Inheritance – Shenzhen is a temporary non-profit project space in the heart of Bai Shi Zhou, an urban village in Shenzhen. Proposed as a temporary and potentially mobile project space, the mission of INH-SZ is to demand urgent questions about the art history and visual culture of the new and migrant city. Accessing such issues as history making, voluntary displacement and exile, economic migrancy, identity and gender politics through artistic and curatorial practices, Inheritance Projects Ltd hopes that this is only one element of a permanent engagement with the impermanent city.
INH-SZ has an open door policy with an unobtrusive but active public programme inviting the local population to see in a local context, the artistic practices of artists who live and work in the city. There will be workshops with Shenzhen schools and universities, research and development of local artists and unstructured happenings involving the nearby residents. It is fundamental to INH-HZ that the habitants of Bai Shi Zhou and wider Shenzhen have the opportunity to experience art without feeling patronized or excluded as a way to recognize the artistic heritage of the young city.
The INH-SZ project space has been invited to open alongside the 6th of December as an independent satellite with the Hong Kong/Shenzhen Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture with the inaugural exhibition Permanent Migrants. INH-SZ will be open until at least April 2010 and will include new commissions from 2 Chinese and 1 visiting artist.
Organizer: Inheritance-Shenzhen
Invited artists:Bai Xiaoci, Chu Yun, Guy Delisle, Liu Chuang, Christian Jankowski, Jiang Zhi, Daniel Knorr, MAP OFFICE, Yang Yong.
Exhibition Dates: 12.6,2009-2.25,2010
Exhibition Venue:No.104 Block 10 Tangxia Community Hua Xia Road
Nanshan District,Shenzhen
Metro Station: Shi Jie Zhi Chuang
