Published by Frauenmuseum Bonn / I O Cultural Network e.V. + Bald Girls Group 2025.
Article Authors: Juan Xu, Julia Heintz, Jerome Silbergeld, Gao Minglu, Claire Roberts, Wen Pulin, Monic Merlin, Tench Martin-Liao, Xiao Lu.
Stepping Out! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art is the first book and exhibition in twenty-five years to present a broadly representative selection of works by China’s contemporary women artists.
Through its various academic research and exhibition activities, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) is engaged in multifaceted efforts to establish the place of Korean modern and contemporary art history within the dynamic currents of contemporary art in Asia and throughout the world.
“We should all be feminists!” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) —In Europe and the United States, feminism has long since become part of popular culture. Yet, despite global movements, demonstrations, and petitions to establish equality, it is still not possible in the twenty-first century to speak of comprehensive gender equality with regard to women and LGBTQIA+ communities-not in any country of the world.
This is not a monograph on the history of women artists or an art-historical survey of ‘women’s art’. It is thirty-four perspectives on pivotal moments in, and key contributions to, the field of art and design by women, all drawn from the NGV Collection. The idea of persistence was the inspiration for this publication.
Book: A History of Contemporary Chinese Art / In English Author: Zhou Yan Publication: Springer Press 2020 Page 238-40
Born to two Socialist Realism painters shortly before China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76), Xiao was exposed to art and politics from a young age. She attended the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, with the work shown in this image serving as her graduation piece.
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Book: Art And China After 1989 Theater of the World ( In English ) Author: Alexandra Monroe, Philip Tinari, Hou Hanru Press: @2017 The Soloman R. Guggenheim Foundation. Xiao Lu’s work Dialogue including in this book.
Focus and Freeze-Revisiting Dialogue By Hu Xiaolan On 5 February 1989, on the traditional Chinese New Year’s Eve, about two hours after the China/Avantgarde Exhibition at the National Art Museum of China Beijing opened, the female artist Xiao Lu, who was 26 at the time, fired two shots in quick succession at her …
Book: CONTEMPORARY ART” ( World Currents) / In English
Author: Terry Smith
Publication: 2011 Laurence King Publishing
Book: Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Chinese Art / In English,
Author: Gao Minglu,
Publication: The MIT Press 2011
Although Xiao Lu’s Dialogue is written in the form of a novel, it is based on a true story. However, it is not only the story of a single individual. At the same time it presents a particularly important event in the history of Chinese contemporary art.
