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First Jinan International Biennale to open on December 13

2020/12/3 15:00:24   source:sdchina.com

The Information Office of Shandong Provincial People’s Government held a press conference on the morning of December 3 to brief on the upcoming “Harmo-Power: First Jinan International Biennale”.

The “Harmo-Power: First Jinan International Biennale” is jointly hosted by Shandong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and Jinan Municipal People's Government, and undertaken by Shandong Art Museum, Jinan Municipal Cultural and Tourism Bureau, and Jinan Art Museum. It is the first government-sponsored international biennale event in Shandong approved by the Publicity Department of the provincial Party committee. It will be held every two years from 2020, and permanently settled in Jinan.

The first biennale will be open to the public for free from December 13, 2020 to March 12, 2021, lasting for three months. All the preparatory work is basically completed. It will be the art exhibition with the most exhibits, the largest scale and the highest degree of internationalization in Shandong in recent years, with Fan Di'an, chairman of Chinese Artists Association and president of Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Zhang Wang, chairman of Shandong Artists Association and director of Shandong Art Museum, invited as chief curators.

The biennale features no less than 596 works by 378 artists, including 93 foreign artists from more than 30 countries, presenting a dozen types of art works including traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, comprehensive materials, photography, sculpture and video, displaying expression of the theme “power of harmony” from a diversity of artistic perspectives.

According to preliminary statistics, nearly half of the works to be on display in this biennale are exhibited in China for the first time, and about one third of the works are newly created based on the theme of this biennale. Many works incorporate Jinan or Shandong elements.

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