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In this travelogue slide lecture, Professor Endi Poskovic will discuss his creative inquiry into present day China by examining the work of architect Wang Shu, specifically his Ningbo Yinzhou Museum, China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, the first art and design university and first graduate school in Chinese history, and the newly opened China Design Museum in Hangzhou, which hosts Asia's largest art collection of Bauhaus objects and artifacts, the 20th century's most important school of architecture, design and art.

Born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Endi Poskovic was educated in Yugoslavia, Norway, and the United States. His works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous international biennials and triennials, and have brought him many notable awards and honors, including grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the United States Fulbright Commission, the John D. Rockefeller Foundation, the Bellagio Center, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Norwegian Government, the Camargo Foundation, the Flemish Ministry of Culture, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Macdowell, and the Art Matters Foundation, among others. Museum collections which hold works by the artist include the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn; Fondation Fernet Branca, France; Alive Jincheon Printmaking Museum, South Korea; the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, and many others. Endi Poskovic is Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan.