Opening time:2025.11.22
Duration: 2025.11.22 -- 2026.02.01
Location: Today Art Museum Hall 2, No.32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
We stand at a crossroads of our time: female creators, collectors, and curators are entering the discourse of contemporary art together with unprecedented visibility. This era clearly articulates the value of their creations, understands the thought processes behind their collections, and discerns the perspectives and visions within their curatorial practices. What connects them and creates resonance is their persistent inquiry into the essential value of art—both as the starting point for creation and the destination for collecting and curating.
Today Art Museum, in collaboration with the Spanish cultural institution Instituto Cervantes Beijing, has timely curated this exhibition to showcase the work of female artists from diverse backgrounds while highlighting the significant contributions of female collectors to building the legacy of contemporary art.
The exhibition theme “Crossroads” signifies where artistic creation converges at the intersection of culture, identity, and modes of expression. The featured works defy simple categorization, instead constructing an open and fluid space for dialogue through the collision of diverse perspectives and traditions. Artists explore through multifaceted approaches, guiding viewers to reexamine the existence of boundaries and the possibilities of transcending them amidst both differences and shared resonance.
The exhibited works, rooted in specific cultural soils, offer valuable reflections on contemporary society, historical memory, and the essence of life, enriching the global art ecosystem. Formally, they maintain intrinsic connections to the profound artistic traditions of China and Spain, while their creative techniques serve as prisms reflecting today's multicultural realities and imparting fresh interpretations to history. Through vivid color language, nuanced bodily experience, and philosophical expression, these artists challenge conventional understandings of “womanhood,” “the body,” “nature,” and “knowledge.”
This exhibition, creating space for the collision and fusion of Eastern and Western perspectives, invites us to reinterpret the rich dimensions of contemporary female creativity. The identity of “woman” serves as both a vehicle for expression and an object of deconstruction in their practices—they confront literary gender narratives or challenge stereotypical visual gazes to reveal the power structures and cultural metaphors underlying identity. Women's collecting upholds a dual mission: constructing and expressing “who I am” through art acquisition while supporting contemporary art's development within complex, diverse contexts—empowering artists to create works imbued with contemporary insight.
It is precisely these complex, multi-layered expressions that allow us to transcend superficial appearances and reconnect with a creative lineage and value system that has long been partially obscured. They are not marginal echoes, but subjects actively reshaping the narrative of art history. In this sense, this dialogue concerns not only women, but also how we understand the profound value shifts unfolding within contemporary art.
Yan Yan,Rosina Gómez-Baeza, Lucía Ybarra
Elena Alonso, Irma Álvarez-Laviada, Elena Blasco, Cai Jin, Cai Yaling, Chen Hui, Ángela de la Cruz, Miren Doíz, Esther Ferrer, Alicia Framis, Fuentesal y Arenillas (Julia Fuentesal y Pablo Arenillas), Ruth Gómez, Irene Infantes, Ju Ting, Kang Chunhui, Menchu Lamas, Teresa Lanceta, Los Bravú (Andrea Gómez y Diego Omil), Cristina Mejías, Mariona Moncunill, Sonia Navarro, Marina Núñez, Mabel Palacín, Sara Ramo, Wu Didi, Xiang Jing, Yao Qingmei, Zhang Yanzi