Travel Notes: Military Confinement, Keep Off

2020, Sun Yuan

Some day during the pandemic threat, I climbed over the wall and entered the factory of a closed industrial enterprise of the military in Western Beijing. The factory used to produce rocket bombs but it is now abandoned. In a building, I found an abandoned musical instrument and I tried to play with it. Eventually I was discovered by the security guards and they drove me out, thus everything was left where it was. 

Travel Notes: Military Confinement, Keep Off, Video Record

2020, Sun Yuan

Sun Yuan

1972 Born in Beijing, China

1991 Graduated from High School Affiliated to CAFA, Beijing, China 

1995 Graduated from , the 4th studio of oil painting department at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Presently living and working in Beijing, China

2019:The 58st Venice Biennale May You Live In Interesting Times，Venice,Italy

2017: Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World，NEW YORK，SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. America

2016: What about the Art? Contemporary Art from China, Qatar Museums(QMA), Doha, Qatar

2016: Tales of Our Time, Guggenheim Museum, New York, America

2012: DOCUMENTA(13) Worldly House, Kassel, Germany

2010: Sydney Biennale 2010－The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney，Australia

2009: Breaking Forecast : 8 Key Figures of China’s New Generation Artists, UCCA, Beijing China

2005: Emersion－China Pavilion of The 51st Venice Biennale, Virgin Garden, Venice, Italy

2000: The 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France

Curated Projects：

2014—2015:

Unlived by What is Seen, Galleria Continua, Pace Gallery Beijing, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China

Award：

2010

Credit Suisse Today Art Award

2001

Best Young Artist of CCAA(The Contemporary Chinese Art Award)

Image and Text Courtesy of the Artist.

Edited by Sue and Emily/CAFA ART INFO