Research Projects

This project aim ed to explore the impacts of waiting on patients undergoing clinical treatment, as well as ways to...

This project explored the artistic representation of dreams in different cultures, their socio-political meanings and ...

Speculative Natures, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, explores the role of contemporary art in imagining environmental ...

Professor Jiang Jiehong of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts curated the biannual Thailand Biennale (2018)

Thinking of Place iii brings artists together to reflect on geographical culture, exchange stories and reflect on them...

Examining the role of arts and humanities in developing inclusive forms of education for children with disabilities. ...

The project aims to explore how gathered materials can be combined and presented to create something new, making not a...

This exhibition explored the ideologies behind President Xi Jinping's notion of the Chinese Dream.

Understanding the decline in traditional Chinese arts and culture amid the country’s rapid economic growth.

The Kipper and the Corpse saw Stuart Whipps pay homage to the iconic Longbridge Motor Factory by restoring a classic 1...

This exhibition aimed to cross international boundaries by introducing a Chinese audience to five British artists, who...

Jonathan Harris and a team of international researchers have created an extensive new publication detailing the key def...

This exhibition explored the meaning of shadow in different cultural contexts and determine, through contemporary art, ...

Producing a powerful, contemporary remake of a famous early 1900s Suffrage play, working with Bedfordshire's LGBTQ+ com...

The aim was to explore the power of digital film to communicate the meaningful and honest experiences of those affecte...

This exhibition was centred around the concept of harmony, specifically in response to the notion of Chinese Harmony a...

Taking part in the Guangzhou Triennial, one of the largest art events in China, the BCU team's curation of the theme 'U...

The research investigates how Chinese contemporary art has increasingly become a popular method to help rejuvenate Chi...

'Spirit Matters' is an exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, curated by Jiang Jiehong in the Chinese Centre for Visua...

Dr. Shiyu Gao, awarded Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birmingham School of Art, has created a unique art exhibition...

BCU researcher Dr. Lauren Walden, based in the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, has recently completed a three-year rese...

Research Projects

Bummock

Waiting for diagnosis: an artistic exploration

I Hear Your Dreams: Contemporary Art from Norway

Speculative Natures

Thailand Biennale Krabi 2018

Thinking of Place iii

Disability Under Siege

Doing / thinking – About (facing away from the direction of travel)

This is Shanghai: An Exhibition of Urban Parallels

Everyday Legend: Reinventing Traditions in Chinese Contemporary Art

Kipper and the Corpse

The Distant Unknown: Contemporary Art from Britain

Terrorism and the Arts

The Shadow Never Lies

Tomorrow's Great Pageant

Life:Moving: Digital Technology and Human Vulnerability: Towards an Ethical Film Praxis

Asia Triennial Manchester: Harmonious Society

The Unseen: The Fourth Guangzhou Triennial

Art Diplomacy and Nation Branding: The Visual Politics of Re-inventing China

Spirit Matters

Under the Cyber Eyes

Colonialism, Communism, Capitalism and the Copy: Surrealism and the People’s Republic of China