Peggy Wang

John Clark

Paul Gladston

Birgit Hopfener

Juliane Noth

Andreas Schmid

Beatrice Leanza

Brianne Cohen

Silke von Berswordt

Wang Ching-ling

Doris Ha-lin Sung

Adele Tan

Zheng Bo

Thomas Berghuis

Pauline Yao

Joe Martin Hill

Lee Ambrozy

Wenny Teo

Franziska Koch

Davide Quadrio

Contemporary Chinese art is still a young field now being opened up to critical academic research. Negotiating Difference is a pioneering collection of articles which engage with contemporary Chinese art in a global context. The contributions collectively address the urgent methodological question of how to describe, contextualize and theorize artworks and artistic processes in and beyond the People's Republic of China since the end of the Cultural Revolution. The studies break new ground as they chalk out the transcultural entanglements of which art and its practices partake and which they in turn reconfigure. The book features 20 essays written by a select group of international junior and senior scholars engaged in ambitious and methodologically innovative research on contemporary Chinese art. Their multi-faceted, in part interdisciplinary approaches are complemented by four contributions by distinguished practitioners in the field, who - as art curators and critics - are located in China and explore key developments within Chinese art and the changing art scene of the last three decades.

Chinese contemporary Art in the Global Context

Negotiating Difference

Sarah Dornhof

Barbara Lutz

Nanne Buurman

In recent years, the term global art has become a catchphrase in contemporary art discourses. Going beyond additive notions of canon expansion, this volume encourages a differentiated inquiry into the complex aesthetic, cultural, historical, political, epistemological and socio-economic implications of both the term global art itself and the practices it subsumes. Focusing on diverse examples of art, curating, historiography and criticism, the contributions not only take into account (new) hegemonies and exclusions but also the shifting conditions of transcultural art production, circulation and reception.

Topologies - Temporalities - Trajectories

Situating Global Art

Birgit Hopfener

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