BERLIN, GERMANY.- Aedes East, International Forum for Contemporary Architecture, is organizing the exhibition AND – Interdisciplinary Creative Arts from China - Yung Ho CHANG (Architect), LIU Zhizhi (Graphic designer), WANG Yiyang (Fashion designer), LIU Suola (Composer, Singer, Artist). The exhibition will take place September 18 - November 8, 2007.

The exhibition is part of the Asia-Pacific-Weeks 2007 in Berlin, whose focal point is ‘Asia-Pacific: changing the world’. The exhibition is being funded with support from the German Class Lottery Foundation Berlin.

Aedes Architecture Forum: As one of the first Western architectural forums, Aedes ventured a view towards China in 2001 with its exhibition 'TUMU - Young Architecture from China' achieving a rather unexpected but enduring success. The six young architectural offices from China presented then, today almost exclusively leave their mark on the publications and exhibitions on Chinese architecture to be viewed currently from Rotterdam, London to New York. Yung Ho CHANG was one of them.

The exhibition focuses this time on Beijing architect Yung Ho CHANG, whose projects, according to European - not even to mention Chinese – standards, are not about mass but possess a high intellectual quality and a – for Chinese standards – high quality of construction. Yung Ho CHANG 's distinctly modern buildings deal with old traditions. An example can be seen in a house, which was erected at the Chinese wall close to Badaling in traditional clay construction. Yung Ho CHANG is a mediator and networker through his position in China as well as Dean of MIT in Boston.

AND is an interdisciplinary exhibition that conveys and simulates the discussion and debate among a group of individuals in different creative fields about the nature of the contemporary Chinese culture as China is experiencing one of its greatest social and economical transitions today, through their work. The show presents Yung Ho CHANG, an architect, LIU Suola, a musician and author, LIU Zhizhi, a graphic designer, and WANG Yiyang, a fashion designer, as each tries to borrow from or exchange ideas with others and further ventures out into territories less familiar to themselves, such as film and industrial design. The theme AND expresses the productive yet complex relationships between these independent practices and collectively reveals a rich dynamics that define the cultural landscape in present-day China.

The title of the exhibition AND, takes reference - also ironically - to the cooperation, the relations between diverse disciplines and the creative individuals. Inspired by Hong Kong gangster movies, Yung Ho CHANG 's latest architectural and interior design projects are presented on celluloid, in a blackand-white projection. LIU Zhizhi will build a set of kaleidoscopes and design the exhibition in collaboration with FCJZ, the office of Yung Ho CHANG. Fashion designer WANG Yiyang will be represented in the exhibition with a space related fashion installation. Chinese composer and singer LIU Suola will open the exhibition with a performance and the exhibition will display her art works, which - like music scores - form the base of her creative work.