Art

Lu Mei has been the director of the Migrant Bird Space gallery since 2014. She also offers consultations for art collectors and promotes exchange between artists from China and Europe via an office in Beijing.

The Beijing artist Brother Nut draws attention to China's environmental problems with art activism. He once formed bricks from Beijing's fine dust. He has now transformed unused telephone booths into crisis telephones for people from the countryside. The interview was conducted by Renxiu Zhao.

Von Renxiu Zhao

"Don't take any drugs," Chen Tianzhuo urges his 12-member troupe shortly before the big show. But stimulants would certainly be helpful tonight: the "Asian Dope Boys," as Chen's art collective is called, want to dance, sing, scream, roll around in mud they've scraped together themselves, and perform tribal rituals they've invented themselves for a whole twelve hours at the Berlin techno club "Traumabar" until they, and the audience, enter an out-of-body state.

Von Fabian Peltsch

Li Shuhong grew up in Chengdu amid the Chinese Cultural Revolution and famine. Her mother enjoyed painting, although not professionally.

Von Redaktion