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Stavanger Art Museum (Norway)August 2014 – January 2015Exhibition I: Brush &#38; Shutter: Early Photography in ChinaThis exhibition is a research based exhibition that was produced by Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2011. Getty Research Institute is one of the most preeminent research centers for arts and culture in the US, organizing exhibitions and holding a research library of more than 1 million volumes. Stavanger Art Museum has entered into a collaboration with this museum to host the exhibition in the fall of 2014. This is the first time the exhibition is held in Europe.The exhibition is focusing on the origin of photography in China, an area which is not fully understood yet. It shows how the medium of photography was learned and readily adapted by both Chinese and Western artists, after the introduction of photography to China in the mid 19th century. The new technology was grafted onto traditional conventions, and at the same time there were photographers breaking with tradition, and produced unexpected images.Exhibition II: Performance and Imagination: Chinese Photography 1911-2014This exhibition is produced by Stavanger Art Museum, headed by curator Per Bjarne Boym. Mr. Boym is a curator and an art historian, who earlier served as director of the National Museum of Contemporary art in Oslo.The exhibition covers a vast time span and focuses on an area which has not yet been researched to any great extent. Rather than providing a comprehensive presentation of Chinese photographic history, the exhibition will aim to boost interest for this rich and interesting material. The exhibition will display works that are largely unknown to a Norwegian (and a European) audience, making the project more tantalizing, but at the same time also more challenging in terms of how to introduce the works to the audience. The exhibition will therefore be accompanied by an extensive catalogue.More information 