Chinese artists likely to attend US version of Documenta

The Cleveland Museum of Art (left) is one of the venues to host the triennial. Photos provided to China Daily

Emerging Chinese artists will be invited to take part in an art event being held in the industrial city of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States in 2018, the organizers said during their visit to Beijing on Saturday.

The event, Front International: Cleveland Exhibition for Contemporary Art, is a three-month citywide triennial planned to open in July 2018.

It will display works by more than 55 artists across the world in various public spaces in the city, including art museums, churches and markets.

Preparations for the new triennial began in 2014 and the organizers then started to tour the world to meet artists and invite them to produce works for the Cleveland event.

Jens Hoffmann, an artistic director of the triennial, says that the invited artists will include both established and emerging ones from across the world.

Chinese artists are definitely on the list, he says.

"Chinese artists are playing a very important role on the global art scene. You would miss a part of the world if you don't include them, given that the triennial is global in scope," says Hoffmann, adding that the organizers plan to invite five or six emerging Chinese artists.