An exhibition by the MAK, Vienna in dialogue with the collector Uli Sigg and in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bern and
the Zentrum Paul Klee
With CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection a comprehensive exhibition on Chinese contemporary art is coming to Vienna. Uli Sigg has been following the development of
contemporary art in China since the late 1970s. In the mid-1990s, he started putting together the world’s most significant
and representative collection of Chinese art. A business journalist, entrepreneur, and Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea,
and Mongolia (1995–1998), he had the chance to take a look behind the scenes of the social and economic developments dedicated
to both tradition and the future, as China’s vision of a new Silk Road shows. Cultural and sociopolitical values form the
frame of reference of the MAK exhibition. The museum creates a discursive platform by contrasting works from the Sigg Collection
with objects from the MAK Collection. This interplay highlights China’s contemporary art production as well as its aesthetic
or iconographic references. The historical object becomes a vision machine for the contemporary.
Curator: Bärbel Vischer, Curator, MAK Contemporary Art Collection
Artists: 徐文恺 aaajiao (Xu Wenkai), 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, 曹斐 Cao Fei, 曹雨 Cao Yu, 陳樂珩 Chan Stacey Lok Heng, 陳苑翹 Chan Yuen Kiu, 池磊 Chi Lei, 储云 Chu Yun, 丁乙 Ding Yi, 段建宇 Duan Jianyu, 冯梦波 Feng Mengbo, 高伟刚 Gao Weigang, 顾小平 Gu Xiaoping, 何翔宇 He Xiangyu, 洪浩
Hong Hao, 嘉 Jia, 杨俊 Jun Yang, 李傑 Lee Kit, 廖斐 Liao Fei, 刘勃麟 Liu Bolin, 刘窗 Liu Chuang, 刘鼎 Liu Ding, 刘韡 Liu Wei, 马轲 Ma
Ke, 毛同强 Mao Tongqiang, 苗颖 Miao Ying, 黃漢明 Ming Wong, 倪有鱼 Ni Youyu, 白双全 Pak Sheung Chuen, 裴丽 Pei Li, 楊嘉輝 Samson Young, 邵帆 Shao
Fan, 沈少民 Shen Shaomin, 沈学哲 Shen Xuezhe, 史国威 Shi Guowei, 史金淞 Shi Jinsong, 宋冬 Song Dong, 王光乐 Wang Guangle, 王晋 Wang Jin,
王雷 Wang Lei, 王卫 Wang Wei, 王兴伟 Wang Xingwei, Christian Hidaka, 谢墨凛 Xie Molin, 谢南星 Xie Nanxing, 徐冰 Xu Bing, 许成 Xu Cheng, 徐震
Xu Zhen, 薛峰 Xue Feng, 叶鲜艳 Ye Xianyan, 张培力 Zhang Peili, 张晓刚 Zhang Xiaogang, 张玥 Zhang Yue, 赵半狄 Zhao Bandi, 郑国谷 Zheng Guogu and
朱久洋 Zhu Jiuyang.
Panel Discussion & Exhibition Opening
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 6 p.m. Panel Discussion Multiple Revolutions (in English) with Uli Sigg, Jun Yang, Miao Ying, and Ai Weiwei Moderator: Carol Yinghua Lu MAK Lecture Hall Video >>
7 p.m. Exhibition Opening MAK Lecture Hall
Film Screening
The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg Documentary film by filmmaker Michael Schindhelm, 2016, 93 min. Tue, 16 Apr 2019, 7:30 p.m. More Info Tue, 21 May 2019, 7:30 p.m.More Info MAK Lecture Hall
Guided Tours
Admission plus attendance fee of € 3.50
Regular Exhibition Tours Every Sunday, 2 p.m.
Dialogue Tours with
Bärbel Vischer and Uli Sigg, Collector
Wed, 30.01.2019, 4.00 pm fully booked
with Bärbel Vischer and Johannes Wieninger, former Curator, MAK Asia
Collection
Thu, 07.02.2019, 4.00 pm registration no longer possible
Curator-Guided
Tours with Bärbel Vischer
Tue, 05.03.2019, 6.30 pm fully booked
Tue, 02.04.2019, 6.30 pm
中国私语 CHINESE WHISPERS
Meeting point: MAK Columned Main Hall Admission € 5 (Tuesdays 6–10 p.m.) plus attendance
fee of € 3.50 The ticket also grants access to all exhibitions of the MAK on that evening.
An
exhibition by the MAK, Vienna in dialogue with the collector Uli Sigg and in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bern and the
Zentrum Paul Klee
With CHINESE WHISPERS:
Recent Art from the Sigg Collection a comprehensive exhibition on Chinese contemporary art
is coming to Vienna. Uli Sigg has been following the development of contemporary art in China since the late 1970s. In the
mid-1990s, he started putting together the world’s most significant and representative collection of Chinese art. A business
journalist, entrepreneur, and Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea, and Mongolia (1995–1998), he had the chance to take
a look behind the scenes of the social and economic developments dedicated to both tradition and the future, as China’s vision
of a new Silk Road shows. Cultural and sociopolitical values form the frame of reference of the MAK exhibition. The museum
creates a discursive platform by contrasting works from the Sigg Collection with objects from the MAK Collection. This interplay
highlights China’s contemporary art production as well as its aesthetic or iconographic references. The historical object
becomes a vision machine for the contemporary.
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Tue, 14.05.2019, 6.30 pm
中国私语 CHINESE WHISPERS
Meeting point: MAK Columned Main Hall Admission € 5 (Tuesdays 6–10 p.m.) plus attendance
fee of € 3.50 The ticket also grants access to all exhibitions of the MAK on that evening.
An
exhibition by the MAK, Vienna in dialogue with the collector Uli Sigg and in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bern and the
Zentrum Paul Klee
With CHINESE WHISPERS:
Recent Art from the Sigg Collection a comprehensive exhibition on Chinese contemporary art
is coming to Vienna. Uli Sigg has been following the development of contemporary art in China since the late 1970s. In the
mid-1990s, he started putting together the world’s most significant and representative collection of Chinese art. A business
journalist, entrepreneur, and Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea, and Mongolia (1995–1998), he had the chance to take
a look behind the scenes of the social and economic developments dedicated to both tradition and the future, as China’s vision
of a new Silk Road shows. Cultural and sociopolitical values form the frame of reference of the MAK exhibition. The museum
creates a discursive platform by contrasting works from the Sigg Collection with objects from the MAK Collection. This interplay
highlights China’s contemporary art production as well as its aesthetic or iconographic references. The historical object
becomes a vision machine for the contemporary.
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WEDNESDAYS AT THE MAK Guided tour through the exhibition, followed by further discussion at the restaurant Salonplafond im MAK
Wed, 20.02.2019,
3.00 pm - 5.00 pm registration no longer possible
Program for Kids and Families
MINI
MAK Tour Guided tour for the whole family (ages 4+)
Everything Chinese at MINI MAK
Sun, 21.04.2019,
11.00 am
Everything Chinese at MINI MAK
On a MINI MAK tour through our exhibition you will learn
quite a lot. A famous artist called Ai Weiwei has lost a circle?! Help us look for it and maybe in the end you will get an
Easter egg after all!
Guided tour for the whole family (ages 4 and older) in context of the exhibition CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection
Attendance
fee: € 3,50 per child Reduced admission of accompanying adults Meeting
Point: MAK Columned Main Hall
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Old China—new China
Sun, 19.05.2019, 11.00 am
Old China—new China
Can you hear that? Isn’t that somebody whispering? No, it’s the wind. Or maybe not? Visit the MAK and have a
look at what Chinese art can do! ... but shh, be very quiet …
Guided tour for the whole family (ages 4 and older)
in context of the exhibition CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection
Attendance fee: € 3,50 per child Reduced admission of accompanying
adults Meeting Point: MAK Columned Main Hall
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MAK4FAMILY Workshop
for the whole family (ages 4+)
Chinese Whispers
Sat, 23.02.2019, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Stille Post aus China
Im MAK gibt es eine große Ausstellung mit viel moderner Kunst aus China und sehr alten chinesischen Objekten
aus unserer Sammlung. Wer ganz genau zuhört, kann den Dingen beim Flüstern zuhören! Doch was erzählen sie sich bloß?
Die MINI MAK-GeschichtenerzählerInnen flüstern es euch ins Ohr. Danach geht’s weiter zum Workshop – da ist Zusammenarbeit
gefragt, aber bitte ohne Flüstern!
Workshop for the whole family (ages 4+) in context of the exhibition CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection.
Materialbeitrag:
€ 4,50 pro Kind (bei freiem Eintritt) Ermäßigter Eintritt für Begleitpersonen
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Sat, 27.04.2019, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Stille Post aus China
Im MAK gibt es eine große Ausstellung mit viel moderner Kunst aus China und sehr alten chinesischen
Objekten aus unserer Sammlung. Wer ganz genau zuhört, kann den Dingen beim Flüstern zuhören! Doch was erzählen sie sich bloß?
Die MINI MAK-GeschichtenerzählerInnen flüstern es euch ins Ohr. Danach geht’s weiter zum Workshop – da ist Zusammenarbeit
gefragt, aber bitte ohne Flüstern!
Workshop for the whole family (ages 4+) in context of the exhibition CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection.
Materialbeitrag:
€ 4,50 pro Kind (bei freiem Eintritt) Ermäßigter Eintritt für Begleitpersonen
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Great, greater, the greatest—Chinese art
in Vienna
Sat, 11.05.2019, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Great, greater,
the greatest—Chinese art in Vienna
In China
not everything is allowed, and some artists even have to hide their works or sell them before anybody sees them. Join us on
an incredible journey through China’s art and culture and afterwards, in a workshop, create your own concept for a gigantic
piece of art in the public space.
Workshop for the whole family (ages 4+) in context of the exhibition CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection.
Materialbeitrag:
€ 4,50 pro Kind (bei freiem Eintritt) Ermäßigter Eintritt für Begleitpersonen
1459977554986
Sat, 25.05.2019, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Great, greater, the greatest—Chinese art in Vienna
In China not everything is allowed, and some artists
even have to hide their works or sell them before anybody sees them. Join us on an incredible journey through China’s art
and culture and afterwards, in a workshop, create your own concept for a gigantic piece of art in the public space.
Workshop for the whole family (ages 4+) in context of the exhibition CHINESE
WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection.
Materialbeitrag: € 4,50 pro Kind (bei freiem Eintritt) Ermäßigter Eintritt für Begleitpersonen
1459977554986
MAK Design Kids Workshop for 8- to 12-year-olds (unaccompanied) with
Natascha Safarik, calligrapher
Calligraphy like never before!
Sat, 20.04.2019, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Calligraphy like never before!
with Natascha Safarik, calligrapher
Some of the artists of the MAK exhibition
CHINESE WHISPERS work with the technique of calligraphy. But this doesn’t only exist in China. Experiment with various materials
and shapes and try different techniques to get to know calligraphy and apply it using your imagination.
Workshop
for 8- to 12-year-olds (unaccompanied) in context of the exhibition CHINESE WHISPERS:
Recent Art from the Sigg Collection
Limited number of participants Participation fee: € 8 (with
free admission)
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Sat, 04.05.2019, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm fully
booked
Sat, 18.05.2019, 2.00 pm - 4.00
pm
Calligraphy like never before!
with Natascha Safarik, calligrapher
Some
of the artists of the MAK exhibition CHINESE WHISPERS work with the technique of calligraphy. But this doesn’t only exist
in China. Experiment with various materials and shapes and try different techniques to get to know calligraphy and apply it
using your imagination.
Workshop for 8- to 12-year-olds (unaccompanied) in context of the exhibition CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection
Limited number of participants Participation fee: € 8 (with free admission)
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Publication
on the occasion of the exhibition: Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg and M+ Sigg Collections, ed. by Kathleen
Bühler, Kunstmuseum Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee, and MAK, Vienna, German/English, 368 pages, Prestel Verlag, Munich/London/New
York 2016. Available at the MAK Design Shop and at MAKdesignshop.at for € 44 as
of end of January.
