Sydney's amazing White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection is dedicated to works of art created after 2000, and is one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.

In 2011, the Year of the Rabbit, the Samstag Museum is delighted to present a major exhibition of selected works from the White Rabbit Collection, for the Adelaide Festival Centre's 2011 OzAsia Festival.

The White Rabbit exhibition provides an exciting window to the diversity and power of contemporary art practice in China, showcasing works in very different media – painting, sculpture, animation, new media and installation – by artists Yan Baishen, Sun Furong, Bu Hua, Shi Jindian, Wu Junyong, Huang Keyi /Chen Zhuo, Shen Liang, Zhou Xiaohu, Cang Xin, Bai Yiluo, Dong Yuan and Wang Zhiyuan.

Featured works explore China's rapidly changing society, from Mao's oppressive Cultural Revolution to the excesses and exuberance of China's economic boom. Wang Zhiyuan's brilliantly alluring Object of Desire, 2008, adds a whimsical note that mocks its own gaudy morality, and is presented alongside Sun Furong's cut-up Mao suits which express the idea that, as the artist says, "in the struggle for survival you are stripped and eaten away by many things you cannot help…until you are broken".

Education resource 

Media release 

Catalogue essay 

The Advertiser review 

Erica Green interview, ABC News (audio) 

White Rabbit exhibition (YouTube video)