Long March Projects

The Long March Project has continued marching on the historical Long March route and in public space constructing relationships between the history and the present, the urban and the rural, and theory and practice:

Long March Yan’an Project (featuring artists Cai Guo-Qiang, Chen Shaofeng, Dong Jun and group, Guo Fengyi, He Jinwei, Hong Hao, Jiang Jie, Li Fang, Li Yang, Liu Dahong, Lu Jie, Jennifer (Wen) Ma, Qiu Zhijie, Shen Xiaomin, Shu Yong, Sui Jianguo, Wang Shugang, Wang Wei, Wei Family Shadow Puppet, Song Dong, Xiao Lu, Xiao Xiong, Yan Lei, Yin Xiuzhen, Yue Luping, Zhu Fadong, Dan Mills, Dmitri Gutov, Luchezar Bodeyvich, Trinh T. Minh-ha and Ulrike Ottinger). 
May 20 – October, 2006

Yan’an Forum on Art Education (Initiated by Cai Guo-Qiang)
Sponsored by: Annie Wong Art Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Guy and Myriam Ullens Foundation
May 20 – 23, 2006

Initiated Yan’an Region Primary School Papercutting Art Curriculum
Sponsored by the Ford Foundation
2006 – 2008

Yang Shaobin - 800 Meters Under, Kailuan Coalmine, Tangshan, Hebei Province
2004 – October 15, 2006

International Exhibitions

Collective and Individual Projects Entering into international Biennial/Triennial, Museum, and Alternative Spaces

Long March Project, Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
With artists: Hong Hao, Liu Jieqiong, Shao Yinong & Mu Chen, Zhou Xiaohu, Shen Xiaomin, Wang Wenhai, Qin Ga and Li Tianbing
December 1, 2006– May 27, 2007

Long March Project, Chi ha paura della Cina?, Museo Palazzo Pino Pascali, Polignano, Italy
December 19, 2006 – February 26, 2007

Artist Guo Fengyi, Ink, Life, Taste – To Sugar Add Some Salt - Fifth International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China
December 11, 2006

Asia Art Now: Globalization and Locality, hosted by Progressive Artists Association of Korea, Gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea
December 1 – December 17, 2006

Artist Chen Qiulin, This is Not For You – Sculptures as Tropes of Criticality, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
November 25, 2006 – March 30, 2007

Artist Guo Fengyi, Dirty Yoga - 2006 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
November 4, 2006 – February 25, 2007

Long March Project – “The Great Survey of Papercuttings in Yanchuan County”, 27th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
October 7 – December 17, 2006

“Left/Right + In Between Zone: Homage to Performance Art,”China Times, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
September 21 – 24, 2006

Artist Forum International, Alternative Space Network, Seoul, Korea
September 5 – 30, 2006

Artist Zhan Wang “Floating Mountain of Immortals” at 2006 Beaufort Art Triennale by the Sea, vzw Ku(n)st and PMMK Museum of Modern Art in Ostend, West Flanders and Belgian Coastal Towns
March 31 – October 1

Artist Qin Ga “The Miniature Long March” at Biennale Cuvée, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria
February 10 – April 9

The Backroom, New Langton Arts and San Francisco Camerwork
January 2006

Lectures and Presentations

Long March chief curator and director, Lu Jie, continues to transmit the Long March internationally through lectures, symposium and conference presentations

Chair:  The new Era: Chinese Art Today, Artissima 13 Turin Art Fair, Turin, Italy
November 12, 2006

Symposium: Cultural Ecologies: Communicating Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Hong Kong
November 10, 2006

Panel: What Are We Building Now? The Architectonics of Power Control and Resistance: Space and the City in Global Realities, Frieze Art Fair
October 15, 2006

Keynote:  International Symposium of Electronic Arts, San Jose, USA
August 9, 2006

Chair: Dialogue “Laberinto de Museos”, Cervantes Institute, Beijing
July 15, 2006

Panel: Asian Maps III, ARCO 2006 Experts Forum, Madrid, Spain
February 8 – February 13

Panel: Media Addicts 2, Transmediale 06 Conference, Berlin
February 2 – February 6 

Exhibitions

The 1600 square meter Long March Space, located in Beijing’s Factory 798 contemporary art district, is a vital portion of the Long March Project, continuing its function of constructing and facilitating dialogue.  As the leading independent art space in China, the Long March Space realized a combined 20 solo/group exhibitions and independent projects in 2006

Long March Space

Material Fetish, Chen Jie Solo Exhibition
December 2 – December 31

Another Look, Yu Hong and Jiang Jie Exhibition
October 29 – November 26

Partial Zones, Zhang Hui Solo Exhibition
October 14 – November 26

800 Meters Under, Yang Shaobin Solo Exhibition
September 3 – October 15

Purlieu – Nirvana, He Jinwei Solo Exhibition
September 9 – October 7

Migration, Chen Qiulin Solo Exhibition
July 23 – August 20

Aesthetics, Tang Song and La Mu
July 23 – August 24

Building Code Violations - Anonymous artist, Hu Xiangcheng, Lu Jie, Qiu Zhijie, Wang Gongxin, Xu Zhen, Yang Shaobin, Zhan Wang, Zhao Gang, Zhou Xiaohu
April 8 – July 16

Happy Days! – Yixiangju Art Group
March 4 – April 2

Long March Capital, past, current and future Long March artists
Launched February 8

Renovation – Relations of Production
December 18, 2005 – February 26, 2006

Independent Project Space

A.D. , Wang Mao Solo Exhibition
December 6 – December 31, 2006

Avant-Garde, A Long March Project
October 14 – November 26, 2006

East Mausoleum, Fei Youming and Liu Shuo
September 3 – October 15, 2006

Magnetic Erasure Room, Qiu Zhijie and Li Lipeng
July 23 – August 24, 2006

Strange Sights, Liu Xun, Wen Peng, and Wang Wei
June 10 – July 9, 2006

A Woman’s Long March – Tao Aimin
May 6 – June 4

Time Stamp – Rania Ho
April 8 – April 30

Six Pictures and a Small Room – Zhao Yue
March 4 – March 31

Wake Up – Li Yang      

January 10 – February