Civilization： The Way We Live Now

March 9 – May 19， 2019 Ullens Center for Contemporary Art， Beijing

This is a monumental photography exhibition featuring over 250 works by more than 120 photographers from Asia， Australia， Europe， Africa and the Americas. The exhibition offers viewers a journey through key aspects of organized life in the 21st century and explores the intricate urban networks that have emerged in todays world， movement of goods， the massive changes that human development has caused to the environment， and the ascent of recreational culture. Photographers record and interpret the ways in which we work and play， exchange our goods and our ideas， collaborate and compete with each other， and how we enter alliances and conflict.

New Art History： 2000-2018 Chinese Contemporary Art

March 10 – May 22， 2019 MOCA Yinchuan

From perspectives of “game/entertainment/consumption，” “ethics/technology/ art，” and “post-tradition/history，” this show exhibits 107 representative works from 46 contemporary Chinese artists to record the process and development of Chinese contemporary art with their creations and thoughts since 2000.

Yu Hong： The World of Saha

March 9 – May 5， 2019 Long Museum West Bund， Shanghai

The exhibitions title，“The World of Saha，”derives from a Buddhist expression meaning “a world to be endured.” The exhibition endeavors to impress visitors from the perspective of Yu Hong， a contemporary Chinese female artist， and explores the alterations of womens everyday lives in Chinas changing social， political and cultural contexts.

Born in Xian in 1966， Yu now teaches at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Her works have been featured at many exhibitions around the world.

Wang Huanqing： Artistic Creation since 85 New Wave

March 2 – April 17， 2019 Hive Center for Contemporary Art， Beijing

The 85 New Wave Movement of the mid-1980s marked an important transitional period in the history of Chinese art in which young Chinese artists influenced by Western modernism sought new artistic expressions. This exhibition consists of six modules involving a number of media such as oil paintings， installations， video and paper works. The exhibition features important works by Chinese artist Wang Huanqing since 1982 not only to trace the development of his art and the aesthetics underneath but also to provide a case study on how the spirit of the 85 New Wave Movement continues to be interpreted and practiced in Chinese contemporary art.

Wang was born in 1958 in northern Chinas Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region， and graduated with a degree in fine arts from Hebei Normal University. He now teaches at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology.