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Zhang Huan: In the Ashes of History – Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg – 2020
posted 17:35 - 21.09.20
CAF Summit 2008, Ditchley Park
The first and most successful event China Art Foundation (CAF) organised was the CAF Summit in 2008, an impressive cross-cultural gathering of influential artists, esteemed scholars and heavyweight museum curators who attended the talks from various parts of the US, Europe and Asia.
One of the most important global conferences held in the United Kingdom in the early 2000s, the three-day event was a highly exclusive and private gathering which was curated with the aim of facilitating important dialogues on the cross-pollination of culture through art.
The CAF Summit was held at the historic Ditchley Park estate in Oxfordshire, famed for its role as a secret base used by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the early years of World War II. The summit brought together 40 of the most influential people in the international arts and culture scene, both from the East and West.
Publications
Two major MIT publications, supported by the Foundation
Below; Gao Minglu, Total Modernity and the Avant–Garde in Twentieth–Century Chinese Art
Below; Contemporary Art in Asia, ed Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio
Introduction
Helping to make sure that the intense global interest in contemporary Chinese art has a sustainable future; helping the west to understand the rich history and contemporary cultural life of China; helping China to understand western art and culture, historical and contemporary
Artists’ Talks
Huang Yong Ping and Frank Stella in conversation at the China Art Foundation event, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011
Museum Training Programme
An innovative training programme for senior museum staff, to make China’s museums sustainable; to inform western museum professionals about museum practice in China and the history of Chinese art.
Latest for the China Art Foundation
Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Huan in State Hermitage in St Petersburg. Solo exhibition
