Ausstellungskatalog "The China Moment. Contextualizing Individualism in Chinese Contemporary Art"

Exhibition catalogue "The China Moment. Contextualizing Individualism in Chinese Contemporary Art"
Edited by: Mi You, Su Wei, Anna-Lisa Scherfose
Texts by: Mi You, Su Wei, Anna-Lisa Scherfose, Wang Hui, Dingxin Zhao, Qin Hui, Xudong Zhang, Yang Guoqiang, Hong Zicheng, Wang Wei
Publisher Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN: 978-3-7757-6168-0Revisiting a transformative era of Chinese contemporary art through essays, archives, and striking visual documentation. 

This publication accompanies the exhibition of the same name, curated by Su Wei, Mi You, and Anna-Lisa Scherfose for the documenta Institut Kassel (January–March 2026). It examines a decisive moment in global art history: the radical transformation of Chinese contemporary art in the 1990s and 2000s. The China Moment offers a contemporary reassessment of individualism as a central figure of discourse that mediates the relationship between art and the state, society, and the public amid the political and cultural upheavals of the time. Based on essays, archival material, and visual documentation, the volume shows how artistic practices in China moved between local intellectual traditions and global art mechanisms—revealing the formative tensions and transformations of this era.