OPEN International Performance Art Festival
http://www.open10.com/
http://www.openart.org.cn
http://www.douban.com/event/10709817/
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OPEN is the largest and longest-running non-governmental international Performance Art Festival in China. Founded in 2000 to establish a free international performance art platform in the spirit of openness, pluralism, equality, and experimentation, it is now celebrating its tenth anniversary. The first OPEN International Performance Art Festival in 2000 was curated by Chinese artist Chen Jin. The purpose was to promote the development of world art both experimentally and academically with no limits of nationality, political belief, religion or geographic area; art being its only pursuit. The site of OPEN 10, Dashanzi 798* is the largest international art zone in Beijing with more than 350 galleries and another 150 under construction. OPEN 10 will display works of artists from many countries and regions over a two-month period in the OPEN Realisation Contemporary Art Centre at 798 Art Zone in Beijing from 7 August to 27 September 2009. This tenth anniversary year will showcase more artists from more countries than ever before. Perhaps only under the circumstances of today's global economic crisis do we fully realise the importance of art and culture. During OPEN 10 we will witness the integration and exchange between different personalities, different ways of thinking, and different cultures. In order to fully display the diversity of world contemporary art, eight international curators (four male and four female) have been invited to independently curate for the duration of the festival. A large number of art institutions, government agencies and media will participate in this event. We will also show to the world this year’s festival by webcasting live works through the Internet and reporting via the media.

13 UK Artists:

1. Dr Bill Aitchison
Work: 2012 (Check out the photos of his performance in Beijing HERE)
Date: Saturday 15th August 2009, running for one hour between 1PM-6PM (Chinese subtitles will be provided)

For the 10th OPEN Performance Art Festival Dr Aitchison will bring his apocalyptic performance ‘2012’’ to Beijing for one performance on 15 August. In the performance 2012, independent researcher, Dr Aitchison, reveals a sequence of facts covering the war on terror, dog cloning, The Olympics, Saddam Hussein’s novels, I Ching predictions and the end of the world. 2012 concerns itself with the space where conspiracy theories, propaganda, science, art and politics cross over with one another becoming indistinguishable. Created in London and Beijing, 2012 collides perspectives, theories and visions offering a snapshot of uncertainty, of where desire, and fear, lead the imagination. Presented as part of the performance program on Saturday 15 August 2009, running for one hour between 1PM-6PM Chinese subtitles will be provided. Bill Aitchison is a theatre and performance artist based in London. He has presented his performances at theatres, festivals and galleries in the UK, US, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Israel and Croatia. He has spent extensive periods in New York’s downtown theatre scene and the European performance circuit working as a writer, actor and performer and genuinely is a Doctor, having a PhD in performance.

Created in collaboration with Boris Kahnert (light) and James Dunn (sound).
Supported by Arts Council England, Theatre in Motion Beijing & Burton Taylor Studio

Links:
www.billaitchison.co.uk
www.britishcouncil.org/arts-performanceinprofile-2009-british_council-bill-aitchison.htm
www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/offwestend/?p=630 (interview on 2012)

2. Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell
Email：zebedee_obrien@yahoo.co.uk

Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell is an urban tumbleweed with magpie tendencies and a Fine Art degree. Graduating in 2007 and based in Belfast she works in many media forms; drawing, performance, film and installation. She can be encountered with playmates or alone, plundering the streets, making playful interventions and mess in search of a beach under the pavement. She currently organises ‘residence’, a series of artist interventions, workshops and a rolling residency programme with her sister Sighle in SHAC Association buildings around Northern Ireland. Sinead works collaboratively with Anne Marie and Dandy Dillon as Playgroup, organizes free drawing events with other members of ‘draw in’ and is a committee member of Bbeyond (www.bbeyondperformance.org). Her work is generated by a direct response to and observations from her surroundings and their social contexts. Strange seemingly out of place activities, awkward objects and vessels disrupt the surface and merge with the habitual traffic of the environment from which they have been appropriated. Taking play as a means of articulation transforms the world into an adventure playground and everything in it including yourself into potential playthings. The people who inhabit these spaces are invited to partake in absurd activities and share their wealth of experience, skills and knowledge.

3. Ewa Rybska
Ewa Rybska was born in 1958,living in England. She was graduated from University of Art and Design , Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland,and was one of organizers of International Art Festival. Her works concentrates on visual art of mass media,for example"imaginary castle" during the year of 1993 to 2005.from 1997 Rybska collaborate with Wladyslaw Kazmierczak.They created a series of policy action perpormance based on libarty,focused on the disappear of primitive culture which is caused by policy hypocritical,repression ,freedom and internationalizion.Their performance  often contains sarcasm and the nihilism,specially aimed at nonsense of art and culture,popular value and imitation sign.

4. Orion Maxied
EDUCATION
2003 – 2006       Music and Visual Art BA, Brighton University, UK.
2002 – 2003       Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, at Weymouth College, UK.
1999 – 2000       Diploma in Audio Engineering, School of Audio Engineering, Glasgow, UK.
PERFORMANCES
2011              ‘Big Performance’ for European Capital of Culture, Tallinn.
05 2009          Nietzsche, Death of God, Morality and self creation, Berlin.
05 2009          Cadavre Equis, Union of Performance, Riga, Latvia.
05 2009          Banana (8), Union of Performance, Riga, Latvia.
10 2008          Banana, Made Up Weekend, Liverpool Biennale.
10 2008           We’ve Won, Concrete and Glass, London.
07 2008          Inconsistencies, Logical, Solo show, The Basement, Brighton.
07 2008          Mass Banana, Watts Fest, Devon, England.
07 2008          Boundaries (1), Global Container, Tallinn, Estonia.
07 2008          Banana    One Night Stands, Chelsea MA Curating Course, Wimbledon College of Art, London.
05 2008          Collaborative Performances with Non Grata, Diverse Universe 4, Estonia.
04 2008          Collaboration, Brussels Meets Brighton, Shunt, London.
03 2008          Banana, Testing Grounds, Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK.
11 2007           Westerners Bhutto with Burning Sofa, perfromance with Non Grata, Seoul South Korea.
11 2007          Banana (1) Kopas International Festival of Perfromance Art, Seoul South Korea.
10 2007          Buutros Buutros Ghali, Impromtu performance, with Tanel Saar and Sandra Almendros, Brighton, UK.
09 2007          God (4). Preavis des Desordre Urbain, Marseille France.
06 2007          God (3), Diverse Universe, Talinn, Estonia.
04 2007          God (2), Fresh Festival, Reading, UK.
12 2006           Visions of Division, collective perfromance with Non Grata, The Brighton Fringe Basement, Brighton, UK.
10 2006           The Other Is You, Station House Opera –The Brighton Fringe Basement, Brighton, UK.
01 2006          Process Transformation 1-23, Brighton, UK.
07 2005          ‘HolmBush Festival’, Exeter, UK.
06 2005          Sonic Shoes, ‘DanceScreen 2005’, Brighton, UK.
04 2005          Process Transformation 1, Brighton, UK.
05 2005          God (1) ‘Diverse Universe’, Lahti, Finland.
05 2005          ‘Performance Festival Là-Baz’, Helsinki, Finland.
05 2005          ‘Art Non Grata’, Tartu, Estonia.
05 2005          ‘Academia Non Grata’, Paide, Estonia.
05 2005          ‘Homo Grandis Natu’, Tallin, Estonia.
05 2005          ‘Time Space Movement’, Paide, Estonia.
11 2004          Boxes, ‘Welcome Gold’, Congress for Performance Art, Berlin, Germany.
10 2004          ‘Goyang International Arts Festival – 7Link’, South Korea.
09 2004          ‘Flow’ - ‘The Anyang River Project’, Anyang, South Korea.
09 2004           Welcome Gold ‘10th International Congress for Performance Art’, Seoul, South Korea.
09 2004          Bow, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.
VIDEO/PHOTOGRAPHY
06 2008           The YouTube Thing, curated by protoPLAY, Whitechapel Gallery, London.
04 2008           The YouTube Thing, co-curated by protoPLAY and Jamie Wyld, videoclub, The lighthouse, Brighton, UK.
10 2007           The YouTube Thing, curated by protoPLAY, Phoenix Open Studios, Brighton UK.
10 2004          Connections ‘Goyang International Arts Festival – 7Link’, KOREA.
06 2003          Connections, Weymouth College of Art and Design
03 2002          Photography Exhibition, ‘4eme Festival Montmartre en Europe’, Paris, FRANCE.
MUSIC/SOUND
02 2008          Superfluid, Permanent Gallery, with Harry Neve and Keith Harrison.
05 2007          Inside Active Sphere, with Thomas Michalak, The Art of Listening, Brighton Festival, UK.
05 2005           Voice Looping, with Harry Neve, Fresh Festival, Bracknell, UK.
02 2005          Sonic Shoes, University Gallery, Brighton, UK.
2001–2003         Diverse Explorations in Minimal Electronic Music

5. Miriam King
Miriam King is an Artist/Choreographer/Dancer/Live Artist/Filmmaker born in London, living in Brighton, working Internationally. With an art school background she commenced her professional performance career in 1984. Moving from theatre through to dance, and in more recent years to live art and film, her most significant training was with Anton Adasinsky and his performance company DEREVO at their former studio in Leningrad, Russia in 1990. Miriam's work is influenced by Butoh dance. She's has been creating her own unique performances since 1992, taking her to live art festivals and artist-in-residences around the World. Her award winning dance film work has been shown at Lincoln Centre/New York, Pompidou Centre/Paris, ICA/London, the Venice Bienale and at the Sydney Opera House, Australia and in every continent (excluding Antarctica). Her projects and choreographies include the ICA National Review of Live Art 1993. Miriam has a continuing performance relationship with Gallery H, Kostelec nad cernymi Lesy, nr Prague, Czech Republic which commenced in 1992 and an ongoing performance relationship with SoToDo Gallery, Berlin and the Congress of Visual and Performance Art. Commissions have included Chisenhale Dance Space, London for "Maraluna's Cabinet", and "Archetype" Arts Council commission to create her solo dance/live art and video installation "specimim", which then toured to in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the Compton Skyline Project, Brighton where Miriam created 16ft high rooftop choreographic projections. Miriam has been a guest lecturer and workshop leader at Dance House, Dublin and invited international choreographer at "Ex...it!Butoh Symposium", Schloss Broellin, Eastern Germany. She has researched, lectured and presented work in many countries including Portugal, Iceland, New Zealand and Australia. In 2005 Miriam was invited by The British Council and Korean Cultural Foundation to present work at DiDance Festival, Seoul, Korea. She has made solo works for the Live Art Festival of Unusual Performance at Kaapelidas in Helsinki, Finland, 2001, theOpen Art Live Art Festival in the Peoples Republic of China, 2001, and three seperate solo performances at KOPAS Performance Festival in Seoul, South Korea, 2008. Larger scale choreographies include "Sleepwalker" for dance company High Spin performed at Corn Exchange, Brighton, Hackney Empire and Sadlers Wells, London. Artist in Residences include "The Fountain Project", as part of Arts Council Year of the Artist. She has been Artist in Residence at The Firkin Crane, Cork, Ireland, and in 2008 Miriam had an Artist in Residency at The Point, Eastliegh creating her performance instalation "The Reading Room". Miriam currently has an Artist in Residency at La Piscine, Musee d'art et Industrie, Roubaix in Northern France, funded by CCN. Miriam is on the editorial panel for Total Theatre Magazine, regularly contributing articles and reviews. She's a member of Movement 12 and a visiting lecturer teaching Performance and Choreography at various establishments including University of Brighton.

6. Kenny Mc Bride
"In answer to the world as it has been given me, artistic production is a manifestation of my humanity and a social action. Reverberation begins long before and continues long after the act." Kenny McBride is known for his meticulous planning of action and how the viewer experiences this. For many years his work has tackled traditional ideas of commemoration and conflict resolution. He has built an acclaimed body of work across continents that encourage a rethinking of the role and formal aspects of the monument in memorial culture. He employs processes of body-based performance and installation art to generate elaborate and expanded sculptural environments. These become emotionally charged spaces wherein the pathologies of the lived and the mediated experience assume a hallucinatory journey. Simultaneously they conjure a meditative engagement with encounter, and alienation. In his performances he works with duration cycles of between 4 hours and 3 days. This imbues the viewing experience with a sense of fragmentation, of site and of memory. Often work is devised specifically and responsively to a proposed site and its social context. Works often engage the full range of senses. He is author of uniquely intense works, presenting in diverse locations and contexts internationally. Previously he worked for many years as an artist in disadvantaged communities and within the rehabilitation and prison systems.

7. Eloise Fornieles
Eloise Fornieles is Anglo-Argentine artist represented by Paradise Row gallery. After a BA in Fine Art at Kingston University, Fornieles graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2006 with an MFA in Fine Art Media. Her work engages with the themes of loss, intimacy and the relationship between beauty and violence, using photography and video as an extension of her work in performance and installation.

Education
Slade School of Fine Art  MFA    2004-2006
Kingston University   BA    2001-2004
Kingston University   HND    2000-2001
Solo Exhibitions
The Grammar of Love and Violence, Paradise Row, London  2009
Sacrificial Dance, Nuke Gallery, Nuit Blanch, Paris   2008
Carrion, Paradise Row, London      2008
From the deep waters of sleep, Paradise Row, London  2007
Senescence, Paradise Row, London     2007
Man or Mouse, The Toilet Gallery, Kingston    2004
Group Exhibitions (selected shows)
Natural Wonders, Babaikov Art Projects, Moscow   2009
Fashion in Film Festival, Tate Modern, London    2008
Force and Beauty, Yukiko Kawase Gallery, Paris   2008
Zelda Rubinstein, 7-9 Princelet St, London    2007
Abandoned Protocol, Riter/ Zamit, London    2007/8
The Breakfast Club, Haunch of Venison, London   2007
Pranvere, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania   2007
Masterdrive, Wallis Gallery, London     2007
Welcome to Paradise, Nuke Gallery, Paris    2007
Vanishing Point 06, Madder Rose, London    2006
The End of Civilization, Port Eliot, Cornwall    2006
Bezalel MFA International, Tel Aviv, Israel     2006
Intimate Experiences, Bischoff and Weiss, London   
Porridge, Unit A Gallery, London      2005
Becks Future Student Film and Video ICA, CCA, Toured UK  2005
Future Exhibitions
InfrAction, Beijing        2009
Awards and Prizes
British Arts Council, MFA International Travel Funding   2006
Becks Future Student Film and Video Prize (Runner up)  2005
UCL Masters Scholarship       2004

8. Brian Connolly
One Person Exhibitions and Performances
2009 “Market Stall” Performance, Crescent Park, Belfast, as part of the Botanic Arts Festival. Performance occurred in Craft Marquee.
2008 “History Lesson”, Install-action, Kunsthalle, Gothenburg, Sweden, as part of Live Action Gothenburg, Curated by Jokhim & Jonas Stampe. Install-action work occurred over two days. Travel supported by University of Ulster Research Institute.
“Market Stall” Performance, Main Avenue, Gothenburg, Sweden, as part of Street Actions during Live Action Gothenburg. Curasted by Jokhim & Jonas Stampe. Travel supported by University of Ulster Research Institute.
“Market Stall” Performance as part of Cavan Arts Festival Fringe, Main Street Cavan, coordinated by Bbeyond and Joe Keenan. “Ballysally
“History Lesson”, Install-action and installation, Le Lieu, Quebec, as part of Conquest Project, marking the 400th. Centenery of the founding of Quebec in 1608. Work evolved from research and site experiences within and without  the gallery. Curated by Richard Martel.
“History Lesson”, Install-Action, Hidden Gardens Green House as part of National Review of Live Art, New territories. 22 hour Durational Site Specific work over three days.
“History Lesson”, Site-specific Performance as part of Bbeyond – La Bas Exchange Project in Helsinki, Tidehalli, Helsinki.
“Market Stall” Performance, Helsinki Harbour, Market Place, (during storm), as part of Bbeyond –La Bas Exchange Project
2007 “History Lesson” Performance Parts 1 & 2, Beijing Institute of Graphic Arts, China, as part of Through Irish Eyes Exhibition, Curated by Fion Gunn and supported by Culture Ireland, The Irish Arts Council and the Irish Embassy in Beijing.
“Market Stall” Performance, The World Park, Beijing, as part of Through Irish Eyes Exhibition, Curated by Fion Gunn and supported by Culture Ireland, The Irish Arts Council and the Irish Embassy in Beijing.
Presentation of Market Stall Performance, VIP Art Gallery, Students Cultural Centre, Beograd/Belgrade, Serbia, as part of IMAF2007 – (International Multimedial Art Festival), Curated by Sinead O’Donnell and Nenad Bogdanovich.
Market Stall Performance, as part of IMAF 2007 – (International Multimedial Art Festival), Nove Sad Market Place, Serbia. Curated by Sinead O’Donnell and IZBA Indipendant Art Association – Nove Sad.
Market Stall Performance, as part of IMAF 2007 – (International Multimedial Art Festival), Odzaci Market, Serbia. Curated by Sinead O’Donnell and Nenad Bogdanovich.
“Art’s Birthday” Performance in collaboration with Rian & Rose - (daughters) as Part of Art’s Birthday Project... Bbeyond Members, Ormeau Park, Belfast, January.

9. Bill Drummond
Bill Drummond was born in 1953. Since leaving Liverpool School of Art in 1973 he has used various ways to investigate and converse with the world. These investigations and conversations have found expression via the written word, pop music and actions. He has had numerous one-man exhibitions in major UK regional galleries and across Europe. Since 1998 all Drummond’s work has been framed within the context of The Penkiln Burn. To have a better understanding of what this is please visit www.penkilnburn.com. His written words include the following books: The Manual (1989), Bad Wisdom (1996), 45 (2000), and How To Be An Artist (2002), The Wild Highway (2005), 17 (2008). The pop music (1977 - 1992) comprised of various projects, from Big In Japan to The KLF, the details of which have now faded into the twilight world of pub pop quiz questions and car boot sale bargain box oddities. The actions have been the one constant in his practice. There have been hundreds over the years, nearly all carried out anonymously and left unrecorded. Recently Drummond’s activities have included the instigation of The 17, the production of a pack of cards titled Silent Protest, the foundation of The Intercontinental Twinning Association, the making of The Soupline and setting up the websites:
www.mydeath.net
www.youwhores.com
www.openmanifesto.com
www.the17.org
www.nomusicday.com

10. Rainer Pagel

11. Wladyslaw Kazmierczak

12. Stevie MC Garrity Alderdice

13. Alastair MacLennan

Event location:

Open Realization Contemporary Art Center: Opening Ceremony /Closing Ceremony/ the display of the video works and pictures/ artists performance; Iberia Chinese Independent film archive: the series artist ‘s lectures of the 10th anniversary Open festival.

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Event date：2009.08.03-2009.09.27
Chief curator ：CHEN JIN (CHINA)
Assistant chief curator : Vigi  Yaya  Leon  Kalven
Organizer: The committee of 10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival
Volunteer: Cathy   Jessica  Sandrine

OPEN festival is planned by the Open Realization contemporary center, many overseas artists and curators. The scale of this festival is the largest in the performance art world so far, there are 300 outstanding performance artists from all over the world. This festival will last 2 months with 8 artists curators respectively in charge of 8 parts of performances. Open International Performance Art Festival has witnessd and developed the chinese contemporary performance for 9 years, it has a great promotion for the development of the chinese contemporary art culture and communication of the world art.

The festival will cooperate with more than 300 artists from 53 countries, including 14 artists from the UK.

Time specific

1st Week  MARI NOVOTNY JONES  USA
5th Aug  2 Lecture & Opening Ceremony, 6th Aug Chinese artists performance,
7th -9th Aug Foreign artists performance;

2nd Week  JONAS STAMPE       FRANCE/SWEDEN  
11th-12thAug 3 Lecture, 13thAug Chinese artists performance, 14th -16thAug Foreign artists performance;

3rd Week  MILAN KOHOUT    USA/CZECH
19thAug1Lecture,20thAug Chinese artists performance, 21st-23rdAug Foreign artists performance;

4th Week    ARAI SHIN-ICHI   JAPAN   FuXiaodong    CHINA
26thAug1Lecture,27th AugChinese artists performance, 28th-30thAug Foreign artists performance;

5th Week   JILL MC DERMID   USA
1st 2nd Sep 3 Lecture, 3rd Sep Chinese artists performance, 4th-6thSep Foreign artists performance;

6th Week  JANE JIN KAISEN   DENMARK
8th9thSep5Lecture,10thSep Chinese artists performance, 11th-13th Sep Foreign artists performance;

7th Week JULIE ANDREE T CANADA
15th16thSep6lecture,17thSepChineseartistsperformance, 18th-20th Sep Foreign artists performance;

8th Week MARTIN RENTERIA  MEXICO
22nd23rdSep3lecture,24thSepChineseartistsperformance,25th-27th Sep Foreign artists performance;

28th Sep (Closing party of the 10th anniversary of Open performance art festival)
( the detailed schedule will be updated week by week )

Brief bio and CV of Organizer CHENJIN  
1964 Born in Sichuan Province
1987 Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Northwest Pedagogical College
1992 Exhibitions China: Guangzhou Oil Painting Biennale
1997 Performance works at the Global Long March Plan, Lanzhou
1997 Chenjing Art Exhibition, Museum of Lanzhou, Lanzhou
1999 Digital Visit, Beijing 1999 Beijing Contemporary Art Festival, Goethe Institute, Beijing
2000 1st Open Platform - Performance Art Festival (Organisation and Participating Artist), Beijing
2001 2nd Open Platform - Performance Art Festival (Organisation and Participating Artist), Pengshan, Sichuan Province
2002 3rd Open Platform - Performance Art Festival (Participating Artist), Xi'an, Shanxi Province
2003 Multi Media Languages, Performance and Poetry Arts Festival, Beijing
2003 4th Open Platform - Performance Art Festival (Organisation and Participating Artist), Changchun, Jilin Province
2004 5th Open Platform - Performance Art Festival (Organisation and Participating Artist), Beijing
2005 6th Open Platform - Performance Art Festival (Organisation and Participating Artist), Chengdu, Sichuan Province
2006 7th Open Platform - Performance Art Festival (Organisation and Participating Artist), Beijing
2007 8th Open Platform - Performance Art Festival (Organisation and Participating Artist), Beijing
2008 9th Open Platform - Performance Art Festival (Organisation and Participating Artist), Beijing
Exhibitions Overseas:
2000 International Festival for Unusual Live-Performances Helsinki, Finland
2001 Dialogue Confused Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Mantova Young Museum, Mantova, Italy
2002 Dialogue The Other Chiesa Santa Teresa Dei Maschi, Italy
2002 NIPAF (Nippon International Performance Art Festival), Japan, Various Cities
2004 Performance Le grand coup Collective work, 29. /30.7.04, Deranger espace 4, Magdalen Islands, Canada.
2006 Viva! Internationale d’art vivant de Montreal, Canada
2007The 3rd China-Japan performance art exchange project
2007 Made in China, Museum of Hong IK University, Korea
2008 Small East Asia Co-prosperity Restaurant 08, Japan
2008 Buchou International Performance Festival 08Korea
2008 Bangkok Asiatopia Performance Festival Bangkok

Dashanzi 798  

In 2001 a group of Chinese artists discovered a factory, a closed-down site about to be demolished. This factory was designed in the early 50s by East German architects and was constructed in the Bauhaus style. The Chinese artists carried out some restorations and modifications influenced by contemporary design and transformed the space completely. As such, it now combines the past, the present, and the future of the ‘New China’; an extraordinary artistic zone dedicated to creation and exhibition of contemporary art. Now, seven years later, this district, Dashanzi 798, which covers a surface of 1,161,900 square metres, has been developed into an astonishing place, certainly the most important of its kind in Asia. It is also the largest space in the world devoted to contemporary art.  Dashanzi 798 counts currently more than 350 galleries run by gallerists of different nationalities. Under constant development the district will soon see the opening of 150 new galleries. Dashanzi 798 has received a lot of attention around the world and has reached recognition on the international art scene. Thus, many personalities have visited 798. Among these are the Prime Ministers of Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, the Princess of Belgium, Mrs. Annan, the French President, and the President of the European Union. Moreover, inspired by the 798 expansion, many foreign, public and private institutions from Belgium, Italy, Spain, The United States as well as the Chinese government have made large investments in order to showcase the contemporary art of their respective countries. Dashanzi 798 is now a modern and avant-garde district in Beijing, which presents cultural, artistic and commercial activities of a national and international level. Thanks to active networks of art galleries, museums and art centres of Asia, Europe and America, the large majority of artists who exhibit at 798 are invited to take part in exhibitions in many countries. Currently 798 is regarded as the most important platform in Asia and one of most significant in the world for the international promotion of artists.