White Space Beijing (Beijing, China)

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WHITE SPACE BEIJING was founded by Alexander Ochs in February 2004 in the Beijing Art District 798 - Dashanzi, where it functions since 2005 as an independent unit directed by Tian Yuan, herself an artist who has along her young team redesigned the role of the Gallery branch within the Chinese and East-Asian market. The Berlin based gallerist, curator and art dealer Alexander Ochs was in early 2004 the first non-Asian foreigner that dared to take an intercontinental leap by joining the up and coming 798 area. Already in 1992 Ochs showed Chinese artist Lü Sheng Zhong in Berlin and other German cities; in 1996 he presented Fang Lijun's woodcuts and Xu Bing's works for the first time in Germany. Three years later, he opened ASIAN FINE ARTS! in Berlin, a space with an exclusive program of East-Asian art that created a brand name for Chinese artists.

Under the name ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, the Berlin gallery now holds a 450 square meters space situated at the core of Berlin-Mitte and shares the building that hosts the world-renowned Hoffmann-Collection. Berlin-Mitte is not only the German capital's main gallery district, but also the heart of the European art world today.

After several solo exhibitions featuring among others, Fang Lijun, Yang Shaobin, Yue Minjun, Xu Bing and Yin Xiuzhen; photography exhibitions with Hai Bo, Miao Xiaochun, Muchen & Shaoyinong, RongRong & inri and Chi Peng; and group exhibitions including artists like Wang Guangyi, Shi Jing and Wang Yin, the ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING quickly established itself as a leading name in the Chinese contemporary art market in Europe, bringing its program to international art fairs in Berlin, Cologne, Madrid and Brussels, and thus engaging the interest of large Collections and Museums.

While the Berlin Gallery concentrates solely on Asian art, WHITE SPACE BEIJING also includes in its program well established German and European artists: A.R. Penk, Jörg Immendorff, Franz Gertsch and Hermann Nitsch.