The first international Asian Art Curator Forum, which is co-sponsored by the National Art Museum of China (NAMC) and Guangdong Museum of Art (GDMA), will be held from September 11 to 13 at the GDMA.

About 80 chief and senior curators of top museums, galleries and art institutions from both Asian and Western countries will gather there and have dialogues about art development in Asia. This is the first time that the collective voice of the Asian art community will be heard by the world based on its own land after the founding of new China. The influence of the attendants and the quality of the issues proposed sufficiently show the highest academic level of this forum.

The Ministry of Culture (MC) of the People’s Republic of China agreed and categorized it as a sub-item of the Asian Art Museum Curator Forum and regards it as a detailing and professional extension of the Asian art curatorial issues. It is directed by the Bureau of External Relations and Art Department of MC and supported by National Art Museum Committee of China and Art magazine.

This is China’s appeal to the world at a high level event about Asian art as well as its thoughts and response to the global focus. Furthermore, it is the academic idea of transferring attention at the GDMA from one of local focus to an international focus.

According to GDMA, model institutions for international art museums like The Metropolitan Museum of Art in America, Tate Modern in Britain are also invited to the forum. The best Asian exhibitions held by attending guests have already been flown to GDMA. All the proposals, texts, on-site records and letters between artists will be unveiled at the forum.
This forum has taken “Asian consciousness and Asian experiences” as its main theme, with “proposal report” and “thematic round table conference” being included in the discussions.
Meanwhile, an exhibition of curatorial cases of artists from Asia and Europe will be held to present practices of curators and art institutions of both areas. The forum is expected to be the starting point for establishing new rules for Asian art ecology.

Global Times