BMW Art Journey

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BMW Art Journey winner Lu Yang (represented by the gallery Société, Berlin) completed the first leg of her travel, which took her to Bali, Indonesia from January 12 to 21, 2020. The Shanghai-based artist is the eighth recipient of the BMW Art Journey, a collaboration between Art Basel and BMW, created to recognize and support emerging artists worldwide.

In cooperation with Acute Art and as long-term global partner of Art Basel, BMW will showcase the latest artworks of Lu Yang, BMW Art Journey awardee of 2019. The Shanghai-based artist is represented by Société, Berlin. From December 2 to 6, 2020, Art Basel will present “OVR: Miami Beach”, the latest edition of the show’s Online Viewing Rooms.

As China’s foremost athletics innovator, Li-Ning has, for three decades, enabled and empowered the human body in movement. The brand’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection examines the powerful link between design and kinetic energy—and how clothing, through construction and fabric manipulation, can both protect and propel the body in motion. Li-Ning presents apparel that frees the form and pushes it to its ultimate potential—creating loose silhouettes through techniques of knitting, gathering, puckering, pleating, and knotting. Implementing many pro-gressive textiles, these feats of tailoring accommodate the body in achieving its fullest range of motion.  This concept strips athletics to their universal essence: energetic movements that fuel the human machine. The idea is reflected and simul-taneously abstracted in the season’s collection film, “The Art of Movement,” which was filmed in Shanghai on August 25th, 2020 and will debut online on September 29th as part of Paris Fashion Week. Creative directed by renowned Chinese new media artist Lu Yang, the film is presented in four chapters, each representing one of the classical, elemental energies: earth, fire, water, and air.  The collaboration with the artist Yang marks the most recent manifestation of Li-Ning’s commitment to contemporary art—an engagement that began earlier this year with the announcement of a three-year patronage of Paris’ iconic contemporary arts institution the Centre Pom-pidou. For Li-Ning, the collaboration with Yang also caps off a 30th anniversary that has seen exciting announcements and partnerships with like-minded design talent, including Stefano Pilati, Neil Barrett, and Danish streetwear brand, Soulland.