Download “New Directions: Hao Jingban” press release.
About the Artist
Hao Jingban (b. 1985) currently lives and works in Beijing. She graduated from Goldsmiths College, London, with a Bachelor's in Media and Communication (2007) and from University of London with a Master’s in Film Studies (2010). Exhibitions featuring her work include the 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale "Accidental Message: Art Is Not A System, Not A World" (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, 2012); “Echoes of Socialist Realism” (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, 2014); “Sight and Sound” (Jewish Museum, New York, 2014); “The Civil Power” (Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, 2015); “Southern Wind” (Antenna Space, Shanghai, 2015). She curated “The Prose of the World” for the 2013 screening season at OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen. A book of a selection of essays under the same title, The Prose of the World, is set to be published in 2016.
About New Directions
Initiated in 2015, New Directions offers some of China’s most promising artists a platform to realize their first institutional solo exhibition and monographic publication. Deepening UCCA’s ongoing commitment to emerging practices pioneered by shows including “ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice” (2013), “Breaking Forecast” (2009), and the Curated By…series (2010-2012), this series of solo exhibitions aims to present, through a constellation of singular positions, an overall sense of the richness and complexity of new art in China today.
About the Exhibition
"New Directions: Hao Jingban", the fourth installment of the New Directions series, is curated by UCCA assistant curator Lotus Zhang. New Directions is initiated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari. The exhibition is accompanied by a monograph of the same title and features images of the artist's two projects alongside essays by Guo Juan and Yang Zi as well as a dialogue between the artist and Lotus Zhang. The monograph is available at UCCASTORE. Barco is the video equipment sponsor, and sound equipment support comes from GENELEC. Audio guide is supported by VART.