From October 17 to December 16, the 4th CAA Printmaking Triennia opens at the Art Museum of the China Academy of Art, continuing its sustained inquiry into the notion of Post-Print. The exhibition presents prints, 3D prints, video, and installation works by 91 artists from China and abroad, initiating a deep dialogue that moves from technical reproduction to conceptual reconstruction.

The opening ceremony drew cultural leaders and scholars such as Xu Jiang, Vice Chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles; Yu Xuhong, President of CAA; Sir Nicholas Penny, former Director of the National Gallery in London, and Kong Guoqiao, curator of the exhibition and professor at CAA’ s School of Painting. Xu Jiang, Yu Xuhong, Qu Jingdong and Zadok Ben-David, representative of the participating artists delivered opening speeches.

The exhibition breaks through the boundaries of traditional printmaking, presenting classic works by international masters, while bringing together cutting-edge explorations by artists from 12 countries. As printing extends from material surfaces into digital genes, these works reactivate the vitality of printmaking for our contemporary moment.

Confronting questions such as “reproduction versus originality”, "virtuality versus reality”, and “technology versus existence” , the exhibition, through its collective assemblage of works, seeks to present the tradition, present condition, and potential futures of print as a technological medium, and to reflect on the role of printmaking as a mode of both artistic practice and lived experience.

On view through December 16, 2025