On October 16th, 2009, the exhibition Still Life: Chinese Contemporary Photography opened at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium. The exhibition was jointly organized and curated by the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing) and the Bozar Expo Team (Belgium). The exhibition was featured as part of the 2009 Europalia International Arts Festival.
The festival was a joint decision by the President of China, Hu Jintao, and His Majesty Albert II, in Beijing 2005. After three years of preparation, the two countries presented a rich festival on Chinese culture to European audiences. The festival revolves around four major themes: Eternal China, Contemporary China, Colorful China, and China and the World. Over 450 events will be held, including exhibitions, performances, arts, literature, and film. The largest Chinese art event in Europe, the Europalia festival will be featured in most of the main exhibition and performance spaces in Belgium, and radiate to Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Finland, and other European countries.
As a part of the Contemporary China section, the Still Life: Chinese Contemporary Photography exhibition is being shown at the Palais des Beaux-Arts along with three other exhibitions: Son of Heaven, an exhibition of Forbidden City treasures, The State of Things, an exhibition of Chinese and Belgian contemporary art, and Architecture as Resistance, by Wang Shu and the Amateur Architecture Studio.
Still Life: Chinese Contemporary Photography presents 79 works by 14 contemporary Chinese photographers, including Adou, Hong Hao, Hong Lei, Huang Lei, Li Yongbin, Ling Hua, Mo Yi, Qiu, RongRong & inri, Ruan Xiaorong, Xing Danwen, Xiong Wenyun, and Zhao Liang. These artists were born and grew up during China’s great social changes and they reveal their understanding of life through personal expression. In an age of constant change, they attempt to tackle the mundane minutia of everyday life.

The exhibition will run until January 24th, 2010.

http://www.europalia.be/programme/expositions/article