OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in Xi’an (OCAT Xi’an) presents its spring exhibition project with three dynamic exhibitions by artists of very different experience, age and approach. The exhibitions will be held from March 21 to May 17, 2015. The trio begins on the ground floor with “Re-projecting: One or Many Roles”, a major solo exhibition for Li Ran, one of China’s leading young artists.

Known for conflating video with performance, and for moving images installations that speak directly to the times, Li Ran captures the mood of his generation. “Re-projecting: One or Many Roles” brings together a retrospective selection of critically-acclaimed works together with two new pieces shown for the first time. In the space of a few short years since his debut in 2011, Li Ran has participated in numerous notable exhibitions in China and abroad. Recognising his influence, he was one of eight nominees for the inaugural OCAT-Pierre Huber Art Award held at OCAT Shanghai in December 2014. OCAT Xi’an is delighted to be presenting the artist’s first institutional exhibition.

The second floor presents an extraordinary contemporary journey to the West, an odyssey, physical and artistic, aimed at recapturing art’s mystery and its place in the world today. “Zhuang Hui Solo Exhibition Project” was first held in the Gobi Desert in the far west of China in September 2014 under the title “Zhuang Hui Solo Exhibition”. The works were placed in the beautiful wide open space of the natural setting. No audience was present except for the artist and his team and the big open sky. A conceptual artist whose major works include performance, photography, and sculptural installations, Zhuang Hui is a highly respected artist whose contribution to contemporary art in China spans two and a half decades. He continues to be an inspiration to many artists at work today. The “Zhuang Hui Solo Exhibition Project” is the latest, and to some most extreme, attempt to consider, amongst other things, the value of art to society today.

The lower galleries play host to a dynamic curatorial project, conceived by art critic and editor of LEAP magazine, Wu Jianru. She chose to invite three Guangdong-based artists, Feng Weijing, Shi Yijie and Zhu Jianlin, to collaborate on a presentation. The result is “Call Me A Shi”, a humorous but earnest experiment in collective creativity. “Call Me A Shi” is a project specially curated for OCAT Xi’an as part of our Young Curators Programme.

About the exhibition

Date: March 21 – May 17, 2015

Opening: March 21, 3pm

Courtesy of the artists and OCAT Xi’an, for further information please contact Shi Na, 029-85529445 / ocat-xian@ocat.org.cn.