As one of the first Chinese art students, Shan Fan went to Germany at the beginning of the 1980s in order to study pure art, more specifically to Hamburg, where he has been living ever since and where he is managing the well-reputed Design Factory design school. Drawing on his own artist’s biography and his intercultural background, he will speak on the changing traditions in Chinese painting and society. He develops a cultural history of bamboo in China – a plant of central meaning in Chinese culture. The transformation of its role as a traditional material in Chinese art as well as architecture, throughout the generations, gives a rich account of China’s path to modernity and changes in design strategies.
Date: Thursday, 18 September 2008, 20:00 hours
Place: aac Planckstrasse 13, Hamburg-Altona













Shan Fan
Studied traditional Chinese ink painting in Hangzhou, before going to Hamburg in 1984 to study pure art. Since 1998 he has been managing Hamburg Design Factory International. Shan Fan’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions all over the world. In 2006 he received the Hamburg "Medal for Art and Science".