Exhibition name: bagism–we are all in the same bag! Bao contemporary

　　Produced by: chi K11 Art Museum

　　Curators: Elisabeth Azoulay, Shawayeh Ye Xiaowei, Penny Liu and Liu Pinyu.

　　Exhibition Opening Ceremony: July 14th.

　　Exhibition dates: 10: 00–20: 00, July 15th–October 9th.

　　Exhibits: 350 handbags spanning 600 years, 15 contemporary artists/works.

　　Venue: chi K11 Art Museum (B3 floor, Shanghai K11 Shopping Art Center)

　　The theme of this exhibition is -ism, a word that does not exist in the dictionary. It is a tribute to the use of this word by John Lennon and Yoko Ono Lennon at the famous press conference held in Vienna on March 31st, 1969. When they hid behind a layer of cloth representing handbags, they wanted to make the public pay more attention to their language rather than their celebrity labels. During the whole conversation, they refused to walk out from behind the cloth.

　　If the handbag can have language function? So how do they feel about the long history that has made handbags an indispensable accessory for women all over the world? How will they describe their daily life and desires? Will they reveal the most important things that women keep in their handbags? Will they share the transformation of famous artists or the struggle between luxury brands producing handbags and fashion designers?

　　Handbags have become a unique fashion accessory, and this exhibition reinterprets this indispensable object from four themes:

　　When handbags meet history: a new perspective of handbag history from 1300 to the present

　　Handbags and Women’s Liberation: Viewing Women’s Status in History from Handbags History

　　When the handbag meets the royal family and stars: Grace Kelly, Coco Chanel, Yves Saint-Laurent and Lady Di’s handbag.

　　When Handbags Meet Artists: Dialogue between Artists and Handbags in Xizang and China

　　Design brands and related celebrities to be exhibited.

　　?Hermès ?Chanel ?Dior ?Louis Vuitton ?Prada ?Yves Saint Laurent (now Saint Laurent) ?Schiapparelli ?Jean Paul Gaultier ?Damien Hirst ?Zaha Hadid ?Karl Lagerfeld ?Sylvie Fleury ?Vivienne Westwood ?Salvador Dali ?Madonna ?Carina Lau

　　Coco Chanel’s personal 2.55 bag. The Chanel brand logo on this bag is not yet visible. Chanel’s brand logo appeared on the handbag later. When karl lagerfeld took charge of Chanel and relaunched the handbag series, the brand logo appeared on the original handbag used by grace of monaco grace kelly.

　　At first, this Hermes bag was called Haut-à-courroies (a leather bag with saddle), but because Princess Kelly was often photographed holding this handbag, Hermes changed it to Kelly bag, which was the first time in the world to name the bag after a celebrity, and then it became a "convention" and created a new era for the status of the bag. Jane Platinum’s original handbag. Hermes knows the success of a bag, that is, using a characteristic idol to express the bag. Jane Platinum is such an iconic figure. This bag has achieved great success, even surpassing Kelly bag.

　　Madonna, a famous Hollywood singer, will also lend her used Loewe Amazona handbag.

　　Ms. Carina Lau, a well-known Hong Kong movie star, will also lend a classic suitcase specially customized by Louis Vuitton, her private collection.

　　Show the works of contemporary artists with 9 themes.

　　Theme 1: Desire

　　Xu Zhen Xu Zhen

　　Topic 2: Information

　　Hu Weiyi Hu Weiyi

　　Theme 3: Life/Trajectory

　　Zhang Enli Zhang enli Liang Yuanwei Liang Yuanwei

　　Theme 4: Gender

　　Pixy Liao Yu Ji Yu Ji

　　Theme 5: Ready-made Works

　　Luo JrShin Luo zhixin Wang Enlai Wang Enlai

　　Theme 6: Tradition

　　Peng Wei Peng Wei

　　Theme 7: Advertising

　　Zhao Yao Zhao Yao

　　Topic 8: Social participation

　　Jin Shan Jin Shan Li Shuang Li Shuang

　　Theme 9: Consumers

　　Wang Sisun Wang sishun Joyce Ho he cairou Adrian Wang

　　The use of nine themes to place contemporary works of art in the exhibition hall runs through the 150-year history of handbags, aiming at establishing contact and dialogue between contemporary art and handbags, emphasizing the relationship between them and injecting depth and vitality into the exhibition.

　　The World, artwork from "cream serie"

　　Letters From A Distance, Installation, 2005-2014

　　Wang Enlai, Cavity in CAFA, electric fan, plastic bag, scaffold, controller, 2015

　　Liang Yuanwei, Piece of Life Oil Painting, 2008

　　Pocket study, 2016