Noch bis zum 23. Januar findet derzeit in Shenzhen und Hongkong die Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture statt.
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The Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale is making good art accessible to the masses, along with all the politically sensitive questions that good art provokes
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With 50 million people now living in the Pearl River Delta, the region serves as the economic and cultural engine of southern China. So the second Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture, which opened on December 4 and runs until February 27, offers an opportunity to see how this rapidly growing area views itself and how it wants others to view it on the world stage.
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DUTCH architect Rem Koolhaas and Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist joined forces Tuesday afternoon at the Citizens’ Center, hosting an eight-hour brainstorming session that included participants from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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The 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, affectionately known as “shuang shuang zhan” to its devotees, is now open in full force across a number of sites in Shenzhen. Projects span a range of methodologies, curatorial frameworks, and goals, not to mention venues: from outdoor public art in the city square to shopping malls and urban villages, this exhibition has it all. Here’s a quick look at what to see first, and a few sites to leave off the itinerary.
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A group of architects calling themselves WEAK! have created a bamboo shelter as part of the Shenzhen & Hong Kong bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen, China.
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Beijing architects MAD have created an installation of two large monster’s footprints as part of the Shenzhen & Hong Kong bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in China.
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Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio have completed a temporary, dragon-like installation made from 10,000 items of clothing hanging on cords.
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If some of architecture and design’s biggest names seemed conspicuously absent from this month’s Art Basel Miami Beach–that annual, must-attend conclave for the glitzy-arty set–it was because they were halfway around the world in the adjacent Chinese cities of Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
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As part of 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture, Rem Koolhaas andHans Ulrich Obrist will host an INTERVIEW MARATHON at the Shenzhen Civic Centre on 22 December.
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