Sit in China – An Excursion through 500 Years of the Culture of Sitting

Ai Weiwei, Documenta, 2007

“Sitting is Setting” is a plausible phrase. The way we sit simultaneously defines social hierarches, conventions, taboes and priviliges. In our designed environments, such defenitive power is otherwise held only by table culture, if at all.

Art for the Millions – 100 Sculptures from the Mao Era

Rent Collection, Schirn Kunsthalle, Photo: Norbert Miguletz

In conjunction with the Frankfurt Book Fair’s focus on China, the SCHIRN will be showing, for the first time ever in the West, the spectacular Chinese sculptural group “Rent Collection Courtyard”. This ensemble of more than one hundred life-size figures is among the most important works in modern Chinese art history and is firmly fixed in China’s collective memory.