Preface

When a boat slowly paddling by,
The crowd slowly gathers.
We know,
Why we encounter.

Because we come with,
The ideologies we share for art,
The passion we share for materials,
The innocence we have for heaven and earth,
We long to move forward side by side.


Looking back to the moment when the "Material Thinking" International Contemporary Material Art Biennale first set sail, its journey began from the halls of Tsinghua University. Despite the challenges of the global pandemic, it received unwavering support from artists and scholars across 80 different nations, with over 2,000 submissions. In December 2022, when the first exhibition was unveiled simultaneously in Qingdao and Beijing, marking the official start of the luminous journey of "Material Thinking." Though the journey began amid adversity, the overwhelming response allowed us to glimpse the infinite potential and expansive future of material art in contemporary art field. Like a new wave, brimming with energy and momentum, it propels the great ship of "Material Thinking" as it sounds its horn and sets a voyage towards the horizon.

The theme of "Material Thinking" encapsulates its essence. This academic brand focuses on "material art," striving to uncover the agency, spontaneity, and spirit of matter. It invites us to rethink our traditional perceptions of materiality, to ponder how material shapes our lives, and how it influences our relationships—with ourselves, with others, and with the outside world. It calls us to reflect on modernity’s anthropocentrism and to move towards an ecological discourse rooted in post-humanism. This is not only an art exhibition but an academic movement, one that seeks to reframe and reconstruct contemporary art through biennial actions, offering new theories, practices, and perspectives by viewing art through the lens of materiality, the dimensions of matter, and new materialist philosophy. In doing so, "Material Thinking" guides the transformation of contemporary art.

When "Material Thinking" sailed into the picturesque land of Karamay, Xinjiang—a city infused with the textures of oil and steel—it drew upon a new strength and spirit. The unique local culture, customs, and natural beauty of this region breathed fresh inspiration into both the artists and the evolution of contemporary material art. As a result, this year’s "Material Thinking" expands into a full art season, composed of three parts: the second "Material Thinking" International Contemporary Material Art Biennale, the Karamay Youth Mine•Wild Art Creation Camp, and the Karamay-themed Photography and Oil Painting Exhibition. These projects infuse this traveling academic brand with more regional elements and site-specific experiences, giving it broader perspectives, greater influence, and enduring vitality.

The Biennale, following careful selection, will present over 200 works from 48 countries across Asia, Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania. The creation camp will welcome nearly 20 outstanding young artists from home and aboard to showcase site-specific works. The plein-air exhibition will feature over 70 photography and oil paintings created by faculty and students from Tsinghua University's Academy of Arts and Design during their summer practice in Karamay. This year’s art season promises a distinctive artistic feast for the audience, with a rich and diverse array of creative forms.

As "Material Thinking" progresses to this point, we are surrounded by many old friends, while continually welcoming new ones. From across the globe, across the mountains and seas, we gather here through our artworks, exchanging ideas and building common understandings. In the golden autumn of September, we gather in Northern Xinjiang. We believe this grand material art festival in Karamay will be more than a brilliant season in the river of time—it will be an embrace across time and space, a moment engraved in memory.

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唯物思维
MATERIAL THINKING

第二届国际当代材料艺术双年展
2nd International Contemporary Material Art Biennale
参展名单 List of Exhibitors

Artists from overseas:

1.Alvaro Diego Gomez Campuzano(Colombia)Santo Domingo Cloister
2. Ana Jovanovska(Macedonia)Reenactment
3. Angélica Castillo(Venezuela)Anima Mundi
4. Anna Boyadjieva(Bulgaria)Black BRIDGES!
5. Annie Verhoeven(Netherlands)Nautilus
6. Asil Bothun(Norway)Fragments
7. Azhar Saeed(Saudi Arabia)Potential Vision
8. Baiba Osīte(Latvia)Wings
9. Benigna Wara Cardozo Velasquez(Bolivia)Without them we are not
10. Bornemisza Eszter(Hungary)Here and Nowhere
11. Brigitte AMARGER(France)Lemonskins 1010 #1-2
12. Carmen Imbach(Uruguay/Argentina)Walls that overflow in the void of heartbreak
13. Charlotte Østergaard(Denmark)CoWebbing
14. Chikako Imaizumi(Japan)Connectivity
15. Constantino Laura(Peru)Letters to my father Miguel
16. MA Sai Cheong(Australia)Dancing with clay
17. Denise Blanchard(Chile)Habit
18. Feliksas Jakubauskas(Lithuania)Ethno Cosmogonia.The Gardens of the Universe
19. Hanna Wojdała–Markowska(Poland)Housing estate
20. Hassen Bárbara(Argentina)Medical deposition
21. Iveta Tomanová(Slovak)PAIR X.
22. Izabela Walczak(Poland)Seeds of the past.
23. Izabela Wyrwa(Poland)Memory
24. Janusz Kucharski(Poland)Transience
25. Jeannine De Raeymaecker(Belgium)THE WAY I AM
26. Jennifer Robertson (Australia/UK)Opalescence
27. James Johnson-Perkins(UK)Times Square Nude, After Bosch, New York, USA
28. Joan Schulze(USA)LESS IS MORE-1
29. Jovita Sakalauskaite Akgun(Turkey/ Lithuania)Bloom of Lotus, from Twilight to Dawn
30. Jo Hamilton(USA/UK)No Man’s Coverage
31. Khen Salumu kahoya(Congo)Lufu:Thé Road To Trade
32. Krystyna Sadej(Canada)Touch of a Dragon
33. Lasse Antonsen(Denmark/USA)Zen Baggage
34. Laura Turzi(Argentina)Green shoots
35. Liliana Rothschild(Argentina)Smoke dance
36. Mali Klein(Netherlands)From the Ground Zero project- Gravitropic
37. Moffat Takadiwa(Zimbabwe)The Tengwe Farm(a)
38. Alves Dias(Portugal)Ground of Shadows
39. Maria Dundakova(Switzerland)Swiss chokolade living book ,12 pages
40. María Ortega Gálvez(Spain)Neptuno Installation
41. Maria Torrendell(Uruguay)Soft Heart
42. Maribel Portela(Mexico)Mycelium
43. Marie Bergstedt(USA)Still Kickin
44. Marika Szàraz(Luxemburg)Ensemble / Together
45. Mehri Ataherian(Iran)The mirror of erosion
46. Mikkel Wettre(Norway)Mneme V
47. Monique Lehman(Poland/USA)Papcio Chmiel father of polish comic book
48. Munawar Ali Syed(Pakistan)Forgotten stories
49. Natalia Tsvetkova(Russia)The birth of continents
50. Orbán Anna-Mária(Romania)SACRED GEOMETRY- INFINITY
51. Patricia FENNER(France)Earth rising
52. Paweł Kiełpiński(Poland)Authonomic object X
53. Rolands Krutovs(Latvia)LUMINA. VESPER (Diptych)
54. Ruzica Zajec(Croatia)Blackout
55. Raija Jokinen (Finland)On the Cellular Level
56. Sun Young Kang(South Korea)Installation on-site
57. Sefi Gal(Israel)Time and place
58. Sergei Belaoki(Belarus)Refraction
59. Shigeo Kubota(Japan)Felling of Jomon IV
60. Sibyl Heijnen(Netherlands)Portrait
61. Sofio Akhobadze(Georgia)“Argo”
62. Tea Okropiridze(Georgia and USA)From the Series “Urban tales” 3
63. Tiziana Tateo(Italy)Bubbles Connections
64. Tina Marais(Canada)Le courant 2020
65. Tomasz Frasoński(Poland)Structuralism of iteration
66. Vaishali Oak(India)Visible and Invisible #5
67. Virginia D’Angelo(Argentina)“Filiations”
68. Wardah Naeem Bukhari(Pakistan)body in space
69. Wilfried Theodor Grootens(Germany)Heaven on earth
70. Wolfgang Horn(Germany)digital-threads, update
71. Yaffah Kanfitine(Togo)Open house workshop
72. Yosi Anaya(Mexico)PATCHED TORSOS
73. YOON YOORAN (South Korea)The third space

Artists from China:

  1. 巴   图 《乌金之恋》
  2. 白   明 《缠·裂》《墟·卷轴》
  3. 白阅雨 《置换的空间.古寺》
  4. 白紫千 《Galaxy银河系》
  5. 蔡陈林 《今日景观》
  6. 蔡蕙宇 《永生》
  7. 曹   戈 《游弋计划·生生不息》
  8. 曹丽平 《外滩风云》
  9. 柴鑫萌 《忆往昔》
  10. 陈焕雷 《地戏·风火轮》
  11. 陈辉(雕塑) 《一纸山水》
  12. 陈辉(绘画) 《山川异域》
  13. 陈 焰 《落九天》1#—3#
  14. 程向军 《远方的风景》《漆书-3》
  15. 丁 荭 《水上烟》
  16. 冯崇利 《荷痕-7》
  17. 冯 放 《立春02》
  18. 付 斌 《红房顶》《格子墙》
  19. 高 扬 《纹》
  20. 顾黎明 《山水赋-四门塔之一》
  21. 顾文璟 《宝玉的世界》
  22. 官菁菁 《龙腾四海》
  23. 郭振宇 《北纬30度之大洪水》
  24. 韩妤、董洋洋 《织梦》
  25. 黑 余 《千字文》
  26. 洪美连 《绽》NO.1
  27. 胡明哲 《净土—圣地残阳》
  28. 黄 净 《万物有声》
  29. 黄仁余 《未来·部落》
  30. 黄斯赟 《重生》
  31. 贾善国 《千层纸系列之知白守黑》
  32. 解 勇 《禁锢的自由》
  33. 金 晖 《有鱼文鳐》
  34. 金 荣 《漠时之境系列6》
  35. 康 悦 《织·源》
  36. 亢云姝 《静默地遗忘》
  37. 李博超 《变美》
  38. 李富军 《澡堂子》
  39. 李浩宇 《蜀曲流觞》
  40. 李 鹤 《肉身·呼吸》
  41. 李洪波 《石头》
  42. 李家迪 《呼吸》g g
  43. 李 静 《研·石系列-层叠》
  44. 李 磊 《澄风叠梦》
  45. 李明举、耐日 《时光荏苒》
  46. 李 槊 《持续生长》
  47. 李 薇 《昼与夜》系列
  48. 梁培怡 《ECOTOPI可穿戴艺术装置》
  49. 梁校桢 《沃土》
  50. 梁之茵 《浮生一梦》
  51. 林 岗 《仁者乐山》系列
  52. 刘金石 《黄河—巢》
  53. 刘向华 《满壁江山尽卧游》
  54. 刘 雨 《物质的形态》
  55. 陆学东 《高原驻训》
  56. 陆亚军 《衔蝶》
  57. 吕 越 《留痕》
  58. 罗 幻 《无言之书》
  59. 马文甲 《时光碎片》
  60. 孟和乌力吉 《西行日记》
  61. 孟禄丁 《元速》
  62. 祁 吉 《Taboo》
  63. 钱 亮 《不确定的未来》
  64. 秦瑞雪 《如释》
  65. 任晓军 《厚土的记忆》
  66. 任之晓 《蓝色的星云和星星伴随着砂野》
  67. 石 富 《小样子》
  68. 石 梅 《疾走》
  69. 宋丹青 《境·故土》
  70. 宋 克 《物语之二》
  71. 孙 逊 《石》
  72. 孙 月 《沉积堆叠》
  73. 谭 斌 《无相》
  74. 谭 勋 《李明庄计划》
  75. 滕 越 《悬而未决》
  76. 田 顺 《缬山水》
  77. 田召亭 《哒、哒、哒》
  78. 汪亚霏 《废墟》
  79. 王 川 《炻·迹》
  80. 王大壮 《行走的观看》
  81. 王 冬 《住所系列1——沉睡》
  82. 王广瑞 《1m³易拉罐》
  83. 王海燕 《凹凸系列No.6》
  84. 王家增 《迹》
  85. 王建、刘辉 《房间》
  86. 王 雷 《再见经典》
  87. 王立伟 《吾有身》
  88. 王青春 《门神》
  89. 王小丁 《见山》
  90. 王绪远 《冰路》
  91. 王远星 《坏观看-蕨》
  92. 王媛媛 《沙海拾贝》
  93. 王 卓 《星辰下的梦》
  94. 王子婷 《被看见的女性》
  95. 王莓婷 《经络》
  96. 魏庆立 《问石故事》
  97. 文中言 《211397982011北海》《北海2008.3.18》
  98. 吴昊宇 《新石器2020-NO.2》
  99. 吴 敬 《大漠云山》
  100. 吴九沫 《时空之躯-陶土与青铜》
  101. 吴 鸣 《竹》
  102. 吴 倩 《生长即消逝》
  103. 武 非 《时间的形状》
  104. 夏金旺 《习习谷风》
  105. 夏理斌 《城市系列——阜通西大街》
  106. 向国华 《棉线的排列-形》
  107. 辛贝妮 《旋转的金色花蕾》
  108. 徐 凯 《问天》
  109. 徐小鼎 《山水之间—巨然笔意》《山水之间—范宽笔意》
  110. 许正龙 《金苹果》
  111. 薛方明 《影》
  112. 颜 敏 《生息》
  113. 颜 瑞 《褪色的海水》
  114. 杨 光 《国槐》
  115. 杨 洋 《隐逸空间》
  116. 杨云杰 《冚抌企、树碑》
  117. 叶城咏 《回溯序列》
  118. 叶 健 《风骨·南山 No.1》
  119. 余慧娟 《老街·一望时光》
  120. 余 康 《空·间》
  121. 宇文任杰 《X》系列1
  122. 原 博 《传家》
  123. 臧 雪 《浮结》
  124. 张 娟 《禅境系列9》
  125. 张 茂 《环形:沙丘》
  126. 张秋实 《天衣有缝》
  127. 张姗姗 《播种者》
  128. 张晓雪 《粉色腔体》
  129. 张 燕 《山的上面》
  130. 赵俊皓 《能量的广度》
  131. 钟 誉 《尘烟》
  132. 周小瓯、毛勇梅 《2023日记》
  133. 朱宇翔 《废弃之物-形态》
  134. 訾梦楠 《涟漪》
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