Inheritance Shenzhen: A New Non-Profit Project Space

Arthub is happy to introduce a new experimental space in Shenzhen.

Inheritance–Shenzhen is a temporary non-profit project space in the heart of Bai Shi Zhou (白石洲), an urban village in Shenzhen, southwest China. INH-SZ will host exhibitions, performances, music and film programs, commission new artworks, foster collaborations between local and international artists and build a publicly accessible contextual library from December 2009 until April 2010. The exhibition, Permanent Migrants is an official satellite project of the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. The project space and exhibition opened on the 6th of December.

Introduction

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 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 programs: 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 and merchants. It is fundamental to INH-HZ that the inhabitants of Bai Shi Zhou and wider Shenzhen have the opportunity to experience art without feeling patronized or excluded in order to recognize the artistic heritage of the young city.

The INH-SZ project space has been invited to open alongside the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, on the 6th of December, with the inaugural exhibition Permanent Migrants. INH-SZ will be open until at least April 2010 and will include new commissions from two Chinese and one visiting artists.

INH-SZ holds an expanding contextual archive, that is publicly accessible in both Chinese and English. The library acts as a theoretical context for the project of those who wish to read more about exhibitions in Shenzhen, the Pearl River Delta, urbanism, contemporary Chinese art and alternative art spaces.

Address:

No.104 Block 10, Tangxia Community

Hua Xia Road, Nanshan District

Shenzhen, Guangdong

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