Sixi Education | Art and Public Space: Art Lecture

Event Review 

On January 4th, Sixi Museum was delighted to invite Professor Zhang Zhengmin of Nanjing Normal University and held the first offline art lecture of 2025 - Art and Public Space, in which he addressed the emotional motives inherent in art creation by analysing art events and artworks and exploring how public space can give art a broader interpretative context to constitute a resonance field between artists, audiences and society. 

The lecture began from the perspective of artistic motivation and private space, where art, through its thematic expression, is able to connect with the audience’s personal experience by touching upon individual’s emotional catharsis or spiritual solace. As art continues to penetrate various public spaces - from salons to museums and more open public spaces - it clearly recreates the art historical lineage from the Renaissance to contemporary earth art and conceptual art. 

During the Q&A session, more questions were discussed: How do art organisations confront the phenomenon of fragmented social media images gradually replace institutional spaces in delivering artistic content to the public, thus depriving exhibition spaces of their true versatility? Has the renewal of electronic technologies in the digital age led to a different reality from that of traditional exhibition spaces and interactive spaces?