This project started in 2015 with a personal Instagram profile called China Artlover. Later there was also a Facebook page, which is now a collection around basic information about Chinese Art in a broader way and for Contemporary Chinese Art in particular. It should give you a quick overview of arts, artists, galleries, and related facts to this topic in China and around the world.
Today that means artist portraits and exhibition coverage on the blog, a curated list of platforms for finding good English-language coverage elsewhere, a growing directory of Chinese galleries and museums, and a newsletter that goes out roughly every 1–2 months with artists and exhibitions worth knowing about.
Outside China, it is not very easy to get access to Contemporary Chinese Art apart from already big artists like Ai Weiwei, Liu Ye, Yue Minjun, or Cai Guo-Qiang you might have seen in big museum shows.
You can imagine that in a country the size of China there are so many young and talented artists showcasing their own take on Chinese art — and we want to help shed some light on the ones you’d otherwise only discover by traveling to China yourself (while doing some of our art walks!)
A call to collaborate
Even though China Artlover started as a private project, today it is meant to be a collective approach to support the passion in Chinese Contemporary Art. Also, we hope it will help to be a platform for intercultural exchange to better understand cultures and people through art as a creative and open medium.
Therefore we are looking for friends, artists, and contributors to help share their passion for Chinese Contemporary Art and especially young emerging artists. We are happy to share or reshare content around Chinese art as well as featuring artworks on our Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram accounts (for free, of course!).
Please contact us for a feature or join as Co-Author.
The China Artlover(s)
Sascha Kurfiss (Founder)
Sascha started China Artlover in 2015 as a personal project in Beijing and later in Shanghai. While living for 5 years in China, he witnessed a new generation of artists making their way out of Chinese universities and into the art market. But a lot of them stay unknown to foreigners, nor do people have a chance to see their work or understand any context around it.
Now based in Germany, Sascha still returns to China every year for 1–2 months, keeping the project rooted in what’s actually happening in the scene rather than running on memory alone. Follow Sascha on LinkedIn/ Instagram
Cila Brosius (Editor)
Cila is an experienced curator and project manager in the fine art industry, specialising in contemporary art. She holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts Administration from New York University and is fluent in English, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Danish and French. Through conversations with artists and arts professionals, she aims to inspire wider engagement with the complex world of art in and from China. Her goal is to foster cross-cultural understanding by sharing and discussing Chinese art from a broad range of perspectives. Follow Cila on LinkedIn/ Private Blog