Projects and exhibitions

The Sleepless Theatre Exhibition

In this exhibition, The Sleepless Theatre , the notion of the ‘theatre’ has three tiers of meaning. First, it ref...

To our artists, what matters is not only the visual language and material, but also methodological approaches of their...

BCU researcher Dr. Lauren Walden, based in the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, has recently completed a three-year rese...

Dr. Shiyu Gao, awarded Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birmingham School of Art, has created a unique art exhibition...

The research investigates how Chinese contemporary art has increasingly become a popular method to help rejuvenate Chi...

This exhibition explored the meaning of shadow in different cultural contexts and determine, through contemporary art, ...

This exhibition was centred around the concept of harmony, specifically in response to the notion of Chinese Harmony a...

Taking part in the Guangzhou Triennial, one of the largest art events in China, the BCU team's curation of the theme 'U...

This exhibition explored the ideologies behind President Xi Jinping's notion of the Chinese Dream.

This exhibition aimed to cross international boundaries by introducing a Chinese audience to five British artists, who...

Professor Jiang Jiehong of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts curated the biannual Thailand Biennale (2018)

Understanding the decline in traditional Chinese arts and culture amid the country’s rapid economic growth.

This project explored the artistic representation of dreams in different cultures, their socio-political meanings and ...