'70' explores a shared artistic generation across borders and cultures

The Long Museum West Bund is hosting a new exhibition focused on artists born in the 1970s.

The exhibition, "70," which brings together nearly 100 pieces by artists from diverse cultural backgrounds worldwide, suggests a generational conversation that transcends geographical and cultural boundaries.

The exhibition, which opened on January 24, will run until May 10.

The formative years of these artists unfolded amid profound global transformations: the end of the Cold War, the rise of globalization, and the rapid expansion of information technologies.

Simultaneously, these artists reawakened and reconfigured local cultural traditions and evolving senses of identity. These parallel yet divergent forces shape the distinct conceptual and spiritual foundations of their practices, revealing both shared experiences and singular artistic trajectories.

In China, artists born in the 1970s occupy a unique position, bridging the past and the future. They witnessed unprecedented social, material, intellectual and artistic change while growing up during the reform and opening-up era.

Their work often includes individual revisitations of collective memory, acute perceptions of rapid urbanization, new interpretations of traditional aesthetics, and a critical examination of their cultural position in a globalized world.

Rather than adhering to a single style or theme, their practices unfold across a broad spectrum – from social narratives to inner inquiry, from material and media experimentation to conceptual expression.

By bringing together works by artists from China and across the world, the exhibition seeks to construct a visible site of dialogue.

Through these encounters, viewers are invited to consider how this generation of artists, each following their own paths, simultaneously bears the weight of history and place while sharing a sharp, collective questioning of the contemporary world – and pushing the boundaries of artistic perception and thought.

Date: Through May 10, 10am-5:30pm (Tuesdays-Thursdays); 10am-8pm (Fridays-Sundays)

Admission: 200 yuan (US$28.7)

Venue: West Wing Gallery, Long Museum West Bund

龙美术馆(西岸)

Address: 3398 Longteng Ave, Xuhui District

徐汇区龙腾大道3398号