stage候台BACK is an art space dedicated to experimental projects in Shanghai, China

City Weekend, Nov 24 - Dec 7 2011, Page 20:

城市周报，2011年11月24日至12月7日，第20页：

Thomas Palme, Barack Obama versus Mother Teresa, 150 cm x 120 cm, pencil on paper, 2011

German art magazine "ART" has a new blog section: I ART SHANGHAI by Shanghai Detour founder Eike Stratmann.

She discovers and explores Shanghai's art scene since 2009 and will now regularly report from this buzzing metropolis in China. We are very proud to be the subject of Ms. Stratmanns first article for this prestigious magazine.

Please click HERE to read the full article (in German only)

德国艺术杂志“ART”有一个新的博客章节：我艺术上海，上海艺术地图创始人Eike Stratmann。

她发现并探讨了自2009年以来，上海艺术舞台将定期在这嗡嗡的大都市里上面报告。我们感到非常自豪地成为Stratmanns女士为著名杂志写的第一篇文章

请点击这里阅读完整的文章（只在德国）

Eike Stratmann by Yun Xiao Su

一份采访，千言万语却没有说得太多

This is the global times. 

这是全球性的的时代。

Chinas 

中国

schizophrenic 

English language newspaper.

Exclusive: Ai Weiwei breaks his silence (really?)

独家：艾未未打破他的沉默（真的吗？）

Read the "interview" HERE 

阅读“采访”，点击这里

Thanks Smart Shanghai for this review:

Click HERE for the whole article

First up is stage候台BACK, making quite the impression with their first show at new home,Moganshan Lu. After the artists of 696 Weihai Lu were forced to abandon their warren of studios, the gallery was left – briefly – homeless until Eastlink stepped in to save the day. They're now effectively time sharing the space with Susanne Junker's stageBACK, taking it in turns to present shows. Whilst on paper it might sound less than ideal, in reality the arrangement affords the German-run gallery a vastly bigger canvas with which to work. 

Currently on show, Lost and Found takes full advantage of this newfound roominess, with the main area delving off into smaller corridors, allowing works by six international artists the space their respective creations demand. As the title suggests, the exhibition explores themes of (re)discovery and is in itself is a nod to the fortuitous circumstances behind stageBACK's move, with a particularly awesome installation by Chris Gill underpinning the idea of the gallery's rebirth: a long, neon-lit tunnel tapers down to an Alice in Wonderland-esque mirrored door, through to stageBACK's reincarnation proper. Bright white and disconcerting through its height, the passage is evocative of those fleeting memories recalled by the near death-experienced...

Other highlights include fantastical pencil drawings by Shanghai talent Maleonn, better known for his photography but reinventing his art in this new series to enchanting effect. Also playing with artistic mediums is URBANVIDEOSCAPESHANGHAI by Kathryn Gohmert and Xepo: video installations showing the pair 'tracing' the city onto glass in deft, monochrome strokes surrounded by the chaotic cacophony that is Shanghai. It's a messy, fascinating rediscovery and parring down of painting, all presented midst the literal rubble and detritus of the city. Although far more delicate in her execution, Xiao Wen Tang is also concerned with reviving old memories, her almost photographic negative silk paintings acting as portals of nostalgia to childhoods past. Presented alongside assembled toys, photographs and trinkets, the works are strikingly beautiful. 

24/7 showed up on our last open door event and asked me few questions. Click HERE for more...