What's on Monster & The Nocturnal Pollinators ARTIST: MONSTER CHETWYND As the first institutional solo exhibition of Monster Chetwynd in Asia, Monster & The Nocturnal Pollinators presents works made by the artist from the 2000s to the present. The exhibition will systematically introduce Monster Chetwynd’s creative practice, which can be perceived through paintings, sculptures, installations, and videos selected to be presented. Moreover, some of per recent works will be on view. The exhibition will run through November 17, 2024. Past Exhibitions Exhibition someone has been disarranging these roses 2023.9.9-2024.1.28 Tunnel project Inquisition valley 2023.9.9-2024.1.28 READ MORE TUNNEL PROJECT In 2023, the Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art unveiled a hidden annex within its premises, serving as a brand-new exhibition space. It launched the "Tunnel Project," inviting young creators to participate based on their interpretation of the tunnel space located on one side of a mountain, presenting site-specific individual artist projects. READ MORE Public Education READ MORE The Impression of Deep Blue : A Cyanotype Event Myth, Fairy Tales, and Dream Tales Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses Store Shop All Address Catherine Park, No. 1 Beijing East Road, Nanjing Phone 025-86219156 Email admin@bmcanj.com Connect

Tunnel project admin@bmcanj.com Open Call for Submissions! Open Call for Submissions! Open Call for Submissions! The Tunnel Space is located alongside the main exhibition hall of BMCA and is a narrow space (about 3 meters wide and 20 meters long) resembling a tunnel, with one side facing a mountain. We have preserved the space's original load-bearing beams and old pipes, only renovating the walls and adding lighting tracks. This maintains the potential for various experimental interventions in this space. ​ The "Tunnel Project" is characterized by the keywords : youthful, experimental, an d local. As an art museum, we aim to provide young artists with opportunities to showcase their creations , while also addressing the u rgency of self and locality . In this project, we do not limit the mediums of the artwork and are even more encouraging of experimental mediu ms, hoping these works will exhibit an unusual energy in this unique space. As an institution based in Nanjing, we are open to collaborating with artists related to Nanjing, but we also welcome exhibition projects with fresh ideas from all over the cou ntry . We hereby extend a sincere invitation for open recruitment and welcome everyone to submit their exhibition proposals to us, hoping we have the opportunity to assist in realizing them. In addition to the use of the space, we will provide professional staff support for the project implementation, as well as meet the equipment and construction needs of the exhibition. Requirements Application Mate rials Artwork and exhibition proposal and explanation; Artist's resume and port folio. ​ Application Time and Method This project is open for long-term recruitment, and we welcome your projects at any time! Please send your materials to the official email: exhibition@bmcanj.com Email subject: Tunnel Project + Applicant's Name ​ More Space Information Moisture: The space is damp, with seepage from the mountain on rainy days. Pipes: Various pipes crisscross the space, unavoidable. Windows: There are opaque windows through which the opposite vertical cliff can be vaguely seen. Columns: The space is not fully open due to intersecting columns that obstruct the view.

TEstimony for the future special exhibition ​artist：gao lei & li nu In previous exhibitions at BMCA, the tunnel space was used for young people to work on personal projects. However, this time, since we have two artists, and especially because Gao Lei is particularly interested in the tunnel, he has taken over the space. Although the tunnel may seem small in size, there are actually quite a few works displayed inside. The main focus is a commissioned creation of five pieces located close to the mountainside. The images depict objects, but they are metaphors for human experiences. The hanging method resembles the aesthetics of train windows. The entire exhibition leads up to the second-to-last piece, located down the steps of the tunnel. It is a work by Gao Lei , designed in the style of a mani stone pile. This piece is an organic fusion of natural and crafted materials that he collected around Shanghai, combined with materials gathered during his travels to Tibet. We know that in Tibet, mani stone piles usually appear on high-altitude plateaus, but this time, we have placed the work at the lowest point of the entire North Hill, creating a dual contemplation—both upward and downward—between this piece and Li Nu’s work.

Tunnel project admin@bmcanj.com In 2023, the Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art unveiled a hidden annex within its premises, serving as a brand-new exhibition space. It launched the "Tunnel Project," inviting young creators to participate based on their interpretation of the tunnel space located on one side of a mountain, presenting site-specific individual artist projects. The Tunnel Space is located alongside the main exhibition hall of BMCA and is a narrow space (about 3 meters wide and 20 meters long) resembling a tunnel, with one side facing a mountain. We have preserved the space's original load-bearing beams and old pipes, only renovating the walls and adding lighting tracks. This maintains the potential for various experimental interventions in this space.​ The "Tunnel Project" is characterized by the keywords: youthful, experimental, and local. ​ As an art museum, we aim to provide young artists with opportunities to showcase their creations, while also addressing the urgency of self and locality.In this project, we do not limit the mediums of the artwork and are even more encouraging of experimental mediums, hoping these works will exhibit an unusual energy in this unique space. Exhibition The Mountain Breathes Beyond Measure Special Exhibition Testimony For The Future Exhibition Inquisition valley Exhibition A Mountain of closeness

Inquisition Valley 2023.9.9-2024.1.18 Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art is honored to announce that we will present the artist Zhang Yi’s solo project “Inquisition Valley”, curated by Yao Siqing, in the second phase of tunnel project in 2023. Mountains are towering, whereas valleys are hollows between two mountains. Zhang Yi’s personal project ‘Inquisition Valley’ was inspired by her survey of space and history in the Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art and Nanjing. The museum is built against Beiji Pavilion; known as the place of teaching humanities and compiling classics in the ancient capital of six dynasties, and famed as ‘the place with the best customs on the east of the Yangtze River’. In this project, the artist images the “original highlands” of humanities in history as a low, dark and closed place. Meanwhile, it also inverts the ritual of ‘曝书/Pushu - giving books an airing’ of classic elegance semantically, to create a satire of exposing books to scotching sun and a barrier to reading, for the purpose of echoing the realistic context that of anti-intellectualism, and satirizes the narrower and duller sphere of culture in reality. Inquisition Valley, Zhang Yi, 2023. Image from Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art Inquisition Valley, Zhang Yi, 2023. Image from Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art As materials, old books collected from Nanjing were ‘penalized’ by splitting, bundling, cutting and soaking, on which Zhang Yi spent a month building the mottled and complex scene of ‘Inquisition Valley’, where vulgar literature and official history are integrated into a whole and spring grass, and autumn reeds emerge and perish along calligraphy rubbings. Throughout history, books, as a medium of civilized information, have been repeatedly banned and destroyed. However, the human wisdom contained in the classics also remains the cornerstone of civilized consciousness. The question of whether knowledge is a prison or nourishment has always tested the judgement of different minds. The completion of the ‘Inquisition Valley’ scene depends on the opening performance. This performance further theatricalize the tunnel space, where the ‘people of Inquisition Valley’ perform their absurd acts. The artist’s portrayal of these people was inspired by the history of the Six Dynasties and the Ming Dynasty, the two dynasties that are most easily associated with Nanjing; however, the frenzied and numb state of the people was derived more widely from two pedigrees, namely, King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty and the Roman emperor Nero and the various people of conquered nations who pretended to be insane. ‘Inquisition Valley’, however, is a fictional place where human actions activate and manifest the characteristics of the space and surroundings and, in turn, influence the spiritual power of the people inside. This is not the first time that Zhang Yi has experimented with old books as materials. As early as her time as a student in the United States, she expressed the discomfort of cross-cultural communication and the cultural nostalgia that arose from this discomfort. As a result, she has become knowledgeable about the various forms that books and their pages can take. Nonetheless, with ‘Inquisition Valley’, it is indeed the first time she has expanded this technique into the law of constructing an entire art space to complete a dystopian critical picture.

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beyond genius: ​picasso's passion and creation 2023.8.13-2023.11.13 artist: pablo picasso ​curator：wang chunchen Pablo Picasso (Málaga, Spain, 25 October 1881 - Mougins, France, 8 April 1973), is one of the great geniuses of 20th century art, with unlimited talent and a voracious need to create. His imagination feeds on everything around him. His inspiration finds its sources in ancient cultures, in distant civilizations, or in the environment that surrounds him. He takes the simplest forms of everyday life and turns them into art. ​ This Picasso' Passion and Creation exhibition brings the visitor closer to the ingenious universe created by the artist through his paintings, etchings, ceramics and photographs. Picasso was equally skillful at all of these techniques; he worked on new approaches to Art that led to innovative creative processes and pioneer forms of expression.As a painter, he started out from Academicism, he created Cubism, and passed through Classicism,Surrealism and Expressionism in what was a constant process of change and rupture, in his never-ending quest for freedom. The human figure, or more specifically portraits, and still lifes were Pablo Picasso’s main themes throughout his career.His drawings and etchings are one of the most important parts of his career, perhaps because it depicted the restless and risky, tenacious and passionate spirit that characterised him. For Picasso, engraving provided the means with which to depict his most profound desires, emotions and thoughts. ​ Everything imaginable and even everything he failed to acknowledge as imagined is reflected in his graphic works. The different personal and artistic obsessions that haunted him throughout his life find an escaperoute here and allow us to track him through each phase of his life and his creative art. Picasso’s graphic art comprises more than 2000 works. He frequently used a mixture of techniques, such as etching and drypoint, or etching and aquatint. ​ As a ceramist, Picasso established an open dialogue with his sculptures. Ceramics allowed him to exercise his drawing skills, his extraordinary dexterity as a painter, and his subtle talent at modelling shapes. Itsplastic flexibility, together with an avant-garde spirit and his capacity for innovation, carry it beyondtraditional consideration of pottery as a craft to attain the category of Art. Picasso is undoubtedly the most revolutionary and tireless artist of the 20th century. With his creativeforce and his artistic potential, he challenged the norms of his day and broke new ground in the Historyof Art. pablo picasso Artist Pablo Picasso(25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker , ceramicist , and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France . One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture ,[8] [9] the co-invention of collage , and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War . wang chunchen Curator Professor, PhD supervisor, Doctor of Art History, art critic, and curator. Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, currently working at the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, engaging in research on modern art history and contemporary art theory and criticism. In 2012, appointed as a special curator by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, where they curated an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art. Art in America magazine referred to them as "the first Chinese curator from mainland China to be appointed by an American art museum."

The Mountain Breathes Beyond Measure 2024.8.10-11.17 ​artist：chen jiacheng "The Mountain Breathes Beyond Measure" is a research action based on the phenomenon of wetness in the tunnel space of BMCA. In the meanwhile, it also reflects on the surveying and drafting techniques that develop in the modern era. It takes the remaining urban space anchored by the tunnel space as the starting point of investigation and initiates a spatial study of this "non-place". ​ The "largest artificial waterfall in Asia" was once built on the mountain attached to BMCA, which was later demolished. After some repairs, a huge remaining space was left between the mountain and the urban interface, depleted with sunlight. It is what maintenance engineers call the "Back Mountain Canyon", the infrastructure of building infrastructures, like a sac that cannot heal after injury. The concrete roof on top exists like a scab that cannot be removed. ​ The so-called "tunnel space" is regenerated on the mountain that has been dug up. Like a blind box, it is anchored on the long-abandoned landscape waterfall and has become the interior of the interior structure. The tunnel space is destined to play a role of speechlessness: the space possesses no construction in the disciplinary discourse of Architecture, and therefore is aphasic in academic discussions; engineers who normally use it do not speak out outside of maintenance tasks; for the audience who enter it, the muted scene they see through the window is fragmentary, often leading their imagination to be distorted. When located in this hanging blind box, we would start to fall into multiple "interiors" and are more or less bewildered.

21ST CENTURY HERBAL 2023.4.3-2023.6.11 Artist: emma talbot curator: wells fray-smith This exhibition brings together paintings on silk, three-dimensional forms, animations and drawings made in the last three years that reflect on the power of the natural world and experiences of living in flux and transformation. Emma Talbot makes work that is about processing what it means to be alive, to think, to feel, and to notice the world in which we live. Her work is rooted in personal experience and fact, but often presents alternate realities or suggests ways to live differently. E mma Talbot, 21st Century Herbal, 2022, Acrylic on silk, Overall dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist E mma Talbot, 21st Century Herbal, 2022, Acrylic on silk, Overall dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist The central work in the exhibition, 21st Century Herbal, presents a figure experiencing the effects of eleven plants on her body while written text explains the magical or medicinal properties of those plants, and how they may help or harm us. Rosemary slows Alzheimers and dementia, while stinkweed is a toxic plant that produces amnesia and confusion. Across fourteen panels, Talbot takes us on a journey through nature of discovery full of truth, wisdom and hope, revealing that humans and the natural world are deeply connected and plants may be the key to our survival. Talbot is a storyteller with a distinctive painterly language that combines colourful, swirling lines and patterns, direct text, and a female figure who explores and navigates imagined landscapes and worlds. The figure in Talbot’s work faceless, acting as both an avatar of Talbot and a surrogate for ourselves. The imagery in Talbot’s work is direct and hand-drawn on silk, relating to her inner landscape of personal thought and emotional responses to subjects ranging from technological advancement and grief, to nature and aging. The central work in the exhibition, 21st Century Herbal, presents a figure experiencing the effects of eleven plants on her body while written text explains the magical or medicinal properties of those plants, and how they may help or harm us. Rosemary slows Alzheimers and dementia, while stinkweed is a toxic plant that produces amnesia and confusion. Across fourteen panels, Talbot takes us on a journey through nature of discovery full of truth, wisdom and hope, revealing that humans and the natural world are deeply connected and plants may be the key to our survival. E mma Talbot, 21st Century Herbal, 2022, Acrylic on silk, Overall dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist E mma Talbot, Floral hangings, 2022, Acrylic on silk, Overall dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist E mma Talbot, 21st Century Herbal, 2022, Acrylic on silk, Overall dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist EMMA TALBOT Artist Emma Talbot (b. 1969, Stourbridge) lives and works in London. She studied at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design and Royal College of Art. Working in drawing, painting, animation and sculpture Talbot often articulates internal narratives as visual poems or associative rumination, based on her own experience, memories and psychological projections. Incorporating her own writing and references toother literary and poetic sources, Talbot’s work considers complex issues such as feminist theory andstorytelling; ecopolitics and the natural world; and pertinent questions regarding our shifting relationshipsto technology, language and communication. Wells Fray-Smith Curator Wells Fray-Smith is Curator at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. Prior to Barbican, Wells held similar positions at Whitechapel Gallery, Pace Gallery, London and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.At Whitechapel Gallery, she was the co-curator of Emma Talbot’s Max Mara Art Prize for Women winning exhibitionThe Age/ L’Età and was also the curator ofThe London Open(2022) and Helen Cammock: Che si puófare (2019). She was the curator of Real Life at Galerie Sofie Van de Velde in Antwerp, Belgium, for which she also wrote the catalogue. Wells writes extensively on modern and contemporary art, recently contributing catalogue essays on the artists Tess Jaray (2022), Secundino Hernandez (2022), Prabhavthi Meppayil (2022) and Fabienne Verdier (2020).

HEY! LOOK AT ME! I'M TOTALLY ENTANGLED WITH NOT-ME! 2023.8.13-2023.11.13 artist: gabriel rico The theme of this exhibition, I'M TOTALLY ENTANGLED WITH NOT-ME! , is derived from the quantum entanglement effect in physics. Despite being in Mexico, the artist's work and his way of thinking about the world are presented in parallel in the art museum in China. The arrows and mathematical symbols in the artworks make visual comparisons between different objects, suggesting an internal logic and provoking thought. The selection of these works and the design of the exhibition are inspired by Mayan myth as told in the Popol Vuh, illustrating the connection between technology and art with human knowledge through the myth of the "Twin Gods" of Mexican culture and Mayan civilization. Hunahpú and Ixbalanqué, the Twin Gods in the myth, had a legendary origin. They bothered the Lords of Xibalbá when playing at the court of the Mayan Ball Game their father had built and were called to visit the Underworld. They went through several trials and defeated the Ajawab of Xibalbá. After their victory in the Underworld, Hunahpú became the Sun and Ixbalanqué became the Moon. No podemos ver el interior del sol directamente , 2022, Brass, rock, neon and etc., 155×155×9 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin Sesenta y tres from the series - Reducción objetiva orquestada, 2022, Mixed media and neon, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin The artist's decision to stage his first solo exhibition in China at the Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art is significant. Located in Huangya Catherine Plaza in Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, the museum is backed by Jilong Mountain and is a unique art museum set on a hill in the heart of the city. The BMCA features a collection, exhibition, research and development, and education of contemporary art. The art museum has been restored and reinforced over the years, and the interior of the concrete-poured pavilion presents a collision of industrial and primitive. History, nature, and reality intertwined, pioneers and traditions constantly tested, the localization, multimodality, and unpredictability of contemporary art are all addressed here. Located on the uppermost level of the last century's bunker, the art museum retains the original architectural structure from more than twenty years ago. The exhibition space has the sense of a cave or subterranean, comparable to the space where the Twin Gods defeated the Ajawab in Mayan mythology's Underworld. Both Mexico and China are ancient civilizations. Southeastern Mexico and Nanjing are geographically apart, but they share a rich history, culture, and art. The implication of the works and the location of the exhibition give rise to a coherence between time and place. Cynthia Gutiérrez, a close friend of Gabriel Rico and fellow outstanding Mexican contemporary artist, has written a beautiful text for this exhibition. Her poetic language leads the viewers into the world of Gabriel Rico's art. ​ In the emptiness of the desert emerge cactus with golden pitayas and pencas made of ground and stuffed viscera. Thirst for gold. In the sky, a square sun. The loop is broken. History stops repeating itself. The wheel of nature does not turn. Spears of light piercing and illuminating the totem of the end of time. Consumed idols carrying dead nature in a sea of sand.Dazed and sad bird, giddy hare. Animals persist, but only as trophies. They look at us, still. They pose on worlds simulated by colored balls, elevated by golden rays emerging from rocks surrounded by rings of light. Holograms. Appearance. Death that looks at you. Illusory uprising. Artificial return. False landscapes do not deceive me. Let the birds fly in the dissected world! Has everything died? The shadow of the world is a plane. I walk it painting ghosts. Paths, paths, trajectories. The tireless search for knowledge. The absurd explanation of an inexplicable world. Ink that suffocates songs, that clouds the senses, that numbs our being. My head is a book. Silence, unbearable weight, monument to permanence, to immobility. My head is a stone. I have anticipated you VI (The object, constructor of the social, expelled from the social world, attributes to a transcendent world what is, however, not divine, 2021, Cedar wood carving with steel core, polychrome oil painting, gold-plated ceramics and etc. 210×90×90 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin I have anticipated you VI (The object, constructor of the social, expelled from the social world, attributes to a transcendent world what is, however, not divine), 2021, Cedar wood carving with steel core, polychrome oil painting, gold-plated ceramics and etc. 210×90×90 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin To compound the small differences, 2022, 100×100×6 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin gabriel rico Artist GabrielRico is regarded as one of the most talented artists of contemporary Latin America. Born in Lagosde Moreno, Mexico in 1980, he currently resides and works in Guadalajara, Mexico. His sculptures and installations have been shown in a number of international exhibitions, and in 2019, he participated in the 58th Venice Biennale. Being an architect by training, Rico has a strong affinity for natural elements and specializes in incorporating the min his creations. Through a combination of ready made and man-made objects,Rico explores the mesranging from intangible forms of sound spectrum to the production and consumption of everyday food, provoking us to think about our own culture through the asymmetry of things. He pays homage to the post-surrealist and poverty art movements through his use of neon, taxidermy, ceramics, stone, tree branches, and personal belongings. In this exhibition, Gabriel Rico combines the creation of natural and non-natural objects, inviting the viewer to reflect on the juxtaposition of the se elements of human civilization in a poet i can d humorous way.

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