Thomas Hirschhorn: Re-Sculpt

Schedule
Title: Thomas Hirschhorn: Re-Sculpt
Venue: Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), Shanghai
Date: November 24, 2018 – February 17, 2019
Opening: 3pm, November 24, 2018
Public Open Days: 10am-6pm, November 9, 10 and 11, 2018
Organizer: Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Ming Yuan Group
Supporter: Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council
Courtesy: Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels
Producer: Li Songjian, Ling Feifei
Chief Curator: Qiu Zhijie
Curator: Fu Liaoliao
Assistant Curators: Dai Zhiyu, Qian Shiyi
“Re-Sculpt” is the title of Thomas Hirschhorn’s first exhibition in China, which gives form to the fact-less and faceless truth by exploring the aesthetics of ruins and discusses the complexity and paradox of destruction and creation.
As the temporary studio of the artist, McaM’s 2000 square meter space will be “re-sculpted” into a space of resistance and a place without hierarchy. Two “shelters” are placed in this precarious ruin landscape that offer the space for workshops. Each participant can use the materials provided within to create their own sculptures. This self-evolving shelter space, as part of the exhibition, associates, convenes and confronts with the ruin space. During the exhibition period, McaM shall put forward together with the artist the public projects through a non-programmatic method, in order to extend the public space and the social fabric into the museum: it’s free and open to all public to engage in the discussion raised by the exhibition, organizing and inventing their own meetings and events.
“Re-Sculpt” is a never-ending work, a continuously developed and re-developed field. It invites and asks for the presence of every one of us to prove that: I am/we are as good in creation than in destruction.
Biography
Thomas Hirschhorn was born in 1957 in Bern (Switzerland). He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich from 1978 to 1983 and moved to Paris in 1983, where he has been living since. His work is shown in numerous museums, galleries and exhibitions among which the Venice Biennale (1999 and 2015), Documenta11 (2002), the 27th Sao Paolo Biennale (2006), 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburg (2008), the Swiss Pavillion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), La Triennale at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012), 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012), Manifesta 10 in Saint-Petersburg (2014), Atopolis Mons (2015), South London Gallery (2015), Kunsthal Aarhus (2017), Fotogalleriet, Oslo (2017), The National gallery of Kosovo (2018).
Thomas Hirschhorn has received awards and prizes, among which: “Preis für Junge Schweizer Kunst” (1999), “Prix Marcel Duchamp” (2000), “Rolandpreis für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum” (2003), “Joseph Beuys-Preis” (2004), the “Kurt Schwitters-Preis” (2011) and the Prix Meret Oppenheim (2018).