A leading figure among a generation of artists aligned with the philosophical movements of “New Materialism” and “Speculative Realism,” Timur Si-Qin’s work seeks to detract from the aura of human self-importance using an expanded understanding of history and connection with natural world. In Si-Qin’s recent works, commercial and stock photography feature prominently, intending to examine a broader question of why patterns and shapes occur so persistently, looking to understand how materiality and its tendencies define contemporary experience and structure our interactions within the world.
UCCA invites Timur Si-Qin to elaborate on his research and future exhibitions with UCCA Consulting Curator Venus Lau.
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Timur Si-Qin
Previously featured in the “Art Post-Internet” group exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham at UCCA last year, Timur Si-Qin (b.1984, Berlin) is an artist of German and Mongolian-Chinese decent who grew up in Berlin, Beijing, and the American Southwest. Si-Qin participated in several exhibitions internationally, including “Premier Machinic Funerary: Part II” (Carl Kostyál, London, 2014); “Basin of Attraction” (Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, 2013); and “Infinite Surrender, Focused Control” (Société, Berlin, 2013). Si-Qin lives and works in Berlin.
Aimee Lin
Editor of ArtReview Asia
Venus Lau
Venus Lau is a curator and writer based in Beijing. After working as an art writer and project curator, she works actively in various cultural spheres across greater China, pursuing multidisciplinary experimentation with potential and emergent cultural productions in the region, while initiating discourses between Chinese art and the cultural structures in other countries. She won the CCAA (Chinese Contemporary Art Award) Jury’s Pick with her proposal actively rethinking on the strategies of institutional critique in China, while exploring the linkage between object-oriented ontology in art. She was the chairman of Society for Experimental Cultural Production, a non-profit organization focusing on new possibilities of cultural productions. Venus Lau is currently working as the consulting curator at UCCA.