Beijing Artist-in-Residence-Program
In January 2006, Galerie Urs Meile has inaugurated a new location in Beijing's quarter of Cao Changdi. The gallery's showrooms and residential complex include a living and working area for visiting artists.
Within the rapid multiplication in China of exhibitions, biennials, triennials and public spaces, Galerie Urs Meile sees its role to sustainably provide working conditions for contemporary artists which includes the support of artists in various media, experimental approaches, and their ideas.
The artist-in-residence program offers visiting artists a special opportunity to live and work in Beijing. The cultural environment stimulates new experiential horizons, perceptions, and creative processes. It offers thus conditions for the development of new artistic concepts and ideas. As a direct reaction to the unprecedented freedom and economic rewards Galerie Urs Meile is especially fostering critical discussions and developments of contemporary art by offering artists the opportunity to come up with new and interpretative concepts.
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Architecture
Completed in 2005, it houses three main exhibition spaces as well as a studio and residential space for visiting artists.
In Cao Changdi you find the National Film Museum, galleries, exhibition spaces, and the studios of other artists. The art district "798" is located in the nearby quarter of Dashanzi with galleries, book stores, cafés, and restaurants.
Cao Changdi can be reached by taxi on Beijing's airport expressway in 25 minutes. To Beijing's city center it takes 25 minutes by car.
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Studio - working space
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Current Artist-in-Residence
Julia Steiner (CH), 2009/10
Past Artists-in-Residence:
Tracey Snelling (USA), 2008/9
Lang/Baumann (CH), 2008
Jan Anüll (CH), 2008
Tea Mäkipää (FIN), 2007/08
Rémy Markowitsch (CH), 2007
Anatoly Shuravlev (RU), 2007
Bachmann/Banz (CH), 2006/07