- Openings
Cao Fei
Cao Fei is known for her ambitious multimedia installations, which reflect on the extensive changes and developments taking place in Chinese society today, shaping her generation. Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present Cao Fei’s forceful film installation Asia One in the north wing, and invites you to the opening:
Friday 16 September at 17.00-20.00
The admission is free and everyone is welcome. At the same day, we also open the major group exhibition, Post-Capital.
Program for the evening:
17.00: Welcome + bubbles for the first 100 visitors
17.10: Opening speach by curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer and curator Michelle Cotton
17.20-20.00: DJ Tjiquita + Apollo Bar serves draft beer in the lower foyer
20.00: Kunsthal CHarlottenborg closes
About the exhibition:
Cao Fei (b. 1978) is regarded a pioneer of a generation of artists for whom digital media and network technology are an integrated part of everyday life. She mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, and references to Surrealism and documentary elements in a distinctive artistic idiom that has resonated around the world in recent years. In her carefully staged films, Cao Fei portrays a China divided between past and present, between its history and a yearning for all things new.
The exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the film installation Asia One (2018) which includes two film works, Asia One and 11.11 (63 and 60 mins, respectively). The two remarkable films are part of an immersive installation, which points to highly current topics such as consumerism, technology and precarious work and asks how we might be affected – now and in the future – in an accelerated, globalized world.
Asia One is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer and is presented as a part of the group exhibition Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age produced by Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in close collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
The exhibition is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, the Beckett Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation, Knud Højgaard’s Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, William Demant Foundation, Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen’s Foundation.