Awaken the Life Inside the Stone

Curator：Hang Kan

Yungang Grottoes, the first large-scale grotto group in the east of Xinjiang, are precious world heritage in China. According to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, Yungang Grottoes “represent China’s outstanding Buddhist grotto art from the 5th to the 6th century A.D., and the Five Tan Yao Caves in Yungang Grottoes, with strict and unified layout, are classic masterpieces showcasing the first peak in Chinese Buddhist art.”

Blueprint Beijing

Curator：Ma Yansong

The term ‘blueprint’ , as an architect’s tool, refers to both the archive of history and the imagination of the future. Great architects transform reality through visionary thinking. Buildings are the largest and most long-lasting public medium in human society, and it is crucial to continuously maintain advancements that inspire and contrast with the ethos and culture of the city, the region and the nation.

Endless Conversations

Curator：Zhu Zhu

Three Types of Dialogue Relationships of Contemporary Art with Historical Memory, Ecological Environment and Natural Sciences

Beijing Romance：Visible Memories and Imaginations

Curator：Fang Fang

The Chinese word for romance, or its transliteration luomandike (romantic), emerged in the contemporary era after the May Fourth New Culture Movement. How many types of romances are there? What is romance like? Can it be defined? Is there a fixed pattern? The original intention of this exhibition is to search for artists of different generations, genders, and backgrounds across the scattered chapters of art history and bring together their works completed in Beijing with romantic spirit. This is both a rumination on romance and a reexamination of Beijing: how many visible romantic memories and imagination did this great city, renamed in 1949, retain?

Magic Square: Art and Literature in Mirror Image

Curator：Boliang Shen

Magic square is a square array of numbers originated from ancient Chinese “Luoshu” (characters associated with the legendary Emperor Yu), in which the sums of numbers in each row, column, and diagonal are equal. Magic square has been regarded as a symbol of the harmonious power of the universe since ancient times, with many variants emerging in later generations that made a global impact on combinatorics, programming, artificial intelligence, and other fields.

Earth Heat Flow: The Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time

Curator：Iris Long

“Earth Heat Flow: The Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time” is exhibited at the Arts and Technology Unit of the First Beijing Biennial.

Brave and Bright

Starting from the shaping and generation of the image of Chinese people since 1949, the exhibition shows and discusses how the concept of health and hygiene and its image are possible, how they occur, and in what ways they reflect the social reality of various periods in China, with the clues of the Patriotic Health Campaign carried out nationwide since 1950s, the posture changes sweeping the country (such as gymnastics, martial arts, dance, drama, etc.) and their derivative meanings.