Shanghai's Contemporary Art Museum has set up a new program to give young museum managers a platform for their ideas and creativity. Three teams of young curators are invited to set up exhibitions under the Power Station of Art Program.

Three teams of young curators are invited to set up exhibitions, under the Power Station of Art Program.

 

"Dinghai Qiao"

After six months of consideration, judges at the Power Station of Art elected the three winning teams, and their proposals have been turned into real exhibitions.

Each of the winning teams is presenting its understanding and definition of mankind. One team put together an exhibition called Memorandum for Gaia to explore the relationship between nature, time and space.

"I think the role of curator has many possibilities," curator Liu Tian said. "It needs you to do the very basic things like space arrangement, publicity and organization, but the more crucial thing is how to use your own interpretation and feeling to connect with the art works."

Liu says most of the team members are from the China Academy of Art, and the four-month long exhibition is a great opportunity for them.

“We spent lots of time on brainstorming, and the communication with artists was very time consuming as well," Lu Reiyang, another curator, said. Another team chose Dinghai Qiao as its theme. Dinghai Qiao was an important industrial area in Shanghai that has faced marginalization and a declines in its economic and social status over the past 20 years. The curator said understanding Dinghai Qiao is also a way to understand ourselves and the social scene.

"So what is something that is emerging that you think should be called attention to, emerging meaning that it's not fulfilled, it is just ongoing, it is just starting," curator Chen Yun said. "So a certain support like to our project can really help for the generations on of people to think and to reflect on their own practice, either in the daily life or the artistic role, world."

The exhibition will run until March 8, and the three winning teams will split one million yuan from the museum.

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