZHANG Peili, 張培力, 

ZHANG Xiaogang, 張曉剛, 

ZHAO Bandi, 趙半狄, 

ZHAO Nengzhi, 趙能智, 

ZHENG Guogu, 鄭國谷, 

ZHOU Tiehai, 周鐵海, 

ZHOU Xiaohu, 周嘯虎, 

ZHU Fadong, 朱發東, 

ZHUANG Hui, 莊輝

Organiser

Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany), 

Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, Switzerland)

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