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START MUSEUM presents New Year exhibition, “Screening Project 2.0” on January 9, 2025. Every year, the museum begins with the “Screening Project”, a systematic exploration of the historical threads in video art and the current creative achievements of artists from an international perspective. Since the debut of “Screening Project I” in early 2024, the museum receives strong reactions and intense discussions from both within and outside the art world.

 

As a key chapter in START MUSEUM’s six long-term projects, “Screening Project 2.0” in spring 2025, is organized through an OPEN CALL, inviting high-quality video works from all over the world. During the open call, the museum receives nearly 200 submissions from over 160 artists, which are thoroughly discussed and carefully selected by an academic team. As a result,

“Screening Project 2.0” features outstanding works by 14 artists from countries including China, the United States, South Korea, Malaysia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and others.

START MUSEUM presents its curatorial vision and distinctive approach in a groundbreaking manner. The “Screening Project” is part of the museum’s long-term research and exhibition plans. Alongside five other long-term projects: “The History of World Art Since the 1960s” “Zero Degree Sculpture Project” “Timeline Publication Project” “Long Table Discussions” and “Genealogy study of Artists”, these six projects all together form the developmental framework of START MUSEUM, clearly reflecting its core values.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew Barney born in San Francisco, California, and raised in Boise, Idaho, currently lives and works in New York. As a multidisciplinary and cross-boundary artist, his practice spans film, performance, sculpture, and painting. He is renowned for his feature-length works, including The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), River of Fundament (2014), and Redoubt (2019), as well as his ongoing video series Drawing Restraint (beginning in 1987). As a sculptor, Barney is known for his use of materials such as Vaseline, bronze, modern polymers, and clay—first introduced in The Rites of Passage—to create works and installations closely connected to the cinematic worlds of his films.Matthew Barney has held solo exhibitions at art institutions worldwide, including the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain (1995), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2002), the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2005), the Morgan Library & Museum, New York (2013), the Haus der Kunst, Munich (2014), the Yale University Art Gallery (2019), and the Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland (2010 and 2021).

 

 

Lawrence Lek is an artist, filmmaker and musician who unifies diverse practices — architecture, gaming, video, music and fiction — into a continuously expanding cinematic universe. Over the last decade, Lek has incorporated vernacular media of his generation, such as video games and computer-generated animation, into site-specific installations and digital environments, which he describes as “three-dimensional collages of found objects and situations.” Often featuring interlocking narratives and the recurring figure of the wanderer, his work explores the myth of technological progress in an age of social change.

 

 

Qiu Zhijie, 1969 Born in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China, 1992 Graduated from the Printmaking Department of ZhejiangAcademy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art, CAA),Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. He is currently the President of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Dean of the Institute of Technology and Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Dean of the School of Experimental Art, professor of the School of Intermedia Art at China Academy of Art.As an artist, QiuZhijie is known for his calligraphy and ink painting, photography, video, installation and performance works. His art is representational of a new kind of experimental communication between the Chinese literati tradition and contemporary art, social participation and the power of self-liberation ofart. He was also the curator of the first video art exhibition in China in 1996, and curated a series of “Post-sense Sensibility” exhibitions during 1999 and 2005 promoting the young generation of Chinese artists. In 2012 he was the chief curator of the 9 th Shanghai Biennale “Reactivation”, in 2017 he is the chief curator of the Chinese Pavilion of the 57 th Venice Biennale.

He was shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize administered by the Guggenheim Foundation due to his work of The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Project. He was awarded “Artist of the Year” of the Award of Art China in 2009, and was nominated for the same award in 2016. His works are collected by major museums and institutions around the world, including the Guggenheim Museum in NYC , the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Foundation by Christian Dior, Ullens Foundation, Neuer Berliner Kunstrerein, and the White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney.

 

 

Kōng Kōng was born in Xi'an, she graduated from the School of Experimental and Sci-Tech Arts of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree. Her works involve video, installation, painting and text. Her works are confined by technology and confrontational with tools, presupposed and accidental at the same time. She is also focuses on the poetic distance between the three-dimensional simulation and the real scene, forming a metaphorical and mysterious image.

 

 

Nie Lisha (b. 1998, Chongqing, China) is an artist who currently based in New York,United States. Her practice spans a variety of mediums, including but not limited tovideo, sculpture, digital media, and installation. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts inPainting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Master’s degree from New YorkUniversity.Her works of art derive from her mistrust of the authoritative and hegemonic social andideological construction. She views life as a combination of existence (reality) andnarrative (fiction). She questions the action of implant fiction into reality and theviolence of claim it as reality. She aims to explore and expose what she terms as"leakages of the real" moments where truth seeps through these constructed narratives.For her, unlike constructed and artificial elements that require constant maintenance,reality possesses a solid power that can penetrate everything. Her work captures thesemoments of penetration.

 

Her recent exhibitions, screenings, and residencies include CultureHub (USA),Rethymno Days Festival (Greece), Goethe-Institut (Germany), Zhejiang Art Museum(China), By Art Matters(China), and the NARS Foundation (USA), among others.

 

 

Josef Schulz was born in Poland in 1966 and is of  German nationality. He currently lives in Dusseldorf.From 1993 to 1999,he studied at the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Professor Bernd Becher. From 1999 to 2002,he studied at the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Professor Thomas Ruff.On the basis of inheriting the ideas of the photography school at the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, Josef Schulz became a representative figure of the third generation of the Dusseldorf school by exploring the boundary between images and photography.Josef Schulz is known for his photography of architecture and urban landscapes.His works can be found in numerous important collections internationally,including ARoS Aarhus Museum of Art in Denmark,ZKM center for Art and Media Karlsruhe,FRAC Foundation for Contemporary Art in France,Deutsche Bank,UBS,Bundestag, German Airlines,famous Greek ship king Dakis Joannou, Alex Papadimitriou family in Malaysia,and Brise Gallery in China.

 

 

Lee Seung Ae was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1979. She received her MFA at Royal College of Art, London, UK in 2016 and currently works across London and Seoul. She explores intangible elements such as intimate emotions, feelings, beliefs, and spirit—those that cannot be fully captured within one's field of vision—as the main themes of her work. With a deep interest in intangible elements that exist between the external and internal worlds such as energy, feelings, light, and sound, she creates a new dimension of time and space through highly-detailed, largescale drawings, animations, murals, and installations. LEE expresses the fateful agony of being situated between imagination and reality in her practice. In an attempt to transcend the physical limitation of pencil drawings, the artist developed her own unique style by continually experimenting with different ways of visualizing the intangible realm. This has resulted in works that embody not only warmth and familiarity but also discomfort and strangeness—revealing a sense of ambivalence.

 

 

Lou Nengbin, 1989 born in Jinan, Shandong Province, China, graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 2017 with a bachelor's degree and completed his master's degree in 2021, currently lives and works in Beijing. His artistic practice focuses on the synchronization of consciousness with sound and auditory sense, exploring both voluntary and involuntary listening experiences. His work spans various forms, including sound research-oriented printmaking, sculpture, and installation. Through these mediums, he conducts ontological investigations into the science of sound and musicality.

 

 

Zhao Rundong, born in 1998, he graduated from the Department of Intermedia Art of China Academy of Art, and resided in PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig, Germany in 2022. He has been awarded the Gold Medal of Lin Fengmian of China Academy of Art, the nomination of Tomorrow's Vision Award, the Kunpeng Award of the Pingyao International Photography Festival, etc., and his works have been exhibited in CAFA ART MUSUM LangFang, Shanghai West Coast Art Center, The Wrong Biennial, Lichtspieple des Westens Video Art Festival, VINCI'2023, Shanghai K11, Zhejiang Museum of Art, etc. He currently lives and works in Hangzhou and Shanghai.As a generation growing up in the Internet vortex, Zhao Rundong's works are closely connected to contemporary society and youth culture. His creations focus on the state of existence of the new generation of young people spawned by the digital age, exploring important issues such as cultural identity, self-knowledge and state of existence in the context of digitization and globalization, as well as cultural adaptation and resistance under neo-colonialism through the use of 3D gaming technology and AI technology. His works involve multiple media such as video, installation, painting, etc. He constantly discusses the complex relationship between human beings and technology, nature and artificiality, and presents different cultural perspectives and ecological consciousness through artistic means.

 

 

Li Gang, born in  1986, Dali, Yunnan Province, China, lives and works in Beijing, China. Li Gang regards artistic creation as the practice of building emotional storage and spiritual container. To analyze and interpret the source information and self-expression in the development of things/matters, he tries to find the mutual involvement between the artistic language and the language of everyday life, and transforms such mutual involvement into special things that can preserve emotion and spirit. Through his intuition on materials, Li Gang emphasizes the inherent spirit and tension of the materiality of things/matters, and constructs a balance between form and content in artworks, so as to explore the boundary of artistic perception. In summary, Li Gang's practice is a process that is guided by the material spirit as the concept to discuss the “Matter Awaken” generated by art in people’s emotions of survival.

 

 

Hu Rui, born in 1990, works with video, installation, and computer simulation. His practice engages with issues related to time and temporality from a multitude of perspectives, such as causation, prediction, choice, and language. He is the recipient of the Best Experimental Animation Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival and a Jury Special Mention at the 25FPS Festival Croatia. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings at art spaces, institutions, festivals, and conferences, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam; UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; IFVA at the Hong Kong Arts Centre; Times Museum, Guangzhou; Three Shadows, Xiamen; Wuhan Biennale; Siggraph Asia; ISEA, among others. He received an MFA in Design Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BFA in Film with a minor in computer science from New York University. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Duke Kunshan University.

 

 

Chengan & Villo is an art duo founded in 2022 by artists Chengan Xia (b.1995) and Villo Jiang (b.1994), who works in the field of video, performance and installation art. They tell humorous stories based on personal experience, consumer culture, literature and design history, in order to dismantle and reflect on the discipline and shaping of contemporary urban life.

 

 

Jiangshengyu Nova Pan, born in Hangzhou, China, is a moving-image and installation artist. She earned her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art and currently lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. Pan’s work focuses on human mobility. Working from an individual perspective, her practice explores the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by a mobile population. Originally inspired by the Chinese context, she uses this history as an aperture, playing with scale and moving beyond place, exploring how mobility is internalized and migration felt in the body. Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by cinema as a medium, interviews, rumors, and intergenerational storytelling.