BMW Art Journey artist shortlist announced during Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019. Clarissa Tossin, Lu Yang and Shen Xin are nominated

Hong Kong. During this year’s #ArtBasel in #hongkong, the joint initiative of #ArtBasel and #BMW to recognize and support emerging artists worldwide is continued with the announcement of the shortlist for the next #BMWartjourney. Like a mobile studio, the #BMWartjourney can take artists almost anywhere in the world to develop new ideas and envision new creative projects.

Hong Kong. Art Basel and #BMW are delighted to present the 2019 artist shortlist for the #BMWartjourney, a joint initiative recognizing and supporting emerging artists worldwide. Like a mobile studio, the #BMWartjourney can take artists almost anywhere in the world to develop new ideas and envision new creative projects.

Today, an international expert jury announced the following shortlist of three artists showing in Discoveries, the sector for emerging artists, at #ArtBasel in #hongkong:

Clarissa Tossin at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles 
Clarissa Tossin (b. 1973) lives and works in Los Angeles, United States. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. In her artistic practice, Tossin uses installation, video, performance, sculpture, and photography. For this year’s edition of #ArtBasel in #hongkong, Tossin is pairing DIY plastic recycling techniques with the materials and practices of Amazonian aesthetic traditions, highlighting the contemporary footprint left in the geological sedimentation of the earth. The artist has had exhibitions at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge and Sicardi Gallery, Houston. Her work was also included in group shows at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Lu Yang at Société, Berlin 
Lu Yang (b. 1984) is a Shanghai-based multi-media artist, who graduated from the New Media Art Department of the China Academy of Art. Deeply immersed in the subcultures of anime, video games, and Science-Fiction, the output of her artistic practice spans 3D-animated films, video game-like installations, holograms, neon, VR and software manipulation, often with overt Japanese manga and anime references. For #ArtBasel in #hongkong, #luyang has created unique fantasies highlighting the fragility of humankind. Departing from Buddhist teachings that propagate a genderless society, she exploits her own images as a vehicle to reproduce asexual visions of herself. Her work was displayed in exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris; M Woods, Beijing; Shanghai Biennale; and Athens Biennale.

Shen Xin at Madeln Gallery, Shanghai 
Shen Xin (b. 1990) lives and works in London, United Kingdom, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Media at The Slade School of Fine Arts of the University College London. Through films and video installations, as well as performative Events, Shen Xin’s practice examines and fabricates techniques and effects of how emotion, judgment and ethic circulate through individual and collective subjects. At this year’s edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong, the artist presents “Commerce des Esprits”, a four-channel video installation bringing the perspectives and productivities of comparative philosophy into an #Event which narrates an unconscious state. Recent solo exhibitions include K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, and Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester. Her work has been on display at group exhibitions including OCAT Shanghai; and Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf. 

These three shortlisted artists are now invited to develop a proposal for their ideal journey, with the winner to be announced in the early summer of 2019.

Further information in the press release to download