CAOCHANGDI PHOTOSPRING

Arles in Beijing

For the past forty years, Les Rencontres d’Arles has been the meeting point of photography artists, professionals, and amateurs alike, who come to the southern French city to discover the new talents of photography and rediscover its celebrated masters.

The Caochangdi art district was born in northeastern Beijing in 2000 and has since flourished into a vibrant artistic hub with numerous galleries, art institutions, and artists’ studios. The aim of the Caochangdi PhotoSpring is to build a platform for photography in the art district through an annual event where photographers, photography collectors and the public can meet to have access to high quality works. For the first time, twenty Caochangdi galleries will join forces to celebrate photography from China and abroad with Caochangdi PhotoSpring.

The launch of the 2010 Caochangdi PhotoSpring will take place from April 17th through 21st. During this week of festivities, each of the partnering Caochangdi galleries will host different activities, such as exhibition openings, lectures, evening concerts, documentary film screenings, and slideshows. The opening week of the 2010 Caochangdi PhotoSpring will also feature the announcement of the 2010 Three Shadows Photography Award winner, the presentation of the 2009 Discovery Award of Arles Laureate, a symposium on Photography: Creativity vs. the Market, artist open studios, as well as portfolio reviews by a panel of international photography professionals. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet with photography professionals from China and abroad. All events will be open to the public.

Partner galleries :

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Galerie Urs Meile, CAAW (China Art & Archives Warehouse), ArtMia Foundation, Mizuma & One Gallery, ShanghArt Gallery, Chambers Fine Art, White Space Beijing + Alexander Ochs Gallery, Taikang Space, Art Channel, Beijing Art Now Gallery, C Space, 0100001 Gallery, Pekin Fine Arts, CCD Workstation, Boers-Li Gallery, 798 Photo Gallery, Paris Beijing Photo Gallery.

Caochangdi PhotoSpring is part of the 2010 Croisements Festival, presented in partnership with the French Embassy in China and curated jointly by Thinking Hands Culture and the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre. It is organized in collaboration with Les Rencontres d’Arles and with the support of the galleries of Caochangdi.

Initiators

The Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, opened in June 2007, is the only professional institution entirely dedicated to photography and video art in China. www.threeshadows.cn

Thinking Hands, opened in 2004, is a structure dedicated to contemporary art practices, that initiated activities to develop and protect the 798 Art District and ran the DIAF (Dashanzi International Art Festival) from 2004 to 2007. www.thinkinghands.org




Directors: Bérénice Angremy, Rong Rong & inri

Guest Curator: François Hébel, Director of Les Rencontres d'Arles

Special Advisors: Fan Di’an, Alain Sayag, Huang Rui, Thomas Shao, Gu Zheng, Wang Wenlan, Li Mei, Wang Huangsheng





Three Shadows Photography Art Centre

No. 155A Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, Beijing

+86 10 6432 2663 / 6431 9063 / 6431 9693

www.ccdphotospring.com

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