The 4th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2022

On June 1st, “Vital Force — The 4th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival” was held, focusing on the future and on young people, uniting cultural and artistic resources on the provincial, city and district levels, and holding cultural and artistic events all over Hangzhou.

The 4th Youth Art Festival is based on the graduation season of China Academy of Art and Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, and a total of 13 colleges and universities in Zhejiang jointly launched an online graduation exhibition. The offline exhibition was presented in ten venues in Hangzhou, with a total exhibition area of about 50,000 square meters. More than 3,000 works is exhibited, and over 5,000 young artists, designers, writers and scholars join online and offline to present a blooming and youthful art feast in the city.

The theme of this year’s Youth Art Festival is “Vital Force”, which refers to the viability and activity of living beings in reality, and the ability and wisdom human beings consciously seek for at the inflection point of the times caused by the epidemic.

Explore an “Upward and Forward Life” with “Vital Force”

Since 2010, the China Academy of Art has showcased its teaching and creative achievements to the public in a new form of “Graduation Exhibition Week” — the first of its kind in art academies. In 2019, on the basis of the academy’s graduation season, it united with the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music to link literature and science, cultural creativity and technological innovation to launch the Festival. In this year’s graduation season, there were more than 2,500 graduates, and a total of more than 3,000 sets of works exhibited. 1,757 undergraduates, 631 master students, and 87 doctoral students from 17 teaching units were involved in a total of 50 exhibitions. It has always been the original intention and vision of the academy to let the graduation season go out of the campus, art empathize with the people, universities integrate with the city, the teaching achievements be shared with the society, and to create an “academy without walls”.

Visit the official website for more on this Art Festival.

Check some of the graduation work below.