Gravitational Field: The 5th Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art

A collection of geopolitical poems 

November 18, 2023 - December 14, 2023

Exhibition hall 2/3/4 on the second floor of Dafen Art Museum, Longgang District, Shenzhen

The 5th Shenzhen Contemporary Art Biennale invited about 50 Chinese artists and art organizations to present more than 90 works, including installations, videos, paintings and other forms.

The works on display by: Media and metaphor, Ductility, right Natural and social landscapes. In the process of "positioning" and "recognition", between the collaboration or interaction between the practitioner and the surface and its form, human beings as the subject are released in the process of behavior. In the transformation of the object's "object" and "image", the emotion or imagination that inhabits the visual form gradually emerges.

atAt the "Poetic" level, as the embodiment of human freedom and independent personality, the practitioner infuses the humanistic will and vitality on different objects—in this way, the poetic spirit can be perceived...... "Poetry" can also be used as an aesthetic feature and guide us to think about how the aesthetic practice of contemporary art writes and reshapes the object.

In the macroscopic narrative of geography and imagination, reality and poetry, the "gravitational field" is a spiritual field that reflects the dynamic relationship between different individuals and landscapes, and the relationship between people and objects is also sorted out...... More importantly, the "scene" in the field is the "result" of the interaction or reconciliation of various relationships, as the "insider" in it. We should observe and reflect on the process of landscape generation and shaping through our daily life and personal spatial experience. Finally, the appearance of the local landscape is consciously created.

Since 2015, the Shenzhen Contemporary Art Biennale has held four exhibitions. With the opportunity of the 5th edition, We try to sort out the development context and value pursuit of the Shenzhen Contemporary Art Biennale.

Shenzhen Contemporary Art Biennale development context and value pursuit diagram

The exhibition is specially set up"Recreating the Present - A Review of the Past Sessions of the Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art"The section not only summarizes the prefaces, posters and other documents of previous exhibitions, but also displays the eponymous album of previous exhibitions for the audience to read.

Swipe left and right to see more posters of previous Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art

Shenzhen Publicity and Cultural Development Special Fund Funded Project

Co-ordinator: Yang Xiaoyang, Hao Qiang, Chen Xiangbing

Curator: Yang Yong

Curatorial Execution: Shangqi Art

Organizer: Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Circles

Organizers: Shenzhen Artists Association/Shenzhen Public Culture and Art Creation Center (Shenzhen Fine Art Academy)/Dafen Art Museum, Longgang District, Shenzhen/Shangqi Art

Supported by: 1979 Gallery / Enclave Art Space / ArtBay / Yishi Space / Yishu Arbre Art Space / MadeIn Gallery

Exhibition time: November 18, 2023 - December 14, 2023

Exhibition Venue: Exhibition Hall 2/3/4 on the second floor of Dafen Art Museum, Longgang District, Shenzhen

Business hours:9:30-17:30 (last admission at 17:00, closed on Mondays)

Transportation: Dafen Station (Exit A1) of Longgang Line (Line 3), Bus M476, M404, 836 (Dafen Oil Painting Village Station), navigation "Dafen Art Museum"

Founded in 2015, the Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art is a large-scale art exhibition project based in Shenzhen, focusing on contemporary art in the Pearl River Delta region. It is the first professional contemporary art biennale in Shenzhen, held every two years, and is now in its fifth session. The exhibition attempts to create a more distinctive and rich exhibition exchange mechanism with a flexible and open attitude, to establish connections between Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta, Shenzhen and China, Shenzhen and Asian and international cultural and artistic networks, and to integrate local contemporary art into the framework of global contemporary cultural discussion.