Coming up at Starkwhite

Starkwhite presentS Beyond Landscape from 17 November to 17 December 2016. The exhibition explores approaches to landscape informed by place, culture and history, through the photographs of Danie Mellor (AUS), Jin Jiangbo (CN) and Gavin Hipkins (NZ).
Image: Danie Mellor, on a noncorrelationist thought IX (2016), C-print on metallic paper, 80cm diameter

Jin Jiangbo at the National Art Museum of China

Photographs from Jin Jiangbo's series Shanghai Ye! Shanghai are currently showing at the National Art Museum of Chin at, Beijing.
Image: installation  view of Jin Jiangbo's Shanghai Ye! Shanghai at Starkwhite (2010)

Jin Jiangbo in Chinese Whispers

Jin Jiangbo's interactive video projection Rules of Nature is showing in Chinese Whispers at the Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee (Bern). The exhibition is drawn from Uli Sigg's collection of contemporary Chinese art, most of which has been gifted (including Jin Jiangbo's piece) to M+, the Herzon & de Meuron-design art museum scheduled to open in Hong Kong in 2017.
Image: Installation view of Jin Jiangbo's  Rules of Nature at Starkwhite

Rules of Nature in public space

Jin Jiangbo's interactive projection Rules of Nature was launched recently on Auckland's Dominion Road. The work is in the manner of Chinese ink and wash painting, presented as a video projection with software that allows it to respond to the movement of viewers on the street. Commissioned by the Auckland City Council and the Albert-Eden Local Board, the projection runs each night after dark at the New Zealand Chinese Bookshop, 672 Dominion Road, Mt Eden.
Images: stills from Jin Jiangbo's Rules of Nature (2015).

Starkwhite on Instagram

We have joined the Instagram set and you can follow us at instagram.com/starkwhite where you will find this image featuring as our latest post - our place photographed by Shanghai-based artist Jin Jiangbo (making the familiar strangely unfamiliar).

SIGNALS continues at Starkwhite

Our current exhibition SIGNALS has been extended by a week and will now close on Saturday 13 September. You can read an exhibition review here.
Image: SIGNALS, installation view (Billy Apple's THE ARTIST WILL LIVE FOREVER (Chinese) and FROM THE LAI SOO COLLECTION. and Jin Jiangbo's Hidden

Jin Jiangbo's Rules of Nature draws to an end

Jin Jiangbo's Rules of Nature enters its final week at Starkwhite, closing on Wednesday at 6pm. [The gallery is closed over Easter, reopening tomorrow.]

Image: Jin Jiangbo's interactive projection Rules of Nature is presented in association with the Auckland Arts Festival 2013

This week at Starkwhite

Jin Jiangbo's Rules of Nature continues this week at Starkwhite.

Image: Jin Jiangbo's interactive projection Rules of Nature is presented in association with the Auckland Arts Festival 2013

This week at Starkwhite

Jin Jiangbo's Rules of Nature continues this week at Starkwhite.
Image: Jin Jiangbo's interactive projection Rules of Nature is presented in association with the Auckland Arts Festival 2013

Coming up at Starkwhite

Jin Jiangbo's Rules of Nature opens at Starkwhite on Thursday at 6pm. Drawing on the ancient tradition of Chinese ink and wash paintings and employing interface software, his shanshui-inspired landscape is formed and re-formed in response to interactions by viewers. Presented in association with the Auckland Arts Festival 2013, Rules of Nature runs to 4 April.
Image: Jin Jiangbo's interactive projection at the 1012 Guangzhou Triennial

Year of the snake

This year the Chinese New Year falls on February 10 and Starkwhite celebrates the start of year of the snake with Shangahi-based artist Jin Jiangbo who is in Auckland to oversee the installation of an exhibition of interactive works, which opens on 7 March as part of the visual arts programme of the Auckland Festival of Arts.

Starkwhite at the 2013 Auckland Arts Festival: an exhibition blending traditional Chinese art forms with new-media technology

Starkwhite will present Jin Jiangbo's Rules of Nature in the visual arts programme of the 2013 Auckland Arts Festival, which was announced at the Festival launch last week. Commissioned by Swiss art collector Uli Sigg for the exhibition Shanshui, Poetry without Sound? Chinese Contemporary Art at the Museum of Lucerne, which he co-curated with Ai Weiwei and Peter Fischer, Rules of Nature is an interactive installation blending imagery and sounds from traditional Chinese art forms with new-media technology. The exhibition, which runs at Starkwhite from 8 March to 6 April 2013, will also include a new work by Jin Jiangbo with imagery in the manner Shanshui ink-and-wash painting that forms and reforms in response to visitor interactions.
Image: Jin Jiangbo's Rules of Nature projected onto water in the Shanshui exhibition co-curated by Uli Sigg, the Swiss art collector who has donated $170 million worth of contemporary Chinese art to the M+ museum in Hong Kong. 

STARKWHITE at ART HK, Booth 3C17

This week we are at ART HK presenting a solo show by Shanghai-based artist Jin Jiangbo. You can read our press release here.
Image: from Jin Jiangbo's Dialogue with Nature series, Starkwhite at ART HK, Booth 3C17, 17-20 May 2012

Starkwhite at ART HK 2012

ART HK 2012 takes place next week in the city's convention and exhibition centre. This year we will present a solo show by Shanghai-based artist Jin Jiangbo. The show will include Rules of Nature, a landscape in the manner of traditional Chinese ink-and-wash painting, but staged as an interactive projection, and in an adjacent space we will present a suite of digital photographs from his recent Dialogue with Nature series. You can read our press release here.
Image: from Jin Jiangbo's Dialogue with Nature series, Starkwhite at ART HK, Booth 3C17, 17-20 May 2012

Jin Jiangbo's Dialogue with Nature closes today

Jin Jiangbo's Starkwhite exhibition Dialogue with Nature closes today at 4.00pm.

Image: Jin Jiangbo, Hidden (2011)

Installation views and review of Jin Jiangbo's Dialogue with Nature

Jin Jiangbo's exhibition Dialogue with Nature closes on Saturday the 17th at 4.00 pm. You can read a review of the exhibition here.

Images: Jin Jiangbo, Dialogue with Nature, installation views, Starkwhite

Starkwhite exhibition opening today

Jin Jiangbo's exhibition Dialogue with Nature opens this afternoon at 4.00pm.

Image: Jin Jiangbo, Vast (2011), pigment inks on paper, 1000 x 750 mm

JIn Jiangbo: Dialogue with Nature opening

Jin Jiangbo's exhibition Dialogue with Nature opens on Saturday 20 August, 4.00 to 7.00pm. You can read the exhibition release here.

Image: Jin Jiangbo, Boundless (2011)

Coming up at Starkwhite

Coming up is Jin Jiangbo's Dialogue with Nature which runs from 19 August to 17 September 2011.

Image: Jin Jiangbo, Hidden (2011), pigment inks on Ilford paper

Seven Asian artists at The Dowse

Jin Jiangbo and Hye Rim Lee are represented in Crystal City, an exhibition of works by seven Asian artists that opens at The Dowse in Lower Hutt tomorrow night. Curated by Emma Bugden, the exhibition runs from 16 July - 16 October 2011. Read more

Image: Jin Jiangbo, Milford Sound (2011), pigment inks on Ilford paper