The Opening of Chengdu Biennale Postponed Due to Concerns of Delta Virus

by | Jan 11, 2022 | Avant-Garde Art, Biennales, Contemporary Chinese Art, Exhibitions, Southwest China, Contemporary Chinese Art, Southwest China, Avant-Garde Art, Biennales, Exhibitions

Museums in China face challenges in the ‘Post-COVID’ era

Soft-opened on Nov 6th, 2021, scheduled to run through Apr 6th, 2022, the Chengdu Biennale is hosted in two recently-established iconic venues —the state-funded Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art and Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum. Titled “Super Fusion 2021,” the exhibition features more than 500 artworks by 272 Chinese and international artists across eight sectional exhibitions. In conjunction with the official opening on December 18th, the Biennale hosted an international museum director conference. Soft-opened along with the Main exhibition,17 parallel exhibitions across the city provide diverse demographics with exposure to contemporary art. With abundant academic support, the exhibition intends to research local art while situating itself in the international and domestic art discourses. While the exhibition has been open since its scheduled date, the opening ceremonies will happen on December 18th, 2021.

Positioning itself as “one of the largest-scale, most academically minded art biennales of the post-COVID era” (according to Fan Di’an, curator of the Biennale), the Chengdu Biennale still faces the challenge of emerging Delta and Omicron variants, as China strives to achieve ‘Zero Covid’.

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