Setting The Stage

A biennial aims to promote international and contemporary art among residents of Northwest China. Lin Qi reports from Yinchuan.

Xie Suchen says she often awoke with anxiety during the eight months of planning the Yinchuan Biennale.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan's artistic director led a young and inexperienced team for the museum's first biennial - an event for which most establishments spend two years preparing.