Cai Guoqiang
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Helpful sources of objective and rigorous judgement, museums provide an independent voice in an art world populated by more unscrupulous personalities and poor research than is ideal. But how can we find out what the top museums are acquiring and what they are holding in their storage rooms?
Public institutions are often happy to share this information if you give them a call though of course this is not necessarily the case with private museums. Some institutions are now giving the public digital access to their entire collections and the Pompidou Centre is one of these. Its collection comprises over 61,000 works by more than 5,500 artist around the world making it the largest collection in Europe of modern and contemporary art.
The collection is dominated by French works (24,000) and there is a substantial group of US works (9,000) with the bulk of the remainder coming from Europe. It seems that the Pompidou has been active in acquiring Chinese, Indian and Iranian works recently. We have made a list of links to some Asian artists’s works in its holdings:
Chinese modern: Zou Wou-ki, Walasse Ting, Xu Beihong and a number of other 1930s born artists
Chinese contemporary: Cai Guo-qiang, Kai Cui, Georgette Chen, Chen Zhen, Cui Xiuwen, Fang Lijun, Huang Yong Ping, Li Yongbin, Liu Wei, Wang Du, Wang Jian Wei, Wang Jin, Weng Fen, Yan Lei, Yan Peiming, Yang Fudong, Yang Jun, Yang Zhenzhong, Zhang Huan, Zhang Peili, Ming Zhu.
Hong Kong: Man Ip
Yuki Onodera
Shadi Ghadirian
Indian: Subodh Gupta, Ansih Kapoor, Sonia Khurana, Satyendra Pakhale, N Pushpmala, Raghu Rai, Amar Sehgal, Tejal Shah, Bethea Shore, Velu Viswanadhan
Indonesia, Cambodia catogories contain works by Europeans rather than by native artists
Iraq: Jananne Al-Ani, Abraham Habbah, Jamil Hamoudi
Iran: Jalai Abbas, Nasser Assar, Shadi Ghadirian, Ghazel, Abbas Kiarostami, Nathalie Melikian, Shirin Neshat, Serge Rezvani
Shirin Neshat
Israel: Most works Ron Arad furniture design
Japan: 16 pages of works including 1960s photography and architectural works and furniture from 1960s to 1980s, Yayoi Kusama, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Rika Noguchi, Yoko Ono, Yuki Onodero, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Thailand: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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