视觉编码—33 x Junge Kunst aus China》群展由德国著名机构德中文化交流基金会主办，基金会创始人张彧女士发起，策展人李蕊（中国）策划。本届评委团成员特别邀请了德国Leonie BAUMANN(柏林艺术设计大学校长）、海纳·温康纳 Heiner WEMHOENER（知名藏家）、Gudrun WURLITZER（知名藏家）、Dr. Ludger DERENTHAL (国家摄影美术馆总策展人）、Prof. Andreas BIENERT (国家美术馆数据化中心主任）、Elke von der LIETH （地方美术馆馆长）、Constanze KLEIN (画廊，柏林temporary Kunsthalle发起人之一）、张彧 Yu ZHANG (德中文化交流基金会主席、项目发起人)8位著名人士。此次群展是基金会的第五届德中青年艺术家发展基金联展，延续了德中文化交流基金会主推中国当代青年艺术家宗旨，为中国当代青年艺术家在德国提供一个国际化的展示舞台。
The group exhibition “Visual Encoding-33 x Junge Kunst aus China”will be sponsored by the well-known GeKA. e.v. This exhibition is initiated by Lady Yu Zhang, the founder of GeKA. e.v. and will be organized by curator Li Rui (China). The judge committee has invited the following 8 celebrities: Leonie BAUMANN (President of Berlin University of Art and Design, Germany), Heiner WEMHOENER（Famous Collector）, Gudrun WURLITZER（Famous Collector）,Dr. Ludger DERENTHAL (Chief Curator of National Photography Gallery）, Prof. Andreas BIENERT (Dean of Digital Center, National Art Museum), Elke von der LIETH （President of Local Art Gallery）,Constanze KLEIN ( One of the Founders of Berlin Temporary Kunsthalle Gallery), Yu ZHANG (President of GeKA, and the Founder of the Project). It’s the 5th Germany-Chinese young artists development foundation group exhibition sponsored by the GeKA. e.v., following the same mission of the GeKA. e.v., that is to promote Chinese young artists into the global, and to provide an international exhibiting stage for Chinese young artists in Germany.
视觉编码Vision Code 前言
文/李蕊
当下社会的快速发展，人类日益增长的文化信息需求和科学技术的进步，伴随着各种各样网络信息膨胀的节奏，外来的科技对于个体身份、自然生态、社会道德价值观的带来冲击与影响，被不断生成与复写的城市记忆，重新组建着认识世界的密码，艺术像基因组一样不断地产生链接，对外界信息的视听全觉式的刺激进行编码，映射为可视化的艺术元素，加速着对“未来”这一未知世界的景观构建与制造。
本届33位中国青年艺术家主要来自1980年后至1990年初的年龄段，分别有着国际和国内著名美术院校的教育背景，部分艺术家还有着国际重要展览的参展经历。展览作品涉及新媒体影像、数字艺术、装置艺术、绘画等多种体裁。在全球化和多元化的当下，艺术家从科技与艺术的关系出发，尊重和利用科技及各种媒介的自然属性，打破多维空间，虚拟现实，突破时间的概念，通过“时间切片”式的叠加、累积、解构和重组来展现一个当代艺术家全新的时空意识，创作出了被不断生成与复写的城市记忆和科技艺术的未来景象。注重跨文化交流，将其转化为自我的艺术语言，赋予作品隐喻，创作出一种全新的语境与意义，是这一届新一代艺术家共同的艺术特点。
他们的艺术创作呈现了对现实社会的一种诙谐式反思，以及对未来的期待与展望。他们对于这个世界的深刻洞见，对于人类精神的深层挖掘与探索，通过艺术全觉式探索与编码，展现了中国新一代艺术家的成熟度和活力无限的新视野。这也是此次柏林展出的重要意义之一。
Vision Code
By Li Rui
With the rapid development of current societies, the growing need of culture information by human being, and the enormous process of scientific technologies, as well as all kinds of exploding information from the internet, the exotic technologies have significantly impacted and influenced the individual identity, the natural ecology, and the value system of the society. The city’s memories, that have been repeatedly created and copied, are re-forming the codes to understand the world. Just like the genomes. Art is constantly producing the connections, encoding with the audiovisual omni-sense stimulations from the information outside. Then it is reflected as the visual art elements, which will help to accelerate the scenery construction of the unknown world, “the Future”.
Most of the 33 Chinese young artists in this group exhibition were born after the year of 1980, some even born in early 1990s. They have been trained and received their education in some well-known Chinese and oversea art academy schools. A few artists have even participated in some well-known international grand exhibitions before. Their exhibition artworks vary from new media images, digital art, installation art, paintings, and other art forms. In this globalization and multi-layered world, respect and make good use of technology, together with the natural traits of multiple medias; Smash multi-layered spaces and virtual realities; Break the concept of “time”; Focus on the cross-culture communication, and transfer it into our own art language; Present a brand new awareness of time and space of our contemporary artists, via the adding, accumulating, destructing and recombining in of style of “Time Slice”. Then is created the future scenery, which has been continual re-produced and copied by the city’s memory and scientific art. Bestow the metaphor to the artwork; Create a brand-new language state and meaning. All the above are the art traits of the new generation artists in this group exhibition.
Their artwork has presented a humorous introspection towards the realistic society, as well as the expectation and vision of the future. Their insightful recognition towards this world, and their deep digging and exploration of human spirits, via their omni-sense exploration and encoding in art, both have proved the maturity and the brand-new vigorous visions of Chinese young artists of the new generation. This is exactly one of the most important missions of this group exhibition in Berlin.
关于主办方
德中文化交流基金会（GeKA）由德国民众熟识和信任的旅德华人侨领代表、德国知名女企业家、社会名人及收藏家张彧女士于2008年成立于欧洲艺术之都柏林，至今已有11年的历程。GeKA基金会成立以来得到众多专业机构的关注和认可，已经和德国国家美术馆，莱比锡当代美术馆等等权威机构合作举行大型艺术展览。2017年基金会与德国国家美术馆联手在国家摄影美术馆推出大型中国当代摄影艺术展，2019年基金会与汉堡火车站美术馆合作当代影像艺术展。另外，基金会发起不同规模和类型的艺术家交流和驻留项目，致力于发现和支持中国新一代青年艺术家，鼓励青年艺术家参与国际化交流发展，拓展国际视野，使创作者能够进行碰撞、沟通和互相激发。中国青年艺术家发展驻留艺术基金项目是德中文化交流基金会的一项发展性艺术项目，已经成功举办五届大型联展，此项目仍将长期持续进行下去。
德中文化交流基金会网址：www.geka-ev.de
About the Organizer
The Culture Exchange Foundation of Germany and China （GeKA）was founded in 2008 in Berlin, with a 11years history, in the art center of Europe, by Ms. Yu ZHANG, who is the Oversea Chinese Representative well known and deeply trusted by German Government, German famous female entrepreneur, and the social celebrity and collector. GeKA foundation has absorbed intensive attention and recognition from many professional organizations. It has also held multiple grand art exhibitions by cooperating with some authorized organizations like German National Art Museum and Leipzig Contemporary Art Museum.The foundation has worked together with Germany National Art Museum in 2017, promoting the grand Chinese Contemporary Photography Art Exhibition in National Photography Art Museum. In 2019, the foundation co-operated with Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art (Berlin) to hold the Contemporary Image Art Exhibition. The foundation has also launched several artist communication and residence projects of different sizes and types, aiming to discover and support Chinese young artists of new generation, and to encourage young artists to participate international communication, so that to expand their worldly visions, and to have these creators to collide, communicate and inspire each other. GeKA foundation is a developmental art project which has successfully held five grand joint-exhibitions, and this project will continue for a long run.
GeKA e.V. Web：www.geka-ev.de
