Research On The Development Of Chinese Contemporary Art Institutions And The Marketization Process Of Artists

From its launch in the 1980 s,to the 1990 s characterized by exploration and development,and then to the year of around 2000 witnessing market recovery,China's contemporary art market has gone through over two decades of growth and accumulation.At first,no market institutions ever existed,but now they have become relatively full-fledged.However,compared with countries with a mature art market,there are still many problems in today's art market operation chain in China in the art ecological composition such as the roles of market institutions,academic institutions,collectors,and artists.As a consequence,China's contemporary art market still has great sensitivity and vulnerability with unstable market performance.Through sorting out the development process of art market institutions and the status quo of artists' career development,the thesis studies the current problems of art market institutions and the difficulties of artists' professionalization.Through a comparison with the historical development process of the art market,the thesis offers a comparative reference to the current problems of art market development in China from such aspects as economic environment,market characteristics,and transaction process.At the same time,the paper analyzes the recovery and operation of the primary and secondary art market institutions in China and explores the law for the development of art market institutions with Chinese characteristics.Meanwhile,under the background that China's gallery industry is gradually being constructed without entering the stage of prosperity,this thesis discusses the problem that it is difficult for gallery,the primary market of artworks,to choose in face of the current skyrocketing emergence of rising young artist groups and the lack of a primary market function to cultivate and discover Chinese rising artists.Additionally,the thesis analyzes the causes and features of the youth art project with raising young artists are the major participating entities.Moreover,from the perspective of art ecology as a whole,the thesis explores and discovers the root problems facing the current professional development of art institutions and artists,tries to raise effective solutions,and explores the effective methods for the benign development of China's art market.