The "Art Future 2019 (Zhongshan) 5th Youth Art Expo and Exhibition for 10th Anniversary of the Establishment of China Cuiheng Cultural and Artistic Creation Base" opened at the Base on December 27, 2019.

Artists from Germany, Italy, Canada, Indonesia, Serbia, Thailand, India, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia and China shared their happiness through their works.

Curator of the exhibition Gong Yingchun remarked that she hoped that artists from different cultures and countries would use their creations to display various thoughts about happiness.

A performance artist is performing with the chairs where the guests have sat at the opening ceremony. [Photos by Sun Junjun]

Unlock the happiness code.

The works of artists from all over the world enable people to look at the world from a new perspective and reflect upon their own lives.

A circular device is placed in the middle of the exhibition hall. It integrates everything under heaven, in which the trace of humankind is subtle, transient and quickly fades just like swan's footprint on snow and mud.

Artist Jia Wei of Chinese traditional vegetation dyeing art interprets happiness with blue dyed woven cloth.

Collages and photos all express an artist's thinking on "individual and happiness".

An Italian artist uses his work to express that encounter of men and women also shows happiness.

A German artists presents oil paintings to express happiness of reunion with family members around the stove at Christmas.

The 30 mini prints show sentimental things and daily necessities.