ARTLINKART is an online database project for Chinese contemporary art. Bilingual, interactive and updated daily, the website is an invaluable resource for art professionals, investors, students and art enthusiasts.

Art Radar explores ARTLINKART, one of the largest, most comprehensive and interactive Chinese contemporary art databases currently in operation. Michele Chan reports for Art Radar on this massive research undertaking which currently holds:



Launched in May 2009, ARTLINKART is a bilingual online database for Chinese contemporary art. To date, the database has archived over 29,600 artists, 24,600 exhibitions and 1,750 art spaces in China. Describing itself as a basic information register for everything from academic study to investment reference and other professional purposes, ARTLINKART summarises its objectives as follows:

• ARTLINKART is an online database project for Chinese contemporary art;


• ARTLINKART is a bilingual art website for both Chinese and English readers;


• ARTLINKART is targeting on archiving the complete Chinese contemporary art history more accurately and subjectively;


• ARTLINKART is a basic information register for everything from academic study to investment reference and other professional purposes;

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