We are pleased to welcome Thomas Eller to CIMAM!
"Translating cultural content against the backdrop of heritages and trying to overcome (positive and negative) biases is my passion. In becoming a member of a global institution like CIMAM I am hoping to be able to share experiences and find partners in doing so."
Thomas Eller, Artistic Director, China Arts & Sciences, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China.
Thomas Eller is the Founding Artistic Director of Taoxichuan 陶溪川China Arts & Sciences for the Towyi Ceramics and Culture Development Company, Jingdezhen conceptualization of international artist residencies, a contemporary art museum and a biennial, setting up an international board, develop an institutional framework.
Exhibitions curated in the past 5 years
2019:
"Xu Hong”, Triumph Art Gallery, Beijing
2018
"艾稞曼– Franz Ackermann”, Gallery Weekend Beijing, PIFO Gallery
"Protrahere – Zeichnen als Entwurf. Künstler aus Peking, Tokyo, Leipzig und Bamberg”, KunstMühle Mürsbach
"Abstract Art 11 – Abstraction as Painterly Rhetoric. A Case Study Between Germany and China”, PIFO Gallery, Beijing
"Painting after Painting after Painting after”, (Franz Ackermann, Benjamin Appel, Thomas Scheibitz, Katja Strunz) Guangdong Museum of Art Guangzhou
"Pan Jian”, Triumph Art Gallery, Beijing
2017:
"Albrecht Dürer in the Mirror of Contemporary Art in China”, German Embassy Beijing
Publications in catalogues, essays, online platforms in the past 5 years
- Werner Büttner and the Invention of BAD Painting
http://www.randian-online.com/np_feature/werner-buttner-interview/ - The Way of Chopsticks: Coming Of Age
http://www.randian-online.com/np_review/the-way-of-chopsticks-coming-of-age/ - EL GRECO dies again at the Grand Palais
http://www.randian-online.com/np_review/el-greco-dies-again-at-the-grand-palais-ran-dian-fast-review/ - Buddha has sex http://www.randian-online.com/np_review/buddha-has-sex/
- Insider: Gallery 2.0
http://www.randian-online.com/np_market/insider-gallery-2-0/
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