The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport promotes Spanish culture in China

The programme of activities to promote Spanish culture and artistic creation was launched towards the end of May with the screening of videos from the collection of Alicia Aza, who has one of the most important collections of video art in Spain. The screening was held in the headquarters of the Chinese Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the co-organiser of the event together with the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

On June 5, local Hong Kong authorities, accompanied by the Deputy Director General for International Cultural Cooperation and Promotion, will visit the exhibition entitled HK Monsters at the Comix Home Base of the Hong Kong Arts Centre, which shows the mixed media comic art of the chiang.shop group, led by the Spanish artist Ricard Chiang. The son of a Chinese father and Balearic mother, Ricard Chiang has taken part in a great many international exhibitions. His dedication to comics, now a secondary interest, is less well known. The exhibition includes workshops for youngsters.

The Madrid Interior of Asier Rúa

Between June 2 and 30 in Beijing, in the Beijing 798 Art District, the exhibition entitled Madrid Interior will be held, featuring photographs by the Spanish artist Asier Rúa. On June 8 there will be an institutional visit to the exhibition, together with the public presentation of the book of the exhibition, which in Spain was a finalist for the 2016 award for the Best Photography Book.

At the epicentre of contemporary art in China, with over seven million visitors a year, the Beijing 798 Art District is currently a world benchmark in the world of art and art collection. Madrid Interior forms part of the official programme of international exhibitions of the 798 Art District.

Santiago Ydáñez opens a new room in the White Box Museum

Also in the Beijing 798 Art District, as part of the official programme "Gallery Weekend Beijing 2017", Santiago Ydáñez will be exhibiting from July 15. The exhibition, co-organised by the State Secretariat for Culture, will signal the opening of a new room in the White Box Museum, a space dedicated exclusively to international artists. The White Box Museum, a former weapons factory built by German engineers in the 1950s in the Bauhaus style, is today one of the most important venues in the famous Chinese art district.

The exhibition, which will be open for a month, will be accompanied by a round table in which the Spanish artist will accompany other Chinese artists, a meeting of museum professionals with representatives from the Chinese cultural industry and local curators and collectors, and an official visit to inaugurate the exhibition to which the press and eminent figures from Chinese society will be invited.