In 2025, aligned with the Museum's new strategic positioning "anchored in the Greater Bay Area, focused on China, and oriented toward the world", GDMoA will present the 3rd Exhibition of GDMoA Annual Artist Nomination 2025 at its new venue. The five artists nominees for this year's exhibition have been active in both domestic and international art circles in the past three years, And the selected works represent the innovative thinking and experimental achievements in the current creation of contemporary art by Chinese and overseas Chinese artists. As a major academic project in GDMoA’s contemporary art research, the Exhibition will continue to foster creative practice and international exchanges, and further uncover emerging artistic talents and provide insights into the current state of creative practice across China, with the aim to contribute to the examination of the global art ecosystem and broaden the diversity of academic research and cultural dialogue.

 

Wang Shaoqiang, Director of Guangdong Museum of Art, serves as a National Level-2 Researcher, professor, doctoral supervisor, curator, art educator, artist and an expert with State Council Special Allowance. He also serves as a member of China Artists Association, Vice Chairman of Guangdong Artists Association, President of Guangdong Art Museum Association, and a member of the Teaching Steering Committee of Higher Education, Ministry of Education. He has been selected for projects such as “Guangdong Provincial Talent Support Program” and “The New Century Tens, Hundreds, Thousands Talent Project” in Guangdong Province. He has been listed twice on “Chinese Art Power List” and was named one of the Influential Figures by National Arts Magazine. Wang was also awarded with Artist Award at the 22nd Napoli Cultural Classics. 

 

He has been engaged in the research of modern art and contemporary art for a long time. He once planned large scale exhibitions such as Guangzhou lmage Triennial 2017 and Guangzhou lmage Triennial 2021, and served as the Chief Director and Archival Exhibition Curator of the 6th Guangzhou Triennial, Chief Curator of the 7th Guangzhou Triennial and the 2023 Chengdu Biennale and other large-scale exhibitions with international influence.

 

Since April 1997, Professor Beate Reifenscheid has served as the Director of the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, a contemporary art museum primarily dedicated to the collection of post-1945 French art from the Ludwig Collection.

 

Under Professor Beate's leadership, the museum has undergone significant international expansion. Over the years, its exhibitions have been founded on international exchange and various collaborations with museums and academic institutions worldwide. Particularly over the past two decades, she has been deeply committed to fostering close academic and artistic exchanges between the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz and the Chinese art world.

 

Yin Jinan is a renowned art historian, contemporary art critic, and expert in the authentication of ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy. He is a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Image and History at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He also serves as a distinguished research fellow at the Ancient Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute of the Palace Museum. Yin is the chief editor of the Open Art History series published by SDX Joint Publishing House. His major works include Knowledge Production：A Pictorial History Formation, Knocking At the Door Alone：A Close Look at Contemporary Chinese Culture and Art, and Post-Motherism / Stepdaughterism – A Close Look at Contemporary Chinese Culture and Art. He is the lead expert and chief editor of the national key textbook History of Chinese Art.

 

 

 

 

 

Wang Xiaosong holds a PhD in Arts and a Postdoctoral degree in Design. He is an art critic and curator. He has curated over 50 art and design exhibitions and authored more than 100 art reviews. His published works include monographs such as Under the Line of Sight (China Photographic Publishing House) and Creating Modernity: Design and Visual Culture in Late Qing (Zhengzhou University Press), as well as over 20 research documents on designers and artists including Kan Tai-Keung, Xu Bing, Yue Minjun, Zhou Chunya, and Liu Jianhua.

 

 

 

 

Jiang Jun is an independent curator and art critic, and the chairman of the Art and Economy Professional Committee of Zhejiang Creative Design Association. He graduated from the Kunstakademie Münster, Germany, and later obtained a doctorate in Art Studies from China Academy of Art. He is a postdoctoral researcher in architecture at Tongji University in Shanghai from 2021 to 2024. Jiang Jun is the co-curator of the Chinese National Pavilion at the 60th Venice International Art Biennale (2024), and has co-curated the 7th Guangzhou Triennial (2022-2023) and the 2023 Chengdu Biennial.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Born in 1963 in Chongqing. 

 

He studied at the Affiliated Senior High School of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute from 1978 to 1981 and at the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute from 1981 to 1988, where he received his master’s degree. Pang is the former President of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and currently serves as the Deputy Chairman of China Artists Association, Deputy Chairman of Chongqing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Chairman of the Chongqing Artists Association, Director of the Oil Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association and Vice President of the China Oil Painting Society. He is also a second-level professor and doctoral supervisor at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.

 

In the mid to late 1980s, Pang devoted himself to the research and exploration of classical oil painting language. For Pang, the true goal is to integrate contemporary visual, viewing, and cultural experiences into classical discourse, so that they blend together seamlessly.

 

Oil on canvas

280×230 cm

2017

© Pang Maokun, Courtesy of A Thousand Plateaus

 

Oil on canvas

116×91cm

2020

© Pang Maokun, Courtesy of A Thousand Plateaus

 

 

 

 

Born in October 1956 in Heilongjiang, China. 

 

Shen is an artist, documentary director, poet. He is the Director of the Public Art Research Institute, Benyuan Design and Research Centre, Shenzhen University and the Art Director of the Science + Art Joint Lab, Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society.

 

Currently based in Shenzhen, Beijing, and Sydney. He specialises in multi-disciplinary and cross-media creation, with notable works covering installation, video, documentary, conceptual painting, poetry and public art. He was the Chief Director of Shenzhen Civic Center International Artist Light Show.

 

Severed, eternal

Ceramic Installation 

400cm

2024

Collection of Jiayuanhai Art Museum

 

Still a lot of straw made eternal

Ceramic Installation

Dimensions variable

2024

Collection of Jiayuanhai Art Museum

 

 

 

 

Born in 1968 in Beijing, China.

Xiang Jing graduated from the faculty of sculpture, Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1995. Xiang now works and lives in Beijing.

Rather than viewing Xiang Jing as a “feminist” artist, she is perhaps more accurately described as an artist with a woman’s viewpoint and perspective. Xiang’s artwork reveals a sense of insecurity through which the misty nature of the modern human character and life itself are accentuated and reified. Xiang Jing seeks after the existential truth of life through her continued investigation of “internality” of human nature in her work. 

Xiang Jing and her work often appear in discourse on “contemporaneity vs. traditional medium”, “the female identity and the universal human nature”, “to observe and to be observed”, “internal desire”, “figurative art towards abstraction”, etc.

 

Otherworld － The Silver Age

Fiberglass, painted

205×435×210cm

2011

 

Anger in Motion

Fiberglass, painted

174×300×310cm

2015-2016

 

 

 

 

Born in 1957 in Hangzhou, China.

 

Zhang Peili graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) in 1984, where he later taught as a professor. He is also the former executive director of OCAT Shanghai. 

 

In 1985 and 1986, ZHANG Peili organized and participated in the “’85 Xin Kong Jian” (’85 New Space) exhibition and artist collective “Chi She” (Pond Society). His work 30×30 (1988) is considered the earliest video artwork in China. In 2003, he established the New Media Department at China Academy of Art and thus started the earliest new media art education in China.

 

The Last Few Minutes of a Life

Five-channel video recording 

(color, silent)

4'03''

2024

© Zhang Peili, Courtesy of Red Brick Art Museum

 

At Sea

Single-channel video projection 

(color, sound), utilizing AI technology 

17'36″

2024

© Zhang Peili, Courtesy of Red Brick Art Museum

 

Born in 1961 in Shanghai.

Zheng Chongbin was educated as a classical Chinese figurative painter at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. In 1989, Zheng received a fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute to study installation and conceptual art. 

 

Systematically exploring and deconstructing their conventions and constituents — figure, texture, space, geometry, gesture, materiality, Zheng has developed a distinctive body of work that makes the vitality of matter directly perceptible. Based on his study of phenomenology and the new materialism, Zheng Chongbin introduces his concepts into the field of installation and video. Painting, architecture, light, and space are kneaded together to embody a pure sense of materiality, which will ultimately be transformed into an experience of space.

 

 

Untitled

Ink and Acrylic on Xuan Paper

285×500cm

2020

© Zheng Chongbin, Courtesy of The KD Collection

 

Folding Landscape

Ink and Acrylic on Xuan Paper

348×140 cm

2013

© 2013 Zheng Chongbin, Courtesy of INKstudio

 

 

Date：2025.4.11(Fri.)-7.27(Sun.)

 

Venue: Hall 7/8, 2F, Guangdong Museum of Art (BAIETAN)

 

Organizer：Guangdong Museum of Art

 

Director：Wang Shaoqiang

 

Academic Committee: Beate Reifenscheid (DEU) 

 

Director of the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany \ Yin Jinan (CHN) Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts & Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Image and History at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts \ Colin Siyuan Chinnery (GBR) Co-Founder of Sound Art Museum\ Wang Xiaosong (CHN) Art Critic & Curator \ Jiang Jun (CHN) Independent Curator & Art Critic 

 

Artists Nominees: Pang Maokun (CHN) \ Shen Shaomin (AUS) \ Xiang Jing (CHN), Zhang Peili (CHN) \ Zheng Chongbin (USA)

 

Exhibition Supervision：Hu Ruitao \ Jiang Fei

 

Curatorial Team：Huang Hairong \ Liu Zhujing \ Shi Yurong \ Yan Yuxi

 

Exhibition Administration：Hong Wenwen \ Jiang Mei

 

Collection Management：Lu Zihua \ Lin Lei \ Liu Xiaoyan

 

Exhibition Installation：Zhao Wanjun \ Liao Shani \ Su Limin \ Zheng Yanling

 

Media Promotion：Tu Xiaopang \ Zeng Ruijie \ Zhang Meng \ Liu Danni \ Zhang Zhenkang \ Li Weijie \ Liu Shixin \ Du Yueer

 

Education Program：Zhao Meng \ Zhi Kaipeng \ Qi Zuqing \ Xu Yunshang

 

Documents & Archives：Hu Yuqing \ Zhou Shanyi

 

Exhibition Coordination：Xie Xuefan \ Su Xiaoling

 

Exhibits Conservation: Liu Duanling \ Mo Shuwen \ Wang Haoxing \ Mai Runyi \ Xu Qian, Zeng Zheng

 

Graphic Design: another design

 

Space Design: INVIS DESIGN