Pushing Boundaries & Chasing Challenges

Artist list

Kristiina Laurits, Anni Kagovere, Michael Pell, Simon Cottrell, Bettina Dittlmann, Michael Jank, Daniel Kruger, Helen Britton, Iris Bodemer, Isabell Schaupp, Norman Weber, Christiane Forster, Peter Bauhuis, Stefan Strube, Anne Leger, Anna Norrgrann, Ja Kyung Shin, Sowon Joo, Go Boohyoung, Serin Oh, Seo Do Sik, Hyun Kwanghun, Yun Sanghee, Yongjin Chung, Young I Kim, Katja Prins, Annie Tung, Jiří Šibor, Anne Mondro, Iris Eichenberg, Teresa Faris, Thomas Madden, Ingjerd Hanevold, Nanna Melland, Jiro Kamata, Kageyama Kimiaki, Kengo Fujimori, Mari Ishikawa, Michihiro Sato, Akanuma Kiyoshi, Lino Ichiro, Miyata Ryogei, Maeda Hirotomi, Hashimoto Akio, Maruyama Tomomi, Shinohara Ikuo, Anders Ljungberg, Caroline Backman, Charlotte Maslov, Hanna Hedman, Helena Johansson Lindell, Karin Gyllerfelt, Karin Johansson, Karin Roy Andersson, Tore Svensson, Märta Mattsson, Marc Monzó, Julia DeVille, Annamaria Zanella, Biasi Giuliano, Andrew Lamb, Anna Gordon, Chien Wei Chang, David Clarke, Helen Marriott, Jonathan Boyd, Mickeal Rowe

Contemporary art has broken the barriers of pure art. Different, even contradictory elements kindle a spark of inspiration and wonderful ideas in art works. Artists create new works through multi-angle, by multi-material, with multi-technology. This trend brings new possibilities to metal arts, and great challenges as well. This exhibition shows the development of contemporary metal arts in recent years. Pushing boundaries and chasing challenges will bring a bright future to metal arts.
This exhibition is a platform for communication between eastern and western metalwork and jewelry art. The theme of exhibition and seminar is: Pushing boundaries ~ chasing challenges. Through the exhibition and seminar we would like to identify metal art today and how to push boundaries from our standing in different culture. Chinese artists would like to explore their own cultural influences in the light of international metal art, its contour, boundaries, lines and definition.
 The exhibition will focus on metalwork, art jewelry, and objects. We invite David Clarke(UK), Anders Ljungberg (SE), Chien-Wei Chang (TW), Ingjerd Hanevold (NO),Tore Svensson (SE), Norman Weber (DE), Lino Ichino (JP), Seo Do Sik (Korea) as our jury and some of them are going to give lecture in the seminar. The exhibition will have two parts, the main part includes works from 100 Chinese artists, and a second part will be about 70 invited international artists from 17 counties, mainly from Germany, Sweden, Japan, Korea, UK and USA.