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White Space Beijing + Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing
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Alexander Ochs' first gallery was found in 1997 in Berlin-Mitte under the exclusive Intention to mediate eastern asian, mostly contemporary artists from China. Already the second Exhibition was made by Xu Bing, today an artist of international reputation. Before the seperation of his former partner out of active business the gallery run under the name ASIAN FINE ARTS I PRÜSS & OCHS. After the founding of the branch gallery WHITE SPACE in BeIjing/China in January 2004 the business is running under ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING. The Beijing dependance interim is run by the Chinese artist and curator Tian Yuan, who forms the program autonomously with a Chinese team.
In 2000 in Berlin Alexander Ochs presented the artist Yang Shaobin in a solo exhibition for the first time, one year later Fang Lijun, in 2003 Yue Minjun. In 2004 on initiative of the gallery and in cooperation with the American Academy and the Berlin Hauptstadtkulturfond’ there was a solo exhibition of Xu Bing at the Museum for Eastern Asian Art – Staatliche Museen Berlin. In 2004 on agency of the gallery the MoMa New York bought a big size work of Fang Lijun. In cooperation with the Berlin based collector Erika Hoffmann the gallery organized a solo exhibition of Fang Lijun at the Kupferstichkabinett – Staatliche Museen Berlin in 2005.
Fang Lijun, Yang Shaobin and Yue Minjun are represented by the gallery exclusively for Europe and the USA. In China and South-Eastern Asia Fang Lijun is represented by WHITE SPACE BEIJING. In May 2006 Alexander Ochs has curated a solo exhibition of Fang Lijun at the Galeri Nasional in Jakarta/Indonesia, another one follows in September 2006 at the Today Art Museum Beijing. With Fang Lijun, Yang Shaobin and Yue Minjun the gallery is representing 3 of the 5 most important Chinese painters of the group of „Cynical Realists“, with Wang Guangyi und Zhang Xiaogang Alexander Ochs works in several projects.
While the gallery in Berlin concentrates exclusively on Chinese and Korean artists, the WHITE SPACE BEIJING also presents European artists to help to clarify the defective reception in China of the Western Modern, especially the 1970ties and 1980ties. In kind of ‘dialogue’-exhibitions together with young Chinese artists the works of Jörg Immendorff, A.R. Penck, Franz Gertsch and Herrmann Nitsch were shown.
WHITE SPACE BEIJING is placed in the art district 798 of Beijing and has 4 showrooms with size of 450 sqm. Alexander Ochs was the first ‘foreigner’ in Beijing, who opened a space in this district, which was planned to get pulled down at this time. In December 2004 Alexander Ochs could win the former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder to open an exhibition in his space while his visit in China, so the situation in district 798 got politically stabilized.
The gallery takes part in art fairs since 1999. Beside the ART COLOGNE, the ARTFORUM BERLIN, the ARCO MADRID und smaller fairs in Europe the gallery joins also new art fairs like the CIGE Beijing, ART Beijing, KIAF Seoul and the MELBOURNE ARTFAIR 2006.
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