The question: What is contemporary art? highlights the challenges the art market faces at this juncture of economic change. Although the world is getting smaller, there is more art than ever before. The art market is central to how artistic production defines itself, and collectors are central to this process of discovery.

　　The exhibition and the lecture series will take place in the magnificent Shanghai Exhibition Center. Currently used as a trade show center for a variety of fairs, from luxury boats to contemporary art, it is in itself an artifact of a very different kind of modernity, reflection on which can help to understand complexity of our contemporaneity.

　　Biography of the curator team:

　　Mami Kataoka, Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and International Associate Curator at the Hayward Gallery in London. She is currently the curator of a major solo exhibition of Ai Weiwei: According to What? at the Mori Art Museum as well as co-curator for Walking in My Mind at Hayward Gallery and Platform09 in Seoul.

　　Anton Vidokle, writer, artist and curator, founder of e-flux, co-curator of Manifesta 6 and creator of a yearlong project, Unitednationsplaza in Berlin. As an artist, Vidokle’s work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Lyon Biennial and at Tate Modern, UCLA Hammer, Haus Der Kunst, P.S.1, among others.

　　Wang Jianwei is one of the most versatile and consistently experimental artists in China. He was the first Chinese artist to show at Documenta, had a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Center in 2003, and last year received the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant.

　　Participating Artists & Galleries:

　　Aiko Miyanaga: born in Kyoto in 1974. Lives and works in Kyoto. Aiko Miyanaga is represented by Mizuma Art, Tokyo

　　Anri Sala: born in Tirana in 1974. Lives and works in Paris. Anri Sala is represented by Marian Goodman, New York / Paris