Historian launches Beijing body

The art body OCAT opened its Beijing branch on Saturday with a show curated by French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, an unfamiliar name for most Chinese but who is well-known in the West.

The new OCAT Institute in Beijing is a member of the OCT Contemporary Art Terminals, an arts organization under the umbrella of He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen.

Unlike its exhibition halls in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Wuhan and Xi'an, the space in Beijing is dedicated to publication, archives and academic art exhibitions and research on art history.