
王欢(b.1991)是一位现居中国北京的写作者、艺评人和策展人。他是文化艺术品牌《普遍》(手册)的联合发起人兼主编,同时也是Special edition Project(上海)空间的展览总监。他在实践中尝试一种去文体化的写作。艺术批评散见于众多文化与艺术媒体和机构,包括:ARTFORUM中文网、艺术界 LEAP、理想家IDEAT、假杂志、STUDIO VOICE、Ocula艺术之眼、艺术世界、ARTSHARD 艺术碎片、瑞象视点、新世纪当代艺术基金会(NCAF)等等。
他于2018年获第五届国际艺术评论奖(IAAC)一等奖,2019年凭策展项目“末路斜阳:声名狼藉者及其不可解的存在方式”获选上海当代艺术博物馆“青策计划”,2019年凭策展方案“寻异志——人迹、城际与世变”入围OCAT研究中心“研究型展览计划”终选名单。入选2020台北国际艺术村驻村计划。他于2019年担任“集美·阿尔勒国际摄影季”发现奖提名策展人和苏黎世机构Vontobel Art Collection的“新凝视”奖(A New Gaze)提名人。2020年出版了由他主编的文集《小径:赤贫得只剩语言》(假杂志)。
策划过的群展包括:“不辨其貌”(2021, 上海, Special edition Project)、“末路斜阳——声名狼藉者及其不可解的存在方式”(2019,上海,上海当代艺术博物馆PSA)、“寻异志——人迹、城际与世变”(2019,北京,OCAT研究中心研究型展览计划方案展)、“刘玗:停泊在车站的愚人船”&“张文心:映射之地”(个案研究,2019集美·阿尔勒摄影机发现奖提名展)、“林中空地——重访假杂志的实践”(2019,北京,中间美术馆)、“被介入的物件”(2016,厦门,集美新城市民广场展览馆)、“2016新锐摄影奖入围展”(2017, 上海,新时线媒体(CAC)艺术中心)、“港口与影像:行动中的中国港城影像计划”(2017,中国港口博物馆)等。
策划项目包括“新锐摄影奖”(2014-2016,担任召集人)、“NEW TALENTS陌生的经验”系列学术讲座、“开放艺术家工作室计划”等。参与的讲座及研讨包括“写作主体性的困境”(上海民生现代美术馆)、“复调的观看:当摄影与文本共谋”(上海当代艺术博物馆PSA)、“外场旁白”(中央美术学院红椅子报告厅)、“身份重组”(鲁迅美术学院三楼报告厅)、“摄影的观看,写作与展览”(厦门理工学院信息中心报告厅)、“理论与历史:影像何为?”(中央美术学院美术馆学术报告厅)等。
Wang Huan(b.1991) is a Beijing-based writer, critic and curator. He is the co-founder and chef editor of 《GENERAL》(manual). He is also the artistic director of Special edition Project. He has tried practicing a kind of anti-stylistic writing and has published a series of art criticisms in various public media such as ARTFORUM, LEAP Magazine, Jiazazhi Magazine, IDEAT, Art World Magazine, ARTSHARD, STUDIO VOIVE and Ray Art Center’s Reviews, New Century Art Foundation .
In 2018, he won the first prize of the 5th International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC) . In 2019, he won the PSA Emerging Curators Project with the curatorial project “Sunset on a Dead End”. His curatorial proposal “The Story of Finding Differences” was shortlisted for the OCAT Institute “Research-based Curatorial Project”and in 2019, he was a nominated curator of the Jimei × Arles Discovery Award, one of the experts of the prize “A New Gaze”. In 2020, He was elected to Artist-in-Residence Taipei 2020, and he published the book “NOTHING LEFT BUT WORDS” as chef editor.
He has also curated a list of exhibitions including “Being an eccentric”(2021, Shang Hai, Special edition Project),“Sunset on a Dead End: The Notorious and Their Inexplicable Modes of Existence”(2019, Shang Hai, Power Station of Art), “The Story of Finding Differences: Human Trace, Intercity, and Transformation of the World”(2019, Bei Jing, OCAT Institute), “LIU YU:THE SHIP OF FOOLS MOORING AT THE TRAIN STATION”&“ZHANG WENXIN THE MAP OF THE MAPPING”(2019 JIMEI X ARLES DISCOVERY AWARD), “We Will Come and Go, in the Forest” (2019, Beijing, Inside-Out Art Museum), “Objects That Have Been Intruded” (2016,Xiamen,Jimei New Town Citizen Square Exhibition Hall), “Finalist Exhibition of 2016 New Talents Award”(2017, Shanghai, Chronus Art Center (CAC)), “The Port and the Image: Documenting China’ Harbor Cities” (2017, China Port Museum) etc.
The projects he has planned include the “NEW TALENTS Award” (2014-2016), a series of academic lectures on “Stranger Experience” and the “Open Artist Studio project”. The lectures and discussions included “The Dilemma of Writing Subjectivity” (Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum), “Polyphonic viewing” (Power Station Of Art), “Narration from the outfield” (Red Chair Report Hall, Central Academy of Fine Arts), “Identity Reorganization” (The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)), “Photographic Viewing, Writing and Exhibition” (Xiamen University of Technology), “Remapping Reality: Theory and History” (The Lecture Hall of CAFA Art Museum), etc.