arthub | Publications

Arthub is a supporter of series of publications on art and visual culture in China and rest of Asia. This particular funding is provided for the increasing the public’s understanding and appreciation of art and culture in this region through internationally acclaimed projects that explore a range of issues pertaining to contemporary art. The publications can be in the form of art historical books, artist editions, journals, magazines, and online presentations. See our recent publications below.

Rejected Collection by Biljana Ciric Book launch
Time Zone8 Bookstore, Shanghai, September 7th, 2008,16:00 www.timezone8.com Arthub, Shcontemporary booth, September 11th, 2008, 14:00 After exhibition Rejected Collection in September 2007 we are pleased to present book Rejected Collection, archive of Chinese artists rejected proposals from early 80’s till today

In China today, with the growing interest in contemporary art, institutional infrastructures and cura...

Bizart 10th Year Anniversary- Future Directions 9/7/08 - 9/7/08 On the occasion of Bizart’s 10th Year Anniversary in Shanghai, Bizart and Arthub are publishing a book with all activities of BizArt, Compass and now Arthub, from 1998 to 2008. A special section will be dedicated to the future directions of Bizart, so we will include “brief responses” from Bizart’s favorite artists, writers, curators and [...]

40+4 Shanghai, the publication At the core of this research project is a series of videotaped interviews, by Davide Quadrio and Lothar Spree, in co-operation with Zhu Xiaowen and the help of Xu Jie, with some forty Shanghai-based artists, dealing not with artwork per se, but rather with how artists themselves perceive their activity, their role and position in [...]

A Brief Introduction to Shanghai Vanguard (working title) Shanghai Vanguard focuses on how modern and contemporary arts in Shanghai originated and developed, geminating following Reform and Opening up in China at the end of the 1970s, creating a powerful impact on the society and culture in the 1980s and completing its phase in the mid-1990s when the society had gone through a transformation. The description in the book of this artistic process closely relates to the social and cultural changes that took place

XMLA: Mapping Alternative Art Spaces in Manila by Green Papaya 12/1/07 - 3/30/08 Manila, an Asian megalopolis composed of nine cities with a combined population of approximately 16 million, has been a fertile breeding ground for alternative, independent and artists-run spaces for more than a decade now. With the national government and corporate sector continually ignoring the need to build the necessary infrastructure for arts and culture development, these spaces have taken on the cudgels of implementing an alternative structure in contemporary art production, discussi...

Birdhead Xin Cun, also known as New Village, which is an old form of residence of community.
An introduction of an ongoing project of Bird Head group.
As one of the most prolific artistic partnerships in Shanghai, Bird Head (Song Tao and Ji Weiyu) have published a limited-edition yearbook with photographs taken in Shanghai during the duration [...]

Publication after the exchange project between SSamzie Space and BizArt 1/1/08 - 1/1/08 BizArt Art Center and Ssamzie Space decided to collaborate to organize an artists exchange programme between the two spaces in 2006. After a curatorial exchange between the two organization,
Alexia Dehaene and Kim Hyunjin chose Li Pinghu and Jeeeun Park. Li took part to Ssamzie 3 months artist-in-residence programme (April-May-June 2007), producing an artwork and [...]

100 Asian Contemporary Artists a publication by LOOP Press, Seoul, Korea For this publication, Davide Quadrio has been invited to be one of the 40 curators based and working in Asia who will contribute to this book.
Jinsuk Suh, director of Gallery LOOP, is the director of this publication project, Fumihiko Sumitomo, curator of Museum of Tokyo, is the advisory for this publication and Hee-Jung Ryu, curator [...]