Out of Ink

Interpretations from Chinese Contemporary Art

The Pera Museum, Meşrutiyet Cad 65, Tepebaşı, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

At the Pera, the work of 13 contemporary artists in China encapsulates the cultural spirit of ink painting. Not all the participants in this exhibition would define themselves as ink artists, but they manipulate and deconstruct the cultural metaphors of ink, and thereby access the spiritual and aesthetic ethos of the art form. By using ink as a leaping-off point, the artists draw connection between China’s cultural past and its future.

This exhbition features the work of Chen Guangwu, Chen Haiyan, Li Ming, Liang Wei, Luo Yongjin, Qiu Anxiong, Sun Yanchu, Tang Bohua, Xu Bing, Xu Hongming, Xing Danwen, Jian-Jun Zhang and Zhou Fan.