introduction

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@Backwall was founded in 2005, originally as a student forum brand at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. It ran for about two years before shutting down, and a later try at launching a digital magazine in 2008 didn’t take off.With the founder’s 20 years of experience running Dongke Media — a successful company in the anime industry — Backwall made a fresh comeback in 2023 on Xiaohongshu and WeChat Channels.Carrying the same mission from twenty years ago, Backwall is once again here to connect talents in art and design and spark cross-disciplinary exchange.

web: www.backwall.cn

art news

• Art Self-Media as a Site of Lived Experience: BACKWALL (2023–2026) as an Artistic Practice and Its Structural Dilemmas
• Wei Yan × Zhao Huan: When “85 New Wave” Meets “New Species”—Chengdu’s Wildest Side Is Back!
• If There Is Sand in Your Heart, Anywhere Can Be the Maldives
• Finding Clarity in Blur（A Conversation with Artist Meizi）
• Heading: After “Chilling Out” at the Biennale, Zhao Huan and German Curator Martin Talk Boredom in 2055.
• Kaili Shangguan × Jingli Gou | A Conversation Before Becoming Oneself
• One Day, One World | Asian Graphic Design Beyond the Algorithm
• Shaoyan Yu: Becoming an Artist in the Cracks of Time
• “Otherlands” | BACKWALL’s First Live Stream Replay
• At the end of 2025, we chose to make things lighter.