Participating Artists: Knut Asdam, Miroslaw Balka, Stefan Brüggemann, Pavel Büchler, Corey McCorkle, Luc Tuymans, Yutaka Sone, Armen Eloyan, Shi Yong, Zhang Enli, Xu Zhen

Curated by Philippe Pirotte, Kunsthalle Bern
October 31 – December 15, 2008
ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

Curator’s statement
In relation to recent turmoil happening in and around a certain vigorous and performing China, the Western world seems to hold to an eerie misconception of the historical condition of geopolitical initiative today. This situation is not new, but perceived as such by a West that has difficulties to abandon its grammar of superiority. This attitude is of course combined with a fascination and an urgency to participate in the Chinese economical ‘hyper-growth’. The artistic project at hand here, rather than ‘celebrating’ naively the effects of globalization and the encounter between different cultural spheres, cannot deny that it is partly motivated by such a particular mixed set of feelings.
We chose to bring a group of artists together under the title Involved. ‘Involved’ can mean as much as being implicated in a crime or concerned in some intricate affairs.
As an exhibition Involved addresses content, which is not announced explicitly but becomes something understood by the observer of the work as it is experienced. It is focusing on subject matter underneath that what is rendered public.  By careful use of subtexts, the exhibition instils a sense of purpose or focus to an anticipated future. Not necessary optimistic, this future is covered in an aside, sometimes through recollecting a past, suggested through that what is left out of a conversation.
Philippe Pirotte, Shanghai, September 2008

Other Works
Luc Tuymans, Against the Day 1
2008
224.0 * 174.0 cm (88" * 69")
Painting | Oil on canvas |

code: OTHERU028 / id:9165

Other Works
Corey McCorkle, March
2008
10 minutes
Video |
Edition of 3
code: OTHERU029 / id:9166

Other Works
Armen Eloyan,Untitled
2008
100.0 * 120.0 cm (39" * 47")
Painting | Oil on canvas |

code: OTHERU033 / id:9198

Other Works
Armen Eloyan,Untitled
2008
45.0 * 37.0 cm (18" * 15")
Painting | Oil on canvas |

code: OTHERU032 / id:9197

Other Works
Armen Eloyan, Untitled
2008
56.0 * 58.0 cm (22" * 23")
Painting | Oil on canvas |

code: OTHERU031 / id:9196

Other Works
Yutaka Sone, Six Floor Jungle
2008
150.0 * 72.0 * 63.0 cm (59" * 28" * 25")
Other | Sculpture | 白色大理石雕塑/white marble sculpture
Edition of 3
code: OTHERU030 / id:9183

Other Works
Miroslaw Balka, B
2006
16 minutes
Video | Single channel |
Edition of 2
code: OTHERU034 / id:9202

SHI Yong
Think carefully, where have you been yesterday?
2007

Video | Multichannel |

code: SYU022 / id:7732

XU Zhen
Just Did It
2008

Other | Installation | dust, microscope/在一粒灰上留下了一个脚印

code: XZU120 / id:9203

Other Works
Pavel Büchler, The Castle
2008

Other | Installation | sound installation, text

code: SPEZIALU005 / id:9207

Other Works
Knut Asdam, Oblique
2008
13 minutes
Video | Single channel |

code: SPEZIALU003 / id:9205

Other Works
Stefan Bruggemann, Conceptual Decoration
2008

Other | Installation | Wallpaper, dimensions varlable

code: SPEZIALU004 / id:9206

Other Works
Luc Tuymans & Miroslaw Balka,
2008

Other | Soundwork | Sound record, etching on the B side
Edition of 100
code: SPEZIALU006 / id:9209

Other Works
Armen Eloyan,Untitled

30.0 * 20.0 cm (12" * 8")
Painting | Drawings |

code: INVU009 / id:9222

Other Works
Armen Eloyan,Untitled

30.0 * 20.0 cm (12" * 8")
Painting | Drawings |

code: INVU010 / id:9223

Other Works
Armen Eloyan,Untitled 无题

20.0 * 30.0 cm (8" * 12")
Painting | Drawings |

code: INVU003 / id:9216

Other Works
Armen Eloyan,Untitled

20.0 * 30.0 cm (8" * 12")
Painting | Drawings |

code: INVU002 / id:9215

Other Works
Knut Asdam, Untitled: Pissing
1995
56 seconds
Video | Single channel |

code: INVU012 / id:9225

ZHANG Enli
Light
2007
100.0 * 90.0 cm (39" * 35")
Painting | Oil on canvas |

code: ZELU221 / id:7964

ZHANG Enli
Light Bulb
2008

Other | Sculpture | Aluminum, diameter:30cm, width:45cm, 6 pieces

code: ZELU309 / id:9226

Other Works
Pavel Büchler, il Castello
2007

Other | Sculpture |

code: INVU026 / id:9242