Inside the Frame: Twenty Years in Focus
SPURS Gallery•Dec 13, 2025 — Mar 01, 2026
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To start from the beginning, let us rewind to 2005. In that year, Beijing’s Caochangdi Art District welcomed a wave of art institutions that defined themselves as “alternative” spaces. Platform China opened at the start of the year, Beijing Commune held its first exhibition in May, and in December, curators Pi Li and Waling Boers announced the birth of Universal Studios-Beijing with an exhibition titled Open: A New Art Space.
Conceived as a “crazy, hybrid, and transgressive” laboratory, it sought to carve a new path along the edges of the existing system’s various components. By 2008, due to the hype of the Beijing Olympics, these art spaces, initially envisioned as non-profit, including the earlier-established Vitamin Creative Space and Long March Project, had almost entirely transformed into commercial galleries. The contradictory situation reflected by this shift underscores a fact: deeply embedded in the era’s changes, opportunities, and limitations, Chinese contemporary art formed…
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Inside the Frame: Twenty Years in Focus
SPURS Gallery•Dec 13, 2025 — Mar 01, 2026
Press Release
To start from the beginning, let us rewind to 2005. In that year, Beijing’s Caochangdi Art District welcomed a wave of art institutions that defined themselves as “alternative” spaces. Platform China opened at the start of the year, Beijing Commune held its first exhibition in May, and in December, curators Pi Li and Waling Boers announced the birth of Universal Studios-Beijing with an exhibition titled Open: A New Art Space.
Conceived as a “crazy, hybrid, and transgressive” laboratory, it sought to carve a new path along the edges of the existing system’s various components. By 2008, due to the hype of the Beijing Olympics, these art spaces, initially envisioned as non-profit, including the earlier-established Vitamin Creative Space and Long March Project, had almost entirely transformed into commercial galleries. The contradictory situation reflected by this shift underscores a fact: deeply embedded in the era’s changes, opportunities, and limitations, Chinese contemporary art formed…
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