The World · 01

China

Revolution, memory, writing, urbanization and globalization: eight artists who show why Chinese art became one of the defining stories of the modern and contemporary world.

01Ai WeiweiArt as evidence, provocation and public argument.02Cao FeiThe future arrives through factories, avatars and ordinary desire.03Li SongsongPainting history one fragment at a time.04Liu WeiA city that will not sit still.05Liu XiaodongHistory painted at human scale.06Xu BingLanguage becomes material, architecture and doubt.07Zao Wou-KiChinese space and European abstraction meet without becoming either one.08Zhang XiaogangThe family photograph becomes a portrait of modern China.