Judy Chicago and Stanley Whitney art show in Shanghai promotes new foundation to support young Chinese artists and women artists
- The Longlati Foundation will earmark US$450,000 a year for the projects of Chinese artists born after 1990. It will open an art space in Shanghai next year
- To promote its launch, the foundation is staging a show featuring works by feminist artist Judy Chicago and African-American artist Stanley Whitney
A foundation has been set up in Shanghai to support emerging and under-recognised artists in China.
The Longlati Foundation, launched by Singapore investor David Su and Chinese artist Chen Zihao, will earmark 3 million yuan (US$450,000) a year for the projects of Chinese artists born after 1990. Chen says the foundation has been in the works since 2017.
“Su has been working in China since the early ’90s and is [one of] the early investors in internet search giant Baidu and car rental app Didi. Buoyed by the success of Chinese tech corporations, he sees bright prospects for Chinese art, which he thinks can be exported to the whole of Southeast Asia like [how] Western art spread to Asia,” he says.
The foundation will open a 700 square metre (7,530 square foot) art space in the Art Tower – a new landmark on the West Bund – in Shanghai in May, 2021. It will have two exhibition spaces, one of them dedicated to works by female artists from around the world. The first show in this section will feature works by Tala Madani, an Iranian-American artist known for creating paintings that look at Middle Eastern culture and gender issues.