Thursday, 21 February, 5-7:00pm
\n Room 100 was once and will soon again be the site of an art gallery. For now, suspended in a place between the gallery's past and future, not yet public and not quite an exhibition, ROOM 100 provides a space and time to collectively consider fundamental questions of art and education and its institutions. For 13 weeks, the gallery re-opens and invites its most immediate public, the NYU Shanghai community, to engage with open-ended spatial, discursive, and relational prompts and provocations.\n
ROOM 100 begins with spatial scenarios that explore the built conventions, material components, and social behaviors that inscribe institutions. On the surfaces of NYU Shanghai's most widely shared and used space - the elevators, illustrations originally made by the Guangdong Times Museum and Victor Chan suggest museum going decorum. In the gallery, an installation conceived in collaboration with Ying Zhou draws upon the vernacular aesthetic of the university itself and proposes an array of potential uses and transgressions.\n
\n Can Room 100 be… a classroom, an office, a studio/lab, a conference room, a study room, a lounge, and/or a gallery? What makes a space for teaching, for learning, for working, for being together, for being alone, for engaging with art?\n
FOUNDATIONS & TOPICS
\n As a type of study in higher education, foundations are a coordinated set of courses for students beginning their studies and later in pursuing a particular discipline. These courses focus on developing basic concepts, skills and techniques, and initial research; a critical framework through which to begin to engage with art, its institutions, and a future university art gallery. ROOM 100 presents a series of lectures, conversations, and a screening, each responding to a fundamental question.\n
\n Light refreshments will be served.\n
1) DO WE NEED A UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM?
a lecture by Cuauhtémoc Medina
Monday, 11 March, 5-7:00pm / Room 100
\n * co-organized with NYU Shanghai Visual Art Area
\n * open to publics\n
2) WHAT CAN ART DO?
a performative lecture by Chen Yun, in conversation with Julie Chun
Tuesday, 26 March, 5-7:00pm / Room 100
\n * NYU Shanghai community & by invitation only\n
3) WHEN IS CONTEMPORARY ART?
a conversation by Karen Smith and Mia Yu, with Christopher Wood
Thursday, 25 April, 5-7:00pm / Room 100
\n * NYU Shanghai community & by invitation only\n
4) WHAT IS THE VALUE OF ART?
\n a screening of Rehearsing the Museum by Marysia Lewandowska, in conversation with Ying Zhou
Thursday, 16 May, 5-7:00pm / Auditorium
\n * co-organized with Asia Art Archive
\n * open to publics\n
STUDY SESSIONS
\n In addition to presenting exhibitions and educational programs, a university art museum was once primarily the caretaker of the school's "study collection." As a central part of a teaching museum, the study collection offered students, faculty, and other researchers an opportunity to observe physical artifacts and art objects in close proximity and to link such observations to abstract ideas and concepts. Though NYU Shanghai currently lacks a study collection, ROOM 100 re-conceives the city of Shanghai as a resource and presents a series of objects, lent by artists, commercial galleries, a collector, and a museum, for open study.\n
\n Light refreshments will be served.\n
1) Thursday, 21 February, 5:00pm
* with artist Yingmei Duan
\n Yingmei Duan in collaboration with Wang Shihua, Cang Xin, Gao Yang, Zuoxiao Zuzhou, Ma Zongyin, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Zhang Binbin and Zhu Ming, To Add one Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, 1995.
\n Live Performance with Beijing East Village Artists.
\n Performance documents. Pigment ink on archival paper; 83.3 x 59.9 cm. Photo: Lü Nan. Video, color; 9 minutes 13 seconds.
\n Courtesy of the artist and Capsule Shanghai
\n Objects available for viewing 22 February - 12 March.\n
2) Thursday, 14 March, 12:30pm
Guan Xiao, Din Din Jaarhh, 2015.
\n Brass, car wheel, rope, resin; 115 × 40 × 78 cm.
\n Courtesy of the artist and Antenna Space
\n Object available for viewing 14 March - 5 April.\n
3) Tuesday, 9 April, 12:30pm
Cui Jie, Shanghai Huaqiao Building, 2014.
\n Oil on canvas; 150 x 200 cm.
\n Courtesy of the Andrew Ruff and Ling Ling Zou Collection
\n Object available for viewing 9 - 26 April.\n
4) Tuesday, 30 April, 12:30pm
Liu Heung Shing, Students Studying, Tiananmen Square. 1981.
\n Silver gelatin print on archival photo paper, framed; 54 x 72 cm.
\n Courtesy of Shanghai Center of Photography and Liu Heung Shing
\n Object available for viewing 30 April - 24 May.\n
OFFICE HOURS
\n For the duration of ROOM 100, Room 100 also serves as a working space for gallery staff. Staff members, while receiving visitors and facilitating object study sessions, will also work in the space, conduct meetings, and host office hours. Any and all visitors are welcome to meet with gallery staff, to discuss ROOM 100's programs, the university art gallery, or just chat about art.\n
\n Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
\n Director/Curator Hours: Mondays, 10:00am - 12:00pm
\n Curatorial Assistant Hours: Wednesdays, 10:00am - 12:00pm\n
ABOUT
\n VICTOR CHAN is the Creative Director, Senior Graphic Designer and Illustrator at the Guangzhou-based CHIC Design. He is also a curator of contemporary arts, a cross-over creator, and founder of Qiyue Art. He has years of experience in brand and graphic design, arts investment strategy and management of art galleries. His designs and illustrations have appeared in a number of key media, including Modern Weekly, Southern Weekly, 1626, and Leap magazine.\n
\n CHEN YUN was born and raised in Shanghai. She has curated more than 100 talks, performances, workshops and social events. She was a member of the curatorial team of 11th Shanghai Biennale (2016-17) and curated "51 Personae", a public program series that revealed the transformational potential of 51 persons/groups in Shanghai. "51 Personae" grew out of her work initiating the Dinghaiqiao Mutual Aid Society (2015-18), a self-organized venue for studies, communication, reflection, and social services, in a working class/migrant neighborhood of Shanghai. Chen's other work also include West Heavens, an India-China social thought and contemporary art exchange project, and Yuan Centre, a traditional art training and academic institution in Suzhou.\n
\n JULIE CHUN is an independent art historian and lecturer from the USA based in Shanghai since 2011. She serves as the Art Convener of the Royal Asiatic Society China, where she delivers independent lectures at museums and galleries to widen the public's understanding of artistic objects, past and present. She lectures frequently for various foreign associations in Shanghai, including the Consulate General offices and is an adjunct professor of Art History for the Institute for Study Abroad at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics where her focus is on art's value to society and culture. She is a regular contributing writer for Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.\n
\n MARYSIA LEWANDOWSKA is a Polish born, London-based artist who has been exploring the public functions of archives, museums and exhibitions. Her current film project Rehearsing the Museum proposes a new typology for a museum in China, connecting financial and property speculation with cultural transformation of capital into commons. Her work has been presented by Tate Modern, Moderna Museet, New Museum, Muzeum Sztuki, and Whitechapel Gallery. She has been Professor of Fine Art at Konstfack in Stockholm (2003-2013), Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014-2016) and most recently at Goldsmiths College, London. She is currently preparing the Pavilion of Applied Arts as her contribution to the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. www.marysialewandowska.com\n
\n CUAUHTEMOC MEDINA is an art critic, curator and historian based in Mexico City. Since 2013, he has been the chief curator of Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporanea (MUAC) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is the artistic director of the 12th Shanghai Biennale (2018) and has also curated special projects such as the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2009) and the Manifesta Biennial in Genk, Belgium (2012). Between 2002 and 2008, he was the first Associate Curator of Latin American Art Collections at the Tate Modern in London. Since 1993, he has been a full time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas and a lecturer in philosophy and art history at UNAM.\n
\n KAREN SMITH is a curator and author, specializing in the field of China's contemporary art since 1980. Based in China since 1992, in mid-2012, she was appointed founding director of OCAT Xi'an, the first dedicated contemporary art museum in Xi'an. Karen has authored several books, including the As Seen series, which explores contemporary Chinese artworks as seen in public exhibitions; Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China, 2008, which profiles 9 leading members of the first generation of avant-garde artists to emerge between 1985 and 1989. She also holds the position of artistic director at the Shanghai Center of Photography.\n
\n CHRISTOPHER WOOD is Professor in the German Department, New York University. He has been a fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University; the American Academy in Rome; the American Academy in Berlin; the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; and the Internationales Forschungszentrum für Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna. In 2002 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Wood is the author of Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape (1993); Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art (2008); and Anachronic Renaissance (with Alexander Nagel) (2010), and A History of Art History (forthcoming, 2019).\n
\n MIA YU is a Beijing-based art historian whose diverse practice is situated at the intersection of art historical research, the curatorial, and artistic practice. She has widely published, both in China and internationally, and was the guest editor for Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. Yu also makes film and installation inspired by her art historical research, which have exhibited at key art institutions in China, Hong Kong and France. She was the winner of YISHU Art Critic Award in 2018 and the winner of CCAA (Chinese Contemporary Art Award) Art Critic Award in 2015. Currently, she is the curator of special projects at New Century Art Foundation.\n
\n YING ZHOU is an architect and assistant professor at the Department of Architecture at Hong Kong University. Her research interest on the relationship of contemporary urban developments, the growth of cultural industries/new economies and their institutional frameworks in East Asian cities developed from her work with Kees Christiaanse at the Singapore-ETH Centre's Future Cities Lab and with Herzog & de Meuron at the ETH Studio Basel. She has published in Critical Planning, Urban China, Frieze, Leap, and exhibited at the Rotterdam Biennale, Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Swiss Architecture Museum, amongst others. Born in Shanghai, Ying holds a B.S.E. from Princeton, a M.Arch. from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and a Ph.D from the ETHZ.\n
\n Opened in September 2013 and taking its residence in Building 17 at M50 by Simon Wang, ANTENNA SPACE closely follows and supports contemporary artists, with a focus on young artists. As part of the intentions of helping and exploring contemporary art programs, Antenna Space engages in extensive and deep cooperation with artists, as well as in collaborations with many other art institutions, in search for new possibilities for the development of art galleries.\n
\n CAPSULE SHANGHAI was founded by Enrico Polato in 2016 and is located in the historic Former French Concession in Shanghai. Committed to exhibiting the best of international and China's contemporary art, by both established and emerging artists, Capsule proposes a less conventional gallery formula, acting as both gallery and art laboratory. Special focus is dedicated to artists who through their personal and professional trans-regional migrations are reshaping the borders of the current global art map. More than a place to show art, Capsule is also a lab, an experimental space geared to the unique rhythm and fast-changing dynamic of contemporary art in China.\n
\n The ANDREW RUFF & LING LING ZOU Collection is comprised of more than 100 artworks, not only by established artists such as Ding Yi, Zeng Fanzhi, and Zhang Enli, but by emerging artists such as Ni Youyu and Jin Shan as well. The couple has been collecting Chinese contemporary art for almost two decades and focuses on the careful selection of artists and the acquisition of their works over the progression of their careers. In 2017, they founded 166 Art Space in Jing'an district as a public project space through which to share their collection and passion with the Shanghai community.\n
\n SHANGHAI CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY (SCôP) is a non-profit organization and the first such accredited art institution dedicated to photography in China. It was founded in 2015 by photographer Liu Heung Shing and is situated in Shanghai's West Bund art district. SCôP showcases international and Chinese photography in all its diverse applications: journalism, documentary, social history, fashion and art photography. In tandem with its curated exhibitions, SCôP offers a program of educational programs including workshops, lectures, and publications. The exhibition Parallel: Erwin Olafwill be on view from March 2nd to May 30th.\n
\n GUANGDONG TIMES MUSEUM is funded by Times Property and the Guangdong Museum of Art in 2003 and designed by Rem Koolhaas and Alain Fouraux, which was completed in September 2010. Registered as a non-profit organization, each step of the process from conception and design to implementation of the museum has reflected the unique social, economic and cultural environment of the Pearl River Delta Region, making a special example of case in the urbanization process of southern China. Public programmes of the museum takes an open attitude towards engaging audiences in dialogue on an equal footing, organising diverse and interactive events to shift from the teaching-learning, professional, jargon-filled interpretation of the traditional museum to a guided, inspirational artistic experience.\n
\n NYU Shanghai Art Gallery
\n 1st Floor, Room 100, 1555 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200122\n
\n Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm\n
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