Feng Boyi is an independent curator and an art critic. Currently lives and works in Beijing and Shenzhen.

 

Since the late 1980s, Feng has been involved in Chinese contemporary art as a curator, critic and editor, focusing on experimental and critical contemporary art. He is particularly interested in marginal and alternative contemporary art groups, emerging artists and their artistic practices. He has written hundreds of thousands of words of articles, theses and essays. He is one of the most active independent curators and critics in China.

 

Feng Boyi has curated many important exhibitions in China and abroad, including “Traces of Existence: 1998 Chinese Contemporary Art Study Exhibition” (Beijing), “Fuck Off 1 and Fuck Off 2” (Shanghai and Groninger Museum, Netherlands), “Reinterpretation: The 1st Guangzhou Triennial” (Guangdong Museum of Art), “China Now: Reincarnations of Chinese Contemporary Art” (Essl Collection of Contemporary Art, Austria and Cobra Museum of Modern Art,Netherlands), “A Vista of Perspectives: The 6th Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition” (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen), “The 4th Cross-Strait Four-Regions Artistic Exchange Project” (He Xiangning Art Museum, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Osage Gallery Kwan Tong, and Macau Museum of Art), “A Narrative of Actual Properties of Life: Chinese Contemporary Art” (Bergen Kunsthall, Norway), “CAFAM Future: Sub-Phenomena - Report on the State of Young Chinese Art'' (CAFA Art Museum, Beijing), “A New Dynast-Created in China'' (ARoS Aarhus Art Museum), and “Utopias/Heterotopia - Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition” (Wuzhen, China), as well as solo-exhibitions of Xu Bing, Zhou Chunya, Chen Wenyi, Ding Yi, Li Songsong, Yue Minjun, Su Xinping, Xiang Jing, etc.