Entitled Proregress, the 12th Shanghai biennale tasked 65 international artists to engage with the question of art in the age of historical ambivalence. Curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina as well as María Belén de Ibarra, Yukie Kamiya and Wang Wewei, the biennale continues until 10 March 2019 in Shanghai, China. Here's our first impressions.
Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Swing, 2018. Photo: C&
Claudia Martínez Garay. Photo: C& Alexander Apostol, Dramatis Personae, 2017-18. Photo: C& Arin Rungjang, Shooting and elephant and the Leader, 2018. Photo: C& Alfredo Jaar, A Hundred Times Nguyen, 1994. Photo: C& Cristina Lucas, Clockwise, 2016. Photo: C& Lu Yang. Photo: C& Chto Delat, The Fable of the Old Stones and Cameras, 2018. Photo: C& Kader Attia, La Tour Robespierre, 2018. Photo: C& Yuken Teruya. Photo: C& Claire Fontaine, Good/Evil, 2017. Photo: C&
More Editorial
![(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bildschirmfoto-2024-12-19-um-21.08.13-320x200.png)
![(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bildschirmfoto-2024-12-19-um-21.08.13-480x300.png)
