Nightlife & Activities

Xie Nanxing: Spices Date: March 17 — May 17 — 10 am Venue: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Xie Nanxing: Spices presents a new series of seven major oil paintings created in the last two years, reflecting a shift in the artist’s thinking away from his earlier attempts to mediate between realism and conceptualism, in favor of a more objective search for the roots of his artistic practice. In these works, common tropes and references from Western art history and techniques developed by old masters are deftly handled, obliquely or ambiguously brought onto the canvas. The enlightenment narrative that has undergirded contemporary painting in China throughout the past several decades of rapid development is expressed here as the confusion and complexity that lies between two vastly different visual and historical contexts. This exhibition is less a summary or an argument than a timely corrective: Xie Nanxing views his own “misreadings” of the Western classical tradition in the same vein as Columbus mistaking the tree bark he found in the Americas for Indian spices. The exhibition will also include sketches and supplementary materials that elucidate Xie’s creative trajectory.

Specialty Coffee Class Date: March 17-31 — 10:30 am Venue: Greybox Coffee Brewing your own coffee is fun, easy and satisfying. The simplest, most accessible way to start is with a filter brewing method. Come in and spend 1.5 hours with Greybox team and we’ll have you brewing beautiful coffee. We will show you the basics of brewing hand-drip coffee, and we will explore the different variables (grind, time and agitation) that can be adjusted to change the taste of your brew. You will find it easy to brew coffee the same way at home. We will be drinking lots of delicious coffee throughout the session.

DCCC Spring Ball 2018 Date: March 17 — 6 pm Venue: Beijing Four Seasons Hotel The Danish Chamber of Commerce in China (DCCC) is proud to invite you to the annual Danish Spring Ball on March 17 at Four Seasons Hotel in Beijing. It is a wonderful opportunity to dress up, have an exquisite dinner and dance the night away to some amazing Danish tunes, this year supplied by none other than the Danish Superstar Thomas Helmig.

Yokohama Mary and Zen and Bones Date: March 17-18 — 7 pm Venue: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Since June 2017, UCCA has collaborated with Lantern Cine-Club and Blackfin to present the “New Asian Scenery” screening series, presenting one outstanding Asian film every month. Past film screenings include The City of Mirrors: A Fictional Biography by Vietnamese director Truong Minh Quy, Turah by Indonesian director Wicaksono, Snakeskin by Singaporean director Daniel Hui, Time to Read Poems by Lee Soojung, The Return by Green Zeng, Hills and Mountains by Zhao Xu, and The Mountain and Dxgal by Taiwanese director Su Hung-en. In March of 2018, UCCA will screen Yokohama Mary and Zen and Bones by Japanese director Nakamura Takayuki.

Giorgio Gigli Date: March 17 — 11 pm Venue: Lantern, Beijing Konekt Asia presents the Italian hypnotic and deep master Gigli’s China debut. Giorgio transforms his material. Voids, pitfalls, drones and dilated melodies become intricate, sophisticated, and hypnotic rhythmic equipment that runs the risk of constantly changing classicist techno aesthetics in a conceptual derivation close to his soul.

Creative Review Sessions Date: March 18 — 2 pm Venue: Aiospace, Beijing The Creative Review Sessions Team are pleased to invite you to our first and nonprofit portfolio review session. We will offer an afternoon of portfolio reviewing for contemporary visual artists. These sessions provide a communication platform with some of China’s established and contemporary artists and curators to allow for suggestions, open dialogue and responses to your artwork or current projects in a comfortable relaxed environment. Artists will be allocated a oneto-one 20 minute open dialogue session with an invited artist or curator, who will be able to offer feedback or art advice.

Rockonomics Date: March 18 — 2 pm Venue: Aotu Space, Beijing China’s popular cultural industries have faced an incredible transformation in the last few years. Music has been at the forefront of this change with the growth of streaming music services, a growing live music sector, popularity of new music genres and technology such as AI changing how we listen. At the same time, cultural industries are not ruled by traditional economic rules. Popular culture transcends usual market economics and raises spirits and aspirations. For example, popular music is a classic superstar industry, where rewards are highly skewed. Can economic models explain the distribution of rewards?

Workshop: Smartphones — How Much Do They Cost Your Company? Date: March 21 — 6:30 pm Venue: French Chamber of Commerce and Industry In China Everyone has a smartphone in their pocket or their hand these days. Touted as a tool for productivity, is there a hidden cost to spending so much time on your phone? Learn more about mobile phone addiction and the hard costs of mobile phone use in the office during this talk with learning solutions designer Felix Heinzelmann. The language of the workshop is English and Chinese.

New York By Night Date: March 23-April 28 — 11 am Venue: Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery HdM Gallery Beijing is pleased to present New York by Night, Spencer Sweeney’s personal artistic journey through the streets of the New York from the late 1990s until today. Bringing works selected and assembled by Sweeney himself, the exhibition brings together 17 most celebrated artists from New York’s creative community.

We Lost The Sea Date: March 23 — 9 pm Venue: Yue Space The progressive instrumental post-rock group We Lost The Sea is known for their crushing guitars with darkly atmospheric melodies. Their most recent album, Departure Songs, was released in 2015, but they’ve been together since 2007 and have toured with top acts in their native Australia and internationally.

Longines Global Champions Tour Date: April 20-22 — 10 am Venue: South of China Art Museum The Longines Global Champions Tour is the world’s premier show jumping series, bringing together the top ranked athletes in the world to compete in prestigious locations for unprecedented prize money. Now highly respected as one of the most prolific social and sporting events on the calendar, the Shanghai leg of the Championship will welcome the world’s best riders as they battle it out for the top spot in their season long campaign for the coveted LGCT Champion of Champions title.