Thesis Chapters by Cila Brosius
M.A. Final Project - First 5 Pages, 2016
This thesis aims to categorize different strategies that curators have used over the course of th... more This thesis aims to categorize different strategies that curators have used over the course of the last three decades to promote Chinese contemporary art to international institutions, thus facilitating its integration into the fully developed modern art tradition of the West.
The research investigates the importance of Chinese curators in relation to the rise of Chinese contemporary art by exposing the different roles they have played apart from simply “putting up shows,” as well as the impact these roles have had in influencing the way artists are perceived. It is my hypothesis that the change in international perceptions of Chinese contemporary art have been shaped in large part by curators of Chinese origin, who have acted as mediators to overseas curators from a very early stage and helped build an international audience for Chinese contemporary art.
Papers by Cila Brosius
This thesis aims to categorize different strategies that curators have used over the course of th... more This thesis aims to categorize different strategies that curators have used over the course of the last three decades to promote Chinese contemporary art to international institutions, thus facilitating its integration into the fully developed modern art tradition of the West.
The research investigates the importance of Chinese curators in relation to the rise of Chinese contemporary art by exposing the different roles they have played apart from simply “putting up shows,” as well as the impact these roles have had in influencing the way artists are perceived. It is my hypothesis that the change in international perceptions of Chinese contemporary art have been shaped in large part by curators of Chinese origin, who have acted as mediators to overseas curators from a very early stage and helped build an international audience for Chinese contemporary art.
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Thesis Chapters by Cila Brosius
The research investigates the importance of Chinese curators in relation to the rise of Chinese contemporary art by exposing the different roles they have played apart from simply “putting up shows,” as well as the impact these roles have had in influencing the way artists are perceived. It is my hypothesis that the change in international perceptions of Chinese contemporary art have been shaped in large part by curators of Chinese origin, who have acted as mediators to overseas curators from a very early stage and helped build an international audience for Chinese contemporary art.
Papers by Cila Brosius
The research investigates the importance of Chinese curators in relation to the rise of Chinese contemporary art by exposing the different roles they have played apart from simply “putting up shows,” as well as the impact these roles have had in influencing the way artists are perceived. It is my hypothesis that the change in international perceptions of Chinese contemporary art have been shaped in large part by curators of Chinese origin, who have acted as mediators to overseas curators from a very early stage and helped build an international audience for Chinese contemporary art.
The research investigates the importance of Chinese curators in relation to the rise of Chinese contemporary art by exposing the different roles they have played apart from simply “putting up shows,” as well as the impact these roles have had in influencing the way artists are perceived. It is my hypothesis that the change in international perceptions of Chinese contemporary art have been shaped in large part by curators of Chinese origin, who have acted as mediators to overseas curators from a very early stage and helped build an international audience for Chinese contemporary art.
The research investigates the importance of Chinese curators in relation to the rise of Chinese contemporary art by exposing the different roles they have played apart from simply “putting up shows,” as well as the impact these roles have had in influencing the way artists are perceived. It is my hypothesis that the change in international perceptions of Chinese contemporary art have been shaped in large part by curators of Chinese origin, who have acted as mediators to overseas curators from a very early stage and helped build an international audience for Chinese contemporary art.