ColorBox Space - ColorBox

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Located in the historical and cultural city of Hangzhou, known for its scenic views, ColorBox Space is the perfect environment for fostering the arts. Our gallery is situated in Jianhua Pioneer Park, steps away from the famous West Lake, it is the city’s cultural and educational district center. Formerly known as the Hangzhou Electrical and Mechanical Plant, we’ve embarked on a major overhaul to the industrial space to create an arena for vital creativity. Simultaneously in the art world capital of New York, we founded ColorBox in 2012. Focusing on international art innovation education, global art exchanges, artist promotion, and career development for art and design, our members include pioneer artists, designers, lecturers and professors from top art schools around the world. Here in ColorBox, we transcend national borders and language to nurture the enthusiasm for art education. It is evident from our cross-industry art exhibits held in ColorBox Space. Visitors experience a variety of cross-border works, where artists are inspired to create their own passionate narratives for their artistic journey. Gallery Address: Hangzhou West Lake District, 1 Jianhua Park, Building 5, Suite #10.

ColorBox Space in China

ColorBox Space is a new art space by ColorBox. Aimed at exploring the possibilities of Chinese contemporary art on the international stage, we are committed to support the promotion of emerging artists. We are more than just a top-tier promotion agency for artists. Our space provides a platform for collectors to seek their next art investment by allowing opportunities of cultural exchange with domestic and foreign artists in the field of contemporary art.

The gallery takes hints from the white cube, with the added flexible of two 10 feet by 10 feet mobile white walls to convert into two gallery spaces. The movable lighting sources can be tweaked according to the needs of the exhibits.

The space is also equipped with a photography studio and commercial audio and video projection equipment.

There is also a classroom space for a variety of gallery activities such as opening and closing receptions or for seminars and product launches.

A large coffee or break area with additional seating to provide guests with a comfortable environment.
To maximize our studio space, there is also a work area to facilitate artists in building large-scale works on site. We’ve also equipped a large mobile electronic screen to facilitate various types of lectures on demand.

On the second floor, our office spaces include a large conference room, equipped with remote video conferencing equipment. The space can accommodate more than twenty people. The open area and concept provides an excellent view of the gallery spaces below.

For inquiries, please contact us.

flora@colorbox.cn

"Break" is the first high school artist exhibition, co-sponsored by VISUALIZEstudio and Hangzhou line. The art exhibition provides a platform for high school students to show their artistic ability in fine art, photography, and 3D works. The space is inspired by experiential workshops, allowing viewers to immerse in the atmosphere and its artistic creations.

ColorBox Exhibition / Break

This is not landscape

ColorBox Hangzhou is pleased to present “This is not landscape,” a collaborative group exhibition featuring three independent artists in our incubative art gallery, ColorBox Space.

Landscape painting has always been a subject matter in both mainstream Eastern and Western art history. Whether in the form of a traditional Chinese landscape painting, pre-15th Century commissioned works for churches or rich nobles, or from the romanticism of J.M.W. Turner to Mark Rothko’s color field series, landscape paintings have gone through multiple renditions of interpretation as time evolved.

Belgian surrealist artist, Rene Magritte, once raised a poignant question about the relationship of images and words to his audiences in his most notable painting, The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe) (1929). The two paintings of the Pipe he created successively, initiated a discussion about the dialectical relationship between “words”, “image” and “object.”

In contemporary art today,traditional systems of reality, visual, and concept is constantly being reinterpreted by new ideas. Through the art of these three artists, who were primarily inspired by nature and landscape, we once again juxtapose the relationship between“reality”, “visual”, and “concept.” These terms correspond with the fundamental concepts that make up nature, abstract landscape painting, and landscape painting.

The exhibition questions the audience: Is what you are viewing a direct interpretation of a landscape painting? Or is it a result of the subtextual relationship between reality, visual, and concept?

“Landscape” explores not only its long history in mainstream art, but also what it means to viewers in its endless possibility of representation with nature. It challenges the audience to speculate the dialectical relationship between the three artists and their conceptual interpretations of landscape painting.

Expanded Habitat

Expanded Habitat ColorBox Hangzhou is pleased to present “Expanded Habitat,” a collaborative group exhibition with Unlisted Projects at ColorBox Space.

Habitat, a term typically referring to a space in which an organism lives, find food, shelter, protection and reproduce, the exhibition explores the constant changing and expanding concept of the habitat. It is not only defined by all the physical interactions within biological or social spaces, but it is also redefined conceptually through transformative processes created by a collective experience or personal memories.

From Zero To Eternity

On May 19, 2017 at 7:00 pm, ColorBox Hangzhou and Zhejiang University of Technology’s International Education Institute jointly organized the 2017 Clothing and Apparel Design (Sino-US cooperation) exhibition, featuring the outstanding graduation works of its young designers in our inaugural ColorBox Space in Hangzhou’s West Lake District. The opening event was hosted by Bu Tian and attended by guest speakers Zhejiang University of Science and Technology Associate Professor Liu Lixian, designer Lin Yifei, and ColorBox General Manager Meng Fanqi.