Zhou Tiehai, born in 1966 in Shanghai, studied at the Fine Arts School of Shanghai University and lives in Shanghai. 1998 First Prize of the Contemporary Chinese Art Award, (CCAA Association, Switzerland). Exhibitions included a.o. the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. Solo exhibitions a.o. MoCA, Shanghai; Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Marella Arte Comtemporanea, Milan.
Will/We Must
(CHN 1996, Video, 9 Min. 17 Sek.)
Will/We Must portrays the artists´ collective in 1997 in Beijing as a stylized silent film from the dawn of cinema. At once witty and prescient, Will/We Must is familiar to anyone engaged in the art world, almost as the script of the verisimilitude and dramaturge performed by the art-players of today.
