尧山当代艺术基金会（BMCA）为中国艺术家黄敏推出大型作品展“Journeys back to Europe”（返回欧洲的旅程）。该展览将于9月4日（星期日）在慕尼黑WhiteBOX艺术空间开幕。

无论是在Werk3大楼扩建之前的旧馆还是现在的新馆，WhiteBOX始终关注着当代艺术在遥远东方的最新动态。2010年，WhiteBOX旧馆曾举办“all about Peking”（关于北京的一切），随后在2012年举办“all about Shanghai”（关于上海的一切）时，WhiteBOX之后的总监迈克尔·伍斯特（Michael Wüst）先生与曾在北京生活多年的策展人亚历山大·格林姆（Alexandra Grimmer）结识。

从这个角度看，“Journeys back to Europe” （返回欧洲的旅程）正如中国艺术家延续家乡的习俗一样，以一种特殊的方式继承了自2010年以来的传统。对于流逝的过去还存有温情，这一点从某种程度上深深的吸引着欧洲人。

在20世纪，西方的艺术家将打破传统作为美学的重要构成，而中国艺术家则选择了一条更为悠缓，带有归纳性的道路。同时，也带来这样一个问题——表象背后的世界是怎样的？令人感到兴奋的是，黄敏的巨幅作品将人带入到一个与当下世界产生距离感的另外一个世界中。在这种状态里，事物的本质似乎还没有被程式化的术语所冻结，“庞大”还没有退化为一种对“崇高”的表达。

以回应开阔的展厅空间，本次展览的重点为尧山当代艺术基金会（BMCA）收藏的8幅黄敏的巨型画作以及她在景德镇创作的瓷器作品。

黄敏的作品展示了多样的图像载体——从她的画布便可看出。她尤其喜欢使用多维形式，在不同的媒介上进行创作，包括纸张、木箱等。在瓷器上的创作亦是如此。她以瓷器作为基础，将特有的绘画笔触加在釉面上。无论是通过怎样的技术或者色彩，她的绘画语言都具有鲜明的可识别性。

On Sunday, September 4, the exhibition "Journeys back to Europe" opens in whiteBOX Munich with large-scale works by the Chinese painter Huang Min. The exhibition is organised by BMCA Art Collection.

Even in the old whiteBOX, before the extension of the Werk3 building, where the new whiteBOX is located today, the organisers endeavoured to show new developments in Far Eastern art. In 2010, the old whiteBOX showed "all about Peking" and in 2012 Michael Wüst, then director of the whiteBOX, and curator Alexandra Grimmer, who had already been living in Beijing for a long time, got to know each other at "all about Shanghai".

Seen in this light, with "Journeys back to Europe" the tradition of a passion for contemporary Chinese artists who have been reflecting the tradition of their mother country is being continued in a very special way.

While Western art in the 20th century elevated the habit of breaking with tradition to an aesthetic constituent, Chinese artists took a slow, inductive path, into the question: what is the world behind its appearance. It is exciting to be taken away by Huang Min's colossal paintings into a cosmopolitan distance from the world, in which the essence of things does not yet seem frozen in programmatic terms and the colossal has not yet degenerated into an expression of veneration.

As a response to the spacious exhibition place in Munich, the focus of this exhibition will lie on 8 large format paintings by Huang Min from the holdings of BMCA Collection, to be shown in combination with important porcelain objects which the artist realised in Jingdezhen.

Huang Min’s oeuvre shows a wide variety of image carriers: from canvas, where she especially loves to use over dimensional formats, over different kinds of paper or wooden boxes. The surface of porcelain also represents a common base, to add her characteristic painted brush strokes in the glazing. Regardless of technique or colours, her painted language is immediately recognisable.