Journalist ★ Forfatter / Author ★ Foredrag
KØS, Museum of art in public spaces, 15 March, 2014
Thank you for
inviting me here today. Christine Buhl Andersen & Tereza de Aruda have
already spoken about the exhibition and the artist, Wang Qingsong. I have been
specifically asked not to talk about art in China, but the space in which
artists express themselves.
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