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Art exhibitions ongoing in Guangzhou (mid-to-end of April)

Guangdong Museum of Art

Opening hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesdays-Sundays (closed on Mondays)

Add: 38 Yanyu Road, Ersha Island, Guangzhou

Bus: You can take one of the following buses in Guangzhou, and get off at Xinghai Concert Hall station to get to the museum: Bus No. 89, 194, B21, 131A, 57, or 12.

Original Color: Exhibition of Oil Paintings donated by Xu Jianbai and Tan Xuesheng

Venue: Halls 10 and 11, Guangdong Museum of Art

Date: Now until May 17, 2017


“Post Lingnan School” and Pearl River Delta

Date: Now until May 4, 2017

Venue: Halls 1, 2, 3 and 4, Guangdong Museum of Art


“Like Singing and Dancing: John McLean’s Abstract Painting” and “Enrico Bach: Borderline”

Displaying 80 pieces of abstract paintings by two extraordinary and leading artists from Britain and Germany, two solo exhibitions entitled “Like Singing and Dancing: John McLean’s Abstract Painting” and “Enrico Bach: Borderline” are currently being shown at the Guangdong Museum of Art through April 20.

Date: Now through April 20, 2017

Venue: Halls 5, 6, 8 and 9, Guangdong Museum of Art


Chen Jinchao’s work [Photo by Xie Zuanzhe]

“Attaching to Appearances” —Two Person Exhibition of Chen Jinchao and You Dongkun

“Appearances of Unmoving Suchness” features representative works of You Dongkun and Chen Jinchao. You Dongkun delivers his understanding of corresponding relationship by taking mirror-image as “appearance” in his “Reflection” series, and his “In Perfect Tranquility” series lead the audience into an enlightened cognitive process and state where emptiness is also observed as something empty.

It can be observed from Chen Jinchao’s works featuring dried ink blocks and scrolls a process where he simplifies, extracts and reshapes cultural elements by taking off culture’s cloak, and his “Basic Elements” clearly reflects a young artist’s unique temperament of daring to criticize the established criteria and seeking for breakthroughs.

You Dongkun's work [Photo by Xie Zuanzhe]

The phrase “attaching to appearances” is derived from “free from any attachment to appearances and keeping the mind in perfect tranquility” in The Diamond Sutra, here it means expressing what is sensed. The post-modern age has seen obvious changes to many artists’ objects of perception and methods of depiction: they used to focus on depicting objects’ “appearances”, while now they have become more active to engage and depict the complexity of the cognitive methods and processes; and they also have shifted the emphasis on the results or the “appearances” they have caught to the experience they encounter during the process.

Duration: 2017.4. 15 — 6. 1

Opening Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10:00 AM— 18:00 PM

Venue: 33 Contemporary Center, 33/F,Tower A, Victory Plaza, 103 Tiyu West Road, Guangzhou

Nearby metro station: Tiyu Xilu, Line 1 or 3


Mottled Light and Shadow——Zhang Meng Solo Exhibition

Zhang Meng's art reveals his inner world, one that reflects an intuitive return to his real nature. Regardless of his materials or subject matters: cold branches, snow falls, mushrooms, monkeys, walking away shadows, or even rushing tigers, they all play important roles in his own narratives. More importantly, these are the inherent clues that have constructed the internal.

Duration: 2017. 04. 02 — 2017. 05. 08

Open Hours: 11:00 - 20:00

Venue: Kui Yuan Gallery, No.9, Xuguyuan Road,Yuexiu District, Guangzhou

Nearby metro station: Dongshankou, Line 1 or 6


Carving Out — Solo Exhibition of Qi Zhe in Guangzhou

This exhibition features Qi Zhe’s woodblock prints. For a long time, woodblock printmaking and mural works of diverse materials have been the two directions of my art practice. Qi Zhe wants to establish a mutually influential and complementary relationship between these two types of art forms. The prints exhibited here have explicitly demonstrated Qi Zhe’s studies, which have more references from and combinations with mural’s materials, techniques and other aspects, and thus able to work out more possibilities.

Duration: 2017. 4. 22 — 6. 2

Open Hours: 10:30 - 19:00

Venue: Fl. 1&2, East Podium Building, The Westin Pazhou, Guangzhou

Nearby metro station: Pazhou, Line 8


Guangdong Museum

Opening Hours: 9:00 - 17:00 (closed on Mondays)

Add.: No. 2 Zhujiang Dong Lu, Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District, Guangzhou

Nearby metro station: Zhujiang New Town, Line 3 or 5

Admission: Free admission tickets can be got at Ticket Office from 8:50 a.m. to 4 p.m. Valid ID is required for one person to get one ticket. Tickets are valid on the day of issue only.

Exhibition: Art and life of Guangdong literatus in the Ming Dynasty

Featuring over 90 fine artworks such as precious articles, paintings and calligraphy works, the exhibition is ongoing at Guangdong Museum. These artworks are from the Ming Dynasty, preserving the overall imprinting of the dynasty and distinct Lingnan features.

Date: Now until April 23, 2017

Venue: 3rd floor exhibition hall, Guangdong Museum


The Special Exhibition of Jade from the Tomb of Fu Hao

Date: Now until May 7, 2017

Venue: Painting and Calligraphy Hall on the 3rd floor, Guangdong Museum


Tape Art around the World: China

Period: Now through May 7, 2017

Venue: A3, Redtory

Add.: Redtory Art District, No. 128, Yuancun Siheng Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou

Nearby metro station: Exit B, Yuancun Station, Line 5

In cooperation with Redtory, the Consulate General of Germany in Guangzhou organizes the exhibition and interactive action event “Tape Art around the World”.

It has been opened its doors at Redtory on December 10th 2016 in hall A3, and is the only Tape That exhibition in China.


[Photo/(c)Tony Frank]

Serge Gainsbourg, Photographs by Tony Frank

To pay homage –twenty-five years after his death– to the career of singer Serge Gainsbourg and to the memory he left in several generations’ mind, the exhibition follows him through his path with both private and public pictures, taken by the photographer Tony Frank who has been close to him from the beginning of his career in the 1960s to his death. Tony Frank is one of the most famous photographers of stars in France.

Period: Now until May 3, 2017

Admission: Free entrance

Venue: Fangsuo Bookstore

Add.: 383 Tianhe Rd. (au TaiKoo Hui, MU35) Tianhe district, Guangzhou

Nearby metro station: Shipaiqiao, Line 3


Guangdong Folk Arts Museum

Opening hours: 8:30 - 17:30

Add.: Chen Clan’s Academy, Zhongshan 7 Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou

Nearby metro station: Chen Clan’s Academy, Line 1

[Photo: Newsgd.com/Monica]

The Highlights from the Collection of Jingde Town Porcelains with Painted Figures of the Republic of China (1912-1949)

The museum has a collection of about 1000 pieces (sets) of Jingde Town painted porcelains of the Republic of China (1912-1949). Most works of the collection dated the early and middle Republic of China. Their designs ranged from figures, animals, plants, landscapes, flowers, characters and patterns.

Period: Now through June 10, 2017

Venue: Back east exhibition hall of Guangdong Folk Arts Museum


Wan Zhaoquan’s Ceramics Works by Guangdong Folk Arts Museum Collection

Period: Now until May 15, 2017

Venue: Guangdong Folk Arts Museum


Cantonese Colorized Porcelain by Guangdong Folk Arts Museum Collection

Period: Now until May 15, 2017

Venue: Guangdong Folk Arts Museum


Visible Meditation: An Exhibition in Three Parts by Jon Poblador

Titled Visible Meditation, artist Jon Poblador uses multiple ways to express the idea of meditation in a visible way. This exhibition presents his art pieces in three parts, including his minimalist paintings and drawings, also Insects graphite series, created from 2010 to 2017. Every part of exhibition will lasts two weeks, that means we will change pieces once in two week, please notice our exhibition timetable.

Blue and Insects: Order / Disorder

Date: April 15 - 23, 2017

Opening hours: 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm, Tuesdays - Sundays

Admission: Free

Add: 103 Store, No. 27 Liuyun Wu Street, Tianhe South 2nd Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou

Nearby metro station: Shipaiqiao, Line 3

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