从 2015 年开始，深圳当代艺术双年展已经举办了四届展览。凭借第五届的契机，我们试图梳理出深圳当代艺术双年展的发展脉络和价值追求。展览专门设置了“再造在场——深圳当代艺术双年展往届回顾”板块，不仅汇总往届展览前言、海报及其它文献，还将实物展示往届展览的同名画册，以供现场观众翻阅。

       

深圳当代艺术双年展发展脉络和价值追求图示

兼具延续性与差异性的视角，我们通过检索往届深圳当代艺术双年展的实践与内容，试图提炼出部分行动和观点，从而结构性地回溯往届展览，打造前四届的“在场”。

 

In terms of continuity and variety, we are trying to distill some actions and ideas from the past practice and content of the Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art, so as to recreate the “presence” of the past four editions of the Biennale by structural retrospection.

2015 特区成立35周年艺术大展暨第一届深圳当代艺术双年展 深大主展场

 

深圳，世界上最具发展力与竞争力的城市之一，作为中国改革开放的最早实验场，其城市发展与经济发展从一开始就不断地给人以惊喜。作为深圳市建市35周年文化艺术重点活动项目之一，此次展览的举办，让这个年轻而充满能量的城市有机会以艺术之名向众人展示自己，这也是深圳首次由官方牵头主办的当代艺术双年展。从中，我们看到深圳本身的活力与创新，包容与上进，融通中西的社会形态实践方法与态度；并试图梳理出属于深圳独有的文化发展脉络，展示出深圳除经济数值以外的价值：向内梳理是为了寻觅文化认同及归属感，向外发声则是希冀文化输出和城市精神的展现。

 

2015 The 1st Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art - The Art Exhibition of the 35th Anniversary of Shenzhen Special Zone’s Establishment in Art Gallery of Shenzhen University

 

As one of the most potential and competitive cities and the primary experimental field of China's reform and opening up, Shenzhen has been developing miraculously in various aspects including the economy. This young and energetic city was given an opportunity to express itself with art - The Art Exhibition of the 35th Anniversary of Shenzhen Special Zone’s Establishment and the 1st Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art, which is also the first biennale of contemporary art sponsored officially by Shenzhen. From this exhibition, we recognized Shenzhen's energy and innovation, inclusiveness and aspiration, as well as the practical approaches and attitudes on the social form that blends the East and the West.

 

This exhibition also tried to sort out the unique developing path of Shenzhen’s culture and has presented not only Shenzhen’s economic achievement but also its bi-directional value. Inwardly, it’s about finding the cultural identity and the sense of belonging. Outwardly, it’s about exporting the local culture and showing the city's spirit.

2015 特区成立35周年艺术大展暨第一届深圳当代艺术双年展 蛇口分展场

 

作为价值工厂开园“造动蛇口”主题下的艺术项目之一，展览邀请了来自深圳、广州、香港、上海、重庆的二十多位关注城市建设及多样表达方式的艺术家，展出架上绘画、雕塑、装置等不同形式的艺术作品。

此次展览于原生厂房建筑发生，形成现在与历史的时空对话，这不仅为深圳当代艺术带来更多可能的交流与碰撞，亦为社会与不同学科领域之间的跨界带来更丰富的实验性互动。

 

2015 The 1st Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art and The Art Exhibition of the 35th Anniversary of Shenzhen Special Zone’s Establishment: Shekou Exhibition 

 

As one of the opening programs of Value Factory whose theme is “Make a World”, The Art Exhibition of the 35th Anniversary of Shenzhen Special Zone’s Establishment and the 1st Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art – Shekou Exhibition invited more than twenty artists, who concerned themselves with city construction and different means of expression, from Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Chongqing and showed artworks of different forms, such as painting, installation and sculpture. 

 

The exhibition was held in the old factory building, creating a dialogue across time and space that would not only benefit the development of contemporary art in Shenzhen with more exchange and collision of ideas, but also bring society more experimental interaction among different subject areas.

2016 特区成立35周年艺术大展暨第一届深圳当代艺术双年展 光明分展场

 

不同于首场展览的美术馆场地，也不同于蛇口展览的工厂旧址，此次展览选择了融合工作、生活、学习、休闲于一体的大型园区——光明智慧城作为一个开放的现场。展览的七件公共艺术作品被置于居民日常活动的公共场所中，让公众改变了在美术馆欣赏艺术的主动与预见意识，真正让艺术融入于城市的生活环境，也引发我们去思考更多相关的延伸问题，如当下时代的城市变革、艺术作品与城市规划互相结合等跨界泛学科主题。

 

结合深大美术馆展场、蛇口价值工厂展场，作为压轴的光明公共艺术展场为深圳特区成立三十五周年艺术大展暨第一届深圳当代艺术双年展增添浓厚的一笔，以承载起深圳这座非凡城市艺术的过去、现在与未来。

 

 

2016 The 1st Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art and The Art Exhibition of the 35th Anniversary of Shenzhen Special Zone’s Establishment: Guangming Public Art Exhibition

 

Different from the previous two in Art Gallery of Shenzhen University and Shekou Value Factory, this exhibition was held in Guangming New District, an open venue where people work, live, study and relax. Seven pieces of public art are shown in public spaces where local residents engage in daily activities. The exhibition created an environment different from usual venues like art museums. These artworks integrated into the living environment of the city reminded people to appreciate both art and the surrounding world. Given the public setting, this exhibition also tried to explore some relevant questions, such as the reform of cities in China, and the relation between artworks and city construction and all. 

 

Along with the exhibitions in Art Gallery of Shenzhen University and Value Factory, Guangming Public Art Exhibition wrapped up the Art Exhibition of the 35th Anniversary of Shenzhen Special Zone’s Establishment and the 1st Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art with a significant stroke, connecting the past, present and future of art in the marvellous city of Shenzhen.

2017 再聚焦：第二届深圳当代艺术双年展——城市（是）美术馆

 

在城市化的推动下，深圳的美术馆也取得了前所未有的发展。城市配套美术馆成为当下的风潮，“美术馆时代”的发展现象继续发酵。

 

从注重典藏、研究与展示的艺术殿堂走向知识生产的公共领域文化机构，今天的美术馆对城市文化生成有着长远的影响，它已然成为一种社区文化交流的可能介质，成为一种开放与多元文化意识的代表，更成为一种了解区域、洞察世界的思维方式。城市文化在美术馆里呈现，美术馆存在于城市之中，进而使得城市演变成一座无墙的美术馆。

 

本届双年展选择美术馆作为梳理城市文化架构切入点，将各方集合起来构成包容的城市艺术实践团体，在更开阔的城市文化框架下，多维度探讨美术馆本身——从具象的机构到抽象的概念——与当下城市及文化发展之间的密切关系。

 

2017 City as Museum: Refocusing - The 2nd Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art 

 

Under the impetus of urbanization, Shenzhen’s art museums also have unprecedented achievements in development. Equipping cities with art museums has become an ongoing fashion, fermenting a big leap phenomenon of “Art Museum Era”. 

 

The transition from an art palace focusing on collection, research and display to the cultural institution of knowledge production in public domain has shaped art museums into a long-term influence on the generation of urban culture. An art museum has become a medium for cultural exchanges in communities, an icon of the open minds taking in diversified cultures, as well as a method to know the region and to look into the world. The facts that museums show urban cultures and that museums exist in the city help evolve the city into an art museum without walls.

 

This edition’s Biennale has assembled different limps and organs to form various urban art groups into a broader framework of urban culture, and to explore from multiple angles the close relationship between the art museum itself (from a concrete institution to an abstract concept) and the current urban and cultural development.

2019 新征程：第三届深圳当代艺术双年展——观念、形式和日常化

 

回溯当代艺术自身最重要的两个概念：“观念”和“形式”，无意囿于形而上的哲学认知领域，不是为了发动另一场观念变革，也不在于回归形式审美秩序，而是在当代艺术融入日常实践的不争事实过程中，探讨艺术实践在当代语境下的演变。

 

艺术走向日常化，其观念与形式的变化，和时代背景、社会变迁、文化思潮息息相关。艺术自身在观念的探寻与形式的演绎上相应做出深入的实验，探究个人生存实践与主观情感，进入公共领域介入社会，融合社会学、人类学、计算机科学等其他学科的方法论。审视当代艺术的观念与形式，本次展览在抽样呈现这一实践过程中，重思当代艺术与受众的距离，在观念的转换中重构新的美学，可能重新认识当代艺术在日常化实践中的意义。

 

2019 Concept, Form and Daily Life: New Start - The 3rd Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art 

 

The re-exploration of the two most important concepts of art - “concept” and “form”– is not limited to the metaphysical philosophical field of cognition, not to launch another conceptual revolution, nor to return to some aesthetic order of form, but to probe into the evolution of artistic practice in a contemporary context as contemporary art is being integrated, indisputably, into everyday practice.

 

At the turn of art towards daily life, the changes of its concepts and forms are closely related to the background of the times, social changes and cultural trends. Relevant in-depth experiments are being carried out on the concepts and forms in art to explore individual survival practice and subjective emotions, intervene in society by entering the public domain, and to integrate the methodologies of other disciplines such as sociology, anthropology and computer science. By reviewing the concepts and forms in contemporary art and presenting such practices by means of sampling, this exhibition reflected upon the distance between Chinese contemporary art and the audience, and reconstructed new aesthetics in the renewal of concepts, all of which may allow the significance of contemporary art in everyday practice to come anew into the public sight.

 

2021 第四届深圳当代艺术双年展——未知地带：思变

 

艺术实践所处语境在21世纪第二个十年发生深刻变化，新的现实为艺术机构、艺术家群体及两者之间的关联重构出新的未知地带。未可知的与未曾想象的都驱使着深植于在地的机构探索更好的艺术实践和自我生长能力，艺术工作者重新思考新的工作方向，周期性大型展览也在前景未明中寻求应变方式。

 

第四届深圳当代艺术双年展试图在回溯中建构，对文献展开开放性对话，从历史架构中寻找某些业已沉淀的艺术特质，继而以广东本土，尤其是珠三角地区，作为地域上的“自我”，对经济腾飞下发展出的本地双年展提出思考，将艺术群体和泛机构实践作为对象，重新主动进行自我定义、实践与构建，在突变的时代环境中行走出新的出路。

 

2021 Uncharted Territory - For a Change: The 4th Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art

 

The context of art practice has changed profoundly in the second decade of the 21st century. The new reality has opened up an uncharted territory for art institutions and artists and renewed the connections between them. The unknown and the unimagined are both driving locally rooted institutions to explore better self-development capability and practice, motivating artists to rethink new pathways, and promoting periodic large-scale exhibitions to look for ways to deal with the uncertain prospect.

 

The 4th Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art extended its “self” geographically from Shenzhen to Guangdong province, and took the initiative to redefine, reconstruct itself and rethink its art practice. It attempted to find a new path in the age of rapid change by studying artists and pan-institution practices and examining local biennales generated by soaring economic growth.