Sustainable and Innovative art and related exhibitions have been a topic of great interest in China in recent years. During 2021, the author curated three exhibitions of very different scale
and style in three cities in China: Guiyang, Chengdu and Shanghai , in collaboration with various institutions. The main artists of the exhibitions are Swiss artists Marco D’Anna and
Bernard Garo with local Chinese artists. The exhibition concentrations fall under the general
development theme of the Swiss Embassy in Bei jing: Smart & Sustainable. This paper will
analyze the three exhibitions from the curatorial preparations to the on site exhibition
conditions and audience reactions. They will be related to Western theories of the
development of sustainable art to see if it is possible that the sustainable art can motivate the
development of the art curating industry as a whole in developing countries. In addition, it
will be questioned whether the development of sustainable art can truly act as the catalyst of
the sustain able development in the society.
