Exhibition Venue: Hall 4/5/6, 2F, Guangdong Museum of Art (BAIETAN)

(Address: 19 BAIETAN South Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou, Guangdong)

Organizer: Guangdong Museum of Art

Co-organizers: Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Annual Review of Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting

Artistic Director: Wang Shaoqiang

Curator: Lin Shuchuan

Academic Host: Shen Kuiyi

Producers: Zhang Kai, Zhang Zongxi

Bao Ying,Cai Guangbin,Chen Tong,Chan Kwan-lok,Chen Suping,Chen Wenyuan,Cui Zhenkuan,Du Songru,Du Ziling,Fang Jun,Feng Haitao,Gao Qian,Hao Shiming,He Jian,Hua Jun,Huang Dan,Huang Yihan,Jiang Heng,Jiang Ji’an,Jin Sha,Jin Weihong,Lei Ziren,Li Huasheng,Li Jin,Lee Chun-yi,Li Xiaoxuan,Li Zhongcheng,Leung Kui-ting,Liang Quan,Lin Haizhong,Lin Yusi,Liu Dan,Liu Jin’an,Liu Mingbo,Liu Qinghe,Liu Xijie,Liu Yanhu,Liu Zijian,Lu Fusheng,Lu Chuntao,Ma Jun,Mao Donghua,Meng Zhe,Pan Wenxun,Peng Jian,Peng Wei,Qin Xiuping,Qiu Deshu,Shen Liang,Shen Qin,Shi Hu,Shi Pu,Sun Hao,Tan Jun,Wang Chuan,Wang Dongling,Wang Fa,Wang Huangsheng,Wang Jinsong,Wang Mengsha,Wang Shaoqiang,Wang Tiande,Wang Yu,Wei Qingji,Wu Qian,Wu Yi,Xing Qingren,Xu Bing,Xu Gang,Xu Hualing,Xu Lele,Xu Lei,Yang Gang,Yang Hong,Yang Yu,Yao Hao,Yao Hong,Yu Yu,Yuan Wu,Zeng Jianyong,Zeng Mi,Zhang Guiming,Zhang Jian,Zhang Sunzhe,Zhang Yu,Zhang Yanzi,Zhou Jin,Zhou Jingxin,Zhou Wusheng,Zhu Jianzhong,Zhu Xinjian,Zhu Zhengming,Zou Cao,Zuo Zhengyao

 

 

The Unfinished Future: The 10th Anniversary of Annual Review of Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting will be presented at the Guangdong Museum of Art. The exhibition draws on a decade of work by the Annual Review of Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting from 2016 to 2026, offering a systematic review on the project’s scholarly research.

 

Over the past decade, the Annual Review has remained rooted in the contemporary ink art scene in China, focusing on documentation, research and exhibitions. It has organised more than twenty exhibitions, published twelve catalogues and documented the works and trajectories of nearly one thousand ink artists across generations. The project has collaborated with art museums nationwide. In 2024, its Forty Years of Contemporary Ink in China (1985-2024) project received funding from the National Arts Fund and was co-organised and implemented by the Annual Review and the Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts.

 

The Unfinished Future presents more than 100 groups of works by over 90 artists across three mian exhibition halls, alongside five embedded thematic exhibitions and a corridor archive zone. First, the exhibition traces the formation and development of “contemporary ink art”, from the modern transformation of traditional painting to diverse experimental practices. It then examines the challenges facing contemporary ink art between domestic traditions and the international art context, while introducing the local perspectives on Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao ink practice. The exhibition further explores the expansion of the medium, asking how the boundaries of ink can dissolve without negating its fundamental nature. Through works by senior, mid-career and young artists, it presents artistic explorations unfolding in real time.

 

This exhibition brings together the achievements, divergences and experiments of the past decade. The Unfinished Future points to the ever-evolving, open-ended state of ink art, inviting viewers to reflect on its present and future trajectory.