EXHIBITIONS13+1 — Genealogy Study of Artists Season 1

Start Museum is pleased to present a duo summer exhibition, “13+1 — Genealogy Study of Artists Season 1” and “Genealogy Study of Artists No.14 Ding Hongdan: Afraid” on June 18th, 2023.

Genealogy Study of Artists was launched by START MUSEUM during its preparatory period in 2018 and has been rooted in the soil of the museum’s culture like a tree. The direction of its growth is unknown, yet it walks along like an enigma. Unknownness, imagination, openness, and freedom might as well be the original intention of this project. It aims to document artists’ present state and their stage of creation’s outcome, as well as objectively presenting artists’ challenging moments through time.

Due to the three-year epidemic, the 13 exhibitions of Genealogy Study of Artists presented mainly included young Chinese artists, presenting diverse individual expressions of different media and artistic forms, reflecting the forward-looking and pioneering spirit of research from the perspective of art museums. In the follow-up plan, Genealogy Study of Artists will focus on a broader international context, while maintaining an open and more free research attitude.

At the beginning of its opening, START MUSEUM has put the project Genealogy Study of Artists on the agenda as a priority, which reflects the future thinking of the Museum in establishing free, open, imaginative, and multi-dimensional research. The new exhibition “13+1 — Genealogy Study of Artists Season 1” launched on June 18th, uses case studies as its exhibition form to sort out and research on the clues of the 13+1 artists who have conducted their Genealogy Study of Artists projects, in order to achieve the continuous growth and maturing of the project over time. The exhibition not only reflects the artist’s free expression, imagination, and breaking down of boundaries in their creative practices, but also enables the further formation and development of the artist’s individual expression in a group environment, presenting space for rumination on the work after a time span.

“13+1 — Genealogy Study of Artists Season 1” brings together 14 artists to START MUSEUM. In this exhibition, START MUSEUM will also introduce art critiques and academic discussions from different researchers. Selected artists include Lou Shenyi, Wu Di, Zhou Yilun, Song Kun, Liao Guohe, Tala Madani, Pu Yingwei, Tang Yongxiang, Wang Xiaoqu, Zhang Ruyi, Yan Bing, Lu Pingyuan and Sun Yifei.

“Genealogy Study of Artists No.14 Ding Hongdan: Afraid” will be presented at the same time as the latest exhibition. Ding Hongdan, a young artist who just graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, will present her new works from 2022 to 2023, expressing the artist’s observations and reflections on individual social identities with both humor and anxiety through her paintings.

The exhibitions will open to the public on June 18th, 2023.